THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY BULLETIN
VOL. X JANUARY, 1927 No. 4
GEORGE CLINTON (1739-1812) BY EZRA AMES (Owried by the Society.) NEW YORK: 170 CENTRAL PARK WEST PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY AND ISSUED TO MEMBERS THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 170 CENTRAL PARK WEST (Erected by the Society 1908) Wings to be erected on the 76th and 77th Street corners
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For Three Years, ending 1929
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ROBERT H. KELBY, Librarian Emeritus MOUNT VERNON ON THE EAST RIVER AND COLONEL WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH
BY JOSEPH WARREN GREENE
Four hundred and twenty-one East Sixty-first Street, almost under the Queensboro Bridge, is one of the oldest buildings remain ing in New York City, a sturdy stone house with the date 1799 on one of the gables at the back. It is often called, erroneously, "Smith's Folly," and it has a little history, although the true story is rather different from the commonly accepted one. The old house is now assured of preservation, so it will ever remind the thousands living in its neighborhood of the days, not so very distant, when that region, four miles above the city, was one of open fields, wooded hills, and spacious country homes. The land on which the stone house stands was part of the sixty acres granted to Jacobus Fabricius by patent from Sir Edmund Andros, the governor, March 13, 1676.1 It was owned successively by William Wouterse, Mangel Roll, Johannes Van Zandt, and Peter Praa Van Zandt. The Van Zandt farm was pleasantly sit uated on the shore of the East River, opposite the island now called Welfare. The location was convenient for access to the city either by carriage or boat, for it was near the five-mile stone on the old eastern post road, and there was a safe stone landing place on the river, in a cove sheltered from ice and storms. The Van Zandt farmhouse, with its six fireplaces and a pump at the door, was sometimes rented as a private residence; about 1750, it was a tavern, managed by John Cregier.2 On March 25, 1795, Peter Praa Van Zandt and his wife, Sarah, deeded twenty-three of their acres to Colonel William Stephens Smith and his wife, Abigail Adams, daughter of John Adams. Their short period of ownership made the estate famous. On the western half of what is now the block bounded by First Avenue, Sixtieth Street, Avenue A, and Sixty-first Street, Colonel Smith built an elegant and spacious mansion, which he called Mount 1 The title to this property, to 1826, is printed in Tuttle's Abstracts of Farm Titles, Between 39th and 75th Streets, East of the Common Lands, pp. 189-197. Later conveyances are from records in the Register's Office, Hall of Records, New York City. 2 N. Y. Weekly Post Boy, Jan. 21, 1745; N. Y. Mercury, Jan. 19, 1756. 115 116 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Vernon, in honor of the Commander-in-chief under whom he had served gallantly during the Revolution. The house was seventy- six feet long and sixty-four feet broad, with wide piazzas. It was two stories in height, besides the basement and a garret the full size of the house. The basement contained a large summer kitchen and a smaller winter one, bedrooms for servants, vegetable cellars and a good well. The first floor, of which the ceiling was thirteen feet high, was divided into a hall, forty by twenty-three feet, two bed chambers, on the side toward the road, and over looking the river, a dining-room, twenty-six by twenty-four feet, a drawing-room thirty-three feet long and twenty-four feet wide, and a third bed chamber. On the second floor the number and size of the rooms were the same. The "safe and commodious" promenade on the roof commanded "a vast prospect, diversified with views of the adjacent country, Long Island, the Sound, with its islands, rocks, and points of lands, the romantic cliffs on the North River, the distant hills and woods in Jersey, the city of New York, the bay and Staten Island." \ Colonel Smith and his family derived no pleasure from this charming mansion. Before it was completed, his financial affairs forced him to mortgage the farm for $10,000, and then, on October 5, 1796, to sell it, only a year and a half after his purchase. The large scale on which he built the house, so far from the city, caused it to be dubbed "Smith's Folly." By assignment of the mortgage and by deed the twenty-three- acre farm and the Mount Vernon mansion became, in December, 1798, the property of William T. Robinson. It must have been he who built, in 1799, northeast of the main house, the stone build ing which still stands on East Sixty-first Street. It was erected as a stable, and was, and is, sixty-four feet long and forty feet wide. In it were stables for six horses, a spacious coach house with a shelter for cattle underneath, and a loft able to hold three tons of hay.2 This "beautiful" and "ornamental" stone barn was a feature of the estate, which was never omitted from advertisements for the sale or rent of Mount Vernon. William T. Robinson occupied the house as a residence for sev eral years, but leased it for hotel purposes in April, 1808, to Robert 1 N. Y. Evening Post, Feb. 28, 1806. 2 Idem. MAP ' or
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In April, 1810, a three-day meet was held, and after the last race Mr. Dyde sold his horses, cattle, farming implements, and household furniture, and removed to Westminster Hall, at the foot of Cortlandt Street, which he rechristened Steamboat Hotel. Later he moved again, to Military Hall, on Broadway, and in January, 1813, he opened a tavern in Boston.1 In the meantime, by mortgage foreclosure, on August 10, 1809, title to Mount Vernon passed to Thomas C. Pearsall, who owned and occupied the farm adjoining on the south, extending to below Fifty-seventh Street, from the Post Road to the river. Mr. Pear sall died intestate on November 25, 1820, and the two farms were inherited by his seven children, who on April 30, 1824, deeded the Mount Vernon tract to Shepherd Knapp, a New York leather merchant. James Meinell obtained title to one undivided half of the farm, and on December 5, 1825, Knapp and Meinell conveyed the entire estate to Walter Livingston, for $19,000. Livingston, a few months later, sold it to Philip Brasher, for $19,500, by two deeds, dated June 21, and November 1, 1826. Thomas C. Pearsall had his country residence near by, at the foot of Fifty-eighth Street, and the successive owners apparently did not care to occupy it, so Mount Vernon continued to be rented to a succession of tenants, who used the mansion either as a school or as a hotel. In 1815 it was occupied by Mrs. Brenton, who later conducted an academy near Manhattanville. In the spring of 1818, Thomas C. Pearsall leased it to Ezra Caldwell, by whom, on May 1, it was again opened to the public as the Mount Vernon Hotel, where "the best of liquors of every sort were always kept ready." 