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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK
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MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK
FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE YEAR 1892
EDITED BY JAMES GRANT WILSON
VOLUME II STANI
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NEW-YORK HISTORY COMPANY 132 NASSAU STREET 1892
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Copyright, 1892, by the NEW-YORK HISTORY COMPANY
PRINTED AT THE DE VINNE PRESS.
To BENJAMIN HARRISON PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY HIS FRIEND THE EDITOR
Manna-hata, the handsomest and most pleasant country that man can behold. HENRY HUDSON.
The Island of New-York is the most beautiful island that I have ever seen. HESSIAN OFFICER, in " Stone's Revolutionary Letters," 1891. She is a Mart of Nations. . . . The crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth. ISAIAH, xxiii.
History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age without either the infirmi- ties or inconveniences thereof. THOMAS FULLER.
This is a great fault in a chronicler, to turn parasite : an absolute history should be in fear of none; neither should he write anything more than truth, for friendship, or else for hate, but keep himself equal and constant in all his discourses. SIMON N. H. LINGUET.
Industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and obser- vation, out of the monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private recordes and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of bookes that concern not story, and the like, we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of Time. FRANCIS BACON.
They who make researches into Antiquity may be said to passe often through many dark lobbies and dusky places before they come to the Auta lucis, the great hall of light; they must repair to old Archives and peruse many molded and moth-eaten records, and so bring to light, as it were, out of darkness, to inform the present world what the former did, and make us see truth through our Ancestor's eyes. JAMES HOWELL.
I was surprised to find how few, if any, of my fellow-citizens were aware that New-York had ever been called New Amsterdam, or had heard of the names of its early Dutch governors, or cared a straw about their ancient Dutch progenitors. . . . A history to serve as a foundation, on which other historians may hereafter raise a noble superstructure, swelling in process . of time, until Knickerbocker's New-York may be equally voluminous with Gibbon's Rome, or Hume and Smollett's England. WASHINGTON IRVING.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
THE EARL OF BELLOMONT AND SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY, 1698-1701. PAGE. The Rev. Ashbel G. Vermilye, D. D. 1
The Earl of Bellomont's Previous History-His Position with Regard to Leisler Known - Encounter with the Trade Abuses-Vacation of Land Grants made by Fletcher-The Governor's Experiences in Boston -Capture of William Kidd the Pirate-Return of Governor Bellomont to New-York, and his Death there - Lieutenant-Governor Nanfan Assumes the Govern- ment-The City Hall in Wall Street Built-Contested Election for Alder- men-Trial of Colonel Nicholas Bayard for High Treason -Lord Cornbury Arrives and Releases him- Burgomasters of New Amsterdam -Mayors of New-York before the Eighteenth Century.
CHAPTER II
THE ADMINISTRATION OF LORD CORNBURY, 1702-1708. William L. Stone. 55
Cornbury's Previous History - Appoints Daniel Homan Secretary of the Province-The Governor's Reception at New-York-He Takes Sides with the Anti-Leisler Party -The Bayard Affair- An Epidemic Fever Rages in the City -Cornbury Retires to Jamaica, L. I., and Seizes the Presbyterian Parsonage- He Visits Albany and Confers with the Indians -Cornbury is Appointed Governor of New Jersey -The People's Eyes Opened to the Gov- ernor's Character-"The French Scare "-Cornbury's Misapplication of Funds Raised for Defense -A Provincial Treasurer Appointed -The Assem- bly Proves Refractory - Cornbury in New Jersey Death of Lady Corn- bury - Two Presbyterian Preachers Imprisoned by the Governor - The "King's Farm and Garden" Granted to Trinity Church -Resolutions of the Assembly Reflecting on Cornbury-He is Recalled by the Queen, and his Creditors Place him in a Debtors' Prison -Description of New-York in 1704-AProminent Citizens and Merchants-Key to Map of New-York.
