John Taylor : a Scottish merchant of Glasgow and New York, 1752-1833 A family narrative written for his descendants . UnitedStates, we find him definitely established in NewYork ten years earlier. Then he was preparing thecomfortable home which he had ready for his wifeand baby when they arrived in the spring of was the house, No. 225 Queen Street, ofwhich we have already heard. In a store on theground floor all the business of John Taylor & transacted, but in the upper part of the housethe family had their cozy dwelling place. The samearrangement as to business and residence
John Taylor : a Scottish merchant of Glasgow and New York, 1752-1833 A family narrative written for his descendants . UnitedStates, we find him definitely established in NewYork ten years earlier. Then he was preparing thecomfortable home which he had ready for his wifeand baby when they arrived in the spring of was the house, No. 225 Queen Street, ofwhich we have already heard. In a store on theground floor all the business of John Taylor & transacted, but in the upper part of the housethe family had their cozy dwelling place. The samearrangement as to business and residence continuedfor forty-three years—that is, until 1829, when theproperty was condemned by the city. About 1794the name of the street was changed and the build-ing became known as 183 and 185 Pearl then it was a large building 29 feet wide, butit was further enlarged in 1804, when Mr. Taylorbought No. 187, giving him a total frontage of forty-five feet and a depth of one hundred and forty feet. Naturally the first thing to be attended to afterarrival from a foreign land was to find a home, but [16]. BLOOMINGDALE FARM immediately after that it was the duty of good kirk-folk to find the kirk. A Scotch Church had beenestablished in New York in 1756 under a pastor whocame direct from Scotland—the Rev. John church building was then in Cedar Street* andwas usually spoken of as the Cedar Street this the young people forthwith became members. When Margaret reached New York in 1785 thechurch building was in a very dilapidated was only a year and a half since the close of theRevolutionary War, and during that troublous periodthe Scotch Church had been occupied and greatlydamaged by Hessian troops, so that the congregationwas now engaged in making extensive repairs. Weare told that this church was a genteel stone buildingand that it was fifty-five by sixty-five feet in size. The Rev. John Mason died in 1792 and was suc-ceeded by his son, the cel
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