Brooklyn New York coffee roaster

06-Feb-14
Gillies C

The Gillies family were colonial Scottish immigrants to America, who embraced the Continental ideal and whose family members fought with General Washington. They settled as farmers at Newburgh New York, not far from President Van Buren’s own Dutch homestead in Kinderhook, on the other side of the majestic Hudson River. As the financial dislocation settled in as an economic misery on the land the economically stressed Gillies’ turned to their son Wright,