QUAKER HILL A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY
BY WARREN H. WILSON, A. M.
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN THE
FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK 1907
COPYRIGHT 1907, BY WARREN H. WILSON.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I.
THE QUAKER COMMUNITY:
FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF QUAKER HILL, 1728, TO THE DIVISION OF THE MEETING, 1828.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
Sources 5
CHAPTER II.
The Locality 8
CHAPTER III.
The Assembling of the Quakers 16
CHAPTER IV.
Economic Activities of the Quaker Community 20
CHAPTER V.
Amusements 28
CHAPTER VI.
The Ideals of the Quakers 32
CHAPTER VII.
Morals of the Quaker Community 38
CHAPTER VIII.
Toleration of Hostile Forces 50
PART II.
THE TRANSITION
FROM THE DIVISION OF THE MEETING TO THE FOUNDING OF AKIN HALL, 1828 TO 1880.
CHAPTER I.
Communication,--The Roads 63
CHAPTER II.
Economic Changes 69
CHAPTER III.
Religious Life in Transition 79
PART III.
THE MIXED COMMUNITY
FROM THE FOUNDING OF AKIN HALL TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1880 TO 1907.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quaker Hill by Warren H. Wilson
- 2: Though it still may be considered a sociological one
- 3: The descriptive history of Quaker Hill
- 4: Smith's History of Dutchess County
- 5: Librarian of the Yearly Meeting Hicksite
- 6: Is at West Patterson or West Pawling
- 7: The Connecticut uplands east of the Housatonic on one side
- 8: And the history of Quaker Hill
- 9: Of fine and choice culture after the Quaker standards
- 10: And at New Milford on the other
- 11: Briggs families came from Dartmouth
- 12: In the years from 1761 to 1780
- 13: 38 are from Oblong and 21 from Beekman
- 14: Were kept by Daniel and Albro Akin
- 15: Jonathan Akin Taber kept about eleven hundred sheep
- 16: Amusements in the quaker community
- 17: Seven years later the Vaughns were the Tory cowboys
- 18: That it is dignified and honorable
- 19: This practice of new Quakerism
- 20: As they have refused to assume the Quaker plain garb
- 21: The Quaker code was insufficient
- 22: The Quaker had no sentimental idea of suffering
- 23: Wherever they went they testified
- 24: They were in the end disowned
- 25: Jonathan Osgood hath had a right of membership among us
- 26: Did you ever hear anyone disowned in meeting
- 27: Richard Osborn and Roby Hoag arose
- 28: British troopers marched from Poughkeepsie to Quaker Hill
- 29: William Prendergast and Mehitabel Wing
- 30: Which came from the Prendergast private library
- 31: Vaughn was once pursued by farmers near Little Rest
- 32: Vaughn and his men were resting
- 33: And many he called half Quakers
- 34: 25 Washington Headquarters at Fredricksburgh
- 35: ' It was named as the Pawlings and Beekman Turnpike
- 36: For the drive to Croton Falls is about twenty miles
- 37: There is a story told in the Taber and Shove families
- 38: The Taber family did not preserve that note
- 39: It is assumed that John Toffey kept a representative store
- 40: But the convivial spirits were the better patrons
- 41: Owing to lowered wages and multiplied embellishments of life
- 42: From 1828 to 1885 the Hicksite Unitarian
- 43: The original religious influence of Quakerism
- 44: But there is in the Quaker breeding
- 45: So that the whole building could be one auditorium
- 46: Or in the strenuous opinion of mature years
- 47: When the railroad came to Pawling
- 48: And preserved only the Quakers
- 49: And its traditions are not Quaker
- 50: Who settled in Pawling or Hurd's Corner
- 51: By persons coming from outside the Quaker Hill population
- 52: The Quaker Hill Quarterly was in August
- 53: Which does not remove the prim Quakerness
- 54: Seven of the old Quaker families
- 55: But most of the men drank cider largely
- 56: In almost every Quaker house boarders have been taken
- 57: Generally of the Holstein stock
- 58: Unless the farmer conduct his dairy in an exceptional manner
- 59: New ideals of quakerism assimilation of strangers
- 60: This shibboleth has indeed always been religious
- 61: The grave manners of the Quakers
- 62: And is buried in the Pawling Cemetery
- 63: The liberal orthodox and the devotional
- 64: This is true of Quaker and Catholic
- 65: And last of all to Quakers of the other Quaker sect
- 66: Many of the Quakers are excellent actors
- 67: Noisy outbreak for a Quaker community
- 68: With motor reaction rather inconstant
- 69: Denied to the convivial their license
- 70: This degenerate will does not extend to traditional morals
- 71: In the Chapel known as Akin Hall
- 72: Quaker ways preclude surprises
- 73: It has perhaps no fixed membership
- 74: And but little from the essential Quaker Hill households
- 75: The average and in each of the quartiles
- 76: Is toward increasing inequality
- 77: Quaker Hill has lived a life apart
- 78: Came to Quaker Hill about 1730
- 79: And she an evangelist instead of a meek and demure Quakeress
- 80: Written for the Memorial Service after his death in 1903
- 81: Monahan took strong hold on Mr
- 82: Quaker Hill by Warren H. Wilson
- 83: Married Delilah Russell Wanzer
- 84: Quaker Hill by Warren H. Wilson
- 85: Quaker Hill by Warren H. Wilson
- 86: Precinct by Andrew Morehouse Quinby
- 87: Reed Ferriss and Zebulon Ferriss
- 88: Daniel Haviland of Southeast precinct