CHAPTER III
LORD LOVELACE AND THE SECOND CANADIAN CAMPAIGN, 1708-1710. The Editor. 93
Various Celebrated Persons of the Name of Lovelace - The Lovelace Ge- nealogy, Tracing the Relationship between Governors Francis Lovelace and
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Ford Lovalue - Loyalty w the Protestant Succession of the Barons of. Hurley -- John, Lord Lovelace. Appointed Governor of New-York and New Jersey The Flash Campaign of 1708 under Marlborough-The Governor Lands at Flushing, 1, 1., and Catalis Cold in Proceeding to New-York- Reception and Expectations-A New Assembly is Elected and Ments the Governos The " I'mund that Funded in Independence " Begun- Ebenezer Wilwy, Mayor of the City - Extent of the City and Price of Lots -The Ap- pearance of the Streets, Mode of Paving, Fire Apparatus- Manufactures Repressed by the Mother-country - Beginning of German Immigration - Biebpess and Death of Load Larvelace and his two Sons - Richard Ingoldesby Assumes the Government as Lieutenant Governor -The Canadian Campaign of Fait under Codines Nicholom and Voich - Its Failure-Schuyler Goes to Rusland with Five Indian t'histe.
CHAPTER IV
WWHERE HUNTER AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PALATINES, 1710-1719. Charles Burr Todd. 121
hults Hunter's January - the Provisions cancer- Extraordinary Powers l'instant on how by How wi the War Three Thread Patatines Accom- WHY the bullsHAVE FUN & MITEINE L'HAAMELY + BENDITAS NA thermaar-Palatines Shwe wish to theline laval situme Henne i lundanred in Lavate them along the Huibuh stars Vanaugh - trunkin word the New Jersey Council -
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THE CITY UNDER GOVERNOR JOHN MONTGOMERIE, 1728-1732. The Rev. Daniel Van Pelt, A. M. 179
Accession and Character of George II .- The Character and Temper of the New Governor -. An Uneventful Administration -{The City in 1728: the Vari- ous Streets, and How far Built upon-A View of the City from Brooklyn Heights - The " Kolk," or Collect Pond :, its Unwholesome Condition - The Montgomerie Charter Petitioned for and Granted -The Circumstances At- tending its Delivery- Its Leading Features -The Inception of the New-York Society Library - Commerce and Manufactures in the City + Death of Gov . ernor Montgomerie - He is Succeeded by Rip Van Dam, President of the Council-New Dutch Church on Nassau Street Built -Census of the State in 1731-1A Description of New-York in 1737-List of Citizens Admitted as Freemen from 1683 to 1740.
CHAPTER VII
WILLIAM COSBY AND THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, 1732-1736. Eugene Lawrence. 209
. Favorable Circumstances Insuring a Welcome to Governor Cosby -Con- dition of Province and City Disadvantageous in Many Respects- The Be- ginning of Trouble between Cosby and the Assembly-Controversy with President Van Dam -Marriage of Cosby's Daughter with a Son of the Duke of Grafton -The Governor Dismisses Chief Justice Lewis Morris-{Gaieties at the Mansion in the Fort - The City at this Time - Party Spirit and its Con- sequences - The Popular Party Attack the Governor in Zenger's "Weekly Journal"-The Story of a Threatening Letter-Literary Men Few in Number in New-York - An Election at Morrisania Described -War with the French in the Canadas-Zenger is Arrested for Libel - The Famous Zenger Trial- Andrew Hamilton's Noble Defense-Death of Cosby -George Clarke be- comes Lieutenant-Governor - Increase of the Power of the Popular Party - The Negro Plot of 1741 -Condition of the City during the "Hard Winter" of 1741-1742-Mayors of New-York.
CHAPTER VIII
GEORGE CLINTON AND HIS CONTEST WITH THE ASSEMBLY, 1743-1753. John M. Gitterman, Ph. D. 259
A Unique Period-The Rise of Parties, and their Principles - Previous History of Governor Clinton, and his Characteristics- Relations with Chief Justice James De Lancey -Admiral Sir Peter Warren, De Lancey's Brother- in-law -The Governor Recommends Cadwallader Colden for Lieutenant-Gov- ernor-The Assembly and the Appointing Power-Conference of Colonial Governors with the Indians at Albany -Conflict with the Assembly about the Revenue-Turbulent Character of Oliver De Lancey-Clinton's Lack of In-
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sight -- Affairs of Colonel Ricketts and the Man-of-war Greyhound - Gov- ernor ('linton is not Sustained by the English Authorities-Condition of the C'ity at this Period-Clinton's Request for a Recall Granted -His Subsequent Career - Mayor Cruger's Experience on a Slave-ship.
