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Identifier: mohawkvalleyitsl00reid (find matches)
Title: The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reid, W. Max (William Max), 1839-1911
Subjects: Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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withoutgrumbling, but would not begin work before nine oclock andwould quit at four, no matter how pressing the work was, andwould pay no attention to the orders of the overseers. Fort Johnson has its ghost story also, although in this caseits color was black instead of white, and is now supposed tohave been one of Sir John Johnsons slaves, who probably re-turned to obtain valuables that had been left behind at theflight of the household. Mr, Almarin T. Young, who was born at Fort Johnson in1852, says that the northwest room in the rear of the houseupstairs was always called the spook room, and as a childhe never went inside of it. The interior and exterior are practically the same as whenvacated by Sir John Johnson. Of course its stockade of logsthat formerly surrounded the building and the two little fortsin front were destroyed years ago, probably soon after the lastFrench War, but the house presents the same appearance thatit did when erected. The covering of the roof has been re-
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-t- < ■£ o z XD Z o z O A o THEN A K i PUBLIC LIBKARYJ ASTOR, LENOX ANDTIUDEN FIV UN (-.41 IONS Guy Park and Fort Johnson 145 placed by one of substantial slate, but the old timbers and thehigh peak and dormer windows with their small panes of glasshave been retained. The size of the building is forty feet deepby sixty feet front and rear, two stories high, with lofty attic. A broad hall extends from front to rear, with large roomson each side, which, together with the hall, are ceiled with pan-elled wainscoting. The stairs, with their slim balusters anddiminutive hand rail of mahogany, would detract somewhatfrom the spacious hall and the grand room on the west, if wedid not know that they were only another evidence of thecolonial period. We can easily imagine such a building being presided overby a Dutch matron of colonial days, with snowy cap and ker-chief, but the thought of Molly Brant and her dusky broodand a crowd of her slovenly relatives scattered through thesegrand room

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