Soap Creek Valley · Timeline
Before 1844
to 1844. 146 dated statements, each one printed exactly as it was said or written, with the narrator and the page.
- 1500
There is little evidence of forest trees in Soap Creek Valley before 1550 (Nettleton 1956)
- 1500
Introduced diseases decimate North American families and communities
- 1539
Birth of savannah oak to the southwest of Soap Creek Valley
- 1550
At that time, scattered oak trees and groves began growing over a wide portion of The Valley; followed in 50 years by the establishment of several stands of Douglas-fir in Soap Creek headwaters (see Sprague and Hanson 1946).
- 1550
Birth of oldest historical Soap Creek Valley oaks
- 1600
No direct evidence exists for conifer in Soap Creek Valley earlier than 1600, yet such trees must have existed there, or very nearby (Kummel et al., 1947; Isaacs 1949).
- 1602
It is located near a group of trees dated to 1602 (Starker 1939), a five-foot diameter Douglas-fir measured in 1853 (Elder 1853), and a tree that contained ax marks dating to 1826 (Jackson 1980; Rowley 1997).
- 1602
Birth of Soap Creek Valley Douglas-fir to north of Lewisburg Saddle
- 1620
He was born about 1620 and married to Annete Cornelise, date unknown.
- 1630
Well, it's supposed to grow an inch every ten years. That's what I think we read somewhere, and it's probably three foot thick, so that's 360 years old.
- 1633
Thomas Wilson came to this country from Scotland in June, 1633 with his wife, Ann and three sons; Humphrey, Samuel and Joshua.
- 1634
He also had children born here: Deborah in August 1634 and Lydia in November 1636.
- 1643
He died in the summer of 1643.
- 1654
On February 16, 1654 he petitioned for and received a license as tavern keeper, and two years later Sergeant Dircksen asked for and was granted his discharge from the Dutch West Indies Company and given leave to settle at the South River (documents show that Lucas owned extensive property in what is now the state of Delaware).
- 1658
The earliest records of Lucas (from 1658) identify him as a sergeant in the service of the Dutch West Indies Company.
- 1659
One of these is his naturalization paper, dated in 1659, written in Dutch.
- 1661
Dirck was baptised at the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam, New Netherland (now New York City, New York) on 13 March 1661.
- 1663
Humphrey married Judith Hersey 21 December 1663 in Exeter.
- 1664
When the British demanded the surrender of New Amsterdam, Lucas was one of those who swore allegiance to the Duke of York October 21-26, 1664.
- 1666
In 1666 Lucas was operating an inn, or tavern, named, "Sign of the Fort Orange".
- 1670
Lucas died prior to April 13, 1670, as we find at that time his widow Annetje was remarried to Jacob Fabritius.
- 1672
Thomas Wilson, son of Humphrey was born 30 May 1672 and married Mary Light on 16 October 1698.
- 1685
Henry born about 1685, married Magdalena Knight Anna Marie born about 1690, married Thomas Lewis, October 24, 1714 Dirck added much to the properties inherited from his father, purchasing additional land on and near Broadway.
- 1685
Henry was born about 1685 and married Magdalena Knight (b.
- 1692
Numerous references are made to Dirck in Colonial manuscripts regarding land acquisitions; work as tax collector (1692); obtaining a pardon for his negro slave Jack, who was convicted of burglary and sentenced to death (1698); as an alderman (1704-6), surveyor of city (1705), Justice of the Peace (1704).
- 1695
1695 and work on Trinity Church for which he is credited with the exterior design Ca.
- 1699
Humphrey, son of Thomas, was born 9 December 1699.
- 1700
Shortly after 1700 Dirck purchased several tracts of land in Dutchess County; One tract was just south of Poughkeepsie, another bought in partnership with Samuel Statts along the Hudson River between Hyde Park and Rhinebeck.
- 1700
Gragg -- my father's people -- they came originally from Fishire to North Ireland in probably the early 1700's. And began coming to America before the Revolution, because some of them served in the Revolutionary War. Gradually, they began going West. I've got them back to Tennessee now and into Missouri, where my grandfather was born.
