Glass Book xJju 1^5- PRESENTED BY Im Nnu fork iftatortral ^orirtij 1804-1904 BY ROHERT HENDRE KELBV JBRAUIAN ()1 THE SOCIETY NEW YORK PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY MDCCCCV Gift The Society 4 Ja '06 INTRODUCTION The studies for this brief history were prepared for a paper read by Mr. Kelby on November 1, 1904, as a retrospect of the century which had elapsed since the foundation of the Society. The present volume includes the chief points of the " Retrospect," and an appendix gives a list of the publications of the Society and other details of interest in its history. Daniel Parish, Jr., Frederic Wendell Jackson, Robert H. Kelby, Committee on Publications. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction ....... iii The New York Historical Society, 1804-1904 . 1-74 Appendix .... . 75 Officers, 1905 . . 77 Executive Committee . . 78 Trustees of New Building . . 79 Officers, 1805-1905 . 83 Honorary Members . . 95 Patrons ..... . . 106 Fellows ..... • . 107 Annual and Life Members • . 108 Subscribers to the Fund for the Pin •chase of Site for New Building . . 123 Subscribers to the Building Fund . 127 Permanent Funds . 131 Bibliography ..... . 135 ILLUSTRATIONS 'Minutes of the First Meeting, November 20, 1804 V Portraits of the Founders Portraits of the Presidents, 1805-1849 J Homes of the Society ^Portraits of the Presidents, 1850-1905 ^Portrait of Henry Dexter FACING TAGE 1 1 29 50 70 74 . & .' /;■ ////■ 7 K/v Jor/t . /'(/j/i'/'tuf ( « facce/i/. //lit . 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FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1804-1904 The plan for the organization of this institu- tion originated with John Pintard, through whose exertions several meetings for the purpose were held in a room of the City Hall, Wall Street, in 1804. After canvassing the matter for some time, the persons who had been invited to take part in the preliminary arrangements appointed a com- mittee to draft a constitution, under which an or- ganization finally took place. The minutes of the Society contain the follow- ing record of the first meeting: " New York, November 20, 1804. The following persons, vizt.— Egbert Benson, DeWitt Clinton, Rev. William Linn, Rev. Samuel Miller, Rev. John N. Abeel, Rev. John M. Mason, Doctor David Hosack, Anthony Bleecker, Samuel Bayard, Peter G. Stuyvesant, and John Pintard, being assembled in the Picture Room of the City Hall of the City of New York, agreed to form themselves into a Society, the principal design of 1 which should be to collect and preserve whatever may relate to the natural, civil or ecclesiastical History of the United States in general, and of this State in particular, and appointed Mr. Benson, Doctor Miller, and Mr. Pintard a committee to prepare and report a draft of a Constitution." The meeting then adjourned until Monday evening, December 10th, following. At this meeting the following gentlemen were present : Egbert Benson, Chairman. De Witt Clinton, Rev. John C. Kunze, Rev. John M. Mason, Rev. Samuel Miller, Rev. John Bowden, Dr. Peter Wilson, Rev. Wiliam Harris, Peter G. Stuyvesant, Dr. John Kemp, John Murray, Jr., Daniel D. Tompkins, Rev. John H. Hobart, Rufus King, Dr. David Hosack, Rev. John N\ Abeel, Dr. Archibald Bruce, John Pintard. A constitution was adopted, and the institution was named " The New York Historical Society." The first regular meeting after the adoption of the constitution was held January 14, 1805, at which time the Society was organized by the elec- tion of the following Officers : Egbert Benson, President. Rt. Rev. Benjamin Moore, D.D., First Vice-President. Brockholst Livingston, Second Vice-President. Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., Corresponding Secretary. John Pintard, Recording Secretary. Charles Wilkes, Treasurer. John Forbes, Librarian. STANDING COMMITTEE William Johnson, Daniel D. Tompkins, Dr. Saml. L. Mitchill, John McKesson, Dr. David Hosack, Anthony Bleecker, Rev. John M. Mason, D.D. A Seal was adopted, and later a Vignette for Diploma, by Durand, showing the arrival of Henry Hudson, 1609. The following short sketch of the lives of the eleven gentlemen who first met on Tuesday, No- vember 20, 1804, may prove interesting: Egbert Benson, first president of the Society was born in this city, June 21, 1746, and died in Jamaica, L. I., August 24, 1833. He was the first 3 Attorney General of the State, 1777-89, a member of the Continental Congress, 1784-88, and was re- turned to the First and to the Second Congress. He was Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, 1794-1802, and member of Congress again, 1813-15. He delivered before the Society, De- cember 31, 1816, a memoir on Dutch names of places. Judge