2 1 N. Y. Evening Post, June, 1808, April 19, 1810; American Citizen, April 11, 1808, Sep tember 9, 1808, October 17, 1808; Boston Gazette, January 28, 1813. 2 N. Y. Evening Post, February 13, 1815, March 27, 1817, May II, 1820. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 119 THE SMITH "FOLLY" HOUSE IN 1898 with Imogene Hart, daughter of Joseph C Hart, and Miss Marie A. Conner, in the foreground. In May, 1821, Mount Vernon was fortunate in obtaining as its landlord the famous restaurateur, William Niblo, then host of the Bank Coffee House on Pine and William Streets, and later of Niblo's Garden, at Broadway and Prince Street. He changed the name to Kensington House, furnished it in handsome style, and made every arrangement "to render the establishment an elegant and fashionable resort." Among the attractions at his "pleasant retreat" Were "a few parcels of the finest old port and sherry which he could select from the London Docks during his late visit to 120 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY England." Niblo at once began to bid for public patronage by establishing a means of transportation to his country hotel near the five-mile stone. A stage, "an elegant double Sociable," seating fourteen passengers, ran between the Bank Coffee House and Kensington House three times daily for twenty-five cents each way. The Sociable was drawn by four fine horses and driven by a careful driver. To accommodate his patrons on July 4, 1821, Niblo engaged the steamboat Fire Fly, which was scheduled to sail from the Fulton Street wharf every two hours throughout the day. The Fire Fly, however, met with an accident, compelling her to undergo repairs, which, in spite of every exertion, were not completed by the morning of the 4th, and Niblo was unable to obtain another steamboat. On October 23 and 24, 1821, there was held at Mount Vernon the annual Fair and Cattle Show of the New York Agricultural Society, at which prizes were awarded for the best horses, cattle, and manu factured articles. Niblo's Sociable ran from Pine Street every hour to accommodate the visitors, and the steamboat Enterprize plied continuously between Fulton Street wharf and Kensington House.1 In the spring of 1823, G. W. Hall established in the Mount Vernon mansion a private academy for young ladies and gentlemen, which lasted for only a short time and was succeeded by William Wagstaff's school.2 On Sunday evening, March 26, 1826, the mansion was entirely destroyed by fire, so that only the chimneys remained standing. The conflagration, occasioned, it was thought, by a defective flue, started near the roof about eleven o'clock, and burned until one o'clock. All the pupils of the academy escaped unharmed, and most of the furniture was saved. Livingston, the owner, was insured for $12,000. "Thus ends," remarked the Commercial Advertiser, "what has long been known and distinguished as 'Smith's Folly.'"3 The mansion was not rebuilt, and its site remained vacant for many years, but the appellation "Smith's Folly" continued, and is 1 National Advocate, May 22, 1821; N. Y. Evening Post, June 5, July 2, 3, 5, 14, and October 25, 1821. 2 N. Y. Statesman, April 16, 1823. 3 Commercial Advertiser, March 27, 1826; N. Y. Gazette, March 28, 1826; N. Y. Evening Post, March 27, 1826. QUARTERLY ULIETIN 121 JOSEPH C. HART (1799- ) who remodelled the stone barn of the Smith House into a dwelling, after the Mansion was destroyed by fire, 1826. PAINTED BY JEROME THOMPSON (1814-1886) (Owned by his grand-daughter, Miss Marie A. Conner.) 122 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY now attached to the stone building on the north side of East Sixty- first Street, the original stable belonging to the mansion. After the fire, in 1826, Philip Brasher and his wife Cornelia divided the Mount Vernon estate and sold it by lots. The site of the mansion went to two buyers, Samuel Norswoithy and Jason M. Bass, the dividing line between them passing across where the house had stood. The stone stable with land immediately around it, and the eastern half of the block opposite, now bounded by Sixty-first Street, Avenue A, Sixtieth Street, and First Avenue, passed in November and December, 1826, into the possession of Joseph Coleman Hart (born 1799), whose portrait accompanies this article. Wishing a country home for his growing family, he built a frame house just above Sixtieth Street, southeast of the stone stable, with grounds terraced down to the river. He called his new house Mount Vernon after the old Smith mansion. From there he drove to town daily to his law office near the City Hall. His granddaughter, Miss Marie A. Conner, remembers the stories her Aunt Imogene Hart used to tell about her life in the country as a child, and her terror, when Sixty-first Street was opened in 1829, at seeing the convicts, -with balls and chains, being brought over daily from Blackwell's Island, and working on the road. Realizing how substantially built the stable was, Joseph C. Hart converted it into a house for human occupancy. According to the family tradition, it was fitted for a hotel to be run by his younger brother, Monmouth Bloomer Hart (born 1804), although no record of the latter's doing so has been found. In May, 1827, the stone house was leased to Joseph W. Rogers, host of the Lunch under Washington Hall, at the corner of Broadway and Chambers Street. With promises of an unexcelled larder and choicest liquors, he tempted his prospective patrons to visit the new Mount Vernon Hotel, by stage or steamboat.1 Mr. Rogers departed after two years, and Joseph C. Hart, the owner, advertised for another tenant who would keep a good public house. In April, 1829, James Wood- hull, of Patchogue, L. I., rented it, reopened it under the same name, and put in order the trotting course.2 It was during his proprietorship that James Stuart, Earl of Lenox, found it a quiet and comfortable lodging house. He stayed there for a few days 1N. Y. Evening Post, May 7, 1827. 