- 1710
City in 1710 leaving his Poughkeepsie land to his son Henry.
- 1711
March 8, 1711, French Church, NY Anna Maria bap.
- 1712
After inheriting his father's land, Henry settled in Poughkeepsie in 1712 and in a few years became a prominent and influential citizen.
- 1713
April 12, 1713 Dutch Church Richard bap.
- 1715
This property remained in the family until 1715.
- 1715
May 18, 1715, Dutch Church, NY Henry bap.
- 1717
April 3, 1717, Poughkeepsie, NY John bap.
- 1717
He was one of the assessors for 1717-1718, a supervisor 1719-1721, and then County Clerk.
- 1721
February 11, 1721, Poughkeepsie, NY Pieter bap.
- 1723
September 11, 1723, Poughkeepsie, NY Susanna bap.
- 1725
June 11, 1725, Poughkeepsie, NY James bap.
- 1727
He married Mary Leavitt in 1727 in Brentwood, NI-I and had Captain Nathaniel and others.
- 1729
September 4, 1729 William bap.
- 1729
James VanDerBurgh was born September 4, 1729.
- 1737
Henry's will is dated 12 January 1737/8.
- 1739
Captain Nathaniel, son of Humphrey, was born 24 June 1739 in Exeter.
- 1739
She was born 24 March, 1739, a daughter of Robert Barber who was killed by the Indians.
- 1750
At that time he describes himself as being "weak in body', though he did not die until 1750.
- 1753
He married, September 29, 1753, Margaret, daughter of Bartholomew Noxon of Beekman, where he had recently moved from Poughkeepsie.
- 1756
28 February 1756 Bartholomew (Ensign) b.
- 1757
8 November 1757 James b.
- 1759
16 October 1759 Magdalenna b.
- 1759
1759 in Beckman (now Beacon), Dutchess County, NY.
- 1761
5 July 1761 Peter b.
- 1762
He married Elizabeth Barber on 15 March 1762 in Exeter, NH.
- 1763
5 March 1763 Elizabeth, b.
- 1764
16 May 1764 Stephan b.
- 1766
Margaret Noxon died August 8, 1766.
- 1767
October 6, 1767 Col.
- 1768
18 August 1768 Margaret b.
- 1769
Captain Nathaniel moved to Gilmanton, New Hampshire the first week of March, 1769.
- 1769
Elder Nathaniel Wilson, son of Captain Nathaniel, was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire on 8 August 1769.
- 1770
26 April 1770 Richard b.
- 1772
26 May 1772 Gabriel Ludlow b.
- 1774
He was also a spirited officer in the Revolutionary service, and was one of the five members organized into a Congregational church November 30, 1774.
- 1774
20 August 1774 Egbert Benson b.
- 1775
When in 1775 the War of the Revolution was fast becoming inevitable he ardently espoused the cause of the Colony and was commissioned Lieut-Colonel of Col.
- 1775
William Humphrey's Fifth Regiment, Dutchess County Militia on 17 October 1775 and became a colonel on March 10, 1778.
- 1776
8 December 1776 Clarissa b.
- 1776
He was a deputy to the third Provincial Congress, 1776, which ratified the Declaration of Independence.
- 1776
, NY, on April 1776, as a private in the company commanded by Capt.
- 1777
He recollects returning home in January 1777, crossing the Hudson on ice.
- 1778
On 15 Sept 1778 he enlisted for three months under Capt.
- 1779
25 March 1779 George Washington b.
- 1781
24 May 1781 Paulina b.
- 1781
In his diary for May 1781, General Washington mentions the fact that he was the guest at the house of Col.
- 1783
5 December 1783 Almira b.
- 1785
20 December 1785 Federal b.
- 1788
11 May 1788 Caroline b.
- 1788
American fur traders note metal knives and smallpox to the west
- 1788
Historical themes (subsequent to documented 1788 accounts of smallpox and metal tools along the Oregon Coast, due west of Soap Creek Valley; see Elliott 1928) related to changing forest cover patterns were identified in the research analysis process (see Chapters II and III).
- 1794
James died 4 April 1794.
