Placentia
Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York
Built in 1811, for Nathaniel Pendleton and his wife, Susannah Bard. The Pendletons had purchased the land that year from Susannah's brother, Samuel Bard. They used slave labor to build the house and cultivate the land. After Nathaniel died in 1821, his heirs sold the estate to David Hosack's stepson, Washington Coster. Coster later sold it on to his brother-in-law, William E. Laight. In 1845, Laight sold Placentia to its most famous resident, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, James Kirke Paulding. It passed back to the Pendleton family when Nathaniel Rogers Pendleton (grandson of the original builders) retired here in the 1870s or 1880s. It burned down in the 1890s and, "most of the land along the Hudson River reverted to an uncultivated state of bushes and trees".
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David Stuyvesant Chanler's ancestor, Nathaniel Pendleton, lived in Placentia