CHAPTER IX
SIR DANVERS OSBORN AND SIR CHARLES HARDY, 1753-1761.
The Editor. 2
Arrival of Sir Danvers Osborn, and Enthusiastic Reception by the Citizens - His Melancholy Forebodings-Sad Termination of the People's Joy-Lieu- tenant-Governor James De Lancey-His Cautious Management of the Polit- ical Situation - Sir Charles Hardy is Appointed Governor-Prefers a Naval to a Civil Command - Lieutenant-Governor De Lancey Again in Power-At His Death Dr. Cadwallader Colden Succeeds Him-Local Affairs in the City During this Period -- Columbia (then King's) College and the Society Library Founded -- Edward Holland and John Cruger (Jr.), Mayors-The Walton House -- The French and Indian War-The Albany Congress and "Plan of Union" in 1754 --- The Earl of Loudoun in New-York City-Social Life In- finenced by the Presence of the Troops-Prejudice Against the Theater - Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, on the "Court" at New-York - Address of Corporation to General Amherst - New-York City Poll List of 1761.
CHAPTER X
THE PART OF NEW-YORK IN THE STAMP ACT TROUBLES, 1761-1768. John Austin Sterens. 32
Honoral Robert Monckton Appointed Governor-His Expedition to Marti- nique and Return to England -Lieutenant-Governor Colden and the As- sombly Conduct and Consequences of the French and Indian War-Great That of the War . The Taxing of the Colonies a Question not of Burden, but of Rights ... The News of the l'usage of the Stamp Act-Origin of the Term "Rons of Liberty. " and Aroviations Under that Name-The Idea of Union in Resistance Takie Shape - Sir Henry Moore Succeeds as Governor-A Con- pires of Colonial Committees . The First Non-Importation Agreement- Fibers of the Arrival of the Stamped Paper-Sir Henry Moore's Moderation in the Orists Friction Between Troops and Citizens- The Repeal of the Stamp Art The Quartering of Soldiers in the City Opposed-Parliament Amin Artopts Oppressive Measure-The Chamber of Commerce Founded.
CHAPTER XI
THE BEYOND NON. IMPORTATION AGREEMENT, AND THE COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENTE AND DESERVATION, 1769-1775. John Austin Stevens. 39
The New York Merchants Again Agner not to Import - More Troops Sent to Amerton The New York Assembly Axsert the Right to Correspond with
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Other Colonies -, Death of Governor Sir Henry Moore - First Blood of the Revolution Shed on Golden Hill- Defection of Other Cities Causes New-York to Abrogate the Non-Importation Agreement - Statues of George III. and William Pitt - The Earl of Dunmore Appointed Governor - A Return of General Harmony - Defenseless State of the City - Dunmore Transferred to Virginia, and Succeeded by William Tryon - The Burning of the Revenue Schooner Gaspee-Committees of Correspondence Everywhere Appointed - New-York Resolves to Resist the Landing of Tea - Fire in Fort George De- stroys the Province Mansion-Tryon Goes on Leave to England-A Tea Ship Arrives in the Harbor, and is Sent Back - The Committee of Fifty- one - New-York's Deputies to the First Continental Congress - Last Meet- ing of the Colonial Assembly of New-York - Tryon Ordered Back to America.
CHAPTER XII
LIFE IN NEW-YORK AT THE CLOSE OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD. John Austin Sterens. 445
An Idyllic Picture - The Foundation of the Spirited Character of New- York's Population - Stimulus to Industries and Building - Various Edi- fices, Public and Private - Hospitality, and the Abundant Means for its Exercise -Manners and Amusements of the People-Rough Sports and More Elegant Entertainments - Lights in the Streets - The Year 1768- Campbell's Description and Ratzer's Plan of the City - Number of Houses in 1768 -New-York the Center of Colonial Opinion - The Mission of New- York Commerce.
CHAPTER XIII
NEW-YORK DURING THE REVOLUTION, 1775-1783.
