. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. as a little child she fledpast the staring eyes of ancestral portraits on the walls. BYE-LOW. 1848 The present charming home of Mrs. Harriet A. Dufif andher daughters, Edna and Mabel, which she has so greatlyimproved and beautified, was also a part of the first StephenVan Alen estate. The house was built probably by CorneliusS. Van Alen prior to 1848; but how much earlier no recordsreveal. We note these successive transfers: Executors ofCornelius S. Van Alen to Thomas Beekman, 1848; toLeonard Gillet, 1854; to Freeman Wago
. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. as a little child she fledpast the staring eyes of ancestral portraits on the walls. BYE-LOW. 1848 The present charming home of Mrs. Harriet A. Dufif andher daughters, Edna and Mabel, which she has so greatlyimproved and beautified, was also a part of the first StephenVan Alen estate. The house was built probably by CorneliusS. Van Alen prior to 1848; but how much earlier no recordsreveal. We note these successive transfers: Executors ofCornelius S. Van Alen to Thomas Beekman, 1848; toLeonard Gillet, 1854; to Freeman Wagoner, 1872; to Marga-ret A. Woodward, 1901; to E. K. Herrick, 1904; and toHarriet A. Duff, 1905. THE ADAM VAN ALEN HOMESTEAD. 1736 This is so designated because first identified with theAdam Van Alen (b. 1703, d. 1784) who in 1731 m. CatrynaVan Alstyne. He or his father Johannes was the probablebuilder of this, one of the most interesting of our Colonialhomesteads because retaining to an unusual degree thequaint characteristics of the old Dutch mansions of the better p. The Van Alen Homestead, where Katrina Van Tassel Lived From a photograph
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