Benson served as president until 1815, when he declined a reelection. De Witt Clinton, vice-president, 1810-16; president of the Society, 1817-19, was born near Little Britain, N. Y., March 2, 1769; died at Albany, February 11, 1828; was graduated from Columbia College, 1786; private secretary to his uncle, Gov. George Clinton, 1790-95; member of Assembly, 1797, and of the State Senate, 1798- 1802 and 1806-11; United States Senator, 1802- 03; Mayor of this city, 1803-07, 1809-10, and 1811 — 15, and by his wise and efficient administra- tion contributed much to the prosperity of the city ; one of the founders of this Society and the Acad- emy of Fine Arts; first president of the Literary and Philosophical Society; Lieutenant-Governor of this State, 1811-13, and Governor of the State, 1817-22 and 1824-27; initiated the construction of the Erie Canal, 1815; Canal Commissioner, 1816, 1823-24. The opening of the Erie Canal was cele- brated with a great demonstration in October, 1825, Gov. Clinton was conveyed in a barge on a triumphal progress from Lake Erie to this city, and on November 4th following proceeded down 4 the bay to the ocean, when Clinton with great sol- emnity poured from an elegant keg adorned with many devices and inscriptions, and gilded hoops, the waters of Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean. The keg, preserved as a precious memento of the interesting ceremony, is in the possession of this So- ciety. Clinton delivered the anniversary discourse before the Society in 1811, which was published. Rev. William Linn, D.D., was born in Ship- pensburg, Pa., February 27, 1752 ; son of William and Susanna (Trimble) Linn, and grandson of William Linn, who with his son William came from the north of Ireland in 1732, and settled in the township of Lurgan, Cumberland County, Pa. William 3d was graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1772; studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Robert Cooper, and was chaplain of the Fifth and Sixth Battalions, Continental army. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church, Big Spring (Newville), Pa., 1777-84; at Eliza- bethtown, N. J., 1784-85; of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed church, New York city, 1787-1805; president pro tempore of Rutgers College, 1791- 94, and trustee 1787-1808; regent of the Uni- versity of the State of New York, 1787-1808; chaplain of the House of Representatives, First Congress, 1789-91, and was elected president of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1804, but not inaugurated. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1789. He was married first to Rebecca, daughter of the Rev. 5 John Blair, vice-president of the College of New Jersey; secondly to Mrs. Catherine Moore, widow of Dr. Moore, of New York city; and thirdly to Helen Hanson. He is the author of " Sermons " (1791), " Signs of the Times " (1794), " Funeral Eulogy on Washington" (1800), and "Sermon on the Death of Alexander Hamilton" (1804). He died in Albany, N, Y., January 8, 1808. Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., corresponding secretary of the Society, 1805-13, was born near Dover, Del., October 31, 1769; son of the Rev. John and Margaret (Millington) Miller; grand- son of Allumby and Elizabeth (Harris) Milling- ton, of Talbot County, Md., and of John Miller, a Scotchman, who immigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1719, where he married Margaret Bass, of Brain- tree. Samuel received his preparatory educa- tion under his father; entered the senior class of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated there with first honors, 1789. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Lewes, Del., October 13, 1791, shortly after his father's death, and completed his theological studies under the Rev. Charles Nisbet in 1792. He preached in several churches in Delaware; was a colleague to the Rev. Dr. Rodgers and the Rev. Dr. McKnight in the "Brick" and ' Wall Street " church, known then as the First Church, New York city, 1793-1809, and sole pas- tor of the Wall Street church, 1809-13. He was married October 24, 1801, to Sarah, daughter of 6 the Hon. Jonathan Dickinson and Margaret (Spencer) Sergeant, of Philadelphia, Pa. He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1806; a founder and direc- tor of Princeton Theological Seminary, 1812-13, and Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government there 1813-49, and professor emeritus 1849-50. He was commissioned by Gov- ernor Tompkins chaplain of the First Regiment of the New York Artillery in April, 1809. He made strong efforts to promote peace between the two factions of the Presbyterian Church. He declined the presidency of the University of North Caro- lina and of Hamilton College in 1812. He was a trustee of Columbia College, 1806-13, and of the College of New Jersey, 1807-50. