The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . 177G, when therecords were destroyed by the fire, are lost to allrecollection. Those who were buried in large num-bers during the terrible days of the British occupationcannot be named. The victims of cholera and yel-low fever, which came often in the days when therewere no quarantine and sanitary devices, are alsoin the great army of the unknown. But aboutthem, above them, and mingling with them, aremany whose names still remain on the tablets ofstone, often with quaint devices
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . 177G, when therecords were destroyed by the fire, are lost to allrecollection. Those who were buried in large num-bers during the terrible days of the British occupationcannot be named. The victims of cholera and yel-low fever, which came often in the days when therewere no quarantine and sanitary devices, are alsoin the great army of the unknown. But aboutthem, above them, and mingling with them, aremany whose names still remain on the tablets ofstone, often with quaint devices and curious epi-taphs; and some of these are famous and worthyof note. There is William Bradford, the first prin-ter, whose press was on Pearl Street, where wepassed some time since. Sidney Breese, ancestor ofS. F. Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph, restshere under his own curious tombstone. MichaelCresap, whose war with the Indian chief Loganmade him famous, hes under another rude will find the name of Faneuil, the father ofBostons Faneuil, and of a number of others who 154 NEAV YORK CITY LIFK. I HereHye ^Till time IS flov«u i Grave of were conspicuous among the French Jluyuenots that formed an impurtant oleniont in the early hfo of the City. GovernorsSir Henry Moore, Os-borne, and Delancey,lie here. Among theheroes of the Revolu-tion are Marinus Wil-lett (there is a tabletcommemorating one ofhis achievements onthe Morris building>n Broad Street), andbrave General JohnLamb, organizer of the Liberty Boys, commander of West Point when Arnold turned traitor, and general-in-chief of artillery at Yorktown. Tht honorable Francis Til- , . lou, in speaking of John Lamb and re- -- counting his service^ to the country, said On the arrival ol news of the passage of tlie Stamp Act, Lamb was most prom-inent in opposing it and in forming public opinion against it, and he was persistent in his attacks upon it. He was prominent on the committee to pro- 165
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