. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. Orchard Home. Sunnyside Old Homesteads and TKeir People 353 Bramhall; 1857, Ann B. Jarvis, and Eleanor R. Fuller; 1893,John Nink. The present W. H. Clapp house is another of unknownage and builder; but it, as well as the house opposite,which bears the date 1766, are known to be of pre-Revolu-tionary origin. It stands upon what we have found to bethe Martin Cornelise (Van Buren) portion of the famousGroote Stuk of 1666, and we have traces of its ownershipby the Van Burens for many years. During the Revolutionit was owned b
. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. Orchard Home. Sunnyside Old Homesteads and TKeir People 353 Bramhall; 1857, Ann B. Jarvis, and Eleanor R. Fuller; 1893,John Nink. The present W. H. Clapp house is another of unknownage and builder; but it, as well as the house opposite,which bears the date 1766, are known to be of pre-Revolu-tionary origin. It stands upon what we have found to bethe Martin Cornelise (Van Buren) portion of the famousGroote Stuk of 1666, and we have traces of its ownershipby the Van Burens for many years. During the Revolutionit was owned by the Rev. Johannes Ritzema, pastor of thechurch. In this case, as in many others, records of deeds arelacking, but we have other evidence that the property wasowned later by Dr. J. P. Beekman, after whom we note:1825, James Vanderpoel; 1834, Julius Wilcoxson and JamesShaw; 1848, Nathaniel Burns; 1852, R, Tattershall andGeorge Wyatt; 1853, Henry Dennis; 1894, J^^*- Scully;1911, W. H. Clapp. The tenant house of 1766, doubtless theproperty of the original owners of the Clapp house, w
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