Jonathan5 Deuel and Rachel Denton
DEUEL, Jonathan, was an early resident and lived on a farm in the west part of the town. his wife was Rachel Denton.
They had children Samuel, Silas, Newton, Jay, Rachel. Samuel married a daughter of Jacob Bockee, and has left
descendants. Phenix N. Deuel, now living in the town, being one of his sons. Rachel, the daughter above, married
Nicholas Holbrook, for many years a prominent man and popular merchant at now North East Center. Newton Holbrook, a
merchant in recent years at Lithgow, was his son. Rachel Deuel, wife of Jonathan, deceased, in 1826, aged 53, and he
deceased in 1846, aged 82. They were buried in the family cemetery, near the line of Milan and Pine Plains. Another
Jonathan Deuel and wife Sarah is from another branch of the name. They were residents of the town many years. he
deceased in 1831, aged 66, and she in 1841, aged 75, and were buried in the Knickerbocker cemetery about three miles
east of the village.
DENTON-This name is not identified with the town as early settlers, but comes in by marriage the name being changed.
They first appear in the vicinity of now Smithfield. Benjamin Denton 1st, who married Rachel Wheeler of a family from
Holland, is said to have been one of three brother whose lineage runs to Richard Denton the first, a minister who came to
America about 1640, and settled in Wethersfield, Conn. One of these brothers settled in Boston, one on Long Island, and
Benjamin above at Horse Neck, now Greenwich, where he met the Reynolds and Peck families. The children of Benjamin
1st and Rachel Wheeler were John, Benjamin 2d, Sarah, Ann, Rachel. John married, 1st _____? had a son named Joel,
who was an early settler on Morse Hill, east of Smithfield. John married, 2d, widow Purdy, whose maiden name was
Elizabeth Peck, had children Fanny and Rachel. Fanny married Beriah Thomas, a resident of Pine Plains, had two
daughters. One Zayde married Egbert Smith, has descendants, and the other, Margaret, married 1st, Andreas Pulver, 2d,
Henry Myers, both of Pine Plains, and has descendants. Rachel, sister to Fanny above, married Jonathan Deuel, of
Pine Plains, had children Samuel, Silas, Newton, Jay, Rachel. Samuel is the father of Phenix N. Deuel, of Pine
Plains.
BOCKEE, Abraham, was the near ancestor of the name in this vicinity. He was a deacon in the "Vedder Church" in 1766.
Ten years later he and his wife deceased, were buried in the cemetery of the old German Reformed church about two
miles east of Pine Plains, and later removed to the cemetery at the Federal Store. Captain Jacob Bockee, his son, in the
early years of this century owned and lived on the Samuel Deuel farm in the Bethel neighborhood, where he deceased in
1819. He manumitted his slave "Clara," and her son "Charles aged about two years," November 25, 1815. He married
Catharine, sister to Judge Isaac Smith, of Lithgow, and their children were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Phenix; Margaret,
Maria and Catharine. Abraham, known in comparatively recent years as "Judge Bockee," married Martha Oakley. Maria
married Morgan Carpenter, and Catharine married Samuel Deuel. Descendants of each are now living in this vicinity
bearing the name of their respective husbands.
Taken from "History of Little Nine Partners
of Northeast Precinct and Pine Plains, New
York, Duchess County 1897" by Isaac
Huntting. Highlights by website author.
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