History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . lodge. It was well underthe roof to be secure from cowans and eavesdroppei^s. Ezra L. Barrett wasthe carpenter builder, who the next year built the old Bostwick store,now renovated and known as the Chase store. The hotel was ready foroccupancy in 1805, when Nathaniel Ruggles entered it as the first landlordand continued there to 1809. Almon Bostwick went there in 1810, and re-mained one year. Matthew Trowbridge and Miles Dunbar were his success-ors in 1811. Dunbar remained about a year and
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . lodge. It was well underthe roof to be secure from cowans and eavesdroppei^s. Ezra L. Barrett wasthe carpenter builder, who the next year built the old Bostwick store,now renovated and known as the Chase store. The hotel was ready foroccupancy in 1805, when Nathaniel Ruggles entered it as the first landlordand continued there to 1809. Almon Bostwick went there in 1810, and re-mained one year. Matthew Trowbridge and Miles Dunbar were his success-ors in 1811. Dunbar remained about a year and Trowbridge went on aloneto 1818. His wife was from Danbury, Conn., and meantime from 1811 to1818 one of his daughters had married Henry I. Traver, a prominent jus-tice of the peace, who came here in 1812, and another daughter had mar-ried Abraham Parsons. At the end of his term in the hotel Mr. Trow-bridge moved to Bangall, kept a hotel, and later went to Salisbury, Conn.,where he deceased Nov. 9, 1822. He was buried at Pine Plains, and hiswidow lived between times with Mrs. Traver and Mrs. Ketterer Hotel.[D. C. Ketterer to the left on porch below; Mrs. Margaret D. Ket-terer to the left on upper porch.] KETTEKER HOTEL. 295 During the management of this hostelry by Mr. Trowbridge, and evenearlier and later, horse racing was a popular amusement fad, and wide-spread by contagion. The whole county was infected and especially thenorthern portion. Trowbridge had a good share of horsemen patronage,and his stables were celebrated for horsepitality. Horses had significantand far fetched names in conglomerate. David Winans owned Black-and-all Black, Old Janus and Old Drown. Harry Hutchinson ownedSpeculator. Harry De La Vergne owned Wicked Will. William andJohn McDonald owned King Herod, each a running racer and inraces at divers times at Pine Plains. McDonald was prominent among thehorse set of that day, and he on one occasion used his wit and influenceto good account in this m
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