Gen. Theophilus F. Rodenbough, U. S. A. (Retired). 469.
New-York in the Opening Year of the Revolution-Society from a Hes- sian Officer's Standpoint -A Spirit of Unrest among all Classes-" The News from Lexington "- Marinus Willett stops the Removal of British Stores- Echoes from Bunker Hill, and Measures for the Defense of the City-New- York Becomes the Center of Operations-Washington Arrives and Takes Command-The Declaration of Independence Published to Troops and Citizens-Lord Howe's Proffer of the "Olive-Branch" and "Misdirected" Letter to Washington - The Battle of Long Island-The British Proceed to Occupy New-York- Battle of Harlem Heights: its Precise Locality-Sur- render of Fort Washington, the last Patriot Stronghold on Manhattan Island - Occupation by the British Army, and its Effects upon Life in the City- Benedict Arnold in New-York -The Military Prisons-Restoration of the City Records-The End of the War, and Evacuation by the British- Triumphal Entry of the Continental Troops- Washington's Farewell to his Officers at Fraunces' Tavern - His Good Wishes for the Future of the City- The Lafayette-Carlisle Correspondence - Contemporary Sketches of Promi- nent Men of the Times.
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HISTORY OF NEW-YORK CHAPTER XIV
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LESSAL HISTORY OF NEW-YORK IN THE EIGH- TEENTH CENTURY . Robert Ludlow Fowler. 575
The Importance to a History of its Law of the Introduction of Printing in New York Home Important Cases-The Court of Chancery: Why Un- popular in Now-York - Constitutional Bearings of the Zenger Trial- The Nogro Plot, and Its Lessons in Criminal Procedure-Component Party of Positive Low in Now-York in 1775-The Struggle for Legislative Supremacy and "Taxation by Convent"-The New-York Bar at the Close of the Colonial Forto Change from Provincial to State Government in 1777-The Royal- lat tlovernment from 1776 to 1783-Effect of the Articles of Confederation and the Federal Constitution upon the State-Changes in Laws and Re- maining Kuglich Nintutow - The Restriction of the Death Penalty -The C'hannollor of New-York Character of the "Lawyer Class" Under the Non Constitution The Patenting of Lands for Sums beneath their Value- New York City Interests Subordinated to those of the Rural Parts.
TAHLE OF DATEN IN NEW-YORK HISTORY 631
LIST OF STEEL-ENGRAVINGS.
JOHN JAY .
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WILLIAM WALTON
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HENRY WHITE Copley
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JOHN CRUGER
Hicks
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GEORGE CLINTON
Trumbull
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RUFUS KING
Stuart
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LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
LORD BELLOMONT REVIEWING COLONEL DE PEYSTER'S REGIMENT 37
THE TEST ACT 175
THE MONTGOMERIE CHARTER (FAC-SIMILE OF A PART) 198
ROYAL SEAL ATTACHED TO THE MONTGOMERIE CHARTER 201
FAC-SIMILE OF PAGE OF ZENGER'S "JOURNAL," NOVEMBER 12, 1733 . 227
FAC-SIMILE OF A LETTER OF GOVERNOR BELCHER 312
PATER PATRIA (FROM A RARE ENGRAVING) 469
RECRUITING POSTER OF THE REVOLUTION 484
FAC-SIMILE OF A LETTER OF CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE 531
PROLOGUE SPOKEN BY CAPTAIN JOHN ANDRE 537
FAC-SIMILE OF EXTRA SHEET OF GAINE'S "GAZETTE " 553
PROCLAMATION OF GEORGE III. ANNOUNCING CESSATION OF ARMS . 557
PETITION OF LOYALIST REFUGEES (FAC-SIMILE) 558
CONTINENTAL ARMY REENTERING NEW-YORK, NOVEMBER 25, 1783 561 AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL PICKERING . 563
FAC-SIMILE OF ORDER OF PROCESSION AT CIVIC RECEPTION OF WASH- INGTON AND CLINTON . 564
WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO HIS OFFICERS
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ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF LORD BELLOMONT (IN YOUTH)
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AUTOGRAPH OF CORNELIUS DE WITT
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AUTOGRAPH OF PETRUS PLANCIUS
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AUTOGRAPH OF VAN LINSCHOTEN
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PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF GASPAR FAGEL 6
AUTOGRAPH OF EMANUEL VAN METEREN . 7
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR THOMAS DELAVALL
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR JOHN LAWRENCE
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR WILLIAM DERVALL .
