“At length they came by with all that remained of a beloved husband who left me in the bloom of manhood, a perfect being. Alas! how did he return? However gratifying to my heart, yet to my feelings every pang I felt was renewed. The pomp with which it was conducted added to my woe; when the steamboat passed with slow and solemn movement, stopping before my house, the troops under arms, the Dead March from the muffled drums, the mournful music, the splendid coffin canopied with crepe and crowned with plumes, you may conceive my anguish!” After the vessel had gone by it was found she had fainted. [14] By resolution of the Vestry, August 26, 1803. [15] Removed in 1835. [16] “Nat. Cyclo. of Am. Biog.,” vol. VI, p. 360. [17] “King’s Handbook of New York,” p. 38. [18] Goede Vrouw of Man-a-hata. [19] _Magazine of American History._ [20] The British took possession of the City Hall and “they also plundered it of all the books belonging to the subscription library, and also of a valuable library which belonged to the corporation, the whole consisting of not less than sixty thousand volumes. This was done with impunity and the books publicly hawked about the town for sale by private soldiers” (“Lamb’s History of the City of New York,” vol. II, p. 134). [21] Mrs. Cruger spent her summers at that quaint castellated structure, Henderson House or Home, seven miles from Richfield Springs, the grounds being part of twenty thousand acres received by letters patent from the English crown. [22] “Bulletin of Metropolitan Museum,” January, 1907. [23] Named after the three daughters, Countess of Abingdon, Lady Southampton (Fitzroy), and Mrs. Colonel Skinner. [24] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.” [25] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.” [26] “Diary of Philip Hone,” vol. II, p. 101. [27] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.” [28] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.” [29] “In Old New York,” by Thomas A. Janvier. [30] Remembered as the writer of that popular poem, “’Twas the night before Christmas,” etc. [31] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.” [32] “N. Y. Standard Guide,” p. 112. [33] Joseph Alston became Governor of South Carolina. Mrs. Alston, the daughter of Aaron Burr, met with a tragic fate. On December 30, 1812, she sailed from Charleston in a small schooner, _The Patriot_, accompanied by Mr. Green, a friend of her father’s, her physician and her maid. The vessel never reached its destination. Forty years afterwards, three men, two in Virginia and one in Texas, made deathbed confessions that they had been members of the crew, that the crew had mutinied and murdered all the officers and passengers, Mrs. Alston being the last to walk the plank. The expression of her face, one man said, haunted him the rest of his life. [34] Pintard was a very prominent man in the first part of the last century, the founder of the New York Historical Society and many other city institutions.