- 1795
0 He was a merchant in Lower Gilmanton from 1795 to 1800.
- 1795
Mary was born 28 February 1795 in Strafford, New Hampshire.
- 1797
Nathaniel Wilson, son of Elder Nathaniel, was born June 1797 in Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
- 1800s
I don't know that either, in the 1800's, mid or late.
- 1800
He was an early settler of Barnstead, New Hampshire and lived on the "Sinkler Place" on Route 107 in 1800.
- 1800s
This railroad car, and others like it, was used as to bring "Revival Meetings" to Wells and to other communities with railroad service in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
- 1800
That's one thing I want to ask you later on is do you have good photographs of the early days of the farms or of the local hills or your family in the early 1900's or late 1800's?
- 1800
The earliest records in New England have Rowleys in them, and as far back as we know is Saratoga County, New York, about 1800.
- 1800s
Even in the 1800s?
- 1800
From 1800 on, I think.
- 1801
He married (2) Fanny Proctor September 1801 in Barnstead, NH and they had children: Fanny (Married William Demerett), Samuel T.
- 1805
Lewis and Clark note 20-year old smallpox epidemic to the north
- 1806
It is unknown how long Kalapuyan families lived in the Willamette Valley before their discovery by European Americans in 1806 (Thwaites 1959).
- 1811
Traders based in Astoria had been operating in the area since 1811, encouraging the local Indians to exchange native foods and animal skins for blue beads, guns, blankets, horses and alcohol.
- 1816
Roberts on 15 November 1816.
- 1819
He died 16 February 1819, aged 80.
- 1820s
By the late 1820's, the seasonal crossings along Berry and Soap Creeks had formed an important link in the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) "California Trail."
- 1820s
They had white tail in the 1820's, I just wondered if there were any left by 1900.
- 1824
Elizabeth Wilson died 12 March 1824, aged 85.
- 1825
Thomas Wilson, son of Nathaniel Wilson, was born 4 March 1825 in Giln-ianton, New Hampshire.
- 1825-08
During his first visit to the Willamette Valley in August, 1825, he noted that most of it had been trapped clean of beaver.
- 1825-11-06
Mr. [Tolbert] Carter was born in Missouri, November 6, 1825, of English ancestry.
- 1825-11-06
Mr. Carter was born in Missouri, on November 6, 1825, of English ancestiy.
- 1826
In the fall of 1826, while David Douglas and HBC brigade leader Alexander McLeod were blazing the first horse trail from the Columbia River to southwest Oregon, Kalapuyans were burning most of the prairies throughout the Willamette Valley.
- 1826
When that tree fell in the undercut, there was an ax mark there opened up that we figured was made in 1826.
- 1826
It was put on in 1826, which says that either an Indian or a trapper was in the area.
- 1826
Documentation of their travels described miles of barren plains burned clear of living vegetation by Kalapuyans, and occasional groves of oak and scattered “pine” (Douglas-fir) three and four feet in diameter on east slope Oregon Coast Range hills.
- 1826
The first historical account of the Soap Creek Valley area was provided by the 1826 Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) beaver hunting expedition led by Alexander Roderick McLeod (Douglas 1905; Davies 1961) that passed southward, up the west side of the Willamette Valley.
- 1826
The HBC expedition is the first known to horse trail traversing the length of the Willamette Valley, along a route that approximately follows the course of Highway 99W today (see Maps 13 and 18).
- 1826
They are also the first records of domestic animals (the expedition’s horses) to graze in the vicinity of Soap Creek.
- 1826
Douglas and McLeod noted an almost total lack of grass and unburned vegetation along the entire length of the Willamette, a result of “Indian burning.”
- 1826
In 1979, Rowley (Jackson 1980; Rowley 1996) described “axe marks” dating to 1826 in a Soap Creek Valley tree near Lewisburg Saddle.
- 1826
Horizontal forest cover patterns of Soap Creek Valley in 1826 are depicted in Map 21. This provides a measure of plant species diversity called “importance” (Kimmins 1987).
- 1826
At that time, grizzly bears, whitetail deer, California condors, lamprey eels, and cutthroat trout also inhabited the Soap Creek Valley area on a seasonal basis (Boyd 1986; Jacobs 1945; see Appendices E and H).
