![]() ![]() John Bard, was also an outstanding New York City doctor of the time. Bard kept a low profile as a Loyalist, had no problems and returned to New York to practice after the war. While the Revolutionary War was going on, Dr. Bard purchased his mother-in-law's share of the patent and continued to buy land until he owned all the Fauconnier Patent, also known as the Hyde Park Patent. Bard had married Suzanne Valleau, granddaughter of Peter Fauconnier. Bard located on the land side of the King's Highway near where Saint James Church is now located. John Bard, an eminent New York City doctor, to settle here too. Jacobus Stoutenburgh, of Dutch descent, had been purchasing property in Dutchess County for some time so he moved his wife and eight children up the Hudson to this area. The lands south of the Crum Elbow Creek belonged to the Stoutenburghs, who were the first settlers of the area in about 1742. Staatsburg is still a hamlet within the Town of Hyde Park. Samuel Staats bought so much land from the Pawling Patent that the area was called Staatsburgh. Pawling's covered most of Staatsburg and Fauconnier's covered the land north of the Crum Elbow Creek. The land grants were named for the people who obtained them. This was the time of Queen Anne in Great Britain, and the Governor of the Province of New York, Lord Cornbury, was her cousin. ![]() Later in 1703, Peter Fauconnier and a group of New York men applied to the Governor for a patent of 10,000 acres, which have been discovered outside the Pawling Patent. Therefore the patent for the 4,000 acres was given in 1696 to his widow and children. Before 1695 Henry Pawling applied for a grant to purchase property from the Indians in what is today Dutchess County, but died before it was granted. A patent is a grant given by a government for exclusive right to own a determined amount of land. This gave access to the lands to be purchased from the Indians by patentees. Henry Hudson discovered the river named for him in 1609. ![]()
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