ILLUSTRATIONS. No. 1-GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON--Frontispiece. No. 2-PLAN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK-opposite page viii. No. 3-ST. GEORGES CHAPEL, BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK-opposite page xxiv. No. 4-ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, NEW YORK, 1800--opposite page 78. No. 5—MAP OF THE BATTERY IN 1783 AND 1883-opposite page 180. No. 6—FRAUNCES TAVERN, NEW YORK, 1902-opposite page 216. No. 7-OLD CITY HALL, NEW YORK CITY, SITE OF THE PRESENT SUBTREASURY AT WALL AND NASSAU STREETS-opposite page 240. No. 8-LEGGETT'S HALF WAY TAVERN-opposite page 292. No. 9-BULL'S HEAD TAVERN, SITE OF THE OLD BOWERY THEATRE, NEW YORK-opposite page 296. No. 10-HANDBILL OF THE EVACUATION DAY PROCEEDINGS IN NEW YORKopposite page 300. No. 11-THE LONG ROOM, FRAUNCES TAVERN, WHERE WASHINGTON BADE FAREWELL TO HIS OFFICERS opposite page 308. No. 12-THE PROVOST AS IT APPEARED IN 1783--opposite page 318. No. 13- THE BLUE BELL TAVERN AT 181ST STREET AND BROADWAY (ALBANY POST ROAD), NEW YORK, AND THE PROVOST, AFTERWARD THE HALL OF RECORDS AS IT APPEARED IN ITS LATER DAYS-opposite page 336. vi INTRODUCTION. Introduction by Henry B. Dawson to "New York City during the American Revolution: " *From these circumstances-selected from among a multitude of others may be judged whether or not New York has a history which is worthy of preservation; and whether or not the historians and the makers of school-books who have disregarded her patriotism, and left it unnoticed, have either been true to their country, to themselves, or to the fidelity of history. At the same time, and from the same circumstances, also, let it be determined what degree of interest it is which clusters around the contents of this volume, comprising exact copies of papers which have never before been published, and which relate entirely to the stirring events of the American Revolution in New York, or to those of the War of the Revolution through which the Independence of the United States was finally established. In the earlier part of the period referred to, [1765-1770] as will be seen by reference to the map which accompanies the volume, New York was but a village, in extent, when compared with the populous and extended emporium which now stretches its boundaries to the farthest limits of the island on which it stands. The "Broad Way," it is true, which then marked the course of the "back-bone of the island,” as far north as where Duane street now crosses it, is still, as it was at that day, the pride of our citi same This article was written in the Spring of 1861. Matter in brackets for elucidative purposes inserted by the State Historian. See frontispiece. |