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Identifier: magazineofamericv9stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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w Jersey in the spring of 1780,where he had a singularly mortifying and ignominious experience, withwhich all cultivated readers are familiar. Sir Guy Carleton reached New York in April, 1782, and was enthusi-astically greeted by the inhabitants, who were suffering under militaryoppression, frauds and all sorts of abuses from unprincipled placemen andofficials. He commenced the work of reform with commendable celerityand great vigor, and discharged, so we are told by Judge Jones, such anumber of supernumerary barrack masters, land commissaries, water com-missaries, forage masters, cattle commissaries, cattle feeders, hay collectors,hay inspectors, hay weighers, wood inspectors, timber commissaries, boardinspectors, refugee examiners, refugee provision providers, and refugeeration deliverers, commissaries of American, of French, of Dutch, and ofSpanish prisoners, naval commissaries, and military commissaries, withsuch a numerous train of clerks, deputy clerks, and other dependents upon
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THE McEVErs MANSION, WALL STREET, IN l8<DO. Residence of General Knyphausen during the Revolution.(From an old print) WALL STREET IN HISTORY 409 the several offices aforesaid, with pensioners and placemen, as saved theBritish nation in the course of one year only, about two million sterling.His chief work, however, was preparation for evacuating the city, articlesof peace having been dulysigned in Europe. .*,rj* r At this juncture WallStreet presented a sad pict-ure. The semi-circularfront of Old Trinity stillreared its ghastly head,and seemed to deepenwhile it hallowed the soli-tude of its surroundinggraves/ wrote Mr. Duer inhis description of the re-turn. At the head ofBroad Street we descriedthe City Hall in its primi-tive nakedness ; nearly op-posite was the modest dwel-ling of (afterwards occupiedas a residence by) Alexan-der Hamilton ; and at theintersection of Smith (nowWilliam) Street, erect uponits pedestal, was the statueof the elder Pitt, mutilatedand defaced, in resentm

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