6/3/2023 0 Comments Kingston daily freemanHenry Almanzo Samson, for whom the hamlet was named, was born April 4, 1818, in Woodstock, Connecticut, where he learned the tanning trade. The area around the tannery had been known as "Palentown" but acquired the name of Samsonville, leaving Palentown as the name of the adjacent area of Rochester, Ulster County, New York. In 1848, the tannery was sold to Zadock Pratt, with Henry Samson as operating partner. In 1850, after passing through other hands, the tannery became the property of Pratt and Samson." The anonymous author of a 1964 note on Samsonville history in the Kingston Daily Freeman wrote that the tannery had been built in 1831 but gave the names of the original owners as "Hammond and Edson" (Stoddard Hammond was a major tannery owner elsewhere in New York and in Pennsylvania). Town historian Vera Van Steenburgh Sickler wrote: "In 1831, Palen and Hammond built a large tannery in (Palentown) Samsonville. Samsonville developed around a tannery established by Stoddard Hammond and the Palen family of tanners in 1831 below a falls on Mettacahonts Creek. When Olive was founded in 1823, this section of Marbletown was transferred to the new town. It was included in the Marbletown Commons portion of the Marbletown Patent granted to three trustees by Queen Anne of England in 1703 through her agent, Viscount Cornbury. The area that includes Samsonville was once known as Subbeatty land (Mombaccus Mountain was called Subbeatty Mountain). Excavations at the site yielded stone blades, potsherds, arrowheads and spear points. Native American hunters made use of a natural rock shelter beneath a cliff in the area now called Samsonville as early as 2000 BC and possibly as late as 1600 AD. Bordered to the north by Mombaccus Mountain and Ashokan High Point, it is within the Catskill Park on the southeastern slopes of the high Catskills. Samsonville is a hamlet in the southwestern part of the town of Olive in Ulster County, New York, United States.
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