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By A.J. Schenkman

we all know that Widow Hasbrouck opened her domestic to Washington in 1782, however the Hasbrouck kin heritage itself has been distorted through the years by means of myths and legends. very like the tale of Washington slicing down the cherry tree, legend has it that the Hasbroucks and Washington might take a regular sojourn to the kinfolk orchards, the place Jonathan Hasbrouck might first style the general's fruit to make sure it used to be now not poisoned. in fact that Jonathan and Washington by no means met. during this revealing publication, A.J. Schenkman eventually dispels the rumors and relates the background of a renowned Newburgh relatives whose home finally turned the nation's first publicly owned old website in 1850.

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