History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . h menwere large and strong physically. Joseph, who lived a good deal in hislatest years with his son-in-law, Robert Eddy, is now remembered by someof our oldest citizens as about six feet, four inches tall, and had a greatfund of revolutionary war stories. The only lights for dwellings here inhis boyhood was pine knots from the forests of pine on these plains, burntin a big fire place. The following interview with the late Mrs. Eliza Wilson took place theday Gen. Garfield was shot, July 2,
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . h menwere large and strong physically. Joseph, who lived a good deal in hislatest years with his son-in-law, Robert Eddy, is now remembered by someof our oldest citizens as about six feet, four inches tall, and had a greatfund of revolutionary war stories. The only lights for dwellings here inhis boyhood was pine knots from the forests of pine on these plains, burntin a big fire place. The following interview with the late Mrs. Eliza Wilson took place theday Gen. Garfield was shot, July 2, 1881: My father and mother first came here in 1798, and lived in a house onSouth street, standing on the site of the dwelling now owned by , south of the Eno property. At that time all the dwellings in thisvillage were the one my father lived in—which he had purchased—a smallhouse and blacksmith shop adjoining us on the south, now the Stockingproperty, a frame building kept as a hotel on the Myers hotel site—nowStissing House; a log house on the site of Mr. Ketterers hotel, the Stephen. Portion of Old Winchell and Hartwell Store (on the left.) StissingBank and part of Bowmans Drug Store (on the right.) 138 HISTORY OF PINE PLAINS fino dwelling near the present Eno law office, a house on the site of thepresent John Sowe dwelling, one on Mrs. R. W. Bostwicks residencenearly opposite the present Methodist Church, the old part of the house N. Sayre now lives in, the John Turk House, near or on the site of thepresent public school house, the Capt. Benj. R. Bostwick house, on thesite of the present Jonas Knickerbocker dwelling, one on the Dakinproperty next east of the Presbyterian, which David Dakin afterwards en-larged and lived in; the Graham house afterwards occupied by , the Pells building on the corners, and the Booth dwelling a shortdistance west of the village. Ebenezer Dibblee had a store first in theBooth house, and and afterwards in the Pells bu
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