The Manor House of Lacolle
The Manor House of Lacolle
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The interior is mostly finished inpolished hard woods, with broad fire-places and colonial mantels in mostof the rooms. The main part of the house was built in 1825 by Mrs. HenryHoyle, formerly Mrs. Major Henry Ten Eyck Schuyler, of Troy, N. Y. , underthe following circumstances: As Sarah Visscher she had inherited a large fortune from her grand-uncleLieutenant-General Garret Fisher (Visscher), a Loyalist officer of SirAdolphus Oughton's regiment, the 55th, which was present at the takingof Mon...treal, and who died at Manchester Square, London, in 1808, after adistinguished career. This fortune arrived at the beginning of the warof 1812, just before the death of her first husband Major Schuyler, nephew of General Philip Schuyler, and descendant of the well-knowncolonial military family of that name. He left three daughters and ason. They possessed other very valuable property in Troy, including ahandsome farm and mansion at the South end, shown in old pictures of thecity, on which about a fourth of Troy was afterwards built.
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The interior is mostly finished inpolished hard woods, with broad fire-places and colonial mantels in mostof the rooms. The main part of the house was built in 1825 by Mrs. HenryHoyle, formerly Mrs. Major Henry Ten Eyck Schuyler, of Troy, N. Y. , underthe following circumstances: As Sarah Visscher she had inherited a large fortune from her grand-uncleLieutenant-General Garret Fisher (Visscher), a Loyalist officer of SirAdolphus Oughton's regiment, the 55th, which was present at the takingof Mon...treal, and who died at Manchester Square, London, in 1808, after adistinguished career. This fortune arrived at the beginning of the warof 1812, just before the death of her first husband Major Schuyler, nephew of General Philip Schuyler, and descendant of the well-knowncolonial military family of that name. He left three daughters and ason. They possessed other very valuable property in Troy, including ahandsome farm and mansion at the South end, shown in old pictures of thecity, on which about a fourth of Troy was afterwards built.
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