A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time; (1914) (14762000626)

Identifier: historyofoldkind01coll (find matches)
Title: A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Collier, Edward Augustus, 1835- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Kinderhook, N.Y. -- History. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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of the Commissary De-partment, U. S. Army, to Major Isaac Goes of the Kinder-hook regiment. The prisoners referred to were of Burgoynesarmy. Albany, 18 Oct., 1777.Dear Sir. This moment I have received direction from Genl. Gates tosupply the prisoners and those who will guard them, to theamount of six thousand. They will be at Kinderhook by Mondaynight. You will immediately order a man to remain on the roadand order fifty head of cattle to come to you out of the firstdrove he meets to supply them, Capt. Spenir will bring fiftymore by Monday night. They will want about 400 barrels offlour to be issued and to support them on the road. What quan-tity have you got at the Landing and at the Mills? Let me knowbefore I go to bed so as that I may regulate myself accordingly.I will this evening send a man to assist you and will apply to theQ. M. G. to send some person to procure carriages. This is amatter of the greatest consequence, therefore please exertyourself. Yours in haste, Jacob Cuyler.
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Dishes Used when Burgoyne was Entertained at Kinderhook From a photograph by William Wait War Times 187 Mr. Albert Decker, of Stuyvesant Falls, now (1912) inhis 94th year, informs us that his grandfather, NicholasRobinson, a major in a Dutchess and Columbia Countymilitia regiment, pointed out to him the camping-ground ofBurgoynes captured army here. It was in the fields, thenwoods, to the north of the David Van Schaack (the late Mrs,A. J. Vanderpoels) house. A mysterious cannon ball,brought to light many years later by a plow, was thoughtto be a memorial of that encampment. Two soldiers of theAmerican guard, Mr. Decker was told, dying here, wereburied in the Van Schaack burial plot, now the site of theDutch Reformed church. Kinderhook was never quite so populous as on the nightof Wednesday, October 22, 1777, when a portion of Bur-goynes captive army was encamped in the woods thencovering the fields in the vicinity of our present new ceme-tery. Burgoyne himself and his American escort.