James H. Smith: History of Dutchess County, New York. usgennet.org, 1882, XXX, Part I (usgennet.org [abgerufen am 8. Mai 2009]): „The first settlers were Dutch, and among the first, if not the first, was Baltus Van Kleeck … who, it is generally conceded, built the first substantial house on the site of the city in 1702. It was constructed of rough stone, and stood on the south side of Mill street, a little east of Vassar street … It stood for nearly a century and half a venerable old relic of the long ago past; but, having come, by inheritance, into possession of the Vassar family, it was torn down in 1835, in response to the demand of a progressive impulse.“