Philadelphia, PA 19111
"Climbing to Top, 3rd and 4th Great-Grandparents, Pawling, NY"
“Toffey’s Corner” in Quaker Hill Rd and Church Rd, SW Christ Church, across the street Akin Free Library and Museum, below average 80-yard northeast backyard buried there are "Twenty-One Toffey's" burial ground, Roger Smith, left in backyard in Quaker Hill North, Garret meddle slowing walking, and front Brother Bill front camera, September 20, 2011.
Frond grave, youngest of five children's, 3rd Great-Grandparents, Daniel Toffey, 1788 to January 28, 1852, and Betsy Holloway Toffey, 1749 to 1868 in Quaker Hill.
The oldest Toffey family members in top back John Toffey, Sr., 'Hat Maker' eventually settled from Long Island City, my 8th Generation of Toffey's in USA, father John C. Toffey and son John settled in north to Pawling, NY.
First claim to fame during the Revolutionary War, John Toffey married Abigail Akin in 1776 and the couple lived in the house. John built a general store and the corner became known as ‘Toffey’s Corner.’
Included “other businesses, such as a tailor shop, shoemaker, blacksmith shop and cabinet maker… the center of activity on the hilltop. Locals would regularly gather in Toffey’s store to await the arrival of the Poughkeepsie-Hartford stagecoach, which carried mail… post office occupied a portion of the store for 50 years." - Special to Poughkeepsie Journal