Charles Scribner's Sons

MDCCCCV

COPYRIGHT, 1899

NEW YORK

BUILT IN 1626.

WITHIN THE FORTIFICATIONS

WAS ERECTED THE FIRST

SUBSTANTIAL CHURCH EDIFICE

ON THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN.

IN 1787 THE FORT

WAS DEMOLISHED

AND THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE

BUILT UPON THIS SITE

1636      1897

ON THIS SITE STOOD THE "STADHUIS"

OF NEW AMSTERDAM——ERECTED 1636

THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE IN LOVING MEMORY

OF THE FIRST DUTCH SETTLERS BY THE

HOLLAND DAMES OF THE NEW

NETHERLANDS AND THE

KNIGHTS OF THE LEGION OF THE CROWN

LAVINIA

KONIGIN

TO COMMEMORATE THE GALLANT AND PATRIOTIC

ACT OF MARINUS WILLETT IN HERE SEIZING

JUNE 6, 1775, FROM THE BRITISH FORCES THE

MUSKETS WITH WHICH HE ARMED HIS

TROOPS. THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY

THE SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE

REVOLUTION, NEW YORK, NOV. 12, 1892

THE SITE OF THE

FIRST DUTCH HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT

ON THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN

LATER THE SITE OF THE OLD "STADT HUYS"

OR CITY HALL

THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY

THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

SEPTEMBER, 1890

ON THIS SITE

WILLIAM BRADFORD

APPOINTED

PUBLIC PRINTER

APRIL 10, A. D. 1693

ESTABLISHED THE FIRST

PRINTING PRESS

IN THE

COLONY OF NEW YORK

ERECTED BY THE

NEW YORK

HISTORICAL SOCIETY

APRIL 10, A. D. 1893

IN COMMEMORATION OF

THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE INTRODUCTION

OF PRINTING IN

NEW YORK

HERE STOOD

THE MIDDLE DUTCH CHURCH

DEDICATED A. D. 1729

MADE A BRITISH MILITARY PRISON 1776

RESTORED 1790

OCCUPIED AS THE UNITED STATES POST-OFFICE

1845-1875

TAKEN DOWN 1882

"GOLDEN HILL"

HERE, JAN. 18, 1770

THE FIGHT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE

"SONS OF LIBERTY" AND THE

BRITISH REGULARS, 16TH FOOT

FIRST BLOODSHED IN THE

WAR OF THE REVOLUTION

ON THIS SITE IN THE

OLD SHAKESPEARE TAVERN

WAS ORGANIZED

THE SEVENTH REGIMENT

NATIONAL GUARD, S. N. Y.

AUG. 25, 1824

ON THE COMMON OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,

NEAR WHERE THIS BUILDING NOW STANDS, THERE

STOOD FROM 1766 TO 1776 A LIBERTY POLE

ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE REPEAL OF THE

STAMP ACT. IT WAS REPEATEDLY DESTROYED BY

THE VIOLENCE OF THE TORIES AND AS REPEATEDLY

REPLACED BY THE SONS OF LIBERTY, WHO ORGANIZED

A CONSTANT WATCH AND GUARD. IN ITS

DEFENCE THE FIRST MARTYR BLOOD OF THE AMERICAN

REVOLUTION WAS SHED ON JAN. 18, 1770.

NEAR THIS SPOT IN THE PRESENCE OF

GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON

THE DECLARATION OF

INDEPENDENCE

WAS READ AND PUBLISHED

TO THE

AMERICAN ARMY

JULY 9TH, 1776

THE FIRST

PRESIDENTIAL MANSION

NO. 1 CHERRY STREET

OCCUPIED BY

GEORGE WASHINGTON

FROM APRIL 23, 1789

TO FEBRUARY 23, 1790

ERECTED BY THE

MARY WASHINGTON COLONIAL CHAPTER, D.A.R.

APRIL 30, 1899

FIRST HABITATIONS OF WHITE MEN

ON THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN

ADRIAN BLOCK

COMMANDER OF THE "TIGER"

ERECTED HERE FOUR HOUSES OR HUTS

AFTER HIS VESSEL WAS BURNED

NOVEMBER, 1613

HE BUILT THE RESTLESS, THE FIRST VESSEL

MADE BY EUROPEANS IN THIS COUNTRY

THE RESTLESS WAS LAUNCHED

IN THE SPRING OF 1614

W. C.

HEAR . LYES . THE . BODY

OF . RICHARD . CHVRCH

ER . SON . OF . WILLIA

M . CHVRCHER . WHO .

DIED . THE . 5 OF . APRIL

1681 . OF . AGE 5 YEARS

AND . 5 . MONTHS

HERE LIES

DEPOSITED THE BODY OF

JAMES LEESON,

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON

THE 28TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1794,

AGED 38 YEARS.

IN MEMORY OF

MICHAEL CRESAP

FIRST CAPTAIN OF THE

RIFLE BATTALIONS

AND SON OF COLONEL THOMAS CRESAP

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

OCT. 18, A. D. 1775.

THE SITE OF

LIEUT. GOVE. DE LANCEY'S HOUSE,

LATER THE CITY HOTEL.

IT WAS HERE THAT THE NON-IMPORTATION

AGREEMENT, IN OPPOSITION TO THE STAMP

ACT, WAS SIGNED, OCT. 15TH, 1766. THE

TAVERN HAD MANY PROPRIETORS BY WHOSE

NAMES IT WAS SUCCESSIVELY CALLED. IT

WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PROVINCE ARMS, THE

CITY ARMS AND BURNS COFFEE HOUSE OR TAVERN.

TO MARK THE LANDING PLACE OF

GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON,

JUNE 25, 1775,

ON HIS WAY TO CAMBRIDGE

TO COMMAND

THE AMERICAN ARMY.

PETRUS STUYVESANT,

LATE CAPTAIN-GENERAL AND GOVERNOR IN CHIEF

OF AMSTERDAM IN NEW NETHERLAND

NOW CALLED NEW YORK

AND THE DUTCH WEST INDIES, DIED IN A. D. 1671/2

AGED 80 YEARS.

ON THIS CORNER GREW

PETRUS STUYVESANT'S PEAR TREE

RECALLED TO HOLLAND IN 1664,

ON HIS RETURN

HE BROUGHT THE PEAR TREE

AND PLANTED IT

AS HIS MEMORIAL,

"BY WHICH," SAID HE, "MY NAME

MAY BE REMEMBERED."

THE PEAR TREE FLOURISHED

AND BORE FRUIT FOR OVER

TWO HUNDRED YEARS.

THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY

THE HOLLAND SOCIETY

OF NEW YORK

SEPTEMBER, 1890.

GRAMERCY PARK

FOUNDED BY

SAMUEL B. RUGGLES

1831

COMMEMORATED BY THIS TABLET

IMBEDDED IN

THE GRAMERCY FARM BY

JOHN RUGGLES STRONG.

1875.