. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . defeat of theVmeriean troops on Long Island. When Sir William Howe took possession ofhe City of New York his property fell into the hands of the British, and again revert to the family till the peace of 1TS3. The two elder brothers>f ( olonel Crolius took part in the Revolutionary War. At the commencement-I the war of 1812 Clarkson Crolius, Sr., was major in the Twenty-seventhCegiment, now the Seventh, but resigned his commission in the militia and•eoeived an a-ppointm
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . defeat of theVmeriean troops on Long Island. When Sir William Howe took possession ofhe City of New York his property fell into the hands of the British, and again revert to the family till the peace of 1TS3. The two elder brothers>f ( olonel Crolius took part in the Revolutionary War. At the commencement-I the war of 1812 Clarkson Crolius, Sr., was major in the Twenty-seventhCegiment, now the Seventh, but resigned his commission in the militia and•eoeived an a-ppointment to the same rank in the regular service. In 1803Lionel (rohus officiated at the laying of the corner stone of the Citv Hall inbe 1 ark. then called the « Fields. He was a member of the Common Councilor many years, for ten years in the legislature, and in 1811, as a grand sachem>1 Society, laid the foundation stone of the old Tammanv Hall in< rankfort Street. He died on October 5, 1843, at the age of seventv vears. lhe family records were lost during the Revolution, and it is not known from. CLARKSON CROLIUS. J 418 OUR FIREMEN. what part of Germany William came. Ho was a manufacturer of stoneware,;which occupation has been followed by a representative of the family in every]generation of liis descendants. William Crolius pottery was located in ReadeStreet near Broadway. His son John acquired property on Reade Street,about one hundred feet west of Centre, where the pottery and the familyresidence were maintained for many years, until Clarkson Crolius, Sr., removedthe works to Nos. 65 and 07 Bayard Street, the old home still remaining inReade Street. For one hundred years a ship could not sail to any part of theworld without finding there some stone mug or jar bearing the stamp: Clarkson Crolius, Manhattan Wells, New York. Mr. Clarkson Crolius, Jr.,discontinued the inanufaet ure of stoneware in Bayard Street in 1845, and thepottery was afterwards demolished.
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