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Presidential Memorial to Stoutenburghs — 1935

Posted on: January 31, 2014 by: Ila Malloy

ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH PLAQUE: In memory of JACOBUS STOUTENBURGH, born 1696, died 1772, who in 1742 became the first white resident of record on the Flatts, south of Crum Elbow Creek, where subsequently the village of Hyde Park was built and who owned many acres of land in Dutchess County under the Patent of the Great Nine Partners. He married May 25, 1717 MARGARET STOUTENBURGH of Teller's Point, Westchester County, born 1696, died 1789.

Next Sunday morning President Roosevelt will unveil a marble tablet in St. James’ Episcopal Church in memory of Jacobus Stoutenburgh, the first white settler of what is now Hyde Park, and his wife, Margaret Teller Stoutenburgh.