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 DEDICATION OF 
 MONUMENT AND ALTAR, TO LIBERTY 
 
 ON 
 
 BATTLE HILL, GREENWOOD CEMETERY 
 AUGUST 27, IQ20 
 
 144TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF 
 LONO ISLAND— THE FIRST BATTLE OF 
 THE NATION— FOUGHT AUGUST 27. 1776 
 
 PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIES 
 
 BY 
 
 KINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL S(X:iETY 
 BROOKLYN, N Y 
 
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 SEP 20 1920 
 
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DEDICATION OF 
 MONUMENT AND ALTAR TO LIBERTY 
 
 BY KINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL 
 SOCIETY ON BATTLE HILL IN GREEN- 
 WOOD CEMETERY, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
 AUGUST 27, 1920 
 
 144TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
 BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND 
 
 PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIES 
 
 THIS monument is donated by a member of the Society to 
 commemorate the Battle of Long Island, which was fought 
 wholly within the boundaries of Brooklyn on August 27, 1776. 
 This was the first battle of the Nation and the first stroke for our 
 great American Charter of Rights and Liberties — the Declaration 
 of Independence — and was, obviously, the greatest historic event 
 that ever occurred in the City of Brooklyn, and yet this great Na- 
 tional, and greatest local, event has remained practically unmarked 
 and unmonumented up to the present time. 
 
 The Day We Celebrate 
 August 27, iyy6 
 
 "To-day the cannon's thunderous throat 
 
 Shall chant in tones sublime 
 The song that burst in brazen note 
 
 From Philadelphia's chime. 
 To-day the patriot's sworded hand 
 ^ Shall ratify the pen, 
 
 And seal the charter of the land 
 In blood of honest men." 
 
 From Poem by Mr. P. J. 
 Coleman on Battle of Long 
 Island. Aivarded First Prize 
 by Brooklyn Institute, 1913. 
 
HAIL YE HEROES! 
 
 GLORY to our First National Heroes who fought and fell on 
 Greenwood's Hills and Slopes in our first National battle, 
 and there shed the fu'st blood for our National Liberty and Inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 "Hail ye heroes — Heaven born band! 
 Who fought and bled in Freedom's Cause. 
 Let Independence be your boast, 
 Ever mindful what it cost, 
 Ever grateful for the prize, 
 Let its Altar reach the skies!" 
 
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 Plath I 
 Front View of Monument facing West. 
 
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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE I 
 
 IN this Monument a square Grecian Altar, carved in granite, and 
 ha\'ing bronze plates with historic inscriptions on the four sides, 
 is erected on Battle Hill in Greenwood Cemetery on a high elevation 
 overlooking the cities of Brooklyn and New York and the waters 
 of New York Harbor. The Altar is of strictly classic design and 
 rests on a base and subbase of granite forming two steps or terraces 
 leading up to the Altar. The figure of Minerva, the Goddess of 
 Wisdom, Glory, and Patriotism, cast in bronze, stands beside the 
 Altar and faces directly toward the towering Bartholdi Statue of 
 Liberty arising in New York Harbor in the mid-distance. Minerva 
 salutes the Goddess of Liberty with one hand upraised, while the 
 other hand places a wreath of laurel upon the Altar in tribute to 
 the Wisdom of our American institutions as expressed in the 
 Declaration of Independence, and to the valor of our first National 
 Heroes who fought and fell on this sacred battle-ground to establish 
 these institutions. 
 
