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About Elisha Baldwin, Sr.
Elisha Baldwin, Sr.
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 115343532
DAR Ancestor # A005241
Service: NEW YORK
Rank(s): PRIVATE
Birth: 2-7-1750 IN NEW YORK
Death:10-19-1816 IN CARMEL, PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK
Service Source: FERNOW, DOCS REL TO THE COLONEL HIST OF STATE OF NY, “NY IN THE REV,” VOL 15, PP 284, 317
Birth per record: February 7, 1750
Death: October 19, 1816
Marriage: 10 February 1763
Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island
Residence: Fredericksburgh, Precinct, Dutchess County, New York
Service Description: 1) CAPT NATHANIEL SCRIBNER, COL HENRY LUDDINGTON
Mahopac was originally inhabited by the Wappinger people, an Algonquian tribe. The hamlet's land was part of a huge tract encompassing all of today's Putnam County patented in 1697 by Adolphus Philipse, son of a wealthy Anglo-Dutch gentryman, known as the Philipse Patent. During the French and Indian War, Wappingers throughout Putnam County traveled north to Massachusetts to fight for the British.
When the British Crown refused to return their land after the war, most Wappingers abandoned the area, concentrating in Stockbridge, Massachusetts before relocating with other displaced Native Americans elsewhere. Farmers and their families migrated to Mahopac from as far away as Cape Cod and rented land from the Philipse family. Wheelwrights and blacksmiths set up shops to assist the tenant farmers.
Although no battles were fought in Mahopac during the American Revolution, the area was strategically important due to its location. With troop encampments in nearby Patterson, Yorktown, West Point, and Danbury, Connecticut, it was a cross-roads between key Colonial garrisons. Soldiers were stationed in Mahopac Falls to guard the Red Mills, an important center for grinding grain and storing flour for the American troops.
Upon Colonial victory in the Revolution, the Tory-sympathizing Philipse family lost its claim to the land, which was then resold to farmers and speculators by New York State. After the incorporation of Putnam County in 1812 the Mahopac area grew steadily. By the middle-19th century the hamlet had become a summer resort community. The New York and Harlem Railroad brought vacationers north from New York City to Croton Falls.
Hotels would often have competing races of decorated horse-drawn coaches bringing passengers from the train to Lake Mahopac. After the Civil War a direct rail spur was laid, creating boom times for the village.
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Elisha Baldwin, Sr.'s Timeline
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February 2, 1751
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Carmel, Putnam County, New York, Colonial America
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January 22, 1777
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Mahopac, Putnam County, New York, United States
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April 23, 1779
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Somers, Westchester, New York, United States
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March 6, 1783
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Hopewell Junction, Dutchess, New York, United States
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1788
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Mahopac, Putnam County, New York, United States
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October 19, 1816
Age 65
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Lake Mahopac, Carmel, Putnam County, New York, United States
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