CONTENTS * * * * * List of Illustrations Genealogical Chart of the Cuddeback Family Introduction Pioneer Knoll--Home of the First Settler Deeds, Lands, Papers, Etc. Pioneer Days The Cuddeback Patent Dissolved First Generation Second Generation--1700-1780 [Lineage Paragraphs 2-10] Third Generation--1730-1800 [Lineage Paragraphs 11-36] Fourth Generation--1770-1840 [Lineage Paragraphs 37-88] Fifth Generation--1810-1890 [Lineage Paragraphs 89-237] Sixth Generation--1820-1900 [Lineage Paragraphs 238-308] Seventh Generation--1840-1920 [Lineage Paragraphs 309-330] Eighth Generation--1860 to date [Lineage Paragraphs 331-332] Pedigrees of Allied Families Caudebec in Normandy, France Index LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Caudebec "Coat of Arms" William Louis Cuddeback, M.D. Chart of Our French-Dutch-German-Norse-English-Scotch Ancestors, as arranged by W. L. Cuddeback, 1906 Pioneer Knoll of 1695 Pioneer Knoll, West Slope Pioneer Knoll, Northwest Slope Spring Brook, skirting East Slope of Pioneer Knoll Pioneer Knoll, Northeast Slope Maps--Lots of Land Belonging to William Coddebeck and others [_sic_--does not appear in book] Cuddeback Stone House and Nearby Log House Colonel Peter Cuddeback 1795-1892 Map--Division of Land Home of Col. William A. Cuddeback, 1822, Cuddebackville, N. Y. Approach to Cuddebackville, from Middletown, N. Y. Approach to Cuddebackville from Port Jervis, N. Y. Cuddeback Homes of 1800, Cuddebackville, N. Y. Caudebec Inn, Cuddebackville, N. Y. Home of Col. Peter Cuddeback, Huguenot, N. Y. Home of Elting Cuddeback 1816-1898, Deerpark, N. Y. Simon Westfall's House in Deerpark Gumaer Stone House Westfall Homestead, New Jersey Elting Homestead, (formerly Van Auken Fort,) N. Y. Van Fleet Homestead, Deerpark Home of Levi Van Etten, Deerpark, N. Y. A Group of Grandparents at Home of Elting Cuddeback 1880 Home of Col. Peter P. Swartwout, Huguenot, N. Y. [_sic_--does not appear in book] Elting Cuddeback, at 40 Years Elting Cuddeback, as 80 Years Cuddebackville, America Traditional Ancestral Home Caudebec, France Caudebec, France Market Place, Caudebec View. Entrance to the Church, Caudebec Street Scene, Caudebec, France Caudebec, France, along River Front [Illustration: Chart of Our French-Dutch-German-Norse-English-Scotch Ancestors, as arranged by W. L. Cuddeback, 1906 (six pages)] INTRODUCTION * * * * * It has been my pleasure and diversion during a period of many years to collect and tabulate data concerning the descendants of Jacques Caudebec. This has led to a study of the almost interminable network of relationship existing between the old families throughout the Minisink region; to the tracing of the immigration from this region into many of the states, and the development of families in almost every State in the Union.