A lot can be learned about a community through its maps, including where your [land-owning] relatives lived! Here are links to some of the maps made of Pawling.
1909, W. G. Tice: A more creative representation of Pawling with notable sites marked
Daughters of the American Revolution (Dar) RESEARCH
We typically are unable to help complete family trees for DAR applicants because while we do have some paper records, most are land lease deeds, not vital or marriage records. See the surnames that are connected to our collections below.
Pawling area Relatives
Although we do not have birth, death, or marriage records, we have some interesting objects related to the people of Pawling, Holmes, and Whaley Lake. Below are most of the surnames connected to items in our collection. If you want to know more about your relative, contact us, and we can tell you what items are in our collection and maybe something about the owner or donor!
Akin
Allison
Asby
Ash
Ayers
Baker
Ballard
Belanger
Bianco
Billo
Birdsall
Blakeman
Bowdish
Brinksel
Brockhoff
Brockway
Brown
Brush
Burgess
Burns
Burr
Burroughs
Campbell
Carey
Carr
Chase
Chertock
Clark
Clark
Cloman
Colden
Cole
Conger
Connolly
Cooley
Corbin
Coulter
Craft
Crane
Cunningham
D'Aura
Dacy
Daniels
Darrow
Davis
Denton
Desbrosses / Desbrasses / Desgrasses
Dewey
Dodge
Dorland
Dotts
Douglas
Du Midi
Duel
Duffy
Dutcher
Esselstyn
Farmer
Ferris
Field
Frost
Gamage
Gibney
Grand
Grant
Green
Griffin
Hanford
Harrison
Haughey
Haviland / Havilland
Hayes
Heinchon
Hettinger
Hillis
Hoag
Hoffman
Hogan
Hogate
Holloway / Halloway
Holmes
Howard
Hubbard
Irish
Jeffords
Jennings
Johnson
Jones
Kane
Keithley
Kellogg
Kiernan
Kip
Kirby
Kniffen
Leach
Levine
Libby
Littel
Livingston
Loveridge
Lyons
McCarthur
McCulloch
McKesson
Mead
Merritt
Merwin
Miller
Monahan
Morin
Morrison
Murphy
Nelli
Nicks
Nielson
Ogden
Osborn
Palmer
Paulding
Peale
Pearce
Pendley
Penrose
Phelps
Philipse
Prendergast
Preston
Ray
Ray
Reid
Ross
Runde
Ryder
Schamb
Schwab
Scott
Seager / Seeger
Shoch
Shutts
Simson
Slocum
Smith
Spaulding
Speedling
Stark
Stearns
Stearns
Stewart
Stock
Strout
Taber
Tabor
Taylor
Teal
Terrington
Thomas
Thomas
Thorn
Thornburg
Thorndyke
Toffey
Townsend
Tunney
Turner
Wallace
Weeks
Whalen
Whaley
Wheeler
Whiteley
Wilcox / Wilkocks
Williams
Wing
Wittemund
Wood
Woodruff
Worden
Wright
Quaker Relatives
Pawling's branch of the Society of Friends—the Oblong Meeting—eventually split in 1828 into co-existing Orthodox and Hicksite branches. (The Orthodox branch continued until 1921, and the Hicksite branch continued until 1871).Although the Pawling Historical Society does not have any Quaker records, the TriCollege Library system—the libraries of Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and Haverford Colleges—does!
The TriCollege Library system's archives include records such as monthly minutes from the Oblong meetings; birth, marriage, and death records; and removal certificates.
Unfortunately, the records are on microfilm, and you will need to physically visit Pennsylvania to view these! For more information about visiting, contact friends@swarthmore.edu or hc-special@haverford.edu.
We do know of an organization Backstage Library Works, that will digitize microfilm at about $99 per roll. While that is beyond our budget, we would happily accept a monetary donation to work with them so that we could make this information public!