Sloat+House

The history of the Sloat House and Sloatsburg can go back long ago to the time when Wynant Van Gelder bought the land from the Leni Lenape Indians in the year of 1738. Isaac Van Dusen was given the land by Van Gelder and then he gave the land to his son-in-law, Stephen Sloat. The Sloat House in a VERY IMPORTANT landmark in history. It has been most important to everybody now and back then. For us, it’s a historical landmark, for the early settlers back then, it was used as an inn for soldiers on their way up to Albany. As you can see the Sloat House can go back REALLY, REALLY early all the way to the late seventeen hundreds.

The Sloat House was a historical landmark during the time of the American Revolution. For example, the Sloat House was used as an inn during that time period. The inn was mostly used for soldiers in the Revolutionary War so they had a place to stay during the night on their way up to Albany. What made this inn so special and why it had a historical marker was that George Washington slept in it on his way up to Albany on June 15, 1779. Also it was the first main house in Sloatsburg.

The Sloat House and Inn, built in around 1754, by Stephen Sloat was recently sold to Mrs. Pamela and Mr. Thomas Bollatto on July, 1981. But before all this happened there was an addition added by Stephen Sloat’s son Isaac in 1813 when he added the front porch. That was one of the changes made in the Sloat House through the years. Another change is that a tree was recently cut down.

If you ever own the Sloat House you must be aware of one rule. This rule is you HAVE TO KEEP SOME of the historical things in a certain way. For example, there are slave quarters upstairs that Mr. And Mrs. Bollatto are not able to take away.

There are some stories about the Sloat House that happened during the time of the American Revolution. One story is a man with the name of John Sloat died in the Sloat House because the Patriots thought he was a Loyalist and shot him. But John Sloat was really a Patriot. The bullet hole is still there but it has been fixed. That is just one story that concerns the Sloat House.

The Sloat House was passed on through generation to generation. Then it was unfortunately sold (out of the family) to Benjamin Moffat Jr. on October 14, 1905. Benjamin’s son Benjamin Tracy Moffat inherited the house and then it was passed on to his son Tracy. In 1981, Tracy Moffat sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. Bollatto They still live there today and are nice enough to let the fourth graders come into their house on the day of their tour to look around. We really appreciated it a lot!