In 1745, Isaac Van Wagenen (1729-1797) built his stone house, now considered the oldest house in St. Remy (aka Swartkill). According the Karl Wick, an historian of St. Remy & co-author with Susan B. Wick, of "Esopus" and "Kingston & Ulster Townships" in the 'Images of America series,' Isaac is buried in a Van Wagenen family burial ground on the "northern end of the property" where "many of the Van Wagenen" are interred. This house still stands on Van Wagenen Lane [aka Van Wagener Lane] as does Lewis Van Wagenen's stone house & barns, built in 1810 to the left (southeast) of the 1745 house, built in a similar style. Isaac's grandson Isaac Davd Van Wagenen (1796-1867) and spouse Maria née Schoonmaker inherited the 1745 house and took in Isabella (aka Sojourner Truth) and her infant (born October 1826) daughter Sophie in November of 1826 and paid her master John Dumont for their freedom ($20 & $5, respectively). [Only slaves born before 1799 were freed on the 4th of July in 1827. The rest had to serve an additional 25 (women) or 28 (men) years. See NYS Manumission Law of 1817.] The Van Wagenens were not Quakers, as some say. Isaac David was a leader in the Reformed Church and knew Isabella's father James (nick-named Baumfree), Dumont and a previous kind master, Martinus Schriver, who bought her at the request of James, to save her from a cruel English master & mistress (Neely) who at least once beat her with red hot iron rods for not understanding English, she, a nine year old girl whose only language was Dutch. See: Cornell Professor Margaret Washington's fine biography of Sojourner Truth. See also: http://www.stremy.net/srearly.html