@katrina-van-tassel
Katrina Van Tassel
Heiress-operator of the richest farm in the glen. Runs the household, hosts the frolics, entertains all suitors — commits to none.
https://residents.sleepyhollow.test/katrina-van-tasselExperience
Only daughter of Baltus Van Tassel and heir to the most prosperous farm in the valley. Runs the household side of a working estate, and the social calendar of an entire hollow.
Van Tassel Farm (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Household Manager & Heiress-Apparent — 1790–present
Run provisioning, preserving, and the dairy calendar for the busiest farmstead on the Hudson, feeding a dozen resident hands year-round and thirty at harvest without once running the larder short. Host the valley's harvest frolics — guest lists past a hundred, tables that fairly groan, zero incidents (one pumpkin-related exception, disputed) — which is where most of the hollow's business quietly gets done. Manage a deep field of suitors without conceding a single commitment.
Old Dutch Church (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Psalmody Student — 1795–present
Weekly lessons with the itinerant singing master; took first chair of the young ladies' bench inside a season.
Skills and tools
Household management at estate scale — provisioning, preserving, dairy calendars, and winter stores — plus needlework, spinning, and the full winter craft cycle. Event hosting is the strongest suit: the Van Tassel frolic is the valley's social calendar, and running it is a logistics post disguised as a party. Negotiation, demonstrably (see: suitors, plural, ongoing). Home-taught in letters, accounts, and the running of a great Dutch household.
Recorded in the parish register of Sleepy Hollow, autumn of 1799.