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A Portrait of William Floyd, Long Islander A Portrait of I L L I A M F L Y D W O , L ong I sla nder M A "W E B Y W ILL I A M ". LL A P . S. L I A ~ P0 rtrait of \ I L L I A M F L Y D W O , L ong Islander B Y A M M A "W E W ILL I ". LL 1 956 Soci ety for th e Preservati on of Long Isl and Antiquities Privately Printe d by Th e Soci ety for th e Preservati on of L ong Isl and A ntiquities e a e L on Isl an New Yor S t uk t, g d, k through th e generosity of H o ar . h er oo M r. w d C S w d M a 1 6 y, 95 Copi es each P REFA CE TH E P ORTRAIT of General William Floyd was painted by Ralph Earle ( 1 75 1 Today the visitor can see it at the Floyd house at r om Mastic . Floyd had nothing of the da ing thinker in his mental c . s m s s m position Set him beside Jeffer on and Ada , and they ee to dwarf l him . The sti ted language of some of his eulogists make Floyd ap pear stiff and chil ling; but his letters and receipts unlock the man w as with human needs . Floyd not devoid of intellectual interest . w as As a naive realist he eminently practical, and clearly took the s i world as he found it . Nothing has yet turned up which hows h m s i s intentionally shirking his respon ib litie . A P ortrait o W ill iam Fl o d L on Isl ander In writing f y , g , for the r s s Society for the P e ervation of Long Island Antiquitie , I have been s largely dependent on four per ons . Mrs . John Treadwell Nichols e m s s placed the receipts and lett rs of Willia Floyd at my di po al . The m . m s letters were few, but the receipts were nu erous For any year s they had lain undisturbed in the attic at Ma tic . The descendants of m w as M rs. s Willia Floyd knew about them, but it Nichol who spent a year on these manuscripts , deciphering and putting them together in A s Tol d b the Atti c L etters to Cornel ia Fl o d delightful account, y y Ni hol s M r s. c . Nichols also sent me photostats of the papers in the . t s m s possession of Mr Andrew Fiske , and ype cripts of ite at the E s asthampton Free Library and elsewhere . U eful and invaluable was The Com pleted Sets of Signers of the Declaration of Independ r s E s ence , an a ticle by Jo eph . Field , M .D . , published in the Auto ra h Coll e ctors ournal 1 1 s g p [ for January 95 . Dr . Fields al o put me in touch with many owners of Signers. Special thanks are due Miss Dorothy Eaton of the Library of Congress for calling al sever items to my attention, and to Mr . Wayne Andrews of the - New York Historical Society for bringing me books and information . s m r I have u ed footnotes whenever quoting from certain anusc ipts . For the sake of clarity and simplicity I have not cited the many re ei t s ff r c p s in the footnotes . Becau e William Floyd o e s difficulties in s s 1 l compo ing a character ketch, , have kept his pecu iarities of spell m ing and punctuation in the quotations fro his letters . I received photostats and typescripts from the following insti tu : E f C tions asthampton Free Library, Su folk ounty Historical Society, r Pierpont Mo gan Library, Long Island Historical Society, New York r r r State Lib a y, New York Historical Society, New Yo k Public C Library, New Jersey Historical Society, onnecticut State Library, s t C Massachu etts Historical Society, Maine Historical Socie y, hicago s E r Hi torical Society, Henry . Huntington Library of San Ma ino , C C ss r s alifornia, Library of ongre , National A chive , Detroit Public r C m C r r Col Lib ary, Marietta ollege, Ohio , A herst ollege, Have fo d r s t lege Library, Harvard University Libra y, Yale Univer i y Library, s am r University of Penn ylvania, Munson, Willi s P octor Institute of ’ Y . r s . Utica, N . , St Mary of the Lake