@annetje-van-winkle
Annetje Van Winkle
Shepherd, lately of Brouwer's river-meadow. Steady hands, old ways, no fuss.
Experience
A quiet, contented soul of the valley, asking little more than a snug farm, a full cellar, and an evening of ghost stories by the fire.
The Old Dutch Church glebe (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Dairymaid — 1784–present
Drew the small-beer and traded Horseman tales with travelers at the roadside inn; the dairy never once came up short at market.
Quackenbush's hop-yard (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Ploughman — 1791–1793
Followed the plough from thaw to frost over the stoniest fields in the glen; the errand was run and back before the moon was down.
The Old Dutch Church glebe (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Hired Man — 1791–1793
Drove the sleigh to the Old Dutch Church through every drift of a valley winter; the sleigh got the household to church through every drift of that winter.
Skills and tools
Practised at cider pressing, soap boiling, and haymaking, with sleigh driving, rye-and-Indian bread baking, candle dipping besides. All of it learned on the holdings of this valley, from people who had it from theirs.
Recorded in the parish register of Sleepy Hollow, autumn of 1799.