A home geography of New York city . a day of rejoicing because thequarrels about the Stamp Act were ended. The Sons of Liberty put up a Liberty Pole in The Fields verynear the site of the post office. A flag waved from the top of thepole bearing the words, The King, Pitt,^ and Liberty. Bandsplayed, and there was firing of pistols and cannon. An ox wasroasted in The Fields, and there were speeches, singing, and bonfiresin the evening. The city officials and military officers were present. 1 Pitt was a great English statesman who sided with the colonists. 174 HOME GEOGFvAPHY OF NEW YOEK CITY The
A home geography of New York city . a day of rejoicing because thequarrels about the Stamp Act were ended. The Sons of Liberty put up a Liberty Pole in The Fields verynear the site of the post office. A flag waved from the top of thepole bearing the words, The King, Pitt,^ and Liberty. Bandsplayed, and there was firing of pistols and cannon. An ox wasroasted in The Fields, and there were speeches, singing, and bonfiresin the evening. The city officials and military officers were present. 1 Pitt was a great English statesman who sided with the colonists. 174 HOME GEOGFvAPHY OF NEW YOEK CITY The rejoicings of the people and the sight of the flag with theword Liberty on it angered the soldiers. The colonists wereobliged to feed the soldiers and give them houses to live in, and thesoldiers gave them a great deal of trouble in many ways. One night the soldiers cut down the Liberty Pole. The Sons ofLiberty at once erected a second pole. That was cut down, and theSons of Liberty erected a third pole. They guarded this pole so. \lE\V OF (Jlu JjUILDINGS IN WiLLIAM StREKT well that the soldiers did not get a chance to cut it down until onenight in March. When the Sons of Liberty found their third polecut down they erected a fourth one and fastened it with iron night, three years later, the soldiers pulled down the fourthpole and sawed it into pieces. They piled the pieces in front of thedoor of the house where the Sons of Liberty held their meetings. TKOUBLK WITH ENGLAND 175 The Battle of Golden Hill (Janttaky 18, 1770): the FirstBlood sued in the Wak for Independence The people were enraged the next morning when the fourthpole was found in pieces. There was great excitement in the city,and a crowd soon gathered in The Fields. The corner of John andWilliam streets was then a hill, and in the early times wheat wasplanted there. Whenthe wheat was ripe itlooked like gold in thesunshine, and for thisreason it was namedGolden Hill. On the morning ofthe battle the troubl
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