Place:Dutchess, New York, United States

NameDutchess
Alt namesDutchesssource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates41.767°N 73.733°W
Located inNew York, United States     (1683 - )
See alsoPutnam, New York, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Cemetery
Beekman Cemetery
Coleman's Station Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery
Hopewell Cemetery
Maple Avenue Cemetery ( - 1812 )
Old Amenia Burying Ground
Pawling Cemetery
Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery
Pleasant Valley Cemetery
Rhinebeck Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery
Saint Lukes Church Cemetery ( 1833 - )
Separate Church Grounds
Smithfield Cemetery
Thompson Family Graveyard
Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery
Census-designated place
Arlington
Brinckerhoff
Crown Heights
Dover Plains
Fairview
Haviland
Hillside Lake
Hopewell Junction
Myers Corner
Spackenkill
Staatsburg
Titusville
District
Crum Elbow
Rombout
Former village
Matteawan ( - 1913 )
Hamlet
Lagrangeville
Pulvers Corners
Smithfield
Inhabited place
Amenia Union
Amenia
Annandale-on-Hudson
Arthursburg
Attlebury
Bains Corner
Baker Corner
Bangall
Barnegat
Barrytown
Beacon Hills
Beacon
Beekman
Bethel
Billings
Brockway
Bulls Head
Camby
Carmel ( 1740 - 1812 )
Castle Point
Charlotte Precinct ( 1761 - 1788 )
Chelsea
Chestnut Ridge
Clinton Corners
Clinton Hollow
Clinton
Clove Valley
Clove
Cokertown
Coleman Station
College Park
DeWitt Mills
Diddell
Dogtail Corners
Dover Furnace
Dover
Dutchess Junction
East Fishkill ( 1849 - )
Eighmyville
Fishkill (town) ( 1788 - )
Fishkill Plains
Fishkill
Fraleighs
Fredericksburg
Frederickstown
Freedom Plains
Glenham
Green Haven
Gretna
Hammertown
Hibernia
Holmes
Hope Farm
Howland
Hoxie Corner
Hughsonville
Hurd Corners
Hyde Park
Irondale
Jackson Corners
Kerleys Corners
Knapps Corner
LaGrange ( 1821 - )
Lafayetteville
Leedsville
Linden Acres
Line
Lithgow
Littlerest
Mabbettsville
Manchester Bridge
Market
McIntyre
Milan
Millbrook Heights
Millbrook
Millerton
Moores Mill
Mount Riga
Mount Ross
Netherwood
New Hackensack
New Hamburg
Norrie Heights
North Clove
North East
Northeast Center
Oblong
Oniontown
Pachin Mills
Pawling (town)
Pawling
Pecksville
Pine Plains
Pleasant Plains
Pleasant Ridge
Pleasant Valley
Poughkeepsie (town)
Poughkeepsie ( 1600 - )
Poughquag
Quaker Hill
Red Hook (town)
Red Hook Mills
Red Hook
Red Oaks Mill
Rhinebeck (town)
Rhinebeck
Rhinecliff
Rochdale
Rock City
Rudco
Salt Point
Sharon Station
Shekomeko
Shenandoah
Shunpike
South Amenia
South Dover
South Millbrook
Spencer Corners
Stanford
Stanfordville
Stissing
Stormville
Swartoutville
Sylvan Lake
Timothy Heights
Tivoli
Union Vale
Upper Red Hook
Van Keurens
Verbank Village
Verbank
Wappinger ( 1875 - )
Wappingers Falls
Washington Hollow
Washington
Wassaic
Webatuck
West Pawling
Whitehouse Crossing
Wiccopee
Wiley Shelter
Willow Brook
Wingdale
Woodinville
Wurtemburg
Township
Southeast ( 1730 - 1812 )
Unknown
Clinton Precinct
Hopewell
Schultzville
South Precinct
Wicopee
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later organized in 1713. It is located in the Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley, north of New York City.

Dutchess County is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area, which belongs to the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

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History

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Before Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the indigenous Wappinger peoples. They had their council-fire at what is now Fishkill Hook, and had settlements throughout the area.

