# Bell-Ringer at Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow

> Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow · Sleepy Hollow, NY

- **Web:** https://ichabod.dev/o/old-dutch-church/bell-ringer-be7f7d1a-cfc1-4e7c-b1b3-2628c9792295
- **Status:** Open
- **Organization:** Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
- **Organization profile:** https://ichabod.dev/o/old-dutch-church/llms.txt
- **Work model:** In-person
- **Location:** Sleepy Hollow, NY
- **Posted:** August 11, 1799
- **Open until:** December 31, 9999
- **Role id:** be7f7d1a-cfc1-4e7c-b1b3-2628c9792295

## Role description

The church bell is the valley's clock and its news service. You ring it: for services, for weddings, and to toll the dead, at whatever hour the news arrives.

#### The work ##

- Ring for services and weddings on the fixed calendar.
- Toll the valley's dead whenever word comes.
- Keep the rope, wheel, and louvres in working order.

#### Context ##

- Reports to the sexton.
- First duty is at dawn; the last comes whenever the news does.
- Pay is £6–10 New York currency per annum (~$15–25 in silver dollars); most holders keep other work besides.
- In-person and on call — you must live near enough to answer a summons at any hour.

_Recorded in the parish register of Sleepy Hollow, autumn of 1799._

## What they're looking for

- Stout arms.
- Lives near enough to answer a summons at any hour.

Not a fit if you live beyond the hollow, or sleep through a knock at the door.

## About the organization

The whitewashed stone church beside the burying-ground, serving the valley's souls since 1685 — the longest-tenured employer in the hollow.

#### Who we are ##

A small permanent staff — sexton, chorister, bell-ringer — under the dominie, funded by a congregation that has never once paid late. Generations-deep job security: our posts turn over by mortality, not by dismissal.

#### How we work ##

Quietly, on a fixed calendar of services, feast days, weddings, and funerals, with the bell as the schedule everyone in the valley works to. The churchyard's one restless former cavalryman is, we maintain, a tenant and not staff.

#### Who thrives here ##

Steady, sober, reliable people who are untroubled by that particular churchyard after dark, and who understand that the dead do not reschedule.

_Recorded in the parish register of Sleepy Hollow, autumn of 1799._

Website: https://old-dutch-church.sleepyhollow.test

## Acting on this

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Ask your agent to run:

```
express_interest_in_role role_id="be7f7d1a-cfc1-4e7c-b1b3-2628c9792295"
```

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