A History of Deerpark in Orange County, N. Y.Gumaer, Peter E.
History
A History of Deerpark in Orange County, N. Y.
Gumaer, Peter E.
Deerpark (N.Y. : Town) -- History
Third son, James Cuddeback, married Neelje Decker, daughter of
Christopher Decker, of Shipikunk, in the north part of New Jersey
where Cuddeback became a resident. (Died about 30 years of age.)
Fourth son, Abraham Cuddeback, married Esther Swartwout, daughter of
Major James Swartwout, of Peenpack. They resided near the present
dwelling house of Peter L. Gumaer until they became old and were
removed by their sons to Skaneateles Lake, in this State, where two
of his sons lived. He owned a farm where he first resided, (Abraham
Cuddeback died at Skaneateles Aug. 18th, 1796, aged 83 years. His
wife died April 11th, 1798, aged 65.)
One daughter, Dinah Cuddeback, married Abraham Louw, a son of Tyse
Louw, [FN] of Rochester, in Ulster county. He was a blacksmith and
settled in Shipikunk, in the north part of New Jersey, and became
owner of a good farm, of which Wilhemus Fredenburgh, Peter and Joseph
Van Noy and James and Evart Van Auken afterwards became owners.
(Dinah lived to be about 74 years old.)
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[FN] Tyse Louw and wife commenced life poor. The writer knows nothing
respecting their ancestors. He was an indolent, non-providing and
intemperate man. She was the reverse of him in those respects; and
the whole business of the family devolved on her, in which he
exercised no manner of control, but left the whole business of the
family to be managed according to her direction. He was naturally
good-natured, and very indulgent to her. She furnished him daily with
such small portions of liquor as would not intoxicate him. She
entered into the business of manufacturing linen, both for the
wearing apparel of the family, and to defray the other expenses, and
did yearly manufacture more than a supply for the same, the surplus
of which she took to New York at the end of every year, and for it
procured such articles of trade as her spinsters and neighbors
generally wanted to purchase, and in this way she made a yearly
addition to her stock of goods and thus obtained wealth and credit,
so that she became enabled to keep a good assortment of such goods as
were salable in her time and commanded quite an extensive trade. She
also carried on the blacksmith business, for which she employed a
workman and put her own son, Abraham Louw, with him in the shop to
learn the trade. Not long before her decease she had told a
confidential friend that she had 1,200 pounds in money. Besides this
she had her store of goods and other property. The 1,200 pounds was
equal to $3,000, which in her time was worth about three times as
much as at the present time.
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