Manhattan: historic and artistic; a six day tour of New York city; (1892)
Ober, Corolyn Faville, Mrs, Alden, Cynthia May Westover, 1862-1931 · New York, Lovell, Coryell & company · leaf 43
with thelightning. The bell, a gift from ColonelAbraham De Peyster, was cast in Amsterdam,where many citizens are said to have thrownsilver coins into the metal while it was in fu-sion. During the Revolution the church wasused by the English for a prison, three thou-sand Federal troops having… … THE POST-OFFICE IN THE NASSAU STREET CHURCH. years it was used as a post-office. The oldbell is now placed in front of the church at thecorner of Fifth Avenue and 29th Street. A fine building-, owned by the Library Cor-poration, and containing the earliest loan-library in America,—since removed to…
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