Semina y of Illinoi , St John s m C m l C Se inary of a ari lo, alifornia, and the Joseph Schlitz Brewing C m s s . o pany of Milwaukee , Wi con in s r s s r m . I have al o eceived letter , type cripts , and photostats f o Dr E s C . r C Joseph . Field of Joliet, Illinois , Robert No ton of leveland, E C t . Ohio, Dr . J . M . Dearborn of New York i y, Mr Walter N ast E . M r . burn of ast Orange , N J , Justin G Turner of Hollywood, C r . Y . C s alifo nia, Mr Andrew Fiske of Shelter Island, N , Mr he ter r G . Osborne, curator at the Manor of St. Geo ge, Long Island, and “ ” C l l m s r m s Mrs . Rose Belk, librarian at olonia Wil ia bu g, Willia burg, Virginia . W I L L IAM "U ENTI N M A"W EL L New York City 6 1 6 June , 95 PORTRA IT OF W IL L IAM FL OYD , L ONG ISL ANDER RES ED IN A U IT OF OL E M N B ROW N l s his D S S S , Wi liam Floyd stand in r s r . s portrait, cane in hand, beneath a la ge hade t ee Pos ibly the paint 1 is hi has s ing too conventional to catch s qualities . It no sugge tion ” of the young bachelor who carried 1 Sunf box Gold bird 8: Sprig s ars r m in his waistcoat . Surely the likene s be little ese blance to the r m s 1 60 for I n r s jocund brideg oo of Augu t, 7 ; clad a tailo ed uit with C 1 2 r Butt ens m m r s oat and B est , he ca e to a ry Mis Hannah s 1 r Jones . Wearing le s in 773, Floyd p esumably stood in brown “ ’ i rs r s on L a el l d linen drawers and s lk garte , prepa ing to lip a pp J ” “ ” il s r Coat Breeches . (The ta or u ed Supe fine Blue Cloth which e ss m m he s t off with gilt buttons. ) Po ibly Floyd oved radiantly a ong s 1 r C s m the delegate of 775 , when he ente ed the Continental ongre s “ ” “ a suit of Superfine Ingrain Cloth studded with Gold Star spangle s Button . The person in the portrait suggests an eighteenth century British l m a r r m m rs s gent e n, whose ea ly t aining had ade anne and courte y his m a r m second nature . With honor the insp ing of action, the gentle an m r m sul s was quick to defend his good na e f o in t. He hunned any s but r for m be suggestion of the individuali tic , st ove unifor ity of , r s m m l havi or and the appea ance of ease . To tudy eant to be fa i iar with the classics but not to violate good taste by a display of great learning; for he was an am ateur who took delight in hi s ac c om pl ishm ents. w as , Frank and independent Floyd “. noted for decorous deport h r m 1t s r 1ntim ac s him ent which, though di cou aged y, never co t popular r r r s m . favo . Floyd, however, fell sho t of the B iti h gentle anly ideal son r s The of a wealthy f eeholder, he should have had a ounder m r s si s . classical education . His conce n lay too uch with bu ne s The rem ains of his library show an interest in religious literature m ore common am ong the Am ericans than the English of this period . ’ The Serm ons of Isaac Watts found a place on Floyd s bookshelf be r r s of Am eri can side the Catechism . Floyd pu chased th ee volume the Preacher to offset this collecti on of serm ons he later bought ’ Gay s F abl es as well as the Natural H istory of Beasts and a book on treaties In his student days Floyd probably studied from The Young ’ M athem ati cian s Guide 1 1 . fl l eaf in , London, 73 On the y facing the “ e r : his sid cove is the following inscription Nathaniel Major, book, ’ . l 1 bought at Mr Frank in s in Philadelphia, August the i 9th, 737. ” r 1 2 r l P ice Shillings ste ling . A so on the same sheet another inscription Sum e L ibri s Gui e l m e Fl oyd Wil li am Fl oyds Book 1 75 0 Probably the young Floyd loved to write his nam e; for on the verso fl l eaf 1 8 of the y he wrote it twice, the one dated 74 and the other 2 1 0 s 75 .
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