. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. A pre-RevoIutionary (later Everts—Palmatier-Monthie) House. i^^ The Benedict Arnold (?) Inn, now Chrysler House Old Homesteads and TKeir People 371 beams are pleasing memorials of a century and a half ago. It is with an interrogation point of decided doubt thatit is here named the Benedict Arnold Inn. The only justifi-cation is the tradition repeated to us by the late ThomasBeekman. It was to the effect that Arnold, some monthsafter he was wounded in the battle of Bemis Heights whichhe did much to win, was borne through K
. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. A pre-RevoIutionary (later Everts—Palmatier-Monthie) House. i^^ The Benedict Arnold (?) Inn, now Chrysler House Old Homesteads and TKeir People 371 beams are pleasing memorials of a century and a half ago. It is with an interrogation point of decided doubt thatit is here named the Benedict Arnold Inn. The only justifi-cation is the tradition repeated to us by the late ThomasBeekman. It was to the effect that Arnold, some monthsafter he was wounded in the battle of Bemis Heights whichhe did much to win, was borne through Kinderhook on astretcher and passed a night at this inn; and that the door-way being too narrow to admit the stretcher, one of thejambs was temporarily cut away. The house was built, according to the date on the southend, in 1770, and the site was a part of the original Pruynestate. By whom was it built? Tradition says by a Frenchphysician. From an old map, and from other sources as well,we know of the presence here at that time of a French phy-sician named John Quilhot. From the records of the layingout of roads and streets, w
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