Again in each succeeding generation similar developments occurred. Soon after 1800 the active, restless young people from Central New York emigrated to Michigan and to Ohio accompanied by relatives and friends from the older settlements on the Delaware and Susquehanna. These migrations have continued. The more alert or venturesome of each generation have sought new locations to establish their homes. They are now in every state of the Union some who are direct lineal descendants of the emigrant Jacques Caudebec and in the older locations the network of relationship is intricate and closely woven. The lands in the valley continued to be most productive during the first half of the nineteenth century. Substantial stately houses were built. Large barns and out buildings were erected. The thrift and prosperity of the farmers continued. The social life centered about the church and the homes--a broad hospitality prevailed of which the family was the unit. During the lives of the fifth and sixth generations, conditions have changed materially. The varied pursuits of the twentieth century gives occupation as varied and diverse as their homes are distant from one another and from the ancestral home of the family. The exhaustion of the soil, the attraction of the productive western farm lands, the migration to the cities, all have tended to diminish the population and the representatives of the family throughout this entire region of country. It is a fact, however, more than eighty per cent, of the lands of the Caudebec patent remains today in the possession of owners whose ancestry may be traced to a patentee. The first attempt to build a grist mill in the valley was made by Jacob Caudebec and his sons, near the Caudebec stone house. The small run of water over the steep declivity just east of the house furnished the power, the rough stone blocks, the mill stones, were obtained from the Indians. Grains for both the settlers and the Indians were ground there for many years, substituting this for hand pounding with pestle in mortar and for the sapling and stump mortar. Later other and better mill sites were located in the valley. One of which was the mill site of Henry Decker on the old dam brook. "Ouwe Dam Kill"--a dam across the spring brook about one mile northeast of Port Jervis, overflowed a long, low marshy tract of land extending toward Huguenot, stored water for power purposes for a mill located at that point.