Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
Johannes Millspaugh
Johannes Millspaugh purchased allspice, tea-and-sugar, hammer-and-nails, and one gimblet at the Colden Store on this day, 250 years-ago.
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This article is one in a series of a daily accountings of Colden Store transactions. Be sure you read the first installment for an introduction to the store. You should also read this article which appeared in the Journal of the Orange County Historical Society.
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The surname of Millspaugh [Milspaugh, Millspough, Millsbough, Milspaugh, Milspock] appeared ninety-seven times in the DayBook. It was one of the most frequently cited names. Given names and their frequency included Haneas/Honnes/Johannes (Acct# 105, 187, 233) (28), Jacob (Ms, Senr, Acct# 74, 195) (13), Jacob (P, Junr, Acct# 100, 204, 15) (28), Nicholas (Acct# 64, 207) (23), and Phillip (Acct# 111) (4). These different accounts could represent different persons with the same name, however in it appears accounts were closed before new accounts were opened (Nicholas: Acct 64 was closed before Acct 207 was used; Jacob Junr: Acct 100 was closed before Acct 204 was used; Johannes: Acct 187 was closed before Acct 233 was used...however 105 and 187 were used at the same time?); Jacob Senr: Acct 74 was closed before Acct 195 was used.)
Public genealogies state that three brothers (Matthias, Philip, and Nicholas) left Germany [Melsbach, Melzbach] in about 1735 and arrived in New York. [Ruttenber states only the surname as having left Germany in 1730.] This seems odd to me as the children are given names with Dutch spellings. The Ms in Jacob Senr's name could stand for Matthias and hints that he was the son of Matthias. That is what the Barrett-Haight Tree suggests and places him at thirty-six years-of-age when he shopped at the Colden Store. Phillip (d. 1758) was survived by a son, Phillip (b. 1745) who could be the Phillip recorded in the DayBook. Phillip also had a son, Johannes (b. abt 1730) who could be the Johannes in the DayBook. Jacob Junr. is more of a mystery as the son of Jacob Senr. was too young to shop at the store. Is his designation of 'P' an indication that he was the son of Phillip? Some genealogies show a 'John' as the son of Phillip and is often confused with the son of Matthias.
It can be stated with accuracy that the Milspaugh family was prolific in this region of the state and that the given names listed above were used over and over again. Ruttenber (History of Orange County) states that Matthias Milspaugh was one of the early settlers of the area and farmed on the west side of the Wallkill River. The house of the patriarch, Matthias, was the meeting place for the yearly freeholder meeting after Wallkill Precinct was formed in 1743. He married the widow of Johannes Mingus and thus acquired the Mingus grist mill and farm (Ruttenber, p. 23)
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