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February 27, 2006
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Monday, February 27, 2006
Another Description of the Farm of Rem Rapelje of Pelham Published in
1806
On August 24, 2005 I published to the Historic Pelham Blog a posting
entitled "1807
Advertisement for Sale of Property of Rem Rapelje in Pelham". In it I
quoted an advertisement offering the farm of recently-deceased Rem Rapelje
for lease. The brief advertisement sheds light on what the farm was like.
While performing unrelated research, I recently ran across an earlier
advertisement that provides some additional information about the farm.
That advertisement is quoted below.
"TO LET, at Pelham, Westchester county, 19 miles from New-York by the
Boston post road - a comfortable dwelling having 4 rooms with fire places,
several attic rooms with garrett above all, a large spacious cellar under
the whole house, a large kitchen joining the house by an enclosed passage
with servants rooms above, a large dairy, a smoke house, a large coach
house, with stables, a large garden with excellent fruit, two good
meadows, one is covered with an orchard of the best grafted apples and
pears, and a large pasture lot both fresh and salt, and privilege of wood,
being altogether between 20 and 30 acres of land. This place is favorable
for game and fish, having water near it on every side, and late the
residence of R. Rapelje, deceased. . . . .
Apply to G. RAPELJE, no. 14 Vesey street
Feb 14"
Source: To Let, American Citizen, Feb. 19, 1806, p. 4.
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