Another added to the long list of Revolutionary war-starred Patriots whose remains were laid to rest there.
The Dutch Church records show that Thos. Dean, Sr., was married to Maritje Jurcks, Sept. 15, 1750, and Couzen's map of the old Philipsburg Manor shows that his farm was on the Bedford Road near New Castle, where he had a farm of 134 acres, while his son John Dean lived just east of Buttermilk Hill, on what had been the Thos. Brett place.
Isaac Dean, Jr., who was a soldier in the Continental line, was married to Maritje Yerks, widow, May 9, 1784, and had sons Samuel and Abraham and other children. She appears to have been the mother of Win. Yerks, who lived adjoining the place of Sergt. John Dean, and was the grandfather of A. A. Coles of this place.
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Colonel John Otioli and the QdeU Family.
A sketch of the Odell family, so long occupying a prominent place on this Manor and in the County of Westchester, is well given here, furnishing as it did some of the most active and prominent patriots of the Revolution, several of whose names appear upon the monument. Though not all embracing, it is hoped that it will be found of some historical as well as personal interest.
Wm. Odell, the first of the family in this country, was at Concord, Mass., 1639. Probably came to New England with the Rev. Peter Bulkley, who was rector of the parish of Odell, in Bedfordshire, England, 1620. The Odell family had been settled in Bedfordshire for many generations, and it is probable that Mr. Wm. Odell was a resident of that part of England. He died at Fairfield, Conn. , in June, 1676, leaving sons John and William. Wm. Odell, Jr. , was of Fairfield, and afterwards of Rye, N.