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Caroline, after his daughter Caroline-Elizabeth, which made the trip in a record five hours. In recent years, the abandoned Long Dock railyard was transformed into a scenic recreation park.
57:). The family name was Americanized from the earlier Dutch spelling DeWindt, and had roots in the Dutch Colonial Island of Saint Eustatius. Ten children out of eleven from their marriage survived to adulthood, including seven daughters, and their home, called Cedar Grove, which burned to the ground in 1857, was remembered as a center of culture in the Mid-Hudson Valley, through which traveled the Marquis de Lafayette, and celebrated artists, poets, and political leaders of the day.
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