122 St. Mary’s Parish House (1873). Ferris’s work at the church is concurrent with the planning and building of the Wade house, therefore I find it unlikely he accepted another task when the church had already proved to be challenging. 26 Abraham Lansing, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of New York Vol. 4 (New York: Banks & Brothers, 1872), 158–64. 27 In the 1870 census for Fishkill District No. 1, the census taker was traveling northwards. Wade is followed by Charles H. Van Amburgh at the nearby family homestead, and after by a Brinckerhoff, consistent with the sequence of houses on the road. If Roach is just a single house from Wade, it may imply the census taker visited the cottage before heading down the drive to Wade, then exited. 28 Journal of the Proceedings of the Eighty-Eight Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New-York (New York: Pott, Young & Co., 1871), 19. 29 Samuel R. Platt, and another, Executors v. Charles H. Van Amburgh, and others was decided in 1879 in the Supreme Court of the City and County of New York. Information derived from the proceedings. 30 Hasbrouck, Dutchess County, 344. 31 “The New Schooners,” Daily Palladium, July 21, 1873. 32 “Death of James Wade,” St. Lawrence Republican (Ogdensburg, NY), February 1875 clipping. 33 Thomas Bolton is listed in the census as having been born in St. Lawrence County, the location of Ogdensburg. Perhaps James Wade hired him from there to work on the estate. 34 “Fishkill Burglars,” Poughkeepsie News-Press, February 2, 1886; “Bound to Get in the Toils,” Newburgh Daily News, February 1, 1886. 35 Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886), 317; “Great Lakes Shipwrecks W.”
