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Governor Lovelace renames some of the Dutch settlements with English names in 1669.
Nieu Dorp becomes Horley, (pronounced Hurley) after the Lovelace ancestral home in Horley, England.
He also relocates the troublesome English garrison into Marbletown to the southwest, greatly easing tensions in the area.
Nonetheless, Hurley remains a Dutch provincial town in language, customs, and architecture, located along the Old Mine Road, which links Dutch settlements in the Upper Delaware Valley with Kingston.
British troops are called back to Ponckhockie to board their ships before they reach Hurley.
The grain crop is saved from destruction in part by a four-hour artillery barrage made by the militia of the first Ulster regimen under Colonel Johannes Snyder and Major Adrian Wynkoop, which had delayed the British advance.
As the British fleet moves upriver, General George Clinton encamps his troops at the village of Marbletown and moves his command to the Houghtaling House in Hurley in order to better monitor the British.
Hurley is an ideal location for a military outpost, with roads providing access to the Kingston, the Strand on Rondout Creek and back roads to Saugerties and Katsbaan.
The grain crop is saved from destruction in part by a four-hour artillery barrage made by the militia of the first Ulster regimen under Colonel Johannes Snyder and Major Adrian Wynkoop, which had delayed the British advance.
As the British fleet moves upriver, General George Clinton encamps his troops at the village of Marbletown and moves his command to the Houghtaling House in Hurley in order to better monitor the British.
Hurley is an ideal location for a military outpost, with roads providing access to the Kingston, the Strand on Rondout Creek and back roads to Saugerties and Katsbaan.
Lieutenant Daniel Taylor of Captain Stewart's Company of the 9th Royal Regiment had been captured at Little Britain in southern Ulster County on October 10, carrying an innocuous note from General Henry Clinton to General John Burgoyne.
He is a loyalist junior officer who travels in civilian clothes on horseback carrying messages between various units of the British Army.
As is customary, the note had been concealed in a small silver capsule screwed together in the middle.
Ordinarily, such messengers from either army are not considered spies of such a nature that their conviction would call for the death sentence.
However, Nathan Hale of Connecticut had been captured by the British a year earlier and hanged as a spy.
Lieutenant Taylor had been tried in New Windsor by a Courts Martial composed largely of Connecticut officers and had been condemned to be hanged "at such time and place as the General shall direct."
He is a loyalist junior officer who travels in civilian clothes on horseback carrying messages between various units of the British Army.
As is customary, the note had been concealed in a small silver capsule screwed together in the middle.
Ordinarily, such messengers from either army are not considered spies of such a nature that their conviction would call for the death sentence.
However, Nathan Hale of Connecticut had been captured by the British a year earlier and hanged as a spy.
Lieutenant Taylor had been tried in New Windsor by a Courts Martial composed largely of Connecticut officers and had been condemned to be hanged "at such time and place as the General shall direct."
American troops, trying to reach and defend Kingston from the British, had set out from New Windsor and taken Taylor with them.
They had reached Hurley on October 17, where Taylor was held in the Dumond House.
On the morning of October 18, Lieutenant Taylor is moved by horse and wagon to the sweet apple tree on the side of Schoolhouse Lane, where he is hanged.