The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-11
No Lack OF Written Records and First
Portion of Official History Still
Remains i'm the Original
Manuscript Form

Friends. which was held in gro.f is.
esteem by the Dutch Government 300. he
seems to have escaped the trouble that
overlook another Quaker. named John
Bovine, who built a year before h- i.i a
house that still stands at BOVINE lN.uur
and Washington street, in F..-a.us.
and still retains the same app,lI
II had when IL was first built. Tw,u'Aer
houses that he built about thr sim.
time in the nelghborhood are stiN '.rre.
but they were remodelled later
Bovine allowed his home to 3, used
as meeting place for his fellow
Quakers in Flushing, and there. in.
CURED the displeasure of the au'.. .r,-
ties, becoming a somewhat famOu- wee
tim of The persecution the Quaker sui.
fered at that period. He was arrested
and brought into what was then .h. ..'y.
where he was for a time kept IN dan.
geon, so the story goes. and fyI 90
bread and water only. Then H. was
sent to Amsterdam for consider 4,.la
Of his case by higher authorities.
To this circumstance was due W.l.
is said to have been the first d.. .l.l.
ton OF religious freedom cominp trlm
official sources on the other s..a 20
America, with the sole exception . o
similar grant that was made in fa..r u.
Maryland. For the West India conn.
pany wrote to Gov. Petrus Stuy'..ta,
that John Bovine was not To %. nae.
Tested so long as he did not dstu
peace of the community or oppu- D..
Government.
In addition 10 the houses
mentioned there are undoubtcdly
few others that antedate 1900 A. :.
| There Is what is one Of the very .-.
that is known as the Moore h... .t
Newtown. at Broadway and III, -..
road. That Is said to have been s',...u-
since 1861. but comparatively lr... II
interest outside of its age is l.NH
about it, The brief list of an'i... .,,.
however, would be incomplete il . n.r.
not included.
The house Of Jan Ditmar in Ku.' a.
hoven place, Flatlands. Is no, So A.. . .H'
| II serves as memorial to its .N..r
who had an adventurous Carc.r ..
war of the Revolution. Memor.t- IF
Revolutionary days, however. ar. ..r
numerous, though by no mean ..-
full, in the shape of buildings.
| or those more than 100 y,.'-
| there are a good many standin- .-
even these are rapidly dlsapp,l' .- o.,
|
| THE SUN needs to he told that .'- n',,-
ent home was built in 1911 and Wl- N"
first permanent abiding place '.
| Tammany Society.
There are some buildings tNr W
undoubtedly endure for a long tw. ST.
to come. The City Hall is a y,,r Older
than the Sun building, but any is U.,l
: to remove what Is recognized as ne ot
| ha of % hn
be likely to raise a riot.
The present Trinity Church i'""
spoken Of as an ancient landm ''
II Is really a modern buildins h'
been erected in 1899. though III, .-'""
Of the church goes back to Is" IT'S"
preceding edifices on the same were
destroyed by fire.
OF church edifices now stand ;
Paurs Chapel at Broadway am E""'
street is the oldest. it having be-. aI.
in 1896, while ST. Mark, "i'
said. dates only from 1893.
The summing up seems % 'a''
| there Is scant room in the nv pods
OF the New World for anythl. 'ah
savors of antiquity. 1t is tt|. 'A'
there is one relic of almost fabG.".- ~
carefully preserved in the shap, Tee
opdtrd = Needle IN central ldIN. .'
was imported at great eXpensr N. ''''
skill and money, as il to show tn Deg
is at least a sentiment Of venc't "
the community, even II the re.
tirely foreign to local history
New York city seems detrrW I"
|, ways to Justify the first par
/, name and to keep itself fore. A'
in all its parts, The old is re- ''-'
| destroyed to make room for M ..
Even the old names have man
, been forgotten, and the late NJ To-.
7 roy undoubtedly expressed
D ular idea when an antiqu1'
tested to him against the
I change in the name Of Tuu 20
= lane. II had historical asoc.I
said.
e "Tubby Hook lane
l the Mayor disdainfully, "Who
t ugly old name like that In
t city?"
t To-day he might ask, "W..
members where Tubby Hoo"
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