Enumeration of families who were in this town during the time of the Revolutionary War, and of those who removed out of it after the war ended, and of those who now, in 1861, remain in it of those descendants of those ancients including marriage connections.
First of those of the upper or Peenpack neighborhood, two of whom, DeWitt and Terwilliger, were no descendants of the first four families.
The names of the heads of those families were the following, to wit:
| Capt. Jacob R. DeWitt, | Capt. Abraham Cuddeback, |
| Benjamin Depuy, Esq., | Benjamin Cuddeback, |
| Abraham Cuddeback, | Jacob D. Gumaer, |
| Elias Gumaer, | Harmanus Van Inwegen, Esq., |
| Cornelius Van Inwegen, | Philip Swartwout, Esq., |
| John Wallace, | Peter Gumaer, |
| Matthew Terwilliger, | Ezekiel Gumaer, |
| Capt. Abraham Westfall. |
Of these, their children, grand-children, and great-grand-children who had formed marriage connections, and together with these had become families, the following number have, from time to time, removed from this neighborhood, to wit:
| No. of family | |||
| Name. | Of parents' children | Of grand parents' children | Of great grand parents' children |
| Jacob R. De Witt | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| Benjamin Depuy | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| Abraham Cuddeback | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Elias Gumaer | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornelius Van Inwegen | 6 | 3 | 2 |
| John Wallace | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Matthew Terwilliger | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Benjamin Cuddeback | 4 | 14 | 0 |
| Capt. Cuddeback | 4 | 8 | 5 |
| Jacob D. Gumaer | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Harmanus Van Inwegen | 3 | 15 | 0 |
| Philip Swartwout | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Peter Gumaer | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Ezekial Gumaer | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Abraham Westfall | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 62 | 53 | 9 |
62 + 53 + 9 = 124.
This emigration amounts to 124 families and now, in 1861, there remain 30 within the former limits of the neighborhood; gives the amount of 154 families of descendants of the men named and have formed families by connected marriages. These had their living during the time they remained in this place from the productions of the small patent of 1200 acres of land, and although it had become reduced to a low state of cultivation, more of its productions have been transferred to other people than would have supported another such a number of families. Emigration commenced about the year 1790 and has continued to the present time. The families first mentioned of, DeWitt, Depuy, Cuddeback, Gumaer, Van Inwegen and Wallace, settled on the military lands in the state of New York at Onondaga and at the Owasco and Skaneateles Lakes at an early period of the settlement of those lands, and some were among the first pioneers of the same where they all procured lands and became farmers in very comfortable circumstances, and many of their descendants, like their forefathers, have also sold their farms and removed into the western states to advance their interest for the benefit of their children. The other families have removed in all directions from this neighborhood at greater and less distances from it, but generally into the western part of this state and into Pennsylvania and different other states.