Poughkeepsie Journal from Poughkeepsie, New York • Page 1C

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Oldest Is Mirror One of their oldest and best documented pieces Is a small Chippendale type mirror with a scrolled mahogany frame, emphasized with a narrow inside band of gold leaf to Nathan Boyd's family in roughkeepsie There's a family tradition that Boyd children played with them as toys, although they are still in perfect condition luncheon plates, dessert plates but no soup plates ht i.r iTLntlll iJalal i A JBv ft 'JssHDHiWaf 'bbbbbb ySH5SaHHw bbbbbbL "bbM Brill, i.a fl aaHsiHk LW LsK1 iit ill xnt4liiaiaii.HWvIIIIIIKi XI fill lSJP HJsMl I 111 isbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbsNbbbbbbbbb If A trt 1T r. rt. Belongrl to Aunt That belonged at one time to their aunt, Anice White, who was the wife of Nathan Boyd of Pou0hkeepsie The mirror was I dwn in their family a White antique, and Mrs Boyd wrote its history on a paper which she glued to the back The china closet li actually a secretary whose top "drawer" opens into a desk That's a hand Another mahogany framed mir some piece, which came from ror, this one with a brass eagle at the oyd family Of all the china the top, hangs in the front hall and glass inside, the luster tea near a mahogany highboy The set Is probably the most inter sister don't know the history of esting either piece, only that they carne ANTIQUE GLASS PROVIDES color in a living room. These pieces are a blue scent bottle, a cranberry glass Poulhkfp4 Journal Potm pitcher, red Bohemian glass decanter and wine glasses, with dark red snuff bottle in front. The graceful cups are white There a picture of a child play They do know that the musket ing with a goat in full color on with the gleaming brass patch the outside of each cup and a I box.

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can remember, the sister, Because Oie.r size and drop leaves who lioutiht the next farm door now the home of his daughters, Miss White and Mrs Brill agreed The mirror hangs In their north living room opposite a mahogany sideboard Miss White and Mrs Brill think that their Great Grand after her marriage in 1829 Sideboard Has Drawers I Wardrobe In Hall An antique wardrobe in the sec ond floor hall has four drawers One of the portraits is of a lively looking young woman with high piled dark hair She wears a white Kmpire gown with a knot of the original plume patterned pink ribbon in front and a red brasses below two doors which drapery Is behind her The other more drawers That came mother White Anice Yoemans of a rather severe young man Irom tneir momer tamuy me White began housekeeping with with a collar which reaches his sisters said but they don't know that sideboard in Greene County ears it it a owier or a uuuois piece The portraits are of Eliza Du A nice pine settee with a spindle Bois and her husband. Peter Van back and a rush seat is also in the upstairs hall So are two Hitchcock chairs More fine old chairs are scattered all through This sideboard has five drawers Benschoten Fowler. one set of the of varying sizes Columns at cither slsters' grandparents, the end are topped with acanthus leaf grandparents ot weir motner Mr carving and have claw feet Slim insets of pale holly wood empha size the lines of the top A cupboard in the same room holds a gold band china service for 12 including a cake plate two comimtes a shell shaped dish and a huge tea pot and sugar bowl That White china, but the sisters don know just who owned it originally A red Bohemian glass decanter with a grape design has two and Mrs Fowler were married in 182fijant lived in Middlehope a the house a Boston a goose neck rocker, rocker, fiddle backs. bbbbbHbbbbbbbbbbbbbbM LbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbSIJPIbbbbbbbbbbbbbbW LVti lBBBBBBBBBBBBBfxgIiaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBV 'MJf tf MK PlrS2S IPPmIIbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb! I jNrl aPBaBBBTLEfl 113 A IbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV BBBM 8 sf RriflsB! UsalV 1IMbbVst IUbibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbBsbkSH XJ! Xs BBBaBaasssaaBn I 4 JV lri Jr mi I sUfsaKjiv 5r 5 ySTBBBBBBBVBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBnBBBVaBBBBBBBBBHlQfB Wifi' ISBBBBBP llW AWmOTbbbbbbIMkCJO bIK Vf 1 Al XffiTl ''jaBBBBBBBrmi TSt aWASiWMg'''! viJC 11 1 ri'lT IBbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbW bbbbbbbbbbbbbb BBsVHaVMPV 4 (, vW SBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBS ggftJMKMBBBBJJB MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD IS A DuBOIS PIECE. The blue Staffordshire covered vegetable dish and cov PouftikaepaU Journal Pboto ered tureen, on its own tray, are part of a dinner service They were originally owned by White ancestors one bedroom, one Hitchcock, one I called because ot tha siacetul i drwr sowing Ubla on a pedes straight chair with a cane seat i curve oi me neaa ana lootrjoara, i iai a nne ciocn wun a pamiea and a similar arm chair They is in one of the bedrooms She 3CE'; Kulu small community between New more Hitchcocks, and four early nave a Hitchcock high chair in understands that this is a Federal a rope mirror meaning that the burgh and Marlboro The portraits were painted by different artists," Mrs Brill said, so we assume before they were married At least, Mother always thought so Sideboard Has Columns The mahogany sideboard in the dining room has carved columns at either end This is a DuBois curly maple sRle chairs with sim pie, graceful lines and cane seats 1 Children's Chairs Three children chairs are In matching wine glasses and oneiplece on the sideboard are five tumbler All are on an open shelf i pleQea 0f a blue Staffordshire set near a red glass snuff box and 0f dishes a covered tureen on a Iwt) white bisque figurines one of (ray and a covered vegetable a spaniel with two puppies, the dlsn The design is of a.

