Results for subject term "Josiah Hasbrouck House #43 Baker Street<br />
This homestead was built circa 1870. <br />
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Perhaps its most noted resident was Josiah Hasbrouck (sometimes spelled Hasbrook). At one time, this house held three generations of the family. Josiah was born in 1840, in Fishkill, NY, to parents that were slaves of the same-named Josiah Hasbrouck. That Hasbrouck family owned a sprawling 385 acre farm in Gardiner NY and are recorded as owning 14 slaves. When the estate passed to the son, the slaves were freed and Josiah Hasbrouck's family moved to North Elba in the Adirondacks where a community of free born or manumitted black people lived. Josiah’s parents were Montauck Indians. <br />
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Hasbrook had an important friendship and association with John Brown and his family. He met Brown in the Adirondacks. After Brown was hung for treason in 1859, (Josiah attended the funeral), Josiah assisted the widow Brown for nearly a year, accompanying her move to California. Josiah then enlisted in the Civil War in a "Colored Infantry Regiment. In 1897 Josiah and his wife Jane Anne Hazzard, who was a Narragansett Indian moved into the home. They had two children, Carroll and George. Josiah and his family were listed on the tribal roles of the Montauk Indians. <br />
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