A Wonderful Visit to Boscobel

The Board of OHRH had a wonderful candlelight tour at our “cousin” museum, Boscobel, yesterday. The director of Boscobel, Jenifer Carlquist (far left, first row), led our group through this magnificent mansion in Garrison NY. We not only learned extraordinary amounts of information about the late 18th and early 19th century life of States Dyckman, the wealthy Hudson River Valley merchant who built Boscobel, but also about his relationship to the Odells. States Dyckman was Margaret Dyckman Odell’s nephew. Although States was a loyalist who fled to London for 10 years while Margaret's husband and sons fought for the Patriot cause, after the war the two parts of the family reunited and supported each other. A story to be told in more detail as both historic sites research the families.