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF HUGO GROTIUS
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR NICHOLAS DE MEYER
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR STEPHEN VAN CORTLANDT
AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF LORD BELLOMONT
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR FRANCIS ROMBOUTS 16
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR WILLIAM DYRE 17
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF LORD BELLOMONT (IN LATER LIFE) 21
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR GABRIEL MINVIELLE . 22
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR PETER DE LA NOY 23
AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF COLONEL NICHOLAS BAYARD 25
THE NEW CITY HALL, 1700
26
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR CHARLES LODOWICK
27
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF REV. WILLIAM VESEY
29
THE SMITH ARMS 31
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR WILLIAM MERRITT
33 34
FAC-SIMILE TITLE-PAGE OF WOOLLEY'S "TWO YEARS' JOURNAL
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR ISAAC DE RIEMER .
35
THE DE PEYSTER SILVER 39
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR ABRAHAM DE PEYSTER 40
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF REV. GUALTERIUS DU BOIS
41
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR DAVID PROVOOST 42
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR THOMAS NOELL 43
PORTRAIT OF JACOB STEENDAM 44
AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR JOHN NANFAN 46
PISTOL PRESENTED TO COLONEL DE PEYSTER BY LORD BELLOMONT 48
BIRTHPLACE OF LORD CORNBURY 55
PORTRAIT OF VISCOUNT CORNBURY 56
THE CLARENDON ARMS . 58
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH 59
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF CHIEF JUSTICE LEWIS MORRIS 61
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF LORD SOMERS 64
ANCIENT TANKARD 67
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR PHILIP FRENCH 68
CORNBURY DOCUMENT, WITH AUTOGRAPH 71
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR WILLIAM PEARTREE 73
THE FRENCH HUGUENOT CHURCH IN PINE STREET, 1704 76
FAC-SIMILE TITLE-PAGE OF LADY CORNBURY'S FUNERAL SERMON 79
DE PEYSTER CHATELAINE 81
THE PALACE OF BLENHEIM . 83
CORNBURY IN FEMALE ATTIRE 86
PORTRAIT OF RICHARD LOVELACE 93
AUTOGRAPH OF LORD LOVELACE 94
LOVELACE ARMS 95 .
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ST. BARTHOLOMEW MEDAL
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AUTOGRAPH OF CHIEF JUSTICE DANIEL HORSMANDEN 100
THE VAN CORTLANDT MANOR-HOUSE 102
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR EBENEZER WILSON 104
THE FRESH-WATER POND (COLLECT) .
105
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF CALEB HEATHCOTE 106
HEIDELBERG CASTLE 107
RUINED TOWER OF HEIDELBERG 109
LOVELACE DOCUMENT 112
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF COLONEL SAMUEL VETCH 115
THE SCHUYLER VASE
117
ARMS AND AUTOGRAPH OF ROBERT HUNTER 121
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF DEAN SWIFT . 122
THE COLONIAL JACK 124
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF RIP VAN DAM 125
PORTRAIT OF MRS. RIP VAN DAM 129
RELICS OF THE PALATINES
132
AUTOGRAPH OF JOSEPH ADDISON 133
PORTRAIT OF AUGUSTUS JAY 136
FEE YEE NEEN HO GA RON, EMPEROR OF THE SIX NATIONS 142
ECON OH KOAN, KING OF THE RIVER NATION 143
HO NEE YEATH TAN NO RON, KING OF THE GENERECHGARICH 144
SA GA YEATH QUA PIETH TON, KING OF THE MAQUAS 145
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF GEORGE I. . 146
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR JOHN JOHNSTON . 148
VIEW OF NEW-YORK IN GOVERNOR BURNET'S TIME 151
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM BURNET 152
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF BISHOP GILBERT BURNET . 155
PORTRAIT OF MRS. WILLIAM BURNET 157
TOMB OF DAVID PROVOOST, IN JONES'S WOOD . 161
EAST RIVER, BETWEEN JOHN STREET AND PECK SLIP 164
THE PROVOOST ARMS 166
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR ROBERT WALTERS . 167
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM SMITH 168
THE SLAVE-MARKET OF NEW-YORK 171
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF GEORGE II. 175
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR JOHANNES JANSEN
178
AUTOGRAPH OF GOVERNOR JOHN MONTGOMERIE 179
