. Nooks & corners of old New York . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE No. 7 State Street 6 Fraunees* Tavern 11 The Jack Knife/ Gold and Piatt Streets 23 Golden Hill Inn 24 Cell in the Prison under the Hall of Records . . 35Statue of Nathan Hale, City Hall Park 38 No. 11 Reade Street, where Aaron Burr had an office . 40 The Tombs 41 Park Street, with Church of the Transfiguration ... 44 Hudson and Watts Streets . 55 Grave of Charlotte Temple . , 62 vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Tomb of Alexander Hamilton . 66Washingtons Pew, St. Pauls Chapel 76 Montgomerys Tomb ... 77 A House of Other Days ... 79 Murderer
. Nooks & corners of old New York . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE No. 7 State Street 6 Fraunees* Tavern 11 The Jack Knife/ Gold and Piatt Streets 23 Golden Hill Inn 24 Cell in the Prison under the Hall of Records . . 35Statue of Nathan Hale, City Hall Park 38 No. 11 Reade Street, where Aaron Burr had an office . 40 The Tombs 41 Park Street, with Church of the Transfiguration ... 44 Hudson and Watts Streets . 55 Grave of Charlotte Temple . , 62 vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Tomb of Alexander Hamilton . 66Washingtons Pew, St. Pauls Chapel 76 Montgomerys Tomb ... 77 A House of Other Days ... 79 Murderers Row . . 97 Old Houses, Wiehawken Street 112Looking South from Minetta Lane 114 Old Theological Seminary, Chelsea Square .... 126 Church of Sea and Land . . 135 Bone Alley 139 Milestone on the Bowery . 143 Entrance to Marble Cemetery . 152 College of the City of New York 186 Gate of Old House of Refuge . 188The Little Church Around the Corner ....... 192 Milestone on Third Avenue . 204 NOOKS AND CORNERSOF OLD NEW YORK. NOOKS AND CORNERSOF OLD NEW YORK O I N the centre building of the row Fort i*i r tv i- n i Amsterdam which laces nowling Lrreen rark on the south there is a tablet bearingthe words: THE SITE OF FORT AMSTERDAM,BUILT IN THE FORTIFICATIONS WAS ERECTED THE FIRSTSUBSTANTIAL CHURCH EDIFICEON THE ISLAND OF I 787 THE FORTWAS DEMOLISHEDAND THE GOVERNMENT HOUSEBUILT UPON THIS SITE This was the starting-point of the Dutch wcstsettlement which gradually became NewYork. In 1614 a stockade, called Fort NOOKS AND CORNERS Manhattan, was built as a temporaryplace of shelter for representatives of theUnited New Netherland Co., which hadbeen formed to trade with the company was replaced by theDutch West India Co., with charteredrights to trade on the American coast,and the first step towards the forming ota permanent settlement was the buildingof Fort Amsterdam on the site of thestockade. In 1664 New Amsterdam passed intoBritish possession and
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