2 Morning Courier, April 4, 1829. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 123 IMOGENE HART (1825- ), DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH C. HART (From a daguerreotype taken in 1844. 124 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY at the end of April, 1829, returned after a tour of observation to Washington, and throughout the summer made Mount Vernon his headquarters, from which he made numerous excursions in the vicinity of New York. He described the hotel as follows: "The house is placed upon the top of the bank, about fifty feet above the river; and the view of the river and of the gay sailing craft-constantly passing, and tossed about by the eddies in every direction, is very interesting. The house in which we got rooms is kept by the stage-hirer, and is much resorted to in the afternoon by persons taking their evening ride or drive from New York; it being very much the custom to stop at such a house as this, and have a little spirits and water or lemonade. There was a course for trotting horses in an adjoining field, which tended to increase the number of people. We bargained from the begin ning to have our meals in our own parlour, and had many pleasant walks for exer cise in the neighbouring parts of the island of Manhattan, at times when they were free from the crowds of people who come out of the tity in the evenings. During the summer months the great mass of the people of New York leave the town in carriages, gigs, or on horseback, for an hour or two before sunset, which, at the longest day, is at half past seven. ... "The bustle, however, of this house is always over before or very soon after sunset, and we are not in the slightest degree subjected to noise or intrusion. The landlord told me of his having collected sixty dollars in three pences sterling, one evening since we came here, but even on that evening the business was over before sunset, and not a straggler remained half an hour afterwards. Near as we are to New York, and within 300 yards of the high road, there is neither a shutter nor a bar to a window in the house. Clothes are laid out to bleach all night with out the slightest fear of their being carried off." (Three Years in North America, New York, 1833, I, 234.) In 1830, through chancery proceedings, Hart's property came into the possession of the Chatham Fire Insurance Company, which on January 1, 1833, deeded it to Jeremiah Towle (1800-1880), who later bought more land from the Beekman estate to the north. He had married, in 1829, Jane Abeel, daughter of John H. and Phoebe (May) Abeel, and they made the old stone house their home, where their children were born and brought up. Mr. Towle was a public- spirited citizen who served his city in many capacities. He was one of the first commissioners of Central Park, and was actively interested in the public school system. He filled the old house with his collection of books and paintings. In 1848 he sold Joseph C. Hart's house, on the south side of Sixty-first Street, to John C. Hull. His son, Stevenson Towle, became a civil engineer, who held city offices as surveyor and chief engineer. His daughters, QUARTERLY BULLETIN 125 Misses Isabella and Mary Jane Towle, continued to live at 421 East Sixty-first Street after their father's death in 1880, although the-character of the neighborhood gradually changed. In 1905, the Towle heirs sold the property, which soon afterward was bought by the Standard Gas Light Company, who erected one large gas holder immediately east of the old stone house, and two behind it. The Company rented it as a tenement to several families of Italian laborers. It was used for a while by the Salvation Army as a soup kitchen.1 In the fall of 1919 Miss Jane Teller, President of the Society of American Antiquarians, rented it, restored its former grace, and displayed there her collections of early American furniture. Five years later, in 1924, the Colonial Dames of Amer ica purchased the house as their headquarters, thus assuring the old stone house, originally a stable, but for many years a happy American home, perpetual preservation. WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH Although Colonel Smith's connection with the Mount Vernon estate on the East River was of short duration, and although he did not build the stone stable which is all that is left of it, his name has always been associated with it so persistently that no story of the house would be complete without a short account of Colonel Smith.2 William Stephens Smith was born in New York City, November 8, 1755, the son of John and Margaret (Stephens) Smith, and the grandson of William and Charity (Bosch) Smith and of Captain John and Belinda (Bush) Stephens. He graduated from Princeton in 1774, and was studying law under Samuel Jones of New York when the Revolution broke out. His maternal grandmother, Mrs. John Stephens, was Loyalist in her sympathies, and remained in New York City under British protection throughout the war, but his father and three brothers all supported the American cause. 1N. Y. Times, September 7, 1924. 2 This is based on his daughter's "Memoir" of Colonel Smith, in Journal and Corre spondence of Miss Adams (N. Y., 1841), pp. 99-117, on the letters in that volume and in the following one, Correspondence of Miss Adams, Vol. II, and on a biographical sketch by Mar- cius D. Raymond in N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, XXV, 153—161. Most of the statements in these accounts have been verified from such sources as the N. Y. Civil List, Heitman's Officers of the Continental Army, Journals of the American Congress, records of the N. Y. State Society of the Cincinnati and N. Y. City directories. 