 Inscription on the Front Side of the Altar 
 facing West toward the Statue of Liberty 
 on Liberty Island in New York Bay 
 
 i ^i! ! MJBiWMm^ '^ immmi£iaMmm mj!ES\'iMMMMMumM^M^^ 
 
 ALTAR TO LIBERTY 
 
 1776-1919 
 
 ON THIS BATTLE HILL, FACING THE STATUE 
 I OF LIBERTY, THIS ALTAR IS ERECTED TO 
 
 I COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF LONG 
 
 ISLAND, THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT OF WHICH 
 WAS FOUGHT ON THIS SITE, AUGUST 27, 1776, 
 BETWEEN GENERAL LORD STIRLING WITH 
 2000 AMERICANS AND GENERAL GRANT WITH 
 6000 BRITISH. THIS WAS THE FIRST BATTLE 
 OF THE NATION AND THE FIRST STROKE 
 FOR OUR GREAT AMERICAN CHARTER OF 
 RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES— THE DECLARATION 
 OF INDEPENDENCE. 
 
 ERECTED 1919 
 
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Plate 2 
 Side View of Monument facing South. 
 
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INSCRIPTION ON PLATE 2 
 ON SIDE OF MONUMENT FACING SOUTH 
 
 »3!UiEU!MMIiU<MI'yjlMl!Ba!aCTtgiai|!U'|i^'l!Ui|MM^^ 
 
 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 
 
 JULY 4, 1770 
 
 THE WISEST DOCUMENT EVER WRITTEN 
 OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, BASIC 
 ETHICS. CIVIC RELIGION AND DEMOCRATIC 
 GOVERNMENT. ALL THESE ARE E.XPRESSED 
 IN THIS ONE ESSENTIAL PARAGRAPH: 
 
 "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVI- 
 DENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, 
 TH.VT THEY ARE ENDOWED, BY THEIR CRE- 
 ATOR, WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, 
 THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND 
 THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. THAT TO SE- 
 CURE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS ARE 
 INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING THEIR 
 lUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE 
 GOVERNED." 
 
 EQUALITY— LIBERTY— HUMAN RIGHTS. 
 
 |rab^^iia^ft^i'?^ a^l iSiliBilig;ili''iit?^''^^ 
 
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Plate 3 
 
 Back View of Monument facing East but looking West over the City of 
 Brooklyn in the foreground, with New York Bay and the Statue of Liberty 
 in the mid-distance, and the hills of New Jersey in the far distance. 
 
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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 3 
 
 IN this Plate it will be noted that the Statue of Liberty is shown 
 arising in New York Harbor in the center of the panoramic 
 view and in direct line with the Monument and Altar to Liberty 
 on Battle Hill in the foreground. It will also be here noted that 
 the face of the Statue of Liberty is not turned toward New Jersey 
 or Manhattan but toward Brooklyn, and that the beams from the 
 Torch of Liberty and Enlightenment are directed over the shores of 
 Brooklyn and the hills and slopes of Greenwood to show where our 
 National Liberty was first fought for and virtually won. 
 
 Our great ally in the Revolution — the People of France — who 
 gave us this noble Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, and 
 placed it centrally in our harbor with its face turned toward 
 Brooklyn and Greenwood, seem to have well known where our 
 National Liberty was first fought for in actual battle and thus 
 pointed out to us where we should, long ago, have placed an 
 answering monument of our own. The monument now erected 
 facing the Statue of Liberty is not only a monument to the great- 
 est event in our own local history and to one of the greatest events 
 in our National history, but is an answering and reciprocal monu- 
 ment to the Statue of Liberty and to the noble People of France 
 who so ably helped us to win our Liberty in the War of the 
 Revolution. And we can now feel that a Patriotic and Historic 
 duty long incumbent on us to duly mark, sanctify and monument 
 one of our greatest historic shrines is now met and fulfilled in this 
 answering and sanctifying monument which now faces the Statue 
 of Liberty from one of the highest hilltops on our first National 
 battle-ground where our first National Heroes fought and fell for 
 American Liberty and Independence. 
 