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no her WARNE HDPJLL, in iheJiJom.rt.VHiu, Cor Town, of Th topper 'luster pitchers are heirloom The Urgest one were origin' ally owned by PaUoif ancestors. 1 1 it JaanairM Anyone who takes good look at the Holmes area on the big 1858 wall map of Dutchess County won't wonder too much about the little community's name Holmes isn't on the map under that or any other name, but ia that sparsely settled section of the Town of Pawling, near the Dutchess Putnam County line, one property is identi fled a belonging to Holmes FJve others are. marked HoWes" Wik Actually, there was a "little community at what we cll Holmes in the 18th century was first called Campbell's Creek, presumably hacause one Archibald Campbell was storekeeper and leading citizen. Early Read The early road from Patterson through Holmes, which approximated the path of today's Route lit, was called FishsiU Turnpike Records of the PawlingviUe Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church begin July 1831. One of the stations on the circuit was at FUhklll Turnpike, formerly Campbell's Creek.

The "Stuard's Book" of the circuit for 1838 names the Rev. John Reynold's as pastor He was horn In the Holmes are in 177S. and was circuit rider for some So "years, sometimes serving as many as IT churches. On year.hU circuit voted to pa Wn tot table house and fuel 8300 to be salary Aim tangible reward was the gradual dropping of the old names, Campbell's Station and FishkiU Turnpike, for ReynoldsvUe, Helmes, Name Aaaearee By tha itWdle yera of the last taturyj various irtember. n.

I .11 ttiltP v. of the Holmes family owned a large porportiun of the property in Keynoldsville One was John Holmes Another was James Holmes, and still another was Joseph Holmes which helps explain those five Holmes notations on the 1858 map Nearby Peck's Slip or PecksviUe was larger and busier than Reynoldsville in that period Then there was talk of building a railroad through that area According to local tradition, one of the land owning Holmes family offered to give the rail It would: need forangrir of way and a stabee ia fUynoldsville. Apparently the offer was accepted, for the Central New England Railroad was bujlt through ReynultUvUle in the late 187tV and. as usually happened, business followed the railroad. Then Borden Milk Co established a factory there.

That brought farmers who did their buying in ReynoldsvUl when they made their milk deliveries Reynoldsville prospered. So did Joseph Holmes He had a store and a mill, and was both postmaster and station master on the railroad, today a branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford. iUyaeldsvUle Had Problem Reynoldsville had one problem There was another poet office with an identical or similar name in New York State, which led to postal confusion. A movement was started to have the name of Dutches County's Reynoldsville changed, What 'new name could be logical a the ReynoldsvUl Postoffict became th Holme Postoffict about law. frntU rf Imtt TUt 1 li 4 ia 'i tr 'Ml A f.

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