The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" অগ্রদূত Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina অগ্রদূত Tassel, only daughter of a wealthy farmer. As কপিকল leaves a party at the অগ্রদূত Tassel প্রথমপাতা on an autumn night, he is pursued দ্বারা the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who হারিয়ে গেছে his head to a cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head." কপিকল disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related."