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Campbell Hall Festival of Colonial Revolution - Bull, Booth & Jackson HomesEntry/Object ID
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Bull Family, Booth Family, Jackson Family, Campbell HallScope and Content
ANTIQUES PUT ON DISPLAY AT THREE HOMES
Circuit Includes Bull, Booth and Jackson Houses in Hamptonburgh
CAMPBELL HALL — Nearly two score lovers of early Orange County lore viewed a fortune in antiques near here yesterday. The exhibit, which continues for the public until tomorrow evening, comprises furniture, silverware, dishes and household effects of three Colonial homes and a display at the Presbyterian church. Authentic costumes adorn the men and women designated to explain each display. The circuit includes visits to the Old Stone House, or Bull Home at Hamptonburgh, built about 1722; the house built by Jesse Booth here in 1811, and the stone house, erected without sound of hammer in 1769 by Robert McLeod Jackson. Proceeds of admission tickets are to be divided between the Bull Family Association and the Campbell Hall church. Yesterday’s visits began with a picnic of the Historical Society of Middletown and Wallkill Precinct at the Bull Home. Russell M. Vernooy of Middletown, society president, conducted the brief meeting and Miss Dolly Booth of Campbell Hall, in Colonial dress, read a paper on Sarah Wells, probably the first white woman in Orange County, and wife of William Bull, who built the Old Stone House. The second stop was the Presbyterian church with its display of china, silver and glassware, quilts and maps. Here the guests enjoyed tea. At the last two stops, home antiques were viewed. At all the homes the visitors roamed freely through the houses exclaiming as each turn and every doorway brought some new rare piece.
Sarah Wells’ First Visit At the Bull house Miss Booth described Sarah Wells’ first visit to this region as a girl of sixteen for her foster parents to establish their claim to lands in the Wawayanda Patent. William Bull, whom she later married, was a stone mason from England, and built several structures in this vicinity. William died at sixty-six, Miss Booth said, and Sarah at 102, having seen twelve children, ninety-eight grandchildren, 212 great grand children and thirteen great-great grandchildren. Miss Booth reminded that a week from Saturday the Bull family holds its sixty-ninth family picnic. The reunions began, she explained, when the family erected a marker in the Hamptonburgh cemetery and assembled for the ceremony. After Miss Booth’s talk, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Howell, who live in the Old Stone House, were hosts to the visitors, showing an exhibit of old weapons, and conducting the guests throughout the historic landmark. Among the guns was a double barrel blunderbus with flintlock and brass barrels, the property of Miss Eleanor Van Keuren of Montgomery. So unusual was it, the owner said, that several collectors had said they never had heard of one before. There also were flintlock pistols, a pepper box pistol, Revolutionary muskets, World War automatics, and a pair of Revolutionary swords. Visitors saw the rare old furnishings in the home, the handmade stair rail, the wood pegged floors, the broad-boarded closet beside the living room fireplace, and the collection of Colonial household articles in the attic, from sausage grinders to spinning wheels.
Colonial Hospitality Prevails at Camp
[Photo Caption 1]: The charm of Colonial hospitality prevails again as costumed hosts and hostesses greet visitors at the three-day antique show in three homes of the Revolutionary period and the Presbyterian Church of Campbell Hall. Modern dames in oldtime gowns are shown above, left, as they greeted visitors yesterday at the old Jesse Booth home built in Campbell Hall in 1811. They are Mrs. Pierson Booth, Miss Dolly Booth, little Miss Dixie Anne Booth, Mrs. Jesse Booth and Miss Eleanor Van Keuren.
[Photo Caption 2]: At center is shown the group that me Leod Jackson home, built on the Gosh Front row, left to right: Mrs. George W Elizabeth Bull Green, Stony Ford; Mi Charles W. Harlow and Mrs. Harlow, Sidney, George W. Ackerly, Crystal Run; Mrs. custodian of the Jackson home; Miss E Charles W. Harlow, 3d, Sidney and Stony
Hostesses at Church Over at Campbell Hall Church, iced tea and cakes were waiting, with the hostess committee comprising Mrs. J. K. Egbertson, Mrs. George Rockafellow, Mrs. Charles A. Brooks, and Mrs. Alfred Howe in Colonial gowns to assist with the exhibits were Miss Ruth Thompson, Miss Marion M. Gurney and Mrs. Rockafellow. On tables were rare displays of antique dishes, glassware and silverware. One striking piece was a pitcher, a blown glass bottle of 1800, pieces in the Loop pattern, amber leaf design, Dew Drop and Argus. Dipped paper pew backs were with old quilts. Other items included a toy Sparkling Wagon made in 1860 by James Bradley of Rocklet, a Swiss walking stick, candelabra of 1836, old County maps and old Bibles. Back at the Booth home a half mile away, the little motorcade paused to see the 1811 building and its prized treasures. In the parlor is the communion cup used by the Neeley Town Church shortly after its completion in 1769, and in the basement is the Campbell Hall Church. A Colonial tea set, made of silver dollars and shoe buckles, was counted one of the most valuable pieces in the home. Hostesses here were Mrs. Jesse Booth, Miss Dolly Booth, Miss Eleanor Van Keuren, Montgomery, and Mrs. Pierson Booth. In costume besides the hostesses was little Dixie Anne Booth.Relationships
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