126 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY William Stephens Smith took an active and gallant part in the war, and was engaged in almost all the important campaigns from Long Island to Yorktown. He was appointed major and aide- de-camp to General Sullivan, August 15, 1776; lieutenant-colonel of Lee's Additional Continental Regiment, January, 1777, and transferred to Spencer's Regiment, April 22, 1779. From January to July, 1781, he served as inspector and adjutant-general of the Light Infantry commanded by Lafayette. On July 6, 1781, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Washington, in which capacity he served to the close of the war, when he was commissary-general of prisoners, and one of the commissioners superintending the British evacuation of New York City. Colonel Smith was one of the original members of the New York Society of the Cincinnati, of which he held the offices of secretary in 1790 and 1803, vice-presi dent in 1794, and president in 1795, 1796, and 1804. On February 24, 1785, the Congress of the Confederation elected John Adams minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain, and on March 1, 1785, chose William S. Smith secretary to the legation. Colonel Smith joined Adams in London in May and entered upon the delicate duties of a ministry to a lately defeated enemy. His official correspondence with John Jay, then Secretary of State, is printed in Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, 1783— 1780 (Washington, 1837), V, 371-492. While engaged in his duties as secretary, he won the fair Abigail, the only daughter of John Adams, a gracious, lovely, intelligent girl of twenty-one. They were married in London, June 12, 1786, by the Bishop of St. Asaph. On April 2, 1787, their son, William Steuben Smith, was born. They returned to New York in May, 1788, and were at once wel comed and entertained by the social, political, and diplomatic circles of the city. Colonel Smith was an assistant at Washington's Inauguration, and he and Mrs. Smith attended the Inaugural Ball, May 7, 1789. On September 26, 1789, President Washington appointed Colonel Smith marshal of the district of New York. Colonel and Mrs. Smith were frequently Washington's guests at dinner during the winter of 1789-90, and on December 16, 1789, they dined with Governor Clinton in company with the President and Mrs. Wash ington, the Vice-president and Mrs. Adams, and the Mayor of New York and Mrs. Varick. On October 10, 1789, Colonel Smith QUARTERLY BULLETIN 127 WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH (1755-1816) BY GILBERT STUART (Courtesy of Mr. Herbert L. Pratt.) 128 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY accompanied the President and the Vice-president on a visit to the Prince nurseries at Flushing, L. I. They met Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Smith at Harlem on their return, and all dined together at a tavern there.1 The Smiths went to England twice within the next three years, and spent much time there, but in 1793 they were again in New York City, living at 18 Cortlandt Street. They continued to entertain, and be entertained by, the leaders of social and political life, and distinguished visitors from abroad. In July, 1794, John Quincy Adams, Mrs. Smith's brother, visited them on his way to Philadelphia, and records that he met there, at dinner, "M. Talleyrand, the ci-devant Bishop of Autun, Baumetz, member of the Constituent National Assembly of France, and M. de la Colombe, who was aide-de-camp to M. de la Fayette." {Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, I, 32.) • In 1791, Colonel Smith became interested in lands in central New York, and made application to purchase six of the Twenty Chenango Townships, which had been surveyed by Simeon De Witt in 1789 and 1790, after Governor Clinton had obtained the land for the State by treaty with the Indians. The six townships, comprising 150,000 acres, were sold to Colonel Smith at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre, and he received his patent for them April 16, 1794. These six townships were Eaton, Madison, Hamilton, Lebanon, Smyrna, and Sherburne, in the present coun ties of Madison and Chenango. In 1791, Colonel Smith purchased also the easterly portion of the Chenango Triangle, in the angle of the Chenango and Tioughnioga Rivers, now included in the townships of Smithville, Oxford and Greene. Sir William Pulteney subsequently became proprietor of four of the townships, but Colonel Smith was still a large landholder, and some of the best land in the Twenty Townships was his.2 These extensive purchases in central New York probably explain why he could not hold the property on East Sixty-first Street, and why the Smith mansion there was "Smith's Folly." After selling the Mount Vernon estate in 1796, Colonel Smith and his family occupied for several years the Vincent-Halsey house on Throgg's Neck, Eastchester, N. Y. (pictured in Scharf's History 1 Diaries of George Washington, IV. 2 Hammond, Madison County, N. Y., 545; Smith, Chenango and Madison Counties, N. Y., 67-69. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 129 of Westchester County, N. Y., II, 752). In October, 1797, President John Adams and his wife took refuge with their daughter and son- in-law there from the yellow fever epidemic then raging in Phila delphia.1 On June 24, 1800, President Adams appointed Colonel Smith Surveyor of Customs of the Port of New York, in which capacity he served until March 21, 1806, when he was removed because of his connection with the Miranda expedition. Colonel Smith, him self an adventurous spirit, met and admired Francisco de Miranda when the latter visited the United States during the Revolutionary War. Miranda arrived in New York City in November, 1805, when war between the United States and Spain seemed not improb able, with plans cherished since 1798 for an attack on the Spanish South American possessions. Colonel Smith aided him, and his elder son, William Steuben Smith, sailed for Caracas on the Leander with General Miranda on February 2, 1806. War between the United States and Spain did not take place, the Miranda expedition proved a fiasco, and Colonel Smith was indicted for breach of the neutrality laws, and tried before the United States Supreme Court, but was acquitted in July, 1806 Ex-President Adams had disap proved of Miranda's plans, and after Colonel Smith's support of it, there were strained and embarrassed relations between Colonel Smith and his father-in-law. Soon after the Miranda fiasco, financial difficulties again beset Colonel Smith and he removed with his family to his property in the Chenango Twenty Townships, and built a modest home in Smith's Valley, near Hamilton, in the town of Lebanon. Mrs. Smith died August 14, 1813, at her father's home in Quincy, Mass. Colonel Smith was elected representative from Lebanon to the thirteenth and fourteenth Congresses of the United States, and died in office on June 10, 1816, at Lebanon. He was buried in a small cemetery on Sherburne West Hill, or Lynde's Hill, in the town of Sherburne, Chenango County, N. Y. Colonel Smith's portrait was painted by Gilbert Stuart and by John Trumbull. In 1786, in London, Mather Brown painted both Colonel Smith and his wife. These last two portraits are now owned by Mr. Brooks Adams of Quincy, Mass. A portrait of Mrs. Smith, by Copley, was destroyed by fire, but there is an engraving 1 Life and Works of John Adams, VIII, 552-559. 