Sunday, May 31, 2015

From "The Lick" to "The Rapids"

This roadside marker stood for many years at Chautauqua, NY
to identify the last home where my 5x great grandparents
William & Mehitable Prendergast lived. They finally found
land, peace and security surrounded by loved ones who were
raising families and achieving success in business, politics.
In about 1783, William and Mehitable Prendergast packed up most of the family and headed north from their home of 30-some years in Pawling, NY for the less populated lands of upstate New York.

Specifically, they followed some of their Quaker neighbors who had already moved from Quaker Hill in Dutchess County. Others departed from newly formed Putman County that was created from the Philipse patent long ruled by Adolphus Philipse from the manor house at Upper Mills near Sleepy Hollow.

(Still under construction)


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  1. pgiffordJuly 12, 2020 at 5:39 PM

    Daughters of my Hunt ancestors intermarried with the Prendergasts. My father was born just a few miles from the Prendergast cemetery in Chautauqua. But the association started in Pawling, then went up to the Schaghticoke/Cambridge neighborhood, before Chautauqua/North Harmony. Paul Gifford

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2021 at 12:17 PM

    What a hero Prendergast was!

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