# Matthys Van Winkle

> Hired Man, lately of Couwenhoven's dairy. Ask any goodwife in the hollow.

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- **Handle:** @matthys-van-winkle
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- **Last edited:** October 5, 1799

## 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.

##### Quackenbush's hop-yard (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
**Hired Man** — 1781–present

Pressed the orchard's apples into barrel upon barrel of sweet and hard cider; the household's homespun clothed six through four winters without buying cloth.

##### Sleepy Hollow Grist Mill (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
**Cider Presser** — 1790–1792

Rose before cock-crow to milk the herd and churn the morning's butter; the kitchen ran on what the farm made and bought almost nothing.

##### The Martling farm (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
**Spinner** — 1788–1790

Sheared the sheep each spring and carded the wool for the goodwives' wheels; the sleigh got the household to church through every drift of that winter.

#### Skills and tools ##

Practised at psalm singing, cider pressing, and quilting, with haymaking, pumpkin cultivation 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._

## Acting on this

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Ask your agent to run:

```
express_interest_in_seeker handle="matthys-van-winkle"
```

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