. When old New York was young . ers Marinus Willett. It happened in theyear 1775 that the British soldiers were ontheir way to Boston with large stores of am-munition. But the Sons of Liberty had deter-mined that no ammunition should leave thetown. So Marinus Willett stopped the trav-ellers, and those other hgures that you see inthe distance are the Sons of Liberty comingto the aid of Willett. Another half- hourand the soldiers would have gotten off, butWillett halted them single-handed, right hereon the very spot on which we stand. The old man talked on with a line vein ofenthusia
. When old New York was young . ers Marinus Willett. It happened in theyear 1775 that the British soldiers were ontheir way to Boston with large stores of am-munition. But the Sons of Liberty had deter-mined that no ammunition should leave thetown. So Marinus Willett stopped the trav-ellers, and those other hgures that you see inthe distance are the Sons of Liberty comingto the aid of Willett. Another half- hourand the soldiers would have gotten off, butWillett halted them single-handed, right hereon the very spot on which we stand. The old man talked on with a line vein ofenthusiasm in his voice. We turned from the Willett Tablet, and mycompanion, drawing me along Broad Street,said : * When we pass two streets farther onyou will see a landmark that should make [■°5] A READING OF HISTORIC TABLETS your blood tingle. There it is, that squarebuilding on the corner, a little disfigured,with small windows that proclaim it ofanother decade. That is Frauncess Tavern,the house that Etienne De Lancey built and. Washingtons Farewell in Frauncess Taverno lived in until Sam Fraunces, in 1762, turnedit into a tavern, where Washington had hishead-quarters and bade his officers farewellwhen the Revolution was at an end. You cansee the tablet near the Pearl Street fine tales these old walls could tell! [,06] A READING OF HISTORIC TABLETS The next tablet is only a few steps on,said the old man, with a last longing look atthe old tavern, and, when we had taken thosefew steps and stood at Coenties Slip, hepointed to the second story of a warehouse.
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