 Inscription on Plate ^ on Back 
 or East Side of Monument: 
 
 "THE PLACE WHEREON THOU 
 STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND" 
 
 GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF OUR FIRST NATIONAL 
 HEROES WHO FOUGHT AND FELL ON THIS BATTLE- 
 GROUND TO WIN OUR LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE! 
 MINERVA, THE GODDESS OF WISDOM, GLORY AND 
 PATRIOTISM, HERE SALUTES THE GODDESS OF LIB- 
 ERTY AND ENWREATHES THIS ALTAR IN TRIBUTE 
 TO THE HEROES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY AND TO 
 THE WISDOM OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 IBSiraiy^i'fiJii'i^iiaaii^av^i'V^^'^'ii'^'g^g^'yBira^ 
 
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Plate 4 
 Side View of Monument facing North. 
 
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Inscription on Plate 4 011 North Side of Altar: 
 
 a!uiiuip^iaMi'iJ.'PU'i!uiM»J!i:y!i!y!i!U'iiyai!U'||^K'iMM^ 
 
 STIRLING'S VOW 
 
 "Here and along the slopes of Greenwood's hills 
 Our patriots for the first time faced their foe 
 In open field; and well we stood the test. 
 'Men!' cried Lord Stirling, as we formed our line, 
 'This Grant who comes against us once declared 
 In England's House of Commons — I sat there 
 And heard — that given him five thousand men 
 He'd cross our continent from end to end! 
 He has his number now, 1 doubt not; we 
 A fourth as many, yet I promise you 
 He'll march no farther through our continent 
 Than Brower's mill ponds yonder.' " 
 
 From Pri^e Poem by Sarah J. Day, 191 j. 
 
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 HISTORIC NOTES:— The inscription on this North side of 
 the Altar entitled "Stirling's Vow" is taken from the Prize 
 Poem on the Battle of Long Island by Miss Sarah J. Day, of 
 Brooklyn, a graduate of Packer Institute, to whom the second 
 prize for the best poem was awarded by the Brooklyn Institute 
 in 191 3. This inscription recites one of the most heroic, critical 
 and significant events in American History and deserves close at- 
 tention. Here on Greenwood's hills and slopes, at the opening of 
 our first National battle. General Stirling took up the taunt and 
 boast of the British general Grant that he would cross our continent 
 from end to end, unchecked, and crush out our rebellion with 
 five thousand men! And Stirling soon proved, as he had vowed, 
 that Grant — at least for that day and some time after — would get 
 no farther through our continent than "Brower's mill ponds 
 yonder." These historic mill ponds, now filled in and obliterated, 
 were located about one mile north of Greenwood near the "Old 
 Stone House of Gowanus," in the vicinity of Third Street and 
 Fifth and Third Avenues. This point was near the center of the 
 American lines and was the most strategic point in the whole 
 battle-field. General Stirling held General Grant in a hot en- 
 
gagement for a while at Greenwood and then made a quick retreat 
 toward this strategic center and took up his position near the Old 
 Stone House and in front of the mill ponds. The bridges over the 
 mill ponds, which led to the center of the American lines, having 
 been burned by this time, to prevent the passage of the British, 
 Stirling now ordered the main body of his force, comprising the 
 Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania regiments, to retreat by 
 wading and swimming across the Gowanus Creek and marshes 
 into the American lines on the opposite side of the Creek where 
 Washington was stationed with the main army. But Stirling, like 
 Leonidas of old, kept with him on the fighting front the choice and 
 flower of our little army, the Maryland regiment, numbering about 
 300 to 400 men, who, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, would not 
 retreat but covered the retreat of their other regiments and then 
 sacrificed themselves for American Liberty to the number of two 
 to three hundred in violent and repeated assaults on the British 
 under General Grant and Lord Cornwallis, who had now concen- 
 trated at this strategic point. 
 
 Stirling was finally forced to surrender to this overwhelming 
 force thrown against his right and left, but not before his "vow" 
 was fully carried out in there checking the concentrated attack of 
 the enemy and preventing their passage farther than "Brower's 
 mill ponds yonder." 
 
