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U.S. census showing 12 slaves (the sum of the last five encircled numbers) in Janet Montgomery’s household, 1820.

Gardener’s Cottage at Montgomery Place, 1982.

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Location of Gilson's house in Red Hook Village.

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Location of Gilson's nursery in Barrytown

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Location of Gilson's house and lot in Rhinebeck, (Vail’s directory, 1874).

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Sarah Gilson's will

Death notice for Sarah Gilson, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 1893

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Gravestone for Alexander, Sarah, and Cornelia Gilson

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Edmund Bassett recalls Alexander Gilson

"A Visit to Montgomery Place"

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Nationally celebrated landscape designer, A. J. Downing, (1815-1852), 1847 article, "A Visit to Montgomery Place," which appeared in The Horticulturalist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, indicates Downing's high esteem for the grounds at…

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Lewis House, former home of John N. Lewis

photograph of the Lewis House, located on Cruger Island Rd.