The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . , Horsmanden and Jamie-son, and Captain Tollemache, killed in a duel atthe City Hotel. Tlie Earl of Stirhng, who siicri-ficed a coronet to draw the sword of freedom, liesin a tomb in the southwest corner, marked JamesAlexander, ITS:?. John Morin Scott, the famousleader of the Liberty Boys, and dolegatt> to theContinental Congress, lies close to Dr. Charles Mc- 157 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS Knight, chief surgeon of the American army, andCaptain Richard McKnight, his son, just no
The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time; New York City life in all its various phases . , Horsmanden and Jamie-son, and Captain Tollemache, killed in a duel atthe City Hotel. Tlie Earl of Stirhng, who siicri-ficed a coronet to draw the sword of freedom, liesin a tomb in the southwest corner, marked JamesAlexander, ITS:?. John Morin Scott, the famousleader of the Liberty Boys, and dolegatt> to theContinental Congress, lies close to Dr. Charles Mc- 157 THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS Knight, chief surgeon of the American army, andCaptain Richard McKnight, his son, just north of thechurch entrance. Captain AVilham Stone -Montgomerj^of the Ninth Royal Infantry, son of a baronet, hesclose to Colonel John Ward of South the bodies of the Livingstons rests RobertFulton. Here is Robert Livingston, whom Jacob Mil-. CoLOXEL Noah L. Farnham. bourne impleaded for his murder at Heavens the tomb of the Watts family- lies the bod} ofthe gallant General Philip Kearney, hero of warsin Mexico, in Africa, in Egypt, and a dashing cav-alry leader in the War of the Rebellion. ColonelFarnham and General Kearney remind us of thegreat struggle of 18G1. The ground north of the 158 NEW YORK CITY LIFE church contaius thoU8iiucls of uuinarked grav»> tonibstoues were marred or destrojcd by thefire of 17TG, and even now the marks of that tiromay be seen on some of the older stones. Whenthe Enj^lish took possession of New York in ITT*.they devoted the ground north of the church tothe uses of a pubHc burying ground, and people ofall conditions and occupations were promiscuouslyinterred there. British soldiers and sailors, the wivesand children of the garrison who died through theexposures and hardships of the severe winters; andlast, but not least, hundreds of patriot prisonerswho died in the old jail
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