New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . xii NE]V YORK, THE GOV. STlW L.^AN 1 ^ llul SK, EkECTED 1658, AETERWARDSCALLED THE WHITE HALL. estates restored to his children. The execution took placeon the spot now occupied by the New York Sun 1696 the first Trinity Church was erected and theReverend William Vesey installed as its pastor. During-the rule of Benjamin Fletcher, a courtier and soldier offortune (1692-1696), a nest of pirates flourished in thecity and made of it a base for operations against merchant-men in West Indian waters and on
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . xii NE]V YORK, THE GOV. STlW L.^AN 1 ^ llul SK, EkECTED 1658, AETERWARDSCALLED THE WHITE HALL. estates restored to his children. The execution took placeon the spot now occupied by the New York Sun 1696 the first Trinity Church was erected and theReverend William Vesey installed as its pastor. During-the rule of Benjamin Fletcher, a courtier and soldier offortune (1692-1696), a nest of pirates flourished in thecity and made of it a base for operations against merchant-men in West Indian waters and on the high seas Fletcher was not only aware of the existence ofthe pirates in New York, but is said to have connived attheir practices and obtained a share of the profits. Cap-tain Kidd, a name well known to readers of romances,was at the head of the pirates, and being an accom-plished man of the period, mixed in good society. He wasoriginally commissioned to extirpate the West Indian buc-caneers by the Government, but, as evil communicationsare said to corrupt good manners, so
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