History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . Lnnccys Mount M^ashinrjlon and its Capture ; Mag. , Vol. 1. 76. Tlie property of Jlrs. Clarke was called the Chelsea farm. The man-sion and a part of the lanil came into possession of Bishop Moore by the will of in 1802. It subsequently belonged to Clement C. Moore, the son of the Bishop. 1 If one was in one street and looked about, the fire broke out already in another streetabove ; and thus it raged all the night, and till about noon. Diary of Rev. Mr. Sheu-kirk(pastor of the Moravian Church, Fulton Stre
History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . Lnnccys Mount M^ashinrjlon and its Capture ; Mag. , Vol. 1. 76. Tlie property of Jlrs. Clarke was called the Chelsea farm. The man-sion and a part of the lanil came into possession of Bishop Moore by the will of in 1802. It subsequently belonged to Clement C. Moore, the son of the Bishop. 1 If one was in one street and looked about, the fire broke out already in another streetabove ; and thus it raged all the night, and till about noon. Diary of Rev. Mr. Sheu-kirk(pastor of the Moravian Church, Fulton Street), Satiirdaij, Sept. 21. Barbers New York;David Grims Account, Val. Man. 1866; Bancrofts Hist. U. S; Frank Moores Diary of theBevohition ; Freemans Journal, Oct. 5. 1776 ; Duntap, 11, 78, 79 : Hoice to Germain, , 1776 ; Tryon to Germain, Sept. 24, 1776 ; John Sloss Hohart to the Neio York Conven-tion, Sept. 25,1776 ; Colonel Hartley to General Gates, Oct. 10, 1776; Rev. Dr. Charles Tnrjlisto Dr. Hind, Oct. 31, 1776. 13G HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW Map of Great Fire 1776. hundred persons were arrested upiju suspicion and incarcerated. Everyperson who was known to have talked inconsiderately was seized. E.\-aminations, however, elicited no proofs of guilt, and one after anotherwas liberateil. The origin nf the Hre was subsequently traced to amidnight carousal in a small ])ulilic house of low character near White-Slip. It is said that the night being chilly, the half drunken lieingsbrought in some boards or rails, and kindled the ends in a large old-fashioned fire-place ; the fire creeping along the dry timber soon commu-nicated with the Hoor. The sequel has been told. As the sun was declining behind the smoking and still burning ruins,towards evening of the same day, Nathan Hale was brought into NewYork a captive spy, and taken before Lord Howe at the Beekman Man-sion^ on the height near Fift3^-first Street and East Eiver, the elegant See Sketch of Mansion. Vol. I.
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