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1800; a corresponding member of the Philosophi- cal Society of Manchester, England, 1804; and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts and New Jersey Historical Societies. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Yale and the College of New Jersey in 1792; D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and Union College in 1804, and from the University of North Carolina in 1811, and LL.D. from Washington College, Maryland, in 1847. He published over forty political and religious pamphlets. He died in Princeton, N. J., January 7, 1850. Rev. John Neilson Abeel^ D.D., was born in New York city in 1769. His father, James Abeel, 7 was a major in the Revolutionary army, and served through the war as deputy quartermaster-general. The family descended from Christian Janse Abeel, who was born in Amsterdam in 1631, but came to this country and settled in Albany in 1657. Dr. Abeel's mother, from whom he derived his middle name, was the daughter of an Irish gentleman, John Neilson, M.D., who came from Belfast and practised his profession with success in this city. Dr. Abeel early in life was sent to school in Mor- ristown, 1ST. J., where he was fitted for college. He graduated from Princeton in 1787. He studied law in New Brunswick, in the office of the Hon. William Paterson, LL.D., who afterward be- came one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Later he determined to abandon the law and study for the ministry. Accordingly, he entered his name as a student of theology in the Reformed Dutch Church. Soon afterward, however, he was induced to accept an appointment as a tutor in Princeton, and, while thus employed (1791-93), prosecuted his theologi- cal studies under the direction of Dr. Witherspoon, the president of the college. His license to preach was granted to him in April, 1793. Shortly after he entered in the service of the Second and Third Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia. He was called to the Collegiate Church at New York in June, 1795, to become one of its ministers. Here he continued to labor during the rest of his life, although he was frequently asked to go else- where. He took a lively interest in educational 8 matters, and in 1799 was elected a trustee of Co- lumbia College, and in 1808 a trustee of Queen's College, and once was called to the presidency of Union College. His degree of D.D. was conferred by Harvard College in 1804. Dr. Abeel married January 29, 1794, Mary Stille, in Philadelphia. She survived her husband a number of years, and died in New York, January 13, 1826, universally esteemed. They had five children, two of whom died in infancy. In 1809 Dr. Abeel's health began to fail, and he died January 19, 1812. Rev. John Mitchell Mason, D.D., was born in New York city, March 19, 1770; son of the Rev. John and Catherine (Van Wyck) Mason. He was prepared for college under his father; was graduated at Columbia in 1789; was a student in the University of Scotland, 1791-92, and was re- called to the United States by the death of his father in 1792. He was licensed by the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Pennsylvania, October 18, 1792, and installed as pastor of the Cedar Street Church, New York city, as successor to his father, in April, 1793. He was married May 13, 1793, to Ann, daughter of Abraham LefTerts, of New York city. He visited Scotland in 1801, to obtain competent evangelical ministers for duty in the United States, and in September, 1802, pro- posed a theological seminary, subject to the direc- tion of the Associate Reformed Church, which movement resulted in the Union Theological Sem- inary. He established the Christian Magazine in 9 January, 1807, and edited it for several years. He resigned his pastorate in 1810, formed a new con- gregation, and, while a new church was being built, held meetings in the Presbyterian church on Cedar Street. This action resulted in a charge being brought against him at the meeting of the synod in Philadelphia in 1811, but the synod refused to cen- sure him. He was a trustee of Columbia College, 1795-1821, and provost, 1811-16; travelled in France, Italy, and Switzerland, 1816-17, and re- signed his pastoral duties in February, 1821, on account of his increasing infirmities. He was president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1821-24, and in 1822 transferred his relations from the Associate Reformed Church to the Presbytery of New York, and returned to New York city in 1824. He received the degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1794, and that of D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1804. Author of many essays, orations, and sermons. He died in New York city, December 26, 1829. David Hosack, corresponding secretary, 1814- 16; vice-president, 1817-18; president of the So- ciety, 1820-27; was born in New York city, August 31, 1769; son of Alexander and Jane (Arden) Hosack. His father was a native of Moray County, Scotland, who came to America as an artillery officer, serving in the capture of Louis- burg in 1758. His maternal grandfather, Francis Arden, was a prominent citizen of New York 10 city. David was a student at Columbia College, 1786-88, and was attacked by the " Doctor's Mob." He graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1789, studied medicine with Drs. Post, Romeyn, Bard, Moore, and Kissam, and received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1791, and from Edinburgh in 1793. He was married to Catharine Warner, of Princeton, N. J., in 1791. He practised medicine in Alexan- dria, Va., 1791-92; was a student at Edinburgh and London, 1792-94; and professor of botany, 1795-1811, and of materia medica, 1796-1811, in Columbia College. He was married a second time, December 21, 1797, to Mary, daughter of James and Mary (Darragh) Eddy, of Philadelphia. He attended Alexander Hamilton in his duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. He established in 1822 a hos- pital, which afterward became Bellevue, and in 1826 joined with Dr. Valentine Mott and Dr. John W. Francis in founding the medical department of Rutgers College, in which he was professor during its existence, 1826-30. He was president of the Horticultural, Literary and Philosophical socie- ties, and originated and in 1801 established the Elgin Botanic Garden, the second in the United States. He was married a third time, shortly be- fore he retired from practice, to Magdalina, widow of Henry A. Coster, a Holland merchant, and spent his summers on his estate at Hyde-Park-on- Hudson, N. Y., where he devoted himself to bo- tanical study. He was expert in the treatment of yellow fever. He received the honorary degree of 11 LL.D., from the College of New Jersey and from Union College in 1818. He was the author of many medical and scientific works. He died in New York city, December 22, 1835. Anthony Bleecker, second vice-president of the Society, 1820, was born in New York city in October, 1770; son of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker. His father owned a large estate in New York city. In 1791 he was graduated from Co- lumbia College, and subsequently was admitted to the bar. Preferring literary work to the practice of law, he became well known as a contributor of both prose and verse to current literature. He published the " Narrative of the Brig Commerce," which had a wide circulation. In 1810 he was elected a trustee of the New York Society Library, retaining the office until the year before his death, which occurred March 13, 1827. He was a mem- ber of the standing committee of the Society 1805- 19 and 1821-27. Samuel Bayard was born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 11, 1767; the fourth son of John and Margaret (Hodge) Bayard. After his gradua- tion from Princeton College, in 1784, as valedic- torian, he studied law and established an excellent practice in his native city. He became interested and prominent in politics, and was made Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1791. From 1794 to 1798 he represented the United States Government in London, as its agent, to prosecute American claims before the admiralty 12 courts. Upon his return he practised law at New Rochelle, N. Y., receiving the appointment of Pre- siding Judge of Westchester County. From 1803 to 1806 he resided and practised in New York city. He aided in the organization of the American Bible Society and the New Jersey Bible Society. He removed to Princeton, N. J., in 1806, and was a member of the House of Assembly. He died in Princeton, N. J., May 12, 1840. Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, great-great-grand- son of Governor Petrus Stuyvesant, was born in New York city, 1778; graduated at Columbia Col- lege, 1794; studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was elected president of the Society in 1836, and served in that office until 1839. He died at Niagara Falls, N. Y., August 16, 1847. His residence, " Petersfield," was built before the rev- olution, and was situated on his father's " Bou- werie " farm. John Pintard,, founder of the Society, was born in New York city, May 18, 1759; son of John and Mary (Cannon) Pintard; grandson of John and Catharine (Carre) Pintard and of John Can- non (father of Le Grand Cannon, of Canada), and great-grandson of Anthony Pintard, a Huguenot, who settled at Shrewsbury in 1786, where he was a merchant and a justice of the peace. Both his grandfathers were prominent merchants. On the death of his parents, in 1760, John Pin- tard was adopted by his uncle, Louis Pintard, a New York merchant. He was prepared for col- 13 lege at Hempstead, L. L, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1776. He was dep- uty commissary for the prisoners in New York city under his uncle, serving until 1781, and in 1782 be- came a clerk in his uncle's counting-room. He married, November 12, 1784, Eliza, daughter of Col. Abraham and Helena (Kortright) Brasher, of Paramus, N. J. Mr. Pintard engaged in the East India trade on his own account in 1785; was an assistant alderman in 1789-90, and represented the city in the State Assembly in the following year. He established a museum in 1791, in connection with the Tammany Society. He resided in New York city in 1800, and was engaged in the book trade and auction business. In the winter of 1801 he went to New Orleans, La., where he gathered valuable statistics relating to the territory, which contributed to its purchase. He edited the Daily Advertiser, 1802; was Clerk to the Corporation of New York city, and City Inspector, 1804-09; secretary of the Mutual Insurance Company, 1809-29, and a di- rector of the same, 1829-44. He was secretary of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 1817-27; he was one of the incorporators of the first sav- ings bank that was established in New York city in 1819, and served as its president, 1828-41, when he became blind, and resigned. He was among the first, in 1805, to agitate the " free school system," and was influential in securing the construction of the Erie Canal. He was secretary, 1816-32, and vice-president, 1832-44, of the American Bible Society; a vestryman of the Huguenot church, 14 New York city, 1810-14; treasurer of Sailors' Snug Harbor, 1819-23; and one of the benefactors of the General Theological Seminary. Pintard Hall, one of the dormitories of the seminary, was erected in his honor in 1885. He received the de- gree LL.D. from Allegheny College in 1822. Mr. Pintard was recording secretary of the Society, 1805-19; librarian, 1810-11; treasurer, 1819-27. At a meeting held October 12, 1816, the Society adopted the following preamble and resolution: " Whereas, The Historical Society of this State is most materially indebted to Mr. John Pintard for his long-continued, faithful, and important services ; " Resolved, That in testimony of their due con- sideration of the same, Mr. Pintard be requested to sit for his portrait for this Society." Mr. Pintard's portrait was painted for the Society by Trumbull, in 1817. Mr. Pintard died June 21, 1844. The Society, at its regular meeting held October 1, 1844, adopted the following resolution: " Resolved , That in the decease of John Pin- tard, LL.D., this Society has lost one of its earliest and most devoted friends, one of those, indeed, to whom the institution owes its origin, and much of its usefulness. " Resolved, That the memory of Mr. Pintard is cherished by the members of this Society, for the many excellent features of his private and public character." 15 Federal Hall, the first home of the Society, stood on the northeast corner of Wall and Nas- sau Streets, erected in 1700 as the second City Hall, succeeding the first City Hall, or Stadt Huys erected in 1642 on Pearl Street. In 1788 the Common Council resolved to appro- priate the whole of the City Hall to the uses of the General Government, and adopted a plan for the alteration of the building. The First Congress of the United States met in the reconstructed building on March 4, 1789, when on April 30th Washington was inaugurated first President of the United States. The cere- mony took place in the open gallery in front of the Senate-chamber, which looked out upon Broad Street. The Society held meetings in this building until 1809. It has in its custody a section of the iron railing of the balcony, also several chairs and desks used by the officers and members of the first Federal Congress. Unhappily, this historic building, the most sug- gestive monument of the events which took place within its old walls, already laden with the mem- ories of a century of occupation and use for pub- lic purposes, was heedlessly swept away a few years after it had been decorated by its greatest honor. The edifice was taken down in 1812. An address to the public, setting forth the objects of the institution, together with several queries as to those points on which the Society requested particular information, was printed in the newspapers of