The magazine of American history with notes and queries . r of valuable pictures, all of whichhad been removed there by way of safety when the rebels converted thecollege into a hospital. They also plundered it of all the books belongingto the subscription library, as also of a valuable library belonging to thecorporation, the whole consisting of not less than sixty thousand , he says, was done with impunity, and the books publicly hawkedabout the town for sale by private soldiers, their trulls and doxeys. I sawan Annual Register neatly bound and lettered, sold for a dram, Freemans
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . r of valuable pictures, all of whichhad been removed there by way of safety when the rebels converted thecollege into a hospital. They also plundered it of all the books belongingto the subscription library, as also of a valuable library belonging to thecorporation, the whole consisting of not less than sixty thousand , he says, was done with impunity, and the books publicly hawkedabout the town for sale by private soldiers, their trulls and doxeys. I sawan Annual Register neatly bound and lettered, sold for a dram, FreemansReports for a shilling, and Cokes First Institutes, or what is usually calledCoke upon Littleton, was offered to me for is. 6d. I saw in a public houseupon Long Island nearly forty books bound and lettered, in which wereaffixed the arms of Joseph Murray, Esq., under pawn from one dram tothree drams each. Judge Jones further says: Tx> do justice even torebels, let it be here mentioned that though they were in full possession WALL STREET IN HISTORY 405. THE RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES INGLIS, THE FIRST PROTESTANT BISHOP IN THE BRITISH FOR THE SEE OF NOVA SCOTIA, I787. 406 WALL STREET IN HISTORY of New York for nearly seven months, and had in it at times above forty-thousand men, neither of these libraries was ever meddled with, thetelescope which General Washington took excepted. The great fire left its blight upon the street, although its track was tothe west of Broadway. The ghostly spectacle on the site of Old Trinitywas constantly before the Wall Street eye for the next eight years. TheWall Street Presbyterian church, in which Whitfield had once pouredforth the torrent of his eloquence, was uninjured by the flames; but itwas shortly converted into a hospital for the British soldiers. The winter of 1779-1780 was one of the most cheerless and severelycold ever known in New York latitude. The snow began to fall aboutthe 10th of November, and continued to
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