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John G. Benson House

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Built about 1800 by farmer John G. Benson, who served as a captain in the militia from 1794 to 1797, this house stands as an example of post-Revolutionary War Dutch Colonial architecture on property confiscated by New Jersey from the Reverend Garret Lydecker, a Tory during the American Revolution.
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