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around which much q the battle lead.
ing To the CAPTURE OF Tor; Washington
took place. was built IN IFS, bv Col
Roger Morris. a British army officer
and husband of Mary phtlips.. one az
the noted beautics of tho colonies Dures
ing the Revolution Washington occu-
MED the house for fully a IN NTH in the
fall of 1875. when he mad. II his hoad.
quarters. Around It were camped SOGG
patriots drawn from All tho colonie-
from Maine IA Georgia. From lrcn,h,s
dug e, Tho lawn and flower beds thex.
hold bnct, tho regulars of Great Britain.
until sunerior numbers forced them to
retreat From that un,u tho end az
Tho war The mansion was the headauar.
tors NJ the nrltiah officers guarding tho
north entrances Ia tho CITY
Morris ,vho had been on the staff OF
washington at Braddock's defeat. ned
In Englond oftor Tho Brltis' arms hal
rai,cd herc and his propertv was con.
nscated and sold nv the counscation
heard nf tho Continental Congress- II
was turned into tavern and VIZ
known as calumet Hail for MANY wears
president WASHINGTON John Adams ana
rbo,pas jefferson and several other
,,oii knoun mon ~ .bo coun,rv me,
! ,bore ,t a dinner I'm 1870 Stepher
Iu,po, , vipc merchant, hought thr
| nronerty and soon after wont ia pariq
! IN hiring Nano,eon Ronaparte hack with
, Kim Instead he returned with many
| r,omor.os which are IN no soon TODAY,
/ +, The aid mansion Aaron Rurr mar.
! ,ied tho wine merchants widow WIN
! had beon his client Tho union was
NOT n nla,sapt ono becnuse of tho arr
torrance or tc,aperament and they VERT
! divorced I.n,i. Heroine and Juse,,i,
/ N,noIeor and othcr nobIr exiIes ~
/ France vero harbored ,herc NV Mr.
Iumel. and IL was there that Fit%c.
f;rcera IIa,lec,x wrote "Narco Rozzaris ii,
The civ Maid so35 600 for the man
sion and tho contents in 1oO3 and sincF
tbcn il has becn used as a public mn.
seum :,
81 Pants Church. AT the junction 6s
broadway and Park Row. with ta4p
buildings IN every side. is the next oI,r'
ost building in New York. having becr;
built in 1866 in a wheat field. as ON
records of the church say. The corncr'i
stone at the corner of Fulton stree
and Broadway was laid in May. 1894,
| The location was opposed by many
members of Trinity because il was to-
far out of town. William " of Fntn
land, a. midshipman, worshippc}
there. as did Lord Hove and Mat0T
Andre After the Revolution, when tn
Federal Government was In Wall street
washington ana the congress marched
10 tho church 10 near sermons Gf
i'snoP freVost' washington pew nho
me na'Io',a, arms. N'rosS il"l II W.
lh' p'" " 'o'' N'",u"' VIM" oo'e ~ ~,
ot S''''', a. ~
,,,,'.,oi ~ g., I,,r,y ~
ioc,,oy ,yb, won soo am an =, 'inee n,
Nav 1929 in a race hctween tho NORTH
and the South. is buried there also. 4"
Claremont, just north OF Granite
Tomb, the stopping place for many
automobile parties, does not look as "
1t had stood on the 'laremont HilI fer
lSl years 1t was punt IN 1913 w
Nicholas de register Eary IN the
nineteenth century IL came INTO inc
hands or Michael Hogan, who had peer
the British Consul at Havana. HI
called it Claremont after the birthplace
in England Of King William W. under
whom Hogan had served as midship-
man in the British navy. Among othe.
well known buildings in this city tina
have seen the century mark are tn
Dyckrnan house, at Broadway and 204tl
street. built in 1888; II Cherry street
built in 1885,; the Eastern Hotel. at the
Battery, built about 1890: the jeremiah
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