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Town of Clinton
Dutchess County, New York
Updated 4/13/2001
 


Providence Cemetery at Pleasant Plains Presbyterian Church
 

Facts and Figures from JW Poucher's "Old Gravestones of Dutchess County", 1924.  See Dutchess County Cemetery Internments for Poucher's exact comments.

Beers = found on 1867 Beers Atlas
Terraserve = found on topographical map on web
 
Cemetery Hamlet Earliest
Stone
2nd 
Stone
# Comments
Providence
(Pleasant Plains Presbyterian)
Pleasant Plains 1770 1779 155 On CR 14, just east of CR 16,  In fairily good shape in Winter 2000.  Across the street from Pleasant Plains Presbyterian church, 246 Hollow Rd,  Stattsburg.  845-889-4019.  From Tourism link below, "The  white frame Greek Revival structure dates  from the organization of the congregation in 1837 (enlarged 1859). 18th and 19th C. farms  line the road to the Hollow and Hibernia Mills, a main, east-west artery in this area."
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Hicksite Friends' Clinton Corners 1794 1795 234 From Poucher, 1914, "At the meeting house of the Hicksite Friends', Clinton Corners.  In good order. : The Hicksite Friends' meeting at Clinton Corners, was organized in 1828 and the meeting house was built in 1829. 
Orthodox Friends's
Creek Meeting
Clinton Corners 1818 1838 80 CR 13 and CR 17.  From Tourism ink below, "In the late  1700s Quakers settled in the area and began construction of the building now occupied by the  UPTON LAKE GRANGE (L) (.8). Completed in 1782, the fieldstone CREEK MEETING  HOUSE is identified as a Quaker site by the separate entrances for women and men and by  the adjacent burying ground, one of the oldest in the county." 

In 1914, "Fair Condition. A Friends' meeting was organized in Clinton in 1777 and a meeting house was built that same year which is still standing, a substantial stone building."

Spencer Pleasant Plains 1806 1807 2 Not yet found.   In 1913, "On the fram of George W. Rymph, a mile and a half southeast of Pleasant Plains Church." 
Methodist Clinton Hollow 1837 1840 15 Not yet Found.  In 1913,  " One mile south of Clinton Hollow, on the farm of Monroe Woodin.    Uncared for.  This small burial place marks the site of a church which was built by Methodist in 1830.  The building was moved away in 1850 and put to other uses and about the same time the congregation became extinct. 
Tripp Clinton Corners 1807 1816 13 Not yet found.  In 1914, "Near Clinton Corners, on the former Cheesman farm, now the property of J. Griswold Webb. Overgrown and deserted.
Lyons Clinton Corners 1793 1811 40 Not yet found.  In 1913, "On the Lyon Farm, northwest of Clinton Corners.  Overgrown and deserted. 

See Dutchess County Tourism page for map and description of historical buildings and locations in this area.

http://www.dutchesstourism.com/tour2.htm

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