Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Jacobus Stoutenburgh Clears Land, before 1741

Panel 3 of Hyde Park Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office": "Before 1741. Jacobus Stoutenburgh, his sons and slaves clear the land. His log cabin, built 1723, was the first house in Hyde Park Village-- The King's Highway, then a grassy "waggon" road, passed in front-- Jacobus and his wife Margaret Teller had eight children who varied in age, in 1741, from 23 year-old Tobias to 5 year-old Luke." Mural commissioned for Hyde Park, NY post office by WPA Section of Fine Arts Art in Public Buildings Program, photographed by C.B. Ross and Edward Campeau.