On November 1, 1683, the Province of New York established its first twelve counties, including Dutchess. Its boundaries at that time included the present Putnam County, and a small portion of the present Columbia County (the towns of Clermont and Germantown). The county was named for Mary of Modena, Duchess of York; is an archaic spelling of the word duchess.


The Province of New York and the Connecticut Colony negotiated an agreement on November 28, 1683, establishing their border as east of the Hudson River, north to Massachusetts. The east of the Byram River making up the Connecticut Panhandle were granted to Connecticut, in recognition of the wishes of the residents. In exchange, Rye was granted to New York, along with a wide strip of land running north from Ridgefield to Massachusetts alongside the New York counties of Westchester, Putnam then Dutchess, known as "The Oblong". The eastern half of the stub of land in northeast Dutchess County containing Rudd Pond and Taconic State Park is the northernmost extension of The Oblong.

Until 1713, Dutchess was administered by Ulster County. On October 23, 1713, Queen Anne gave permission for Dutchess County to elect its own officers from among their own population, including a supervisor, tax collector, tax assessor and treasurer. In 2013, Dutchess County celebrated its 300th anniversary of democracy based upon a legislative resolution sponsored by County Legislator Michael Kelsey from Salt Point. In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess.

The Patents

Fourteen royal land patents were granted between 1685 and 1706 covering the entirety of the original footprint of Dutchess County (which until 1812 included today's Putnam County).

The first ten, granted between 1685 and 1697, covered almost all of Hudson River shoreline in the original county, with three - Rombouts, the Great Nine Partners, and Philipse Patents - extending significantly inland. The eleventh, and smallest, Cuyler, 1697, was the first to contain solely inland territory, just in from the Hudson. The twelfth, and next smallest, Fauconnier, in 1705, completed the Hudson River shoreline. The last two, Beekman, 1705, and the Little Nine Partners, 1706, laid claim to the remaining interior lands.


  1. 1685 Rombout (Beacon/Fishkill Area)
  2. 1686 Minnisinck (Sanders & Harmense)
  3. 1686 Kip
  4. 1688 Schuyler (Poughkeepsie)
  5. 1688 Schuyler (Red Hook)
  6. 1688 Ærtsen-Roosa-Elton
  7. 1696 Pawling-Staats
  8. 1697 Rhinebeck
  9. 1697 (Great) Nine Partners
  10. 1697 Philipse
  11. 1697 Cuyler
  12. 1705 Fauconnier
  13. 1705 Beekman (Back Lots)
  14. 1706 (Little) Nine Partners


Early settlement

From 1683 to 1715, most of the settlers in Dutchess County were Dutch. Many of these moved in from Albany and Ulster counties. They settled along the Fishkill Creek and in the areas that are now Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck.

From 1715 to 1730, most of the new settlers in Dutchess county were Germans. From 1730 until 1775, New Englanders were the primary new settlers in Dutchess County.

20th century

Franklin D. Roosevelt lived in his family home in Hyde Park, overlooking the Hudson River. His family's home is now the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, managed by the National Park Service.

Prior to the 1960s, Dutchess County was primarily agricultural. Since then the southwestern part (from Poughkeepsie southward and from the Taconic State Parkway westward) of the county has developed into a largely residential area, suburban in character, with many of its residents commuting to jobs in New York City and Westchester County. The northern and eastern regions of the county remain rural with large farmlands but at the same time developed residences used during the summer and or on weekends by people living in the New York City urban area.

Timeline

Date Event Source
1683 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1718 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1790 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1820 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990

Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1790 45,266
1800 47,775
1810 51,363
1820 46,615
1830 50,926
1840 52,398
1850 58,992
1860 64,941
1870 74,041
1880 79,184
1890 77,879
1900 81,670
1910 87,661
1920 91,747
1930 105,462
1940 120,542
1950 136,781
1960 176,008
1970 222,295
1980 245,055
1990 259,462

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Dutchess County, New York, United States

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External links

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