The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . EOKEBY. was chosen successively to a seat in the United States senate, anambassador to France, a brigadier-general in the army, and secretary-of-war. He held the latter office while England and the United States wereat war, in 1812-14. He was the author of a Life of General Mont-gomery, Life of General Wayne, and Historical Notices of the Warof 1812. Eokeby, where this eminent man lived and died, is delightfullysituated, in the midst of an undulating park, farther from the river thanthe other villas, but commanding some interesting glimpses of it, ,
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . EOKEBY. was chosen successively to a seat in the United States senate, anambassador to France, a brigadier-general in the army, and secretary-of-war. He held the latter office while England and the United States wereat war, in 1812-14. He was the author of a Life of General Mont-gomery, Life of General Wayne, and Historical Notices of the Warof 1812. Eokeby, where this eminent man lived and died, is delightfullysituated, in the midst of an undulating park, farther from the river thanthe other villas, but commanding some interesting glimpses of it, ,withmore distant landscapes and mountain scenery. Among the latter maybe seen the range of the Shawangunk (pronounced shon-gum), in the far THE HUDSON. 177. liEEKMAXS HOUSE. south-west. Here Mr. Astors family reside about eight months of theyear. A few miles below Rokeby, and lying upon an elevated plain two milesfrom the river, is the beautiful village of Rhinebeck, containing littlemore than 1,000 inhabitants. The first settler was William Beekman, orBeckman, who came from the Rhine, in Germany, in 1647, purchased allthis region from the Indians, and gave homes to several poor families whocame with him. The name of the river inhis fatherland, and his own, are commemo-rated in the title of the town— house built by him is yet standing, upona high point near the Rhinebeck is a stone building. The bricks of whichthe chimney is constructed were importedfrom Holland. In this house the first publicreligious services in that region were held, and it was used as a fortress in early times, against the Indians. Itnow belongs to the Heermance family, descendants of early settlersthere. Beekmans son, Henry, afterwards proc
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