. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. ouse on the placewhen he bought it in 1780, and the date 1797 indicates thesecond and better dwelling. The modest beginnings of thatdate were considerably improved by Judge Van Ness, a sonof Peter, and, later, still more improved and enlarged by Buren who purchased the place after his return fromWashington, named it Lindenwald, and gave it its chiefdistinction. The biographical sketches of the Van Nesses and of Buren give some details concerning this mansion whichneed not be repeated. Suffice it to say that

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. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. ouse on the placewhen he bought it in 1780, and the date 1797 indicates thesecond and better dwelling. The modest beginnings of thatdate were considerably improved by Judge Van Ness, a sonof Peter, and, later, still more improved and enlarged by Buren who purchased the place after his return fromWashington, named it Lindenwald, and gave it its chiefdistinction. The biographical sketches of the Van Nesses and of Buren give some details concerning this mansion whichneed not be repeated. Suffice it to say that many of themost distinguished men of their time were visitors but a partial list we name: John L. Stephens, Thomas , David Wilmot, Charles Sumner, Silas Wright,Commodore Nicholson, Frank Blair, W. L. Marcy, WilliamAllen Butler, A. C. Flagg, General Winfield Scott, the Earlof Carlisle, Henry Clay, Washington Irving, Samuel , and John Bigelow. In the New York Sun, May 24, 1891, there appeared apleasing account by Mr. George Alfred Townsend of his. fM: W: ^L P^ L^ ?.^l Martin Van Burens Birth-Place From an old print

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