(1) The Franklin House in Franklin Square. Built about 1770
(2) The Walton House in Franklin Square.
(3) Burn's Coffee House in Broadway, just above Trinity Church. Garden View.
(4) Burn's Coffee House. Front view.
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Identifier: touroffourgreatr00smitrich (find matches)
Title: A tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk, Susquehanna and Delaware in l769; being the journal of Richard Smith of Burlington, New Jersey;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Richard, 1735-1803 Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919
Subjects: Pioneers -- Middle Atlantic States Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) Mohawk River Susquehanna River Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Port Washington, N.Y. I.J. Friedman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ty-four miles square, and on which the town of Albanystands. Two generations had passed away sincethese Van Rensselaer lands were acquired. Mean-while they had fallen into many hands by theDutch system of dividing them equally among theirchildren. With the other grants no such favorable resultshad been reached. Bellomont declared that Mr.Livingston has on his great grant of sixteen mileslong and twenty-four broad but four or five cottages,as I am told—men that live in vassalage under him,and work for him, and are too poor to be farmers,having not the wherewithal to buy cattle to start afarm. Col. Van Cortlandt has also on his greatgrants four or five of these poor families, his twogrants being each twenty miles square. Col. Philipseon his manor had about twenty families of thosepoor people that worked for him. I do not hear,said the Governor further, that Philipses son, Col.Schuyler, Col. Beekman, or Col. Smith have any 1 Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York. XXXVI
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