 The British plan of battle was evidently to surround the little 
 American army of nine thousand men with their overwhelming 
 force of thirty thousand veterans, and then close in and crush or 
 capture Washington and his whole army at their convenience. 
 This plan was followed by the Hessians attacking the center 
 through Prospect Park and down the old Porte Road, now First 
 Street, while the divisions under General Grant and Lord Corn- 
 wallis attacked Stirling on his right and left on the Gowanus Road 
 in front of the American center near the Old Stone House, with 
 the evident purpose to crush Stirling and his whole force between 
 them and then cross the Creek at this strategic center of the ponds 
 and bridges where the line of defense was weakest and there cap- 
 ture Washington and his main army and thus end the Revolution 
 and the New Born Nation at one blow! 
 
 The carrying out of "Stirling's Vow," however, in the manner 
 described, with the heroic work of the brave Maryland regiment, 
 checked this dangerous British plan, thus saving Washington and 
 his main army on the other side of the Creek and enabling him 
 to make his masterly retreat two days later, which saved our 
 young Nation at its very cradling, and at the most critical military 
 
situation ever existing in our national iiistory. It will therefore 
 be seen that "Stirling's Vow," carried out as described, was equiva- 
 lent to the famous vow of the heroic French at Verdun — "They 
 shall not pass" — which saved the French Nation in the recent 
 world war, as "Stirling's Vow" saved our young Nation at its very 
 horning in 1776. 
 
 There is therefore nothing more heroic and significant in our 
 entire military and national history than this "Stirling's Vow," 
 which was uttered at the first engagement of our first National 
 battle on the hills of Greenwood, and carried out in the last en- 
 gagement of the battle at Gowanus Creek and mill ponds near the 
 Old Stone House of Gowanus. 
 
 There are, therefore, no spots more sacred and significant in 
 the history of our Nation than these two sites on which the first 
 and last engagements of our first National battle were fought. In- 
 deed, the whole battle was so important and significant in our 
 history that all critical points in the battle-field should be properly 
 reserved, marked, and monumented so as to fully carry the patri- 
 otic and historic lessons of Americanism taught by this battle to 
 the present and future generations. Fortunately the city is al- 
 ready in possession of two of these important sites in the battle- 
 field. The first of these is Prospect Park, where the second engage- 
 ment was fought between the Americans under General Sullivan 
 and the Hessians under General De Heister, and where a proper 
 marker or monument can be erected at "Battle Pass" or elsewhere 
 without much expense, as no ground will have to be bought for 
 this purpose. The second site is in Fort Green Park near the 
 Wallabout Bay, which was the site of the chief fortification in our 
 line of defense at the extreme end of our left flank and also the 
 site of military headquarters on the day of battle. On this hilltop 
 of Fort Green Park, Brooklyn now possesses what is the grandest 
 historic monument in the whole borough, known as the "Prison 
 Ship Martyrs Monument," which has been erected by our patriotic 
 societies to honor the soldiers of the Revolution who died in Eng- 
 lish prison ships, many of whom fought in the Battle of Long 
 Island. This monument has, however, a very meagre inscription 
 which does not clearly indicate its full purpose and significance to 
 the ordinary observer, but it can be made to serve as a grand 
 monument both to the Battle of Long Island and to our Prison 
 Ship Martyrs by a proper descriptive inscription and without 
 further expense. 
 
 The purchase of the land and the erection of the monument to 
 mark the first engagement of the battle on Greenwood's hills being 
 
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now pro\ided by a pri\ate citizen, it remains only for the people 
 of Brooklyn to acquire some part of the sacred ground on the 
 Gowanus meadows near the mill ponds and the Old Stone House, 
 the site of the last engagement, which is the most important monu- 
 mental site of all, as here our young Nation was undoubtedlv 
 saved at its very horning, and here the two or three hundred 
 heroic Maryland boys laid down their lives for the life of the 
 Nation, which was surely one of the most sacred, heroic and signifi- 
 cant events in our whole histor>'. 
 