130 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY of it. All these portraits are reproduced in Bowen's Centennial of the Inauguration of Washington. William Stephens Smith and Abigail Adams had three children: William Steuben, John Adams, and Caroline Amelia. The sons left no issue. Caroline Amelia Smith married at Quincy, Mass., September n, 1814, John Peter De Windt (1787-1870), of Fishkill, N. Y. They had four sons and seven daughters,1 and their descend ants are living to-day. Caroline A. (Smith) De Windt died when the steamboat Henry Clay was burned, July 28, 1852. It was Mrs. De Windt who edited and published in 1841 and 1842 the journal and correspondence of her mother, Abigail (Adams) Smith, and included in the first volume a short memoir of her father, William Stephens Smith. 1 For a list of the children of Caroline A. (Smith) De Windt, see N. Y. Gen. and Record, XXV, 159, and Hasbrouck, Dutchess County, N. Y., 700. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 131 EZRA AMES (1768-1836)- PAINTER Two manuscripts in the New-York Historical Society's collection add appreciably to the meager information obtainable in printed sources about Ezra Ames, the New York portrait painter of the early nineteenth century. One of these is a family record of the Ames or Emes family, compiled in 1848, beginning with Ezra's grandparents, and including his wife's family. The other is Ezra Ames's own memorandum book of receipts and expenditures from 1790 to 1802, showing his activities as a young painter, before his reputation was established by his portraits of Albany citizens and New York politicians. The following summary of the data gleaned from these manuscripts is a contribution to the biography of a man whose life and painting deserve comprehensive study. The Society also possesses sixteen small, home-made note books containing an almost complete record of his household expenditures from 1799 through 1826, -but these contain little of biographical value except for occasional references to trips to New York and Buffalo. Jesse Emes or Ames, the father of Ezra, was the fifth son and tenth child of Henry Emes and Ruth Newton of Framingham, Mass. He was born July 14, 1739, and died May 8, 1829. In 1761, he married as his first wife, Bette Bent of Framingham, who died February 14, 1776. They had three sons and three daughters. While Ezra, the youngest son, was still a minor, Jesse Ames moved to Staatsburgh, Dutchess County, N. Y., and continued there his occupation of farming. Ezra Ames, the artist, was born at Framingham, Mass., May 5, 1768, and died at Albany, N. Y., February 23, 1836. On October 6, 1794, at Northbridge, Mass., he married Zipporah Wood, wjjh was born at Uxbridge, Mass., April 5, 1775, and died at Albany, N. Y., April 8, 1836. She was the daughter of Josiah Wood (Octo ber 29, 1732—November 3, 1815) of Upton, Mass., and of Zipporah (Wheelock) Wood; and the grandaughter of Jonathan and Mar garet (Thayer) Wood. Ezra and Zipporah (Wood) Ames had four children: Lucretia, born and died in 1795; Marcia L., born August 4, 1797, who married the Reverend William James in 1824; Julius R., born January 1, 1801; and Angelo, born January 29, 1803. In 1790, at the age of twenty-two, Ezra Ames was established in Worcester, Mass., as a painter, not of portraits, but of utilitarian 132 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY JESSE HAWLEY (1773-1842) MINIATURE BY EZRA AMES (Owned by the Society.) objects. In 1793 and 1794, he visited Albany and Staatsburgh, N. Y., several times, and plied his brush there and in the western Massachusetts towns he passed through on his journey. He ap parently made Worcester his home until early in 1795, when he was settled permanently in Albany. His chief source of income was QUARTERLY BULLETIN 133 GOUVERNEUR MORRIS (1752-1816) BY EZRA AMES (Owned by the Society.) 134 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY painting signs, sleighs and carriages, but he did many other things: gilded frames; varnished, painted and stained furniture; lettered clock faces and coffin plates; decorated regimental flags and Masonic aprons. In 1797 and 1798, he did a great deal of engraving on spoons, rings, and Masonic medals. The first record of a higher type of artistic work is in December, 1790, when he received eighteen shillings from a Mr. Seymour for a miniature, and the same from Polly D. During the next three years he painted six miniatures, for Mr. Phillips, Joseph Wheeler, William Harris, Stephen Harris, and William Lawton. In Albany, at the beginning of 1794, he painted miniatures of Governor George Clinton, and of Mrs. Clinton, and three for Miss C. Yates. His charge by that time had increased to two pounds. In 1794 also, he painted miniatures for Dr. D. Treat, John Hayke, John Hooker, Mr. Spalding, Mr. M. De Witt, and Levi Willard; in 1795, for Frances Follet, and Samuel Hawkins; in 1796, for Hezekiah Shurliff and Mr. Ellis; in 1797, for James Rogers; in 1798, for John M. Dole. A charge for "hair work" in conjunction with some of the miniatures show that they were for brooches or bracelets of tender associations. Portraiture not in miniature is first mentioned in the entry of February 22, 1794, of four pounds.received from Mr. Glen for por trait painting. In June, 1794, Ames painted and finished the drap ery of Major James Fairley's portrait; in 1796, he received £3/4 from Mr. Ellis for painting a portrait. A comparison of values may be obtained from the entry of August 18, 1802, when he charged Leonard Gansevoort £4 for a portrait, and the same amount for the frame. The Albany Institute exhibits a portrait of Gansevoort now attributed to Ames. None of the miniatures referred to in the manuscript account book have as yet been located. There are six miniatures and sev eral portraits by Ezra Ames in the Albany Institute; six family portraits by him, some in miniature, are reproduced in A Record of the Ancestors and the Descendants of Betsy Mulford SuilijJ (a niece of Ezra Ames), compiled by her granddaughter, Mary Louisa Sut- liff, in 1897. A valuable contribution to the history of American art would be a search for, and a critical study of, all of Ames's portraits. Besides the pictures illustrated herewith, The New-York Histori cal Society owns Ames's portrait of Clarkson Crolius, Sr., which was reproduced in the Quarterly Bulletin of July, 1926. DOROTHY C. BARCK. