General Henry Knox was a general in the American army during the Revolution. He entered it at the beginning of the war as a captain of the Boston Grenadiers. He was the first Secretary of War of the United States. He married the daughter of Secretary Flucker. General and Mrs. Knox grew to be enormously stout and were perhaps the largest couple in the city of New York at the time when Washington was inaugurated as first President of the United States. General Knox’s home was at Thomaston, Maine. Footnote 44: General Pinckney of South Carolina had served in the American army. He had two daughters, one of whom married Col. Francis K. Huger. Footnote 45: Hodgkinson made his first appearance in New York as _Vapid_. He was born in Manchester, England, 1767; his father was an innkeeper named Meadowcraft. Young Meadowcraft ran away from home, took the name of Hodgkinson, and joined the stage. His wife, to whom he was married on his arrival in America, by Bishop Moore, was Miss Brett of the Bath Theatre. She died in New York of consumption, September, 1803. Mr. and Mrs. Hodgkinson received $100 a week for their services, which was the highest amount yet paid to any two performers in America. Footnote 46: This Joseph Jefferson was the grandfather of the present Joseph Jefferson. Footnote 47: Mr. and Mrs. William Codman. Mrs. Codman was a Miss Coffin. William Codman had at that time an insurance office at No. 28 South Street, New York. Footnote 48: Mrs. Henderson and Miss Denning were daughters of William Denning, a well-known New York merchant. Footnote 49: _Columbia Gardens_ were on the corner of Broadway and Prince Street. Footnote 50: _Mt. Vernon_ Gardens, afterwards called Contois’s Gardens, were on the northwest corner of Broadway and Leonard Street. Footnote 51: Mrs. Delafield was a Miss Hallett. She married, December 11th, 1784, Mr. John Delafield, an Englishman, who had arrived in New York in 1783. They had twelve children. Among them were Major Joseph Delafield, who married Miss Livingston; Mr. Rufus Delafield married Miss Bard; Dr. Edward Delafield married Miss Floyd; Henry Delafield married Miss Munson. Footnote 52: _Malbone_, a celebrated miniature painter. He was born at Newport, Rhode Island, and when very young showed great taste for painting. He travelled about the then known portions of the United States, painting portraits of people in Charleston, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, etc., many of which are now in existence. His price for painting a head was $50. He died of consumption in Savannah, May 7, 1807, in the thirty-second year of his age. Footnote 53: