. American homes and gardens. Perhaps more than elsewhere in the colonies, a home inearly New York or New Jersey was a center of family life—the Dutch colonists loved the homes they had created,and clung to their customs more tenaciously than manycolonists elsewhere. They dispensed a bountiful hospitalityand nothing so pleased a Dutchman of the period as tohave his table crowded on a Sunday by his family and athrong of guests. The building of a home by an earlyDutch family was not a matter lightly to be undertaken—the home destined to shelter not only the builder and. For more than two centuri
. American homes and gardens. Perhaps more than elsewhere in the colonies, a home inearly New York or New Jersey was a center of family life—the Dutch colonists loved the homes they had created,and clung to their customs more tenaciously than manycolonists elsewhere. They dispensed a bountiful hospitalityand nothing so pleased a Dutchman of the period as tohave his table crowded on a Sunday by his family and athrong of guests. The building of a home by an earlyDutch family was not a matter lightly to be undertaken—the home destined to shelter not only the builder and. For more than two centuries the old Brinckerhoff house at Hackensack, New Jersey, has been occupied by members of one family 268 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS August, 1913
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