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 135 NOTES Among the many generous donations to the Society by Mr. Samuel V. Hoffman are the following items: 14 volumes and 327 numbers of old newspapers, including the Middlesex Gazette, published at Middletown, Conn., September, 1787 to December, 1789; Suffolk County Recorder, 1817; and Suffolk County Gazette, 1804—1810 (35 numbers). 20 charcoal drawings of the Jumel Mansion (interiors and exteriors), made by Mr. William H. Shelton in 1924, while Curator of the Museum in Jumel Mansion. A set of the Stone views of West Point, lithographed by Parsons, 1859, viz.: "West Point from Fort Putnam," "Siege Battery, West Point, Looking North," "Hudson River South from Battery Knox," "Old Casemates—Interior Fort Putnam, West Point." Daniel Chapman powder horn dated 1758. Pewter inkwell and children's dishes, wooden apparatus for dip ping and drying old hand-made candles. Four John Rogers groups, viz.: "Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations," 1865, "Courtship in Sleepy Hollow," 1865, "Is it so nominated in the Bond?" 1880, "Why Don't You Speak for Yoursehyjohn?" 1885. Headquarters Orderly Book, kept by Major Durkie at Crown Point, N. Y., August 10 to October 10, 1759. Thirty-six very interesting letters, written by Col. William Douglas to his wife, covering his service in the American Revolution, dated for the most part in New York City, July 19, 1775, to Decem ber 5, 1776. Mrs. Oscar Marshall presented two oil portraits of Abraham Lincoln painted by William E. Marshall in 1864. One, reproduced in this Bulletin, is the original from which Mr. Marshall made his well-known engraving. The other is a life size, three-quarter length portrait. They passed into the possession of the painter's 136 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY brother, Oscar Marshall, whose widow and children donate them to the Society. Mr. William Rhinelander Stewart gave to the Library a nicely bound set of Grace Church Year Books from the earliest issue, 1868, to 1926, lacking but two years, those for 1870 and 1871. Mr. Stewart also presented the solid gold medal presented to him on June 28, 1898, as President of the Twenty-fifth National Confer ence of Charities and Corrections, as well as a silver duplicate key to the Washington Arch, presented to him by the Board of Parks, May 15, 1895, as the inceptor and leader in the movement which resulted in the erection of the arch in Washington Square. Mr. W. Bayard Cutting presented ten portfolios of "Artistic Houses," a series, privately published in 1883, of beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States, also four folio volumes of "Views of the William H. Vanderbilt House and Collections." Mr. Charles F. Heartman presented 160 manuscripts relating to the Jones family of Long Island, covering the period 1758—1824. Mr. F. Ashton De Peyster presented fifty-five volumes of mis cellaneous books from his library. Mr. Winslow Tracy Williams gave a fifty-seven inch high wheel Columbia bicycle of 1883, now on exhibition in the New York Room of the Society. Captain Howland Pell presented nine miscellaneous deeds and wills, dated 1766-1822, relating to New York, Westchester, and Orange counties. Mrs. Bella C. Landauer, who recently very generously gave her book-plate collection to the Society, has donated her collection of business cards and posters, relating to American industries. Mrs. Oscar Marshall was elected a Life Member of the Society and Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting an Annual Member. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 137 LECTURES January 4, 1926—"Through India and Kashmir," by Mr. Bar- num Brown. February 1, 1926—"National Park Area in Southern Utah," by Mr. Randall L. Jones. March 1, 1926—"With John Burroughs in His Favorite Haunts," by Dr. G. Clyde Fisher. NECROLOGY Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, a Life Member since 1916 and Patron since 1925, died October 10, 1926, in the eighty-ninth year of her age. Robert Jaffray, a Member since 1890, died October 15, 1926, in the seventy-second year of his age. William Seward Webb, a Life Member since 1882, died October 29, 1926, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. S. Clinton Sherwood, a Life Member since 1904, died November 16, 1926, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. Edwin Bartlett Meeks, a Member since 1889, died November 22, 1926, in the eighty-fifth year of bis age. ' J. Augustus Smith, a Life Member since 1904, died November 24, 1926. Rev. Dr. David James Burrell, a Life Member since 1896, died December 5, 1926, in the eighty-third year of his age. John A. Stewart, a Member since 1850, died December 17, 1926, in the one hundred and fifth year of his age. 138 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SO C I E T Y ABRAHAM LINCOLN PAINTED BY WILLIAM E. MARSHALL, 1864 Original of his well-known engraving. (Presented by Mrs. Oscar Marshall, 1926.) G > 91 H W 93 r 1 w 1 W THE FAMILY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN PAINTED BY FRANK B. CARPENTER (Presented by Warren C. Crane, 1909.) 140 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLONIAL COMMISSIONS XIII BOOK V {continued) 1761-March 24. Warrant to Lieut. Gov. Colden to appoint Ch's. Williams Naval Officer of New York. April 14. Lieut. Gov. Colden to appoint Benjamin Pratt, Chief Justice of the Province of New York, vice, James DeLancey, deceased. April 28. License of Danl. Kissam to be Attorney at Law, in the several Courts of Record in the Province. May 1. Commission of Joseph Bedell, Joseph Rolph and David Mercereau to be Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Richmond; and Hezekiah Wright, Roger Barns, Aaron Van Naame, James Egberts, John Morgan, Danl. Lake and John Bedell to be As sistant Justices of said Court. May 1. the Peace for the County of Richmond. May 28. License of John McKesson to be Attorney at Law, in the several Courts of Record in the Province. May 28. Warrant to the Receiver General of New York to pay Witham Marsh his Salary of £100 a year. June 10. Commission of Caleb Fowler to be Surrogate of the County of Westchester. June 18. Harmanus Schuyler to be Sheriff of the City and County of Albany. June 19. Dedimus Potestatem to Johannes Hardenbergh, Abrm. Haasbrouck, Jacobus Bruyn, Charles Clinton and George Clinton to swear all Officers appointed for the County of Ulster. June 26. License of Moss Kent to be Attorney at Law. June 30. Order for the Induction of John Milner to be Rector of St. Peter's Church, Westchester, vice Thomas Standard, deceased. June 30. Institution of John Milner as Rector of St. Peter's Church, Westchester. