Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead

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The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead in Flatlands, Brooklyn, New York City, is a National Historic Landmark. It is believed to have been built before 1766. During the American Revolution it housed Hessian soldiers, two of whom, Captain Toepfer of the Ditfourth regiment and Lieut. M. Bach of the Hessen-Hanau Artillerie, scratched their names and units into windowpanes. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It is part of the New York State Revolutionary War Heritage Trail.

It was owned and occupied by the Wyckoff Family from when it was built, by Hendrick H. Wyckoff, in approximately 1766, until 1835 when Cornelius W. Bennett purchased it and the approximately 100 acre farm. Four generations of the Bennett family lived in the home until the death of Gertrude Ryder Bennett Williams in 1982, after which her widower, Rev. Frank Curtis Williams, sold the home to Annette and Stuart Mont.