 For this historic purpose it is suggested that the whole block 
 bounded by Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Third and Fourth 
 Streets should be acquired for memorial parking and monumental 
 purposes as soon as possible. On this block the Old Stone House 
 is buried and should be dug up and restored and used as a Museum 
 of Relics of the Battle. With this block there should also be 
 acquired part of the ground near the corner of Seventh Street and 
 Third Avenue, where the Maryland soldiers who fell in the battle 
 were buried. These sites are surely the most sacred in our history 
 and to longer neglect to properly reserve and monument them 
 would seem to be a keen disgrace, in a historic and patriotic sense, 
 not only to the citizens of Brooklyn but to the whole American 
 people. It is therefore hoped that the example set by one citizen 
 of Brooklyn in the purchase of historic land and the erection of 
 a monument to mark the first engagement in our first national 
 battle will be followed by some other citizen or group of citizens 
 or by Municipal, State, or National action, until this site of the 
 last engagement in the battle is reserved and monumented as it 
 should be in view of the impressive fact that, in a historic and 
 patriotic sense, it is the most important and significant spot in 
 our whole city, and is second to no other in the whole country. 
 
 To this historic block should be moved the "Maryland Monu- 
 ment" now standing on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park, which is 
 about two miles from the place near the Old Stone House \\'here 
 these heroes fought and fell. There should also be erected on this 
 block a statue of General Stirling, who led the chief fighting in 
 the Battle of Long Island, and fought the first and last engage- 
 ments, and who is one of the most interesting and significant char- 
 acters in American history, although little known to our people 
 in general. He is clearl\', however, Brooklyn's greatest historic 
 character, as the Battle of Long Island is Brooklyn's greatest his- 
 toric event; and it is surelv time therefore that Brooklyn fully 
 appreciated and fittingly monumented its greatest historic character 
 and event. See portrait and note on page 20. 
 
To this end, in addition to the memorial work above suggested, 
 there should be erected somewhere on the historic block a grand 
 Memorial Arch with this inscription: 
 
 TO THE GLORIES OF BROOKLYN AND GOWANUS I 
 
 THE FIRST BATTLE-GROUND OF THE NATION. i 
 
 TO THE SAVIORS OF THE NATION WHO i 
 
 FOUGHT AND FELL HERE AUGUST 27, 1776. | 
 
 The monumental, historic and patriotic work above suggested 
 with regard to the site of the last engagement in our first National 
 battle is surely a sacred and urgent task to which all our historic 
 and patriotic societies should give themselves wholeheartedly at 
 once. 
 
 The cost of acquiring the historic land above described will be 
 over a quarter million, which is, of course, a big task to undertake; 
 but this ground is the most precious in the country in every sense 
 of true Americanism and justifies every proper and necessary outlay 
 and exertion. 
 
 In our famous national shrine of Independence Hall in Phila- 
 delphia, on July 4, 1776, fifty-five of our leading patriots signed, in 
 ink, the great Document which declared us to be a free and inde- 
 pendent Nation, with sublime principles of Liberty and Humanity 
 for all; but, on the historic land above referred to, two to three 
 hundred of our young heroes signed this Declaration in their blood 
 and were the first to lay down their lives for the New Nation. 
 Surely, therefore, we have no more sacred and significant shrines 
 anywhere in our country than these two on the hills of Greenwood 
 and the lowlands of Gowanus, which we have heretofore allowed to 
 be so strangely overlooked and forgotten. 
 
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PROPOSED MONUMENTAL OBSERVATORY 
 TOWER ON BATTLE HILL 
 
 zA New Foiirf/i of July Shrine 
 
 THE donor of the Monument on Battle Hill, within the ceme- 
 tery, has also acquired a plot of ground just outside the 
 cemetery, on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Twenty-third 
 Street, one hundred feet square, which he intends to donate to the 
 City, State, or Nation, as a site for a monumental observatory 
 tower like that on Bunker Hill in Boston. 
 