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 141 1761-Sept. 11. Commission of Jacobus Van Deventer to be Coroner of the County of Kings. Sept. 11. Simon Johnson to be Recorder of the City of New York. Sept. 14. Jacobus Terbos, Mathew DuBois and Law rence VanKleek to be Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Dutchess; and Henry Beekman, Peter TenBrook, Anthy. Yelverton, Wm. Doughty, Nich's. De Lavergne, Peter DeWitt and Garret Van Benthuysen to be Assistant Justices for said Court. Sept. 14. Dedimus Potestatem to Jacobus Terboss and L\enry Livingston to swear all officers appointed for the County of Dutchess. Sept. 14. Commission of the Peace for the County of Dutchess. Sept. 25. Commission of James G. Livingston to be Sheriff of the County of Dutchess. Sept. 25. Maurice Lott to be Sheriff of the County of Kings. Oct. 2. Volkert P. Douw to be Mayor of Albany. Oct. 2. Harmanus Schuyler to be Sheriff of the City and County of Albany. Oct. 2. Cadwallader Colden to be Ranger of the County of Ulster. Oct. 2. Danl. Denton to be Sheriff of the County of Orange. Oct. 7. Ordinance declaring the Commencement and Dura tion of the several Terms and the Powers and Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court; also the times of holding the Circuit Courts in the respective Counties in the Province of N. York. Oct. 8. Commission of the Peace for the County of Kings. Oct. 9. Abrm. Schenck, Samuel Gerritson Junr., and John Lefferts to be Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Kings; and Jacobus De Beavois, Jeremiah Remsen, Aris Remsen, Engelbert Lott, Johannes Bergen, Theodorus Polhemus, Philip Nagel Junr., and John Suydam to be Assistant Justices for said Court. 142 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1761-Oct. 9. John Ten Eyck to be Recorder of the City of Albany. Oct. 10. Adam Lawrence to be Sheriff of the County of Queens. Oct. 13. John Cruger to be Mayor of New York. Oct. 13. John Burnet to be Coroner of New York. Oct. 13. Commission of John Roberts to be Sheriff of the City and County of New York. Oct. 13. Isaac Willet to be Sheriff of the County of Westchester. Oct. 13. Abrm. Low Junr., to be Sheriff of the County of Ulster. Oct. 13. George Muirson to be Sheriff of the County of Suffolk. Oct. 13. John Hillyer to be Sheriff of the County of Richmond. Oct. 14. Johannis DeBeavois to be Ranger of the County of Kings. Oct. 14. John Chambers to be Second Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of New York. Oct. 14. Danl. Horsmanden to be Third Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of New York. Oct. 14. David Jones to be Fourth Justice of the Su preme Court for the Province of New York. Oct. 30. John Tabor Kempe to be Attorney General for the Province of New York, vice William Kempe, de ceased. Oct. 30. John Tabor Kempe to be Advocate General for the Province of New York, vice, Wm. Kempe, de ceased. Nov. 11. Benjamin Pratt to be Chief Justice of the Province of New York, vice, James DeLancey, deceased. Nov. 11. Richard Morris to be Clerk of the Circuit Courts, for the Province of New York, vice, Lewis Mor ris, resigned. Nov. 19. Resignation of the Office of second Justice of the Supreme Court for the Province of New York, by John Chambers. QUARTERLY BULLETIN 143 1761-Dec. 31. Supersedeas of John Petersen as Justice of the Peace and Assistant Justice for fhe County of Orange. 1762-Jan. 8. Warrant of Peter Parker to be Pilot for the Port of New York. Feb. 10. Commission of Alexander Colden to be Surveyor General for the Province of New York, vice, Cadwallader Colden. Feb. 20. Corn's. Hornbeck, Ch's. Clinton and Levy Pawl ing to be Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ulster; and Derick Wynkoop, Abrm. Hardenbergh, Corn's. DuBois, Stephen Nottingham, Lewis Bevie, Henry Sleight, Johannes Sleight, Johannes Snider Junr., Derick Wynkoop Junr., Wilhelmus Hoghtel- ingh Junr., and Saml. Sands to be Assistant Justices for said Court. Feb. 20. Commission of the Peace for Ulster County. Feb. 20. Dedimus Potestatem to Ch's. Clinton, Levy Pawl ing, George Clinton, Dirck Wynkoop and Johannes Hardenbergh to swear all officers appointed for the County of Ulster. March 8. License of Philip Livingston to be Attorney at Law, in the several Courts of Record in the Province. March 12. Dedimus Potestatem to Henry Wisner, Vincent Mathews, Dan'l. Everit and John A. Haring to swear all officers appointed for the County of Orange. March 15. Commission of Ch's. Williams to be Naval Offi cer of the Province of New York. March 26. Danl. Horsmanden to be Second Justice of the Supreme Court for the Province of N. York. March 31. David Jones to be Third Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of New York. April 19. Thomas Shrieve to be Coroner of the City and County of New York. April 20. George Harrison to be Notary Public for the Province of New York. April 20. —— James Duane to be Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the Province of New York. April 21. Lambert Moore to be Notary Public for the Province of New York. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FIRST CLASS—FOR ONE YEAR, ENDING I927 THIRD CLASS—FOR THREE YEARS, ENDING 1929 B. W. B. BROWN SAMUEL V. HOFFMAN JOHN E. STILLWELL FRANK BRINLEY PORTER FRANK WIENER JAMES B. WILBUR SECOND CLASS—FOR TWO YEARS, ENDING I928 .FOURTH CLASS—FOR FOUR YEARS,ENDING I93O THOMAS T. SHERMAN i^kJEORGE A. ZABRISKIE W. GEDNEY BEATTY ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON WILLIAM DENNISTOUN MURPHY HIRAM SMITH SAMUEL V. HOFFMAN, Chairman ALEXANDER J. WALL, Secretary [The President, Vice-President, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and Librarian are members of the Executive Committee.] STANDING COMMITTEES COMMITTEE ON FINANCE COMMITTEE ON ANNIVERSARY R. HORACE GALLATIN ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON *RICHARD HENRY GREENE J. ARCHIBALD MURRAY WALTER L. SUYDAM THOMAS T. SHERMAN COMMITTEE ON LECTURES COMMITTEE ON BUILDING B. W. B. BROWN J. ARCHIBALD MURRAY THOMAS T. SHERMAN WILLIAM R. STEWART HIRAM SMITH W. GEDNEY BEATTY COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY COMMITTEE ON FINE ARTS ALEXANDER J. WALL JOHN E. STILLWELL ARTHUR H. MASTEN