A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ^^^^^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
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . ^^^^^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. of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Plymouth,and Maryland were represented. New Jersey senther sympathies, and the Philadelphia Quakers wrotethat it was agt their princls to fight. But thissturdy little Congress was full of martial zeal, andvoted to raise a grand army of 850 men to invadeCanada and wipe out the French. The people stoodby Leisler; the aristocrats, led by Col. Nicholas Bay-ard, opposed him. Finally a new Governor camefrom England, Colonel Sloughter, and Leisler was de- 192 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK posed, tried, and condemned to hang for treason. Itwas a travesty of justice, and Sloughter could be in-duced to sign the death-warrant only after a winesupper at the fort. The next morning, in a drenchingrain, Leisler was led forth to execution. The placeselected was on his own grounds, on Park Row, eastof the Post-office, in full view of his home. The peo-ple shouted and groaned, but the law prevailed, andthey had to content themselves with tenderly convey-ing the corpse
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