A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . To men who take a pride in New York as theirown city there is a historic charm about this old mer-cantile camping-ground on the east side. There isscarcely a street which has not its patriotic old tavern of Sam Fraunce, in which Washing-ton took leave of his officers at the close of the war, isstill standing at Broad and Pearl streets. At the De 190 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Peyster House, on Pearl Street, opposite Cedar, thegeneral had his headquarters. On Wall Street hewas inaugurated President. Thr
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . To men who take a pride in New York as theirown city there is a historic charm about this old mer-cantile camping-ground on the east side. There isscarcely a street which has not its patriotic old tavern of Sam Fraunce, in which Washing-ton took leave of his officers at the close of the war, isstill standing at Broad and Pearl streets. At the De 190 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK Peyster House, on Pearl Street, opposite Cedar, thegeneral had his headquarters. On Wall Street hewas inaugurated President. Through these streetsthe Liberty Boys paraded. Here they seized a loadof muskets from their red - coated guardians; therethey threw into the street the types of the loyalistprinter, Rivington. Francis Lewis, a merchant doingbusiness on Dock Street, and Philip Livingston, whosestore was at the corner of Water Street and MaidenLane, were signers of the Declaration of Independ-ence. It is a good many years since I noticed on the wallof the Senate Chamber in the old Capitol at Albany a. ^^^^^sr> fraunces tavern, broad and pearl streets portrait of Jacob Leisler. A wealthy shipping mer-chant of New York, he was the citys first martyr toconstitutional liberty. Called by the Committee of A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 191 Safety and the people to fill the interregnum occa-sioned by the accession of William and Mary, hisshort term of office, from 1689 to 1691, was the heroicage of the young colony. At his summons, in May,1690, the first Continental Congress assembled in theold Stadt Huys, on Coenties Slip, where the colonies
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