Valentine's manual of the city of New York, 1917-1918 . to abandon it upon the ad-vance of the British whose posts skirmished with therear guard of the American army on the BloomingdaleRoad. The staff chaplain with the Continental forcesduring this engagement, the Rev. John Gano, was min-ister of the fust Baptist Church of New York. It isstated that by his earnest prayers and patriotic councilshe did much to encourage his countrymen in the the return of peace he went back to his accustomedfield of labor and a much depleted congregation. {Green-leafs Hist, of the Churches, 227; Ann
Valentine's manual of the city of New York, 1917-1918 . to abandon it upon the ad-vance of the British whose posts skirmished with therear guard of the American army on the BloomingdaleRoad. The staff chaplain with the Continental forcesduring this engagement, the Rev. John Gano, was min-ister of the fust Baptist Church of New York. It isstated that by his earnest prayers and patriotic councilshe did much to encourage his countrymen in the the return of peace he went back to his accustomedfield of labor and a much depleted congregation. {Green-leafs Hist, of the Churches, 227; Annals Amer, BaptistPulpit, Sprayue, 64.) David Clarkes wife and sons occupied the propertywhen the house was torn down in 1905. She vouchesfor the assertion that there was found in the attic anold red military coat which pupils who transgressed therules of the 82nd Street Public School (No. 9), opened [165] lof VnltMlne** Minuil, |JJ(—N*a York — CupvniM BROAD STREET-NORTH TO SUB-TREASURY- 1917 PATRIOTIC QrtpOATIONH— BROAD AMD CU«» MAHKIT. 6 H L lipids Van den Hauval House, afterwards Burnhams Tavarn, now site at great Apthorpe Apartment between 7g(h and 79th Streets. in 1827, were obliged to don. No worse punishmentcould befall a boy than this. Some years ago William Waldorf Astor, after his ex-patriation, called at the old house to see where his grand-mother had spent her childhood, and as a souvenir hada large Dutch weather vane which ornamented the barntaken down, and removed it to England where it nowindicates the direction of the wind upon the stables ofhis estate. The village tavern at Harsenville—no one knows whenit started its career. Many stories, some as far removedas 1800, have been preserved about it. We know whoits landlord was at that early date and that WilliamBurnham, its boniface in the thirties, removed from itto the Van den Heuvel house in 1839. Here at a rentalof $600 per annum Burnham and his family of youngchildren, some of w
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