Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-31
FACES UNFAMILIAR
Personal Appearance of Many Histori

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as Willett, the first mayor of New
York, the committee from the City
club visited nearly every print dealer
in the city in addition to scores OF
| private collectors Of America But
there was no portrait to be found.
Any one who has ever attempted tc
make a collection Of the pictures OF
the big men Of early New York soor
realizes that there are many blanks
For instance, Of the four Dutch gov
ernors Peter Stuyvesant is the only
one Of whom we have a correct por-
| trait OF Peter Minuet, William Kieft
and Wouter van Twiller there is abso-
lutely nothing accurate, although va
| time to time.
The same is true of a still more emf
nent New Yorker William Bradford
the first printer, who founded in 1925
the New York Gazette, which was the
first newspaper printed in the prov
ince. Bradford was so prominent a
man and so active for years. both in
Philadelphia as we'll as in New York
that it is rather surprising not tc
have something worthy Of being called
true portrait. If there was, perhaps
his features might be on the tablet
erected on the site Of his printing Of
flee, now Of the cotton exchange, at
Hanover square.
The lack Of an authentic portrait OF
Nathan Hale, the martyr spy Of the
Revolution, is somewhat better known
although the sculptors MacMonnies
Partridge and others have not allowed
this to restrain them from depicting
the features Of the young soldier in
stone or bronze. OF Colonel Ethan AL
len there is no known portrait, and
the same Is true Of the doughty war
rior, General Nicholas Herkimer.
One of the heroes of Bunker Hill
Col. Richard Gridley, has left no por-
trait. He was the artillerist and en-
gineer who built the Notifications the
night before the battle. Other promi-
nent Revolutionary fighters Of whom
no pictures exist are Colonel William
Ledyard, the defender of New London
who was killed by British officer
when Ledyard surrendered the fort;
General Thomas Conway, leader OF the
notorious cabal to depose Washington
from the command of the army in
1777; Colonel Seth Warner, who was
prominent in the attacks on Ticonde-
roga and Crown Point and in the bat
tie Of Bennington: General Seth Pom
eroy of Massachusetts, and General
| Samuel Holden Parsons, one Of the
board which tried Major Andre and
| was appointed by Washington as the
| first judge of the northwest territory
No accurate portraits exist of two OF
the fifty-siX signers of the Declara-
ton of independence, John Morton OF
Pennsylvania and John Hart of New
Jersey, although a portrait which is
said to be that of Hart hangs in Inde
pendence hall in Philadelphia and Is
said to have been painted from a min
| iature.
There is nothing extant Of the faith
er of George Washington, Augustine
Washington, nor have any portraits
been discovered of Colonel Ball, father
of Mary Washington, mother of the
general, or of John cambridge, father
of Washington's wife, Martha Wash
ington.
A portrait which a great many col
lectors of old New York material would
give a good deal to obtain is that OF
Samuel Fraunces, the West Indian
tavern keeper, whose best known
house was the old Fraunces' tavern
now owned by the Sons Of the Revolu-
ton, restored since they purchased II
a few years ago to its original condi'
ton. 1t is on lower Broad street, or
the corner Of Pearl street, and the IA
nous long room in which Washington
took farewell of his officers has beer
restored as closely as possible to its
original form.
There is no portrait Of William
Cunningham, the heartless keeper OF
the provost Jail in corner of City
Hall park during the Revolution. Betsy
Ross, the celebrated maker Of the first
stars and stripes, has no portrait
Captain Miles Standish is among those
who have left nothing Of their person
al appearance, nor is anything knowr
Of the intrepid French explorer Joliet
| who traced the sources Of the Missis-
sppi.
Others Of more or less note OF whom
there are no portraits are the ole
English dramatist, Christopher Mar
lowe; Richard Savage, another vel
known English dramatist, who died In
l1743; Marquis Duquesne, from whom
Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, go'
its first name from the French; George
Clinton, royal governor of New YORK
from 1743 to 1853 and father of the
British general in the Revolution, Hen
nv Clinton; Colonel John Henry Cru
| ger, General oliver de Lancey, Gov
ernor William Tryon, General Johr
Forbes, Baron Dieskau, General Robert
| Howe and Bourrienne Napoleons IA
nous secretary, who wrote an eXcel'
lent life of the great French emperor
New York Times.
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