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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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an arched bridge of stone over the oldfording-place in place of the wooden bridge, building be-neath the big-pine a homestead for his family, and in-creasing his mills until he had several grinding the dif-ferent kinds of grains, for at the time of the French andIndian war, with armies in the City and up the Hudsonto be supplied, the mills were full of activity and theslaves had little rest. Then the children began to reach their majority andtheir friends began to assemble under the old pine, withall sorts of social diversions and activities, and it is of thisperiod that the unknown poet again writes of the pine-tree, the fox-hunt, and youthful nature; THERE once at early dawn arrayed The rural sport to lead,The gallant master of the glade Bedecks his eager steed.And once the lightfoot maiden came, In loveliness divine,To sculpture with the dearest name DELANCEYS ancient pine. Then came young and comely Ralph Izard, the wealthyyoung planter from South Carolina, who, having just ( 154)
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OF OLD NEW YORK completed his studies in Europe, stopped at New York athis fathers request to learn from Lieutenant GovernorJames Delancey the practical application to Americancolonists of some of the book precepts he had studied;but he found more than law-precepts and governmentalpractice at New York, for at a garden party which Gov-ernor Delancey gave at his Bowery country-seat, RalphIzard met little Alice Delancey from the Mills, a merechild at the time, allowed to attend her first party; RalphIzard thereafter, whenever in New York, and he camenorth with tolerable frequency, was sure to spend a por-tion, in fact much, of his time at the Mills, and in duecourse, when she became twenty, all social New Yorkarose very early one morning and donned its travelingclothes to attend the wedding of Ralph Izard and AliceDelancey at the Mills; and such a procession as therewas up the old Bloomingdale Road and across Kings-bridge, ladies in old family-coaches with their negroes infinest livery,

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