If you have pre-1800 heritage from southern Dutchess Co, NY (most of which is now Putnam Co NY), please join this project! We welcome Y-DNA, mtDNA, and FamilyFinder results from those who have connections to this area. There were many families who lived here in the 1740s and 1750s who moved on in the 1760s farther north in NY or into Vermont. The growth in this area from 1740-1800 was tremendous, but because most residents were tenants until the 1780s, figuring out the relationships among them often could use a DNA boost. That is what this project hopes to facilitate.