- 1826
Other local plants used by Kalapuyans in 1826 included tarweed, oak, brackenfern, blackberries, strawberries, hazelnuts, arrowwood, yew, and onions (see Table E.3).
- 1826
Soap Creek Valley was largely grassy savannah and prairie at the time of discovery by Europeans.
- 1826
First record of Europeans and domestic animals in the area
- 1826
Upper Left. 1826: acorns, berries, camas, firewood, filberts, onions, seeds.
- 1826-10
Alexander R. McLeod and David Douglas visited the Soap Creek Valley area in early October, 1826 (Davies 1961; Douglas 1905).
- 1826-10-04
On October 4, 1826, in the approximate area of Berry Creek (see Map 2), McLeod noted a group of Kalapuyans “gleaning a miserable existence digging roots” (Davies 1961).
- 1826-10-05
On October 5, 1826, the men camped in a “small circular valley” (Douglas 1905) that may have been Soap Creek Valley.
- 1828
6 The "California Trail" of 1828 1845.
- 1830s
The impact of new diseases in the 1830's had a similar effect on local human populations. Whole families and communities of Kalapuyans were destroyed in a few short years, and soon forgotten.
- 1830
This plot is located in a stand that was seeded in about 1830 to 1840.
- 1831
(1) Salome Smith 10 Dec 1831, d.
- 1832-1834
He had also noted widespread sudden sickness and subsequent death among hundreds of Indian families during his journey through western Oregon and northern California during the previous two years (Scott 1928; Maloney 1942; Cook 1955; Boyd 1986).
- 1832
Epidemics kill most Kalapuyans in western Oregon
- 1834
appeared in Columbia County court on 4 Feb 1834 (age 75 yrs) to make application for pension provided for by congress in 1832 for those who served in the Revolutionary War.
- 1834
In 1834, HBC Chief Trader John Work and his beaver hunting brigade followed the same route blazed by McLeod’s 1826 expedition.
- 1834
It is currently believed that Work may have carried malaria with him on his travels through Idaho, eastern Oregon, California, and western Oregon (Boyd 1990: personal communication), and the spread of this disease was a primary cause of the decimation of many of the Indian communities he visited during that time.
- 1834-12-18
Mrs. Carter, who says she does not feel her age, is a native of Missouri, having been born in Ray county, December 18, 1834.
- 1835
I think that was 1835, wasn't it.
- 1835
The famijly moved to Meramera, illinois in 1835.
- 1836/1935
Cook's mother-in-law, Elizabeth Schultz (1836-1935).
- 1837
The first cattle brought into the Willamette Valley were a wild and untamed herd imported from Mexican California by Ewing Young in 1837.
- 1837
First major cattle drive through Soap Creek Valley
- 1840s
Well, he was here in the 1840's.
- 1840
I think maybe even back to the 1840's. It was one of the first ornamental flowers brought in I think.
- 1840
This is one of the first areas settled in Benton County, about 1840, before Applegate Trail, before the California Gold Rush, before Oregon Territory.
- 1841
This man was sketched near present-day Monroe, Oregon by an artist with the Wilkes Expedition of 1841.
- 1841
By 1841, a United States Exploring Expedition under the direction of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes was able to follow the well-established "California Trail" from Oregon City to San Francisco.
- 1841
Wilkes (1845) remarked that the oak groves of the Willamette Valley in 1841 were so regularly spaced as to “appear to have been planted by the hands of man,” and Kalapuyans of that time were known to cultivate tobacco from seed in isolated openings (Douglas 1905).
- 1841
By 1841, Charles Wilkes noted that only 400 or so Kalapuyans survived in the entire Willamette Valley (Wilkes 1845)—the remnants of at least a half dozen nations estimated to have numbered 10,000 to 12,000 or more individuals prior to the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805-1806 (Boyd 1986; 1990).
- 1842
25 June 1842, and (2) Desire Cady 7 Oct 1844.
- 1844
Elder Nathaniel died in Barnsted 17 December 1844 and his wife Fanny died in 1857.
