History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . on for the future. The next year, 1819, that part of the mail routefrom Pine Plains to Rhinebeck was taken off, also that part from NorthEast Center to Sharon, and a route established having this heading: FromPine Plains on the Ulster and Delaware turnpike to North Amenia. Thisgave Pine Plains the first official name as a post office, and North Ame-nia to now North East Center. Amenia, (Paines Corners,) as now, was onthe mail route From Poughkeepsie by Sharon to Litchfield in 1891. Itis pro
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . on for the future. The next year, 1819, that part of the mail routefrom Pine Plains to Rhinebeck was taken off, also that part from NorthEast Center to Sharon, and a route established having this heading: FromPine Plains on the Ulster and Delaware turnpike to North Amenia. Thisgave Pine Plains the first official name as a post office, and North Ame-nia to now North East Center. Amenia, (Paines Corners,) as now, was onthe mail route From Poughkeepsie by Sharon to Litchfield in 1891. Itis probable that Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Neely were appointed the officialpostmasters respectively at Pine Plains and North Amenia at the estab-lishment of the route in 1818. In this way Pine Plains had an officialname as a post office four years previous to its organization as a , however, addressed North East came to Pine Plains severalyears after 1819. About three years later than the establishment of these mail routes,Mr. Reynolds in answer to a letter from the post office department writes :. Dr. Israel Reynolds. [See Lineage.] POST ROUTES AND MAIL ROUTES. 303 The sum now due to the general Post office from this office is $,and I will send it to New York by the first safe conveyance, or if you pre-fer that I should answer an order for that amount I should prefer to do this Post office was first established Congress would not pass a law tomake it an established Post Route. But the Post Master said he had au-thority to establish it as a Post Route provided any one would carry themail free of expense, and they had a right to receive all the postage. Neely and myself agreed to carry the mail on those conditionsprovided we were appointed post masters. Accordingly this office wentinto operation and was established under those conditions, and we contin-ued to carry the mail until Congress established it as a Post Route. There-fore I have not given the
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