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Title: History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893 Harrison, Constance Cary, "Mrs. Burton Harrison,", 1846-1920
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: New York : A. S. Barnes and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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same capacity. Fora period of moie than fifty years he Mas honored by his fellow-citizens with offices of trust andresponsibility. During the war he was driven with his family for shelter to Connecticut, andhis elegant mansion was appropriated by the enemy, his produce seized, and his woods cutdown. At the end of seven years the soil was nearly all that remained to him. His firstwife was Isabella, daughter of William .loues of Southampton, Long Island. His second wifewas Joanna, daughter of Benajah Strong of Setauket. His children were Nicoll, who wasthe father of Hon. John G. Floyd, member of Congress from Oneida ; Mary, who marriedBenjamin Tallmadge of Litchfield, Connecticut,—the mother of Frederick A. and HenryFloyd Tallmadge of New York ; Catharine, who married Kev. William Clarkson ; Ann, whomarried George W^. Clinton, son of the vice-president, and for her second husband AbrahamVarick ; and Eliza, who married James Piatt of Utica, New York. Thompsdus Lmg Islaiid,Vol. II. 431.
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<a o NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON. 21 tively at rest under well-defined cliartered riglits. The question whetherEnglish or French civilization should control in tlie development of theAmerican continent had been chiefly determined by New York; and theprinciples which underlie our republican institutions had tirst found ex-pression in New York. In short, the tree of freedom had been plantedin the Empire State long before the little plantation of a Dutch mer-cantile company had come under kingly rule; it had taken firm root;it had grown rank despite the frosts of severe displeasure, sometimesshooting forth its branches in one direction and sometimes in another,putting out a leaf here and a leaf there, and finally budding and bloomingunder the stray sunbeams of a living affection for liberty even whileconstantly assailed l)y storms of foreign wrath ; and now its ripeningfruit is falling— into its neighbors fields, indeed, who, witli their basketsready, hasten to gather it in. The

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