Probably no house in the world has ever held within it so many Methodist preachers as this, from the most humble of "weak vessels" up to Bishop Asbury, and other dignitaries of the church ; for, with ample means at command, the doors of Mr. Garrettson and his wife were ever open to all, especially to their brethren in the ministry. ) And that generous hospitality is yet dispensed by the daughter, whose table is seldom without a guest.

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PPOSITE Rhinebeck Station is the old Kingston Landing,

where the three thousand }5ritish troops under General

Vaughan disembarked, and marched to the village of

Kingston, two miles in the interior, and laid it in

ashes. That point was the port of Kingston until

within a few years, and the New York and Albany steamboats

stopped there, but the thriving village at the mouth of the Eondout

Creek, about a mile below, has caused it to be abandoned.

The village of Kingston (originally called Esopus) -- situated upon a broad plain on the banks of the Esopus Creek, with a fine range of the southern Katzbergs in the rear -- is one of the oldest settlements in the State of New York.-'' As early as 1614, Dutch traders built a redoubt at the mouth of Rondout (a corruption of Redoubt) Creek. A few families settled soon afterwards upon or near the site of Kingston, and called the place Wiltwyck, or Wild Indian Town. They were soon dispersed by the savages. Another settlement then followed ; again the savages dispersed them. Finally, in 1660, a treaty was concluded that seemed to promise security to the settlers. But the wrath of the Indians became fiercely kindled against the white people by Governor Stuyvesant, who sent eleven Indian captives to Curagoa, and sold them for slaves.