Early Pawling Maps
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.
- 1778/9, Erskine: Map of Quaker Hill
- 1858, Gillette: Map of Dutchess County with Pawling visible
- 1858, Gillette: Map of Pawling Station
- 1867, Beers, Ellis, & Soule: Shows the entire Town of Pawling
- 1867, Beers, Ellis, & Soule: Shows Pawling Station (also Dover Plains and South Dover)
- 1876, Reading Publishing Co.: Shows Pawling Station, Wassaic, and Lagrangeville
- 1876, Kochersperger / Reading Publishing: Pawling Township
- 1909, W. G. Tice: A more creative representation of Pawling with notable sites marked
PAWLING NEWSPAPERS
The Pawling Free Library has compiled digitized Pawling-area newspapers into an easy-to-read PDF format. (Newspapers originally digitized by the Fulton History Old New York State Historical Newspapers Project)
NY Historic Newspapers also has a number of Pawling-area newspapers that can be searched digitally, including papers from Millbrook and Poughkeepsie.
NY Historic Newspapers also has a number of Pawling-area newspapers that can be searched digitally, including papers from Millbrook and Poughkeepsie.
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!
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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 [email protected] or [email protected].
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!
The TriCollege Library system's archives include records such as monthly minutes from the Oblong meetings; birth, marriage, and death records; and removal certificates.
- Oblong Monthly Meeting Records (Hicksite and Pre-Separation), 1745–1893 • Collection Identifier: QM-NY-O373
- Oblong Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) Records, 1783–1921 • Collection Identifier: QM-NY-O375
- Oblong Preparative Meeting Records (Hicksite), 1780–1866 • Collection Identifier: QM-NY-O377
- Oblong Preparative Meeting (Orthodox & pre-Separation), 1800-1877 • Collection Identifier: QM-NY-O379
Unfortunately, the records are on microfilm, and you will need to physically visit Pennsylvania to view these! For more information about visiting, contact [email protected] or [email protected].
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!