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Orange County HistoryScope and Content
The News-Dec. '50 NOV. 19 1950
Mrs. Spoor
Decided in 1937
The Traphagens have one son, John, Mrs. Harriet Brachbill and
the former Beatrice Traphagen, three grandchildren, William T.
Maxwell, (or Harold L. Maxwell) resides at the Traphagens, 14 a former co. Orange County Community College; Terry Traphagen, 4-yr and Mrs. Jean Yeager who lives in Illinois. The Traphagens also have a great-granddaughter, Claudia Yeager, daughter of Mrs. Eleanor Brachbill. Phrasing the history of the Bull stone structure, Mrs. Traphagen,
NOV. 18, 1950
County History Revealed in Will
(Continued from Page One)
a step in tracing the history of the settlement and development of Orange County.
First Settler According to a History of Orange County by E. M. Ruttenber and L. H. Clark, published in Philadelphia in 1881, and dynamic record by
Mrs. Traphagen, Sarah Wells settled in Orange County in 1712, in
the Goshen section. She was a member of an expedition which
traveled by Sloop-boat to Newb. and thence overland to the site of the
county seat to bring in supplies prior to settlement by Christopher
Denne, owner of an extensive tract, is settled. John Heald, an Indian
adopted by the Dennes who lived in Boston before on the farm,
commanded the expedition by the age of 18. William Bull, the history records,
came to Goshen about ten years later matching Sarah's dimension, a
stonecutter in the future person. He married Sarah Wells August 25,
1718 and the two settled to lived in old Hamptonburgh. Bull secured
a patent of about 500 acres and locked in a long strip on both sides
of the Wallkill River. William's two sons, William, Jr., and Thomas, shares for 350 acre tract after the death of the older Bull, although not equal. William,
Jr., received about 100 acres on the west bank of the Wallkill and
Thomas was left in a 250 acre plot on the east bank.
Prominent Bullvilles
The ancestry of Mrs. Traphagen is traced through Thomas Bull, who
married Mary Kerr. The Village of Bullville was named after Thomas,
although it was his son, Daniel, who developed the locality's business
phase. According to both Roger's History of Orange County and the work
of Ruttenber and Clark, Daniel received an education from in the
Bullville section from the fathers. The elder Bull (Thomas) was contemplating use of the land which in the tract was pinned at about
3173 on map, but as the formula goes in history, the family did
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Military Connections
"Brother" Hendrick, Bull married Eleanor Milliken, the grandson of
Joseph Miliken, an early Orange County pioneer. A patent purchaser
of the Town-Patent in the town of the will of Robert Milliken dated
Sept. 10, 1780, provided the division of about 1,000 acres of land, a major
portion, several horses and the family among his boys. The spiritual
property was donated to the Milliken section. Military database Collection contains the same documents, the son of Moses Smith-Jr., a Swedish
immigrant, was drilled at Bullville Home. Jr. Hart-and's mother was Mrs.
Handford, one of the eight Clearlands for whom the Town of Clearland was named. The next generation of the descendants is moderator Benjamin, Hugh's son who married George Bradley of Bloomingburg. Bradley's ancestors were the original settlers of the Two Pontiac section. George Bradley and Caroline Bull-strips settled in Middletown and are the parents of Mrs.Traphagen. The Traphagen family lists favorite historic tribal substances, among them Silas Bradley, born of the Three War for Independence, and Col. Henry Wisner of Revolutionary War fame. According to Mrs. Traphagen, her mother, Caroline, Benjamin, was among the
first exhibitors at the Orange County Fair and it was only recently
that she formal, legacy relative, are available. Mrs. Traphagen's will
remnants on this services July 29.