Scene from history of Rhinebeck ca. 1774. "General Richard Montgomery and his wife, Janet Livingston, plant locust seedlings on what will become the lawn of "Grasmere." The bricks were baked in a home-made kiln. An ox tramples clay near an...
Scene from history of Rhinebeck ca. 1774. "General Richard Montgomery and his wife, Janet Livingston, plant locust seedlings on what will become the lawn of "Grasmere." The bricks were baked in a home-made kiln. An ox tramples clay near an...
Sketch for panels depicting General Richard Montgomery and Janet Livingston planting locust seedlings, as well as for image of cornshucking bee, c.a. 1780. Sketches for the Rhinebeck post office murals were first executed by Dowsand trasferred to...
Church schools; Churches; Clippings;Cycling; Farm life; Floods; Homicides; War;
Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
Framed, illustrated Certificate of Full Service, documenting Frank Durland's five years of service in the Fire Company and therefore entitlement for exemption serving as a Juror and from service in the Militia.
Adults; Civil Wars; Military camps; Military discharges; Military life; Military organizations; Military officers; Military personnel; Military service; History; Soldiers; Books; Battlefields; Campaigns & battles; Cemeteries; People; People...
Commemorative ledger containing personal records, recollections, and cemetery records of local soldiers who served in the Ward Post 191 during the Civil War.
Notice of promotion to First Lieutenant of a Militia in Orange County, NY, Cornwall Precinct Regiment, from Provincial Congress to Joshua Brown, October 27, 1775.
Military commission to the position of Ensign in the company of Captain Zacharius Hoffman, given to Louis Bevier of New Paltz, NY, signed by New York Colonial Governor, Robert Hunter, 1711.
View of a tree-lined street. The monument on the left-hand side of the road is the Minisink Monument in Goshen, New York, marking the mass grave of the local casualties of the Battle of Minisink. In this battle of 1779,Joseph Brant led British...