 This location gives a much finer and more extended view than 
 that from Bunker Hill and is the most scenic spot in the city, 
 affording magnificent views of Manhattan and Brooklyn, the 
 waters of New York Harbor, with the towering Statue of Liberty, 
 the shores of Staten Island and New Jersey and the lands and 
 waters for miles around from the Atlantic Ocean to the Orange 
 Mountains including a view of the whole battle-ground in what was 
 a much more important battle than Bunker Hill. 
 
 It is therefore thought that with the Altar to Liberty within the 
 cemetery on the top of Battle Hill and a monumental tower out- 
 side the cemetery on the slope of Battle Hill, which will be more 
 accessible to the general public, that this precious historic spot 
 will be adequately marked and monumented as the place where 
 our first fight was made for National Independence and will thus 
 be a Fourth of July Shrine equal to Independence Hall itself, and 
 a place where the patriotic pilgrim can view a most inspiring 
 scene and drink in important lessons in history and patriotism 
 at the same time. 
 
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PRESENTATION OF THE MONUMENT 
 
 By tJic Donor, Chas. M. H/go/ns 
 
 THIS Monument and Altar to Liberty is now presented to the 
 people of Brooklyn, and placed in the care of the Greenwood 
 Cemetery Corporation and the Kings County Historical Society, 
 as a record of the high place of Brooklyn in the history of our 
 Nation and in honor of our first National heroes who fought and 
 fell on this sacred battle-ground to win our National Liberty and 
 Independence and here shed the first blood for this great cause. 
 
 This Monument is as much a memorial to the Declaration of 
 Independence, which was our first Charter of Rights and Liberties, 
 as to the Battle of Long Island, which was the first battle of the 
 Nation and the first stroke for the Declaration of Rights in which 
 are expressed and epitomized the principles which form the essence 
 of true Americanism and the basis of our American Government. 
 These principles are in substance, equality of mankind, unalien- 
 able rights of the individual, and consent of the governed. 
 
 May this Monument and Altar stand forever as a record of, 
 and witness to, the great place of Brooklyn in our National his- 
 tory, which has been almost overlooked or forgotten, and as a 
 perpetual reminder of the grand principles of Americanism ex- 
 pressed in the Declaration, the wisest document ever written, which 
 gives us in one simple paragraph a clear code of basic ethics, civic 
 religion and democratic government, adapted for the just govern- 
 ment of all mankind the world over, and which should ever guide 
 us in our political, religious and social life. 
 
 THANKS TO ARTISTS OF MONUMENT 
 
 JUST here I wish to publicly thank the sculptor Mr. F. Wellington 
 Ruckstull for his artistic, inspiring and devoted work in the 
 modeling of the bronze statue of Minerva, and for his general design 
 of the granite and bronze work on the Altar. To this work he has 
 devoted more than a year of his life to realize the ideals of us both 
 in this matter. 
 
 I also wish to thank Mr. Chas. J. Davis, of The Davis Granite 
 Co., for the fine execution of the stonework in the Altar, and for 
 his carefuf attention to artistic details. 
 
 I must also give thanks to the sculptor Mr. Robert G. Eber- 
 hard for his artistic modeling of the inscriptions, as well as to the 
 Roman Bronze Works of Brooklyn for the casting of the Statue 
 and inscriptions. 
 
PROGRAMME OF CEREMONIES 
 
 Mr. Chas. a. DiTMAs, President Kings County Historical Society, 
 Presiding. 
 
 Guests will assemble in the Chapel in Greenwood Cemetery near 
 the main entrance at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street, Brook- 
 lyn, at 2 P.M. sharp. Musical and Memorial Services in Chapel at 
 2.15 P.M. Dr. Paul Martin, Conductor. 
 
 1. Opening remarks of Mr. Chas. A. Ditmas 
 
 2. Largo, Handel Organ 
 
 3. Invocation Chaplain Barton Perry, Lt. Col. U. S. A. 
 
 4. America Organ and Quartette 
 
 5. Memorial address in honor of our first National heroes who 
 fought and fell on Greenwood's hills and slopes and there shed 
 the first blood for our National Liberty and Independence 
 
 Rev. Chas. Wm. Roeder of Flatlands Dutch Reformed 
 Church, First Church organiied in Brooklyn 
 
 6. Angels' Serenade, Braga: To spirits of our departed heroes 
 
 Soprano, Violin and Organ 
 
 7. Chant Seraphique, Guilmant Organ 
 
 'They sing the glory of the brave 
 In voice of love divine, 
 For, oh! the patriot's hallowed grave 
 Is Freedom's holiest shrine." 
 
 8. Benediction Dr. Henry Neumann 
 
 Leader Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture 
 
 9. Recessional, "Lest We Forget" Organ 
 
 10. March from Chapel to Monument on Battle Hill 
 
 Dead March from Saul Military Band 
 
DEDICATION OF MONUMENT ON BATTLE HILL 
 
 3 P.M. 
 
 1 1. Introductory Address By Mr. Cbas. A. Ditmas 3 p.m. 
 
 12. Presentation of Monument. . . .By Donor, Mr. Cbas M. Higgins 
 
 3.1 5 P.M. 
 
 13. Unveiling of Monument By the Misses Rachel Higgins, 
 
 Margaret D. Harrison, and Maud Ryder Kouivenhoven 
 
 ^.20 P.M. 
 
 14. Salute from U. S. Warship in Harbor near Statue of Liberty 
 
 1 5. Trumpet Solo: 
 Hail Columbia! 
 
 Hail Ye Heroes! Group of Trumpeters 3.25 p.m. 
 
 16. Te Deum Quartette 3.30 p.m. 
 
 17. Acceptance of Monument on behalf of Greenwood Corporation 
 
 Hon. Russell Benedict 3.35 p.m. 
 
 18. Acceptance on behalf of Kings Count}' Historical Society 
 
 Hon. George Tiffany 3.40 p.m. 
 
 19. Battle Hymn Band 3.45 p.m. 
 
 20. Address Hon. Alfred E. Smith 3.50 p.m. 
 
 Governor State of New York 
 
 21. Address Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt 4.05 p.m. 
 
 22. Address: "Art and History". .Mr. Augustus Thomas 4.20 p.m. 
 
 23. Address: ".Americanism: Our duty to understand and cherish it. 
 The Declaration of Independence first fought for on this bat- 
 tleground — the Basis and Code of Americanism". .. .4.30 p.m. 
 
 Hon. David A . Boody, former Mayor of Brooklyn 
 
 24. Address: "Brooklyn's High Place in History and Brooklyn's 
 Duty to its own Great Historical Record" 4.45 p.m. 
 
 Hon. Wm. M. Calder, U. S. Senator from New York 
 
 25. Maryland, My Maryland Ba7id 5 p.m. 
 
 26. Address: "History and Patriotism" 5.05 p.m. 
 
 Mr. Sullivan, N. Y. State Historian 
 
 27. Finale: "America" Band, Quartette and Trumpeters 
 
 Audience is requested to join in the singing 
 
GENERAL STIRLING 
 The Little-known American Hero 
 
 "I have in mv Last told you, that the fate of this campaign, of course 
 the fate of America, depends upon you, and the army under your 
 command." 
 
 From General Washington at Cambridge to General 
 
 Stirli)is at New York, March 14, 1776. 
 
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GENERAL LORD STIRLING 
 
 Brooklyn's Greatest Historic Character. 
 
 Born in New York, 1726. Died in Albany, ijS^. 
 
 Hero of Battle of Long Island, 
 
 Brooklyn's Greatest Historic Event 
 
 Painted for Chas. M. Higgins by Miss Eleanor C. Bannister, 
 Brooklyn, 191 9. From portrait from life by Bass Otis in Inde- 
 pendence Hall, and from miniature in the Life of Lord Stirling 
 written by his grandson, William Alexander Duer, published by 
 the New Jersey Historical Society, 1847. See also Life of Lord 
 Stirling, just published by Kings County Historical Society, 
 August, 1920. 
 
