The Hudson River vSchuyler's ];)ro])erty had been destroyed and his house at Schuylers\'ille burned by Burgoyne, A'et after the latter "s fall, when he had been brought a j^risoner to Albany, it was at the Schuyler house that he found entertainment for himself and his family ; and it is said that the noble hosi)itality of his host moved himi to

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tears. Baroness Reidesel and Lady Harriet Ackland were among those who accom]3anied the vanquished British General, and the former has left on record an eulogium tipon the character and generosity of her entertainer. There have been three Schuyler houses that have lasted until the present day to puzzle the searcher after landmarks. The home of General Philip Schuyler has

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been thus clcscril)ed by P'rederic G. Alathcr in an article written for the Magazine of America u History in 1884:

The Albany of the Revolution was still a stockaded city. To the northward were "the flats/' to the southward were "the pastures," where the city herdsmen cared for the cattle and drove them home at night. At a distance of half a mile from the stockade, and just l)eyond the pastures, stood the mansion of General Schuyler. It wa.s of honest brick througliout, and not, like most of the city houses, a wooden structure with a veneered front of l)ricks " brouglit from Holland." To-day tlie walls and the oaken window-sills sliow no reason why they miglit not last for centuries to come, unless the onward march of business shall demand the destruction of the relic. So long as it lasts, the Scluiyler mansion stands as a link between the past and the present.