@marytje-brouwer
Marytje Brouwer
Shepherd, lately of the Suydam holding by the marsh. Knows every field between the church and the swamp.
Experience
Steady, dreamy, and superstitious like all the long-settled Dutch families of the hollow. Keeps to the old ways and the old roads — by daylight.
The Storm farmstead on the millpond (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Quilter — 1780–present
Rose before cock-crow to milk the herd and churn the morning's butter; the barn was up between dawn and supper.
The Suydam holding by the marsh (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Spinner — 1783–1786
Sheared the sheep each spring and carded the wool for the goodwives' wheels; the taproom's takings rose on every night I worked it.
Skills and tools
Practised at preserving and pickling, well drawing, and thatching, with wood splitting, soap boiling, churning butter 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.