. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ts as high as Reade Street werecut through. This part of Broadway was first sur-veyed in 1760 by a Mr. Marschalk, whose reportshow^ed that he began at the Spring Garden House(corner of Ann Street), and continued to the groundof the late widow Rutgers, starting with a width ofeighty-eight feet six inches, and ending with a widthof fifty feet. This continuation was considered asa new stieet, and received the title of Great GeorgeStreet, which continued for thirty years. AH of theground west of Broadway was in the Church Far
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ts as high as Reade Street werecut through. This part of Broadway was first sur-veyed in 1760 by a Mr. Marschalk, whose reportshow^ed that he began at the Spring Garden House(corner of Ann Street), and continued to the groundof the late widow Rutgers, starting with a width ofeighty-eight feet six inches, and ending with a widthof fifty feet. This continuation was considered asa new stieet, and received the title of Great GeorgeStreet, which continued for thirty years. AH of theground west of Broadway was in the Church Farm,as it was called, originally used by the West IndiaCompany to produce vegetables for the garrison, andgranted by the English after their conquest to Trin-ity Church. It was the church that opened theside streets and divided the blocks into lots. Theoriginal farmhouse from which this tract was oper-ated was on the site of the Astor House. Its lastoccupant was Adam Yandenberg, who turned it intoa tavern, and called it the Drovers Inn. A brother 204 C > 2 33 c ? c. I 1 NEW YORK CITY LIFE of this Vandenberg, named Cornelius, sent out thefirst Albany Post from this spot in December, 1780 there was here an encampment of negroslaves who had been inveigled from Virginia by-Lord Dunmore. Many of them died of smallpox,and were buried at Chambers Street in unmarkedgraves. The most conspicuous features of this partof Broadway were several pubhc gardens, amongwhich was that of Mr. Montague in the neighbor-hood of 252 Broadway, once General Lees head-quarters. Montague was succeeded by John Con-toit, who was followed by Reuben Peale, with amuseum in 1825. The most interesting establishmentin this extension of Broadway during the Revolu-tionary period was Montagues tavern, where thepatriots gathered and drank death and destructionto King George so zealously that frequently theu*patriotism and their potations inflamed them to sucha degree that they recklessly menaced the redcoatso
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