Coldengham, New York
Store of Cadwallader Colden, Jr.
McPeak
Dennis McPeak purchased a gallon of West Indian Rum 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 'McPeak' (McPeack, McPeick, McPieck) appeared twenty-three times in the Day Book. All twenty-three were for Dennis (Dinis, Dinnes, Dinnis) (Acct#s 83 & 186). The entries mentioned his wife, his boy, and his girl. One transaction was a deposit by McPeak to the account of Dr. Louden.
His transactions included the sale of about 100 bushels of wheat to the store. He purchased a sickle which may have been used in the wheat harvest. He bought a seven-and-one-half-pound bladder of snuff, a very large amount.
In 1779, he appeared in the tax assessment for Hanover Precinct as 'Dennis McPake' with forty acres of land and only six pounds of personal property.
Dennis either moved or died as he does not appear in the first U.S. census of 1790 in the Town of Montgomery (formerly Hanover Precinct). No other record was found for him.
Surprisingly, Dennis McPeak was a name shared by at least two other contemporary persons. One was a corporal in the NY 2nd regiment during the Revolutionary War. This could have been a child of McPeak, but this young man was living in New York City when he enlisted, not in Ulster. The other was a resident of Bergen County, NJ who left a will in 1787.
Like many who shopped at the Colden Store, the surviving historical records for Dennis McPeak are few. His purchases at the Colden Store may be the richest surviving record of his life.
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