WALTER L. SUYDAM FRANK BRINLEY PORTER WILLIAM D. MURPHY COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE ON PLAN AND SCOPE ALEXANDER J. WALL R. HORACE GALLATIN R. HORACE GALLATIN W. GEDNEY BEATTY FRANK WIENER JAMES B. WILBUR COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP WALTER L. SUYDAM JOHN E. STILLWELL WILLIAM DENNISTOUN MURPHY 'Deceased. -jt^xt^i THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY BULLETIN INDEX VOLUME X APRIL, 1926—JANUARY, 1927 NEW YORK: 170 CENTRAL PARK WEST PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY AND ISSUED TO MEMBERS INDEX American Historical Association en De Peyster, F. Ash ton, 136. dowment, 71. Fairchild, Mrs. Charles S., 30, Ames, Ezra, Painter, by D. C. 104. Barck, 131-134; portraits by, illus Heartman, Charles F, 136. trated, 60, 132, 133, Cover No. 4. Hoffman,.Samuel V., 30, 72, 104, 135- Barck, Dorothy G, Ezra Ames, 131. Landauer, Mrs. Bella C, 30, 136. . Barnouw, A. J., lecture by,'31. Marshall, Mrs. Oscar, 135. Bigelow, Poultney, lecture by, 105. New York City, Department of Brown, Barnum,lecture by, 105,137. Public Works, 72. Buttons, Eagle, found at West New York State Commandery, Point, by W. L. Calver, 92-93. Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 70. Calver, William L., Eagle Buttons Pell, Howland, 136. found at West Point, 92-93; Prentice, Estates of Col. and lecture by, 105. Mrs. William Packer, 104. Civil War histories, presented by Snyder, Mrs. Susie C, 30. N. Y. State Commandery, Mili Stewart, William R.j 136. tary Order of the Loyal Legion, Stillwell, Dr. John E., 31. 70. Stokes, I. N. Phelps, 104. Commissions, N. Y., (continued), Tieman, Bernard J., 104. 32.-39» 73-79, 106-111, 140-143. Williams, Mrs. Winslow T., 104. Crolius Ware and its Makers, by Williams, Winslow T., 136. Dr. John E. Stillwell, 52-66. Womrath, Mrs. A. Kay, 30. Fisher, G. Clyde, lecture by, 137. Declaration of Independence, New Fort Ticonderoga, 100—101. York and the, by A. J. Wall, 43- Furnishings of the Government 51; broadside of, issued by Con House in New York City, 102-103. tinental Congress, 45; broadside of, issued by N. Y. Provincial Glass Works, Proposals for Estab Congress, 94. lishing, in N. Y. City, 1752, by Donors: A. J. Wall, 95-99. Bancker, Charlotte H., 104. Government House, N. Y. City, Blair, Mrs. J. Inslee, 30. Furnishings of, 102-103. Canoune, Howard M., 30. Greene, Joseph W., Mount Vernon Coster, Mrs. John H., 72 on the East River and Col. Cutting, W. Bayard, 136. William Stephens Smith, 115-130. INDEX 111 Harris, Charles X., Jacobus Gerrit Mount Vernon on the East River. sen Strycker, 83-91. map, 117. Smith, William Stephens, by Illustrations: Stuart, 127. Bayard Homestead in Holland, "Smith's Folly," stable, 119. 19. Strycker, Jan, by his brother, Bayard, Judith (De Vps), 18. Jacobus G. Strycker, 85. Bayard, Rev. Lazare, 17. Stuyvesant family portraits, 17- Bristol glass mug, 97. 27. Broadside issued by Governor Stuyvesant, Gov. Peter, marriage Nicolls, 1665, 29. intention, 8; pear tree, 13; Buttons, Eagle, 93. portrait, 20, 89; seal, Cover City Hall in Wall St., Grim's No. 1. drawing of, 49; remodeled for Tercentenary medal, 68. Federal Hall, CoVer No. 3. Van der Donck, Adrian, by Clinton, Gov. George, by Ezra Strycker, 87. Ames, Cover No. 4. Washington, George, by Archi Crolius, Clarkson, by Ezra Ames, bald Robertson, Cover No. 2. 60; residence of, 65. Crolius, Elizabeth (Meyer), by Jones, Randall L., lecture by, 137. Wallace, 60. Crolius pottery, 53. Lectures: Declaration of Independence, American Literature and its Influ- broadside of, issued by Conti . ence on Europe One Century nental Congress, 45; broadside Ago, 105. of, issued by N. Y. Provincial National Park Area in Southern Congress, 94. Utah, 137. Federal Hall in Wall St., Cover Revolutionary Reminders in and No. 3; as City Hall before about New York, 105. remodeling, 49. Three Centuries of American Fort Ticonderoga, English guns, Song, 31, 71-72. and "The Pavilion," 101. Through India and Kashmir, 105. Hart, Imogene, 123. Twenty-four Dollars' Worth for Hart, Joseph C, by Jerome Manhattan Island, 31. Thompson, 121. With John Burroughs in his Hawley, Jesse, by Ezra Ames, 132. Favorite Haunts, 137. Jefferson, Thomas, by Rembrandt Peale, 47. Members elected: Lincoln, Abraham, by William E. Brummer, Harold M., 72. Marshall, 138; family of, by Coster, Mrs. John H., 72. Frank B. Carpenter, 139. Cruikshank, Douglas M., 31. Morris, Gouverneur, by Ezra Cutting, Mrs. W. Bayard, 136. Ames, 133. Davis, William T., 72. IV INDEX Fisher, D. Havelock, 31. 67-69; Society's exhibition com Marshall, Mrs. Oscar, 136. memorating, 104. Snyder, Mrs. Susie Cruikshank, Smith, Col. William Stephens, and Mount Vernon on the East River, Milligan, Howard V., lecture by, byJ.W. Greene, 115-130; portrait 31, 71-72. of, 127. Necrology: "Smith's Folly" house, 115—125. Burrell, Rev. David James, 137. Stillwell, Dr. John E., Crolius Ware Cornell, Rev. John, 105. and its Makers, 52-66. Crane, Arthur MacAuley, 105. Strycker, Jacobus Gerritsen, an Davis, John W. A., 105. Artist of New Amsterdam, by Dodge, Cleveland H., 105. Charles X. Harris, 83-91. ' Greene, Richard Henry, 31. Stuyvesant Family Portraits, by HackstafF, Charles Ludovic, 31. A. I Wall, 14-27. JafFray, Robert, 137. Stuyvesants irf*the Netherlands and in New Netherland, by A. R. Van Lanier, Charles, 31. Hoevenberg, 3-12. Lee, Ambrose, 31. Meeks, Edwin B, 137. Odell, Benjamin B., 72. Tercentenary,. New York City's, Phoenix, Lloyd, 72. and the Stuyvesant Family Por Putnam, Tarrant, 72. traits, by A. J. Wall, 14-27; Read, Harman Pumpelly, 31. and Sesquicentennial Celebrations Sabin, Joseph F., 105. . in N. Y., 67-69; medal struck in Schuyler, Louisa Lee, 137. commemoration of, 68. Sherwood, S. Clinton, 137. Sloan, Robert Sage, 72. Van Hoevenberg, Alma R., The Stuyvesants in the Netherlands Smith, J. Augustus, 137. and New Netherland, 3-12. Stewart, John A., 137. Straus, Oscar S., 72. Taylor, Stevenson,'72. Wall, Alexander J., New York City's Tercentenary and the Stuyvesant Webb, William Seward, 137. Family Portraits, 14-27; New Wilson, Marshall Orme, 72. York and the Declaration of New York State Historical Associa Independence, 43-51; Proposals tion, 103. for Establishing a Glass Works Nicolls, Gov. Richard, broadside in N. Y. City in 1752, 95-99. issued by, offering inducements to new settlers, 28-29. Zabriskie, George A., appointed Sesquicentennial of American Inde member of Executive Committee, pendence, celebration of, in N. Y., 72.