Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . Thirteenth Street—College Point—Flushing Residence Street in College PointFlushing Rector of St. GeorgesChurch was ordered bycivil authority to omit theprayers for the King andRoyal Family, he choserather to close the Churchfor five Sundays. Tradition says that the Friends Meeting House was used as aprison, a hospital, and a hay magazine. West of the Meeting Housewas a hospital, where small-pox raged. South of the Meeting Housewas a parade gro
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . Thirteenth Street—College Point—Flushing Residence Street in College PointFlushing Rector of St. GeorgesChurch was ordered bycivil authority to omit theprayers for the King andRoyal Family, he choserather to close the Churchfor five Sundays. Tradition says that the Friends Meeting House was used as aprison, a hospital, and a hay magazine. West of the Meeting Housewas a hospital, where small-pox raged. South of the Meeting Housewas a parade ground. The Aspinwall house on Broadway—later knownas the Bloodgood house—was the headquarters of British officers. Hamilton, of the Queens County Militia, and Aide-de-campto Gov. Tryon, had his headquarters at his home Innerwick, on White-stone Avenue—now the home of Allen Mitchell and his sister. house was destroped by fire on Christmas Eve, 1779. Can-non were mounted on the ridge where the High School stands. Abeacon was erected on Washington Street, east of Main Street. Thiswas one of a system of lights exte
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