History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots . 791. Many of the descendantsof the Fonda family are still living in the village which bears their name. Douw Fonda, Myndert Wemple and Hendrick Vrooman were thepurchasers of the Collins tract, which we have already and Vrooman also became settlers on the land and are there-fore included among the pioneers of the plac
History of Montgomery County : embracing early discoveries, the advance of civilization, the labors and triumphs of Sir William Johnson, the inception and development of manufactures, with town and local records, also military achievements of Montgomery patriots . 791. Many of the descendantsof the Fonda family are still living in the village which bears their name. Douw Fonda, Myndert Wemple and Hendrick Vrooman were thepurchasers of the Collins tract, which we have already and Vrooman also became settlers on the land and are there-fore included among the pioneers of the place. Peggy Wemple issaid to have kept a tavern at Caughnawaga as early as IJ/S, and be-came a person of great influence. Nicholas Hanson settled on Tribes Hill about 1725, and Henry Han-son, as has been mentioned, was the first white child born in the White, who was the first sheriff of Tryon county, was alsoa pioneer and lived, according to tradition, on the site of the Fondacourt-house. White was an aggressive tory at the beginning of the war,his conduct so offending the patriots that they drove him to Canada ;and returning the next year, he was promptly arrested by the vig-ilant committee of safety. He was succeeded as sheriff by John
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