Goad settlement on Bay’s Mountain in Sullivan County
“Between 1775 and 1782, several men procured land grants that covered Bay’s Mountain Nature Preserve...Before 1782, the Goad family obtained land grants of 750 acres including the Sentinel Point of Bay’s Mountain. They owned from Kitt’s Bottom (the bottom land near today’s Long Island sluice Bridge approaching Ridgefield’s Industrial Park) to and including Starr’s Gap (later called Dolan’s Gap). The Goad family land-owners on the mountain included John and Margaret, William, Gabriel and Peter Goad. Their land included “School House Hollow” which was so named as early as 1795. In this hollow, a log school house was located near the road that today circles the Reservoir Lake on top of Bay’s Mountain... The Goads were the most productive of the first settlers on top of Bay’s Mountain. During the last decade of the eighteenth century, they established a mountain village in the heart of the Nature Preserve. They built log homes, planted crops and completed the log school house which operated as a school for a hundred or more years. In later years, the school was called Piney Flats School (not to be confused with the Piney Flats community in the southeast section of Sullivan County). In 1802, the Goad family sold the part of their land in ‘the Gap of Bay’s Mountain’ to Michael Starr. The strong, healthy, self-reliant woodsmen and their staunch wives and families who settled Bay’s Mountain formed the little settlement during the harsh and dangerous frontier days. These were the days when Chimney Top Mountain was also known as the ‘High Rock’ and ‘Craggy Point’ was a landmark between Starr’s Gap and the Sentinel Point on Bay’s Mountain and the ‘comb’ of the mountain was frequently mentioned in the early deeds.”
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120179531/agnes-adkins: accessed 13 January 2024), memorial page for Agnes Goad Adkins (1750–Aug 1790), Find a Grave Memorial ID 120179531; Lost at War, she was scalped by the Indians; Maintained by Robbi (contributor 46844223).
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