Built 1709 In Duchess County NY, and lived in by 7 generations of the same family.

She was the first white woman to get this far but my vision of a stalwart pioneer woman faded somewhat when I saw the charter from James II granting herself and her husband (he died early on) the land… something like 85 thousand acres of it!!

The house itself is wonderful, there are crumbling lace caps on the hatstand, umbrellas propped underneath, spinning wheels, luggage stored in the back room, delf on the dresser, huge iron pot in the massie kitchen fire place – a real sense of a lived life!