# Pieter Van Houten

> Hired Man, lately of Wyckoff's sheep-walk. Knows every field between the church and the swamp.

- **Web:** https://ichabod.dev/s/pieter-van-houten
- **Handle:** @pieter-van-houten
- **Connections:** 0
- **Last edited:** October 11, 1799

## Experience

Knows every farm, ford, and haunted hollow between the Old Dutch Church and Wiley's Swamp.

##### Couwenhoven's dairy (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
**Quilter** — 1784–present

Brought in the Indian corn each autumn and never failed to find the lucky red ear at the husking-bee; not one child was lost on the road home, in any weather.

##### Quackenbush's hop-yard (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
**Cornhusker** — 1784–1787

Smoked the hams, salted the pork, and filled the cellar against the snows; the field was finished on time every season, stones and all.

#### Skills and tools ##

Practised at rye-and-Indian bread baking, spinning wool, and psalm singing, with wood splitting 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="pieter-van-houten"
```

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