 STIRLING AND BROOKLYN 
 
 "Thermopylae and Marathon 
 
 Still wake the minstrel's lyre; 
 The deeds of Sparta's lion son 
 
 The poet's rage inspire; 
 But with earth's brightest fields of fame, 
 
 Earth's proudest laurelled dead, 
 Be brightly blazoned Brooklyn's name. 
 
 The patriots here who bled. 
 
 "Here Freedom fleshed her virgin blade 
 
 And found its temper true; 
 Here on the ranks of Right arrayed 
 
 God's blessing down she drew. 
 Here skilled to foil the foeman's thrust 
 
 She proved each chosen son, 
 And worthy found of holiest trust 
 
 Stirling and Washington." 
 
 From First Prise Poem. P. J. C. 
 
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KINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. 
 
 41 Amersfort Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 OFFICERS 
 Charles A. Ditmas 
 
 President 
 George Tiffany 
 
 First Vice-President 
 William B. Lake 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 Ernest E. Malmar 
 
 Chairman Board of Directors 
 George Tiffany 
 
 Treasurer 
 John M. Van Siclen 
 
 Financial Secretary 
 Frank M. Raynor 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 Mrs. Harry C. Greene 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 Mrs. Frank Homer Thompson 
 
 Historian 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 Andrew Ditmas 
 Charles A. Ditmas 
 Tunis J. Bergen 
 Charles Wm. Gramm 
 FIerbert F. Gunnison 
 Mrs. Harry C. Greene 
 George T. Hammond 
 Charles M. Higgins 
 Cornelius Kouwenhoven 
 William B. Lake 
 Charles E. Scriven 
 Frank M. Raynor 
 Mrs. Bentley FI. Stevenson 
 FIoN. George Tiffany 
 Ernest E. Malmar 
 John H. Van Siclen 
 George Kouwenhoven 
 Mrs. Frank Homer Thompson 
 
 COMMITTEES ON DEDICATION OF MONUMENT AND 
 
 ALTAR TO LIBERTY 
 
 August 27, 1920 
 
 Marshal 
 George Halsey Thompson 
 
 Aids 
 FIoLMES V. B. Ditmas 
 Wheeler Newman Voorhees 
 Frank M. Raynor 
 Ed. Lewis 
 
 Color Guard 
 
 John II. Van Siclen 
 Frank K. Snyder 
 Harold Edward Ditmars 
 Harry C. W. Melick 
 Frederick R. DeNyse 
 
 Howard M. Langford 
 Richard M. Montgomery 
 Frank L. Odell 
 John Jacques De Mott 
 Dr. Harry C. Greene 
 
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RECEPTION COMMITTEE 
 
 Chairman 
 Eugene J. Grant 
 
 Vice-Chairmen 
 F. Wellington Ruckstull 
 John R. Hegeman, Jr. 
 Cornelius Eldert 
 Marshall C. Lefferts 
 
 and the following members: 
 
 Alexander C. Snyder 
 Tunis G. B. Kouwenhoven 
 J. Howard Austin 
 Jacob C. Klinck 
 Frederick Boyd Stevenson 
 Walter M. Meserole 
 Dr. Robert Franklin Ives 
 Hon. Raymond V. Ingersoll 
 Charles L. Schenck 
 Dr. Ralph I. Lloyd 
 James H. Post 
 
 F. A. M. BURRELL 
 
 Elmer A. Sperry 
 
 Hon. Frederick J. H. Kracke 
 
 Jacob H. Shaffer 
 
 Dr. William L. Felter 
 
 William H. Kouwenhoven 
 
 Reginald Pelham Bolton 
 
 J. S. Frazee 
 
 Edwin P. Clark 
 
 Hon. Edward M. Bassett 
 
 Charles L. Livingston 
 
 Daniel M. Tredwell 
 
 John F. Berry 
 
 Joseph D. Harrison 
 
 J. R. Van Brunt 
 
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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