History of New Paltz, New York, and its old families (from 1678 to 1820) including the Huguenot pioneers and others who settled in New Paltz previous to the revolution; with an appendix bringing down the history of certain families and some other matter to 1850 . hese ten years and Miss Scovil, Miss Crockerand Miss Cornelia Dewitt were at different times teachersin the female department under Mr. Fay. The great prosperity of the school and the demand formore room led the trustees to build the north and southwings of the building. This entailed a debt of $2,462 as statedat a meeting of the boar
History of New Paltz, New York, and its old families (from 1678 to 1820) including the Huguenot pioneers and others who settled in New Paltz previous to the revolution; with an appendix bringing down the history of certain families and some other matter to 1850 . hese ten years and Miss Scovil, Miss Crockerand Miss Cornelia Dewitt were at different times teachersin the female department under Mr. Fay. The great prosperity of the school and the demand formore room led the trustees to build the north and southwings of the building. This entailed a debt of $2,462 as statedat a meeting of the board in April, 1840. Shortly afterwardsin 1841 Mr. Fay left the school to become president of acollege at Waterville in Maine. The papers read at the Semi-centennial of the Academy in 1883 consisted largely of pleas-ant memories of New Paltz Academy and New Paltz villagein those days. From a paper prepared for that occasion by WashingtonHasbrouck, principal of the New Jersey State Normal Schoolat Trenton, we quote; It is now more than forty years ago, when I, a lad ofthirteen years entered the New Paltz Academy, then underthe care of Eliphaz Fay. I well remember that cold wintermorning, when I left the old school house in Middletown, lyo HISTORY OF NEW PALTZ. APPENDIX i/i to engage in study in my Alma Mater. I distinctly recollectthe noble form of him under whose instruction I was to sitduring the next four years. The school at this time was inthe height of its prosperity. The attendance of day pupils at this time was very recall to-night, as I sit at my study table, the names ofLeFevre, Deyo, Bogardus, Hoornbeck, Wurts, Elting, VanOHnda, DuBois, Hardenburgh, Van Wagenen, Fay, Fanning,Innis, Naudain, Viele, Northrop, Johnson, Southwick, Thomp-son, Hasbrouck and Freer. Nearly all these names werenumerously represented. Our yearly examinations stood prominently among thefirst in importance. These lasted for several days and wereexhaustive and thorough. I can now see Mr. Fay
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