TACONIC SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC

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Taconic Shores was originally part of the lands on which Mohican Indians hunted, fished, trapped animals, and farmed. Unfortunately, the native Americans left no written history of their lives. By the start of the 19th century, virtually all of them in the Roe Jan area had long been pushed out of the area. The only printed record regarding Native Americans being specifically at Robinson Pond is a newspaper article about a Mohawk Indian couple, Paul and Phebe Pry who lived in the area. According to the article, a Massachusetts man, formerly of Michigan, alleged that the couple’s little boy had actually been kidnapped several years earlier from Michigan. The bases for the accusation were that the accuser knew that a boy had been kidnapped, that the Prys’ son who appeared to be white (and may have been fathered by a white man), was about the age that the kidnapped boy would have been. After John Dinehart and several other town residents confirmed that the child had been born in the Copake area, the couple was exonerated.

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