THE MONTGOMERIE ARMS . 180
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF LORD BOLINGBROKE 183
EAST RIVER SHORE, NEAR THE RUTGERS HOUSE . 188
ANCIENT DUTCH TOWN, SHOWING CROW-STEPPED GABLES 191
A COLONIAL TEA-SET OF GOLD 193
A NEW-YORK GENTLEMAN 194
THE DUTCH CHURCH (NASSAU STREET) BELL OF 1731 197
VIEW OF NEW-YORK IN 1732 . 200
AUTOGRAPH OF GOVERNOR WILLIAM COSBY 209
THE BROOKLYN FERRY
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THE LOWER MARKET 216
FIRST NEW-YORK POORHOUSE, 1734 219
GREAT SEAL OF GEORGE I. . 221
MIDDLE DUTCH AND FRENCH CHURCHES 222
AUTOGRAPH OF JAMES DE LANCEY 224
GREAT SEAL OF GEORGE II. 225
THE VAN CORTLANDT MANSION AT KINGSBRIDGE 228
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF CADWALLADER COLDEN 231
THE DE LANCEY ARMS .
233
ADMIRAL VERNON MEDAL FOR PORTO BELLO 234
PORTRAIT OF THE REV. BERNARDUS FREEMAN
235
THE COLDEN ARMS
237
SOLDIER OF FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT AMERICAN FOOT
239
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF ANDREW HAMILTON
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PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
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SHILLING, PERIOD OF GEORGE II. . 245
CROWN, PERIOD OF GEORGE II. 246
FAC-SIMILE TITLE-PAGE OF HORSMANDEN'S "NEGRO PLOT" 253
TABLET ON TOMB OF GEORGE CLARKE 254
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NEW DUTCH CHURCH, 1731 262
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THE ADMIRAL WARREN HOUSE .
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AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR PAUL RICHARD
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THE WARREN MONUMENT 267
NEW-YORK IN 1746 268
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR STEPHEN BAYARD 270
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THE BATTERY IN 1746
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PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD
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THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, 1752 279
WALL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 281
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR EDWARD HOLLAND 283
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF REV. HENRY BARCLAY 284
ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, IN BEEKMAN STREET 285
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF SIR DANVERS OSBORN 287
BIRTHPLACE OF SIR DANVERS OSBORN
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PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF ADMIRAL BYNG
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CHICKSANDS PRIORY AS IT IS AT PRESENT
291
THE OSBORN ARMS
292
PORTRAIT OF THOMAS POWNALL
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AUTOGRAPH OF THOMAS POWNALL 294
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF GEORGE III. 295
METHODIST CHURCH IN JOHN STREET 296
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF SIR CHARLES HARDY . 299
FAC-SIMILE OF LETTER BY SIR CHARLES HARDY 300
COLUMBIA COLLEGE IN 1758 302
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FAC-SIMILE OF LETTER OF SIR DANVERS OSBORN
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AUTOGRAPH OF OLIVER DE LANCEY.
AUTOGRAPH AND ARMS OF GOVERNOR GEORGE CLINTON
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF MRS. ANNE GRANT
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xvii
IRON CROWN (COLUMBIA COLLEGE)
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THE WALTON HOUSE 305
HALL IN THE WALTON HOUSE 306
PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY 307
AUTOGRAPH OF MAYOR JOHN CRUGER
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THE EAST RIVER SHORE IN 1761
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NORTH RIVER SHORE, TOWARD LISPENARD'S, 1761
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THE SOUTH PROSPECT OF THE CITY IN 1761 .
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PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF THOMAS JONES 328
FAC-SIMILE OF THE MONCKTON LETTER
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PORTRAIT AND AUTOGRAPH OF WILLIAM PITT
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THE MONCKTON ARMS
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