# Hans Van Ripper

> Thrifty tenant farmer and reluctant landlord. Keeper of Gunpowder; lender of nothing twice.

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- **Handle:** @hans-van-ripper
- **Connections:** 1
- **Last edited:** October 25, 1799

## Experience

A choleric old Dutch farmer of close and careful habits; boards the village schoolmaster with much grumbling, and lends out horses with more.

##### Van Ripper Homestead (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
**Owner-Operator** — 1775–present

Farm stony upland acres at a profit through thrift alone, twenty-four years running, with no debt and no waste worth the name. Board the district schoolmaster — meals, lodging, and opinions included — and maintain Gunpowder, a broken-winded plough-horse, in working order well past all reasonable expectation.

#### Skills and tools ##

Ploughing, fence-mending, and horse-keeping on a shoestring, with cost control that borders on the miraculous. Grumbling: fluent; conversational in muttering.

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

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