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Identifier: oldbuildingsnewy00newy (find matches)
Title: Old buildings of New York City, with some notes regarding their origin and occupants
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings -- New York (State) New York
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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BOROUGH OF RICHMOND The Billop House fiOR more than a century Staten Island was prac-tically in the control of the Billop family.The Billops for several generations had ledactive and valiant careers in the service of tlie sover-eign. One, James, in the sixteenth century, is said tohave won the friendship of Queen Elizabeth by riskinghis own life in order to save hers. They had favorsalso from the Stuart line. Christopher, born in 1638, received a naval trainingby command of Charles I. He was commissioned cap-tain and made important and adventurous voj^ages, inone of which he was wounded, captured by Tiukishpirates and abandoned, to be later rescued by a passingship. In 1667, Mhether by order of Charles II or onhis own account it is not known, he sailed from Eng-land in his vessel, the Bentley, and came cruising inthe ^\aters of the New Netherlands. The tradition isthat the Duke of York, to determine the ownership ofthe islands in the bay, decided that any island that couldbe circumna

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  • booksubject:Historic_buildings____New_York__State__New_York
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Brentano_s
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:177
  • bookcollection:cdl
  • bookcollection:americana
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