Guilder Pond in Mount Washington is the second highest Pond in Mass with Mount Everett in the background you will experience nature at its finest here and amazing mountain laurel and azalea in spring.  John Van Guilder, a Native American, lived in the Guilder Hollow area with Dutch settlers in the early 18th century. Van Guilder influenced his tribe to lease lands to the Dutch in 1740, after marrying the sister of a Dutch pioneer, the VanGuilder Farm site dates back to the mid-1700s, when the Mahican Indians deeded the land to Jon Konkapot VanGuilder, the son of Chief Konkapot. The Mahicans had settled the area in the late 1600s and welcomed the Dutch settlers.The area surrounding Guilder Pond was subject to land disputes between Dutch and English settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Livingstons, a prominent Dutch family, persisted in charging rent to English settlers who had been granted free towns by the Massachusetts Colonial Legislature.  #hilltownhikersadventures

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