History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . en. I knew himin his declining and last days when years steal fire from the mind andvigor from the limb, and could form some estimate of the heat and blazeof early life and manhood. It was in the severity of winter when he drewwood from a lot on Stissing mountain to his house. His family protestedand his neighbors saw him go by with wonder and pity in the cold andstorm. Charles Hoag is sick they said the next day or so after, pneu-monia followed and within a week he died, died with the harn
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . en. I knew himin his declining and last days when years steal fire from the mind andvigor from the limb, and could form some estimate of the heat and blazeof early life and manhood. It was in the severity of winter when he drewwood from a lot on Stissing mountain to his house. His family protestedand his neighbors saw him go by with wonder and pity in the cold andstorm. Charles Hoag is sick they said the next day or so after, pneu-monia followed and within a week he died, died with the harness of the old Quaker meeting house lot and adjoining is its buryingground. No blocks nor shafts of Scotch granite nor Italian marble arethere decked with carved trappings which so often mock goodness neverknown to the sleeping dust beneath, but in one spot is a mound with sim-ple turf, green perennial as the years come and go. At the west end ofthis stands a plain white marble slab on which the Friend, the worldlingand the stranger can read; DIED. CHARLES HOAG 1st mo. 23d 1840Aged 68 Presbyterian Church, January, 1889. 166 HISTORY OF PINE PLAINS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. At the outset under this head it is pertinent and proper to state thatthe history of this church building is referred to until the Presbyterianchurch society had a being some years later, which will be noticed in itsorder of time. Until this takes place it is more of a complicated historicalstudy than plain historical reading The Presbyterian Church building at Pine Plains is the outcome of anassociation for a church building, having its origin in 1813. Before andduring the revolutionary war the settlers having or desiring church rela-tions were content, by choice or necessity, with the services at Round Topand Greenbush (Vedder) churches. The war ending in 1783 and peace re-stored, an impetus was given to immigration into that part of Little NinePartners west of Winchell Mountain. Hither came peopl
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