Philadelphia, PA 19111
"Father William Toffey family on the ‘Top the Hill’ below [L-R]; Kyle, Garret, Bill, and Dad: Near and Far View!"
Late summer in 1968 from 82 Norman Place, Tenafly, NJ north 2 hours in Pawling, NY on Quaker Hill, below on the grasses, three brother and my father, but Brother Bill round in front view! My Mother, Dorothy in top on camera! In bottom right, large White Ash trees, ad big boulder rock! Fall, my dad driving and family north to Cornell University in freshmen and Brother Bill – Soils-Plants!
The “Top of Hill” in back woods, shrubs and grasses, signed on corner in Game Farm Road: 10 Brady Lane in Quaker Hill, Pawling, NY. My mother, Dorothy in camera in near left top – tiny: Akin Free Library and Museum, and across a street in right, Christ Church!
And of summer in 10 Brady Line my father family Game Farm Road, climbing down, Kirby Hill Rd before corner of Quaker Hill Rd, my family walking in grasses 80 yard below for Akin Free Library and Museum – ‘Twenty-One Toffey!’ Cemetery on top of back, 4th-Grandparends, John and Abigail Akin Toffey. The John, Hat Maker buggy in down of Pawling. In frond, 3th-Grandparends, Daniel and Betsy Hollow Toffey.
Five minutes west in late summer “Toffey Corner” in Quaker Hill Rd and Church Rd (corner in east, Kirby Hill Rd). The first resident on record to first house was Cornelius Flamen to sold to John Akin II in 1758. In Akan’s daughter Abigail Akin marriage John Toffey in 1776, become known as Toffey Corner!
Next my father’s family 10 minutes north on corner: Oblong Friends Meeting House - Quaker Hill North and Meetinghouse Rd. Build in 1764, Oblong Friends Meeting House. In 1778 in Meeting House on Revolting War, George Washington stayed onside rest.
Last my father William’s Family in town down #22 on cemetery, my hero, great-grand father John James and Mary Elizabeth ‘Sip’ Toffey. John in Jersey City, 18 years old, 33rd NJ Volunteer in Civil War. Wounded in Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee in Washing D.C. on dust April 14, 1865 on Ford Theatre, “around 10 pm…’ Attending the same performance as President Abram Lincoln, and wife Mary, when John Wilkes Booth entered the President’s balcony and Booth assassinated on 16th President, single-shot round-ball, .44!