The magazine of American history with notes and queries . esidence after the Revo-lution from Boston to NewYork, purchasing a beau-tiful country seat at Tur-tle Bay.* He also, at alater date, purchased themansion in Wall street,north-west corner of Wil-liam, which Van Berkelhad made so attractive tosociety while New Yorkwas the capital. This wasthe city home of the Win-throps for many years, andthe resort of all that waselegant and scholarly inAmerican life. The younger brother of Francis Bayard Winthrop wasLieutenant-Governor Thomas Lindall Winthrop, the father of C. Winthrop, of B
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . esidence after the Revo-lution from Boston to NewYork, purchasing a beau-tiful country seat at Tur-tle Bay.* He also, at alater date, purchased themansion in Wall street,north-west corner of Wil-liam, which Van Berkelhad made so attractive tosociety while New Yorkwas the capital. This wasthe city home of the Win-throps for many years, andthe resort of all that waselegant and scholarly inAmerican life. The younger brother of Francis Bayard Winthrop wasLieutenant-Governor Thomas Lindall Winthrop, the father of C. Winthrop, of Boston ; another brother was Benjamin Win-throp, who married Judith Stuyvesant of New York; also Joseph, whomarried and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, and Admiral RobertWinthrop, of the British Navy. Charles Wilkes, who lived alongside theWinthrops in Wall street, was nephew of the celebrated John Wilkes, whofigured so conspicuously in English politics and Parliament. And thenephew and namesake of Charles Wilkes, born in 1801 in this old mansion,. {Engraved fr PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BAYARD WINTHROP. an antique miniature by permission of his grandson, CharlesFrancis Winthrop.} * The second wife of Mr. Francis B. Winthrop was the daughter of Mr. John Taylor of New York. WALL STREET IN HISTORY 425 was the famous naval commander, hero of the capture of Mason andSlidell in the late Civil War. Many pages might be written touching upon events in the early partof the present century which should properly have a place in these chron-icles if space permitted. On one occasion (in 1804) Wall Street was heavilydraped in the deepest and blackest of mourning, as never before or was entirely suspended, and men walked to and fro aimlessly andtearfully. Hamilton was dead. The great financier, who had practicallyestablished the public credit of the country, had perished in a duel. Thebankers met, pallid and grief-stricken, passed resolutions, and closed theirdoors. The merchant
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