the day. The next publication 16 was its constitution and by-laws, contained in a pamphlet of fifteen pages, published in 1805. These subsequently were printed in the first vol- ume of collections of the Society. On April 13, 1807, the recording secretary stated that he had in his possession a considerable number of books relating to the history of Amer- ica, which he was willing to dispose of at the orig- inal cost; whereupon the following resolution was adopted : " Resolved , That the standing committee be authorized to purchase said books for the use of the Society." The liberal donations subsequently made, to- gether with other purchases, soon formed a credit- able library in the department of American his- tory. The prospects of the Society now began to brighten, numerous resident and honorary mem- bers were elected, and the patriotic objects of the institution rendered it deservedly popular. Appli- cation was made to the Legislature for an act of incorporation, which was passed February 10, 1809. At the meeting held January 10, 1809, atten- tion was called to the fact that this year was the beginning of the third century since the discovery of this part of North America by Henry Hudson. It was then " Resolved,, That this Society will commemorate this important event, and that the Rev. Dr. Miller, corresponding secretary, be requested to prepare a discourse for the occasion." 17 A committee was appointed to examine and ascertain the exact date of this discovery, who subsequently reported " that the ' Journal of the Voyage of Henry Hudson,' contained in ' Pur- chas Pilgrim,' appeared to be the most authentic and satisfactory document on the subject; and that Captain Hudson, who sailed from Holland in the month of March, 1609, discovered and entered the river, since called by his name, on the fourth day of September following." That day was accordingly designated for the proposed celebration. The use of the front court- room in Federal Hall was granted to the Society for the occasion, where " the Rev. Dr. Miller de- livered a learned and interesting discourse, illus- trative of this event, before a large and respectable audience of ladies and gentlemen, among whom were his Excellency the Governor, and the Mayor and Corporation of the city." After the discourse, in the language of the minutes, " the Society adjourned to the City Hotel, where, together with a number of invited guests, (at four o'clock) they sat down to an ele- gant dinner prepared by Messrs. Pay and Gibson, consisting of a variety of shell and other fish with which our waters abound, wild pigeon and succo- tash, the favorite dish of the season (Indian corn and beans ) , with the different meats introduced into this country by the European settlers." The following commemorative toasts were drank on the occasion: 1. Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of 18 America. His monument is not inscribed with his name, yet all nations shall recognize it. Its base covers half the globe, and its summit reaches beyond the clouds. 2. Queen Isabella of Spain, the magnanimous and munificent friend and patroness of Columbus. 3. John and Sebastian Cabot, the contempo- raries of Columbus, and the discoverers of North America. 4. John Verrazzano. His enterprising genius and his visit about the 20th of April, 1524, to this part of our country deserve to be better known. 5. Henry Hudson, the enterprising and intrepid navigator. Though disastrous his end, yet fortu- nate is his renown, for the majestic river which bears his name shall render it immortal. 6. The 4th of September, 1609. The day on which Hudson landed on our shores. 7. Wouter Van Twiller, the first Governor of New Netherlands. 8. Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor, an intrepid soldier and faithful officer. 9. Richard Nicolls, the first English Governor of the Province of New York. 10. George Clinton, the first Governor of the State of New York. 11. William Smith, the historian of New York. 12. Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas. May future compilers of historical documents emulate their diligence and fidelity. 13. William Stith, Cadwallader Colden, Samuel 19 Smith, Jeremy Belknap, and George R. Minot, American historians. They have merited the gratitude of their country. 14. The United States of America. May our prosperity ever confirm the belief that the discov- ery of our country was a blessing to mankind. 15. The State of New York. May it ever be the pleasing task of the historians to record events that shall evince the wisdom of her Legislature and display the virtues of her people. 16. The Massachusetts Historical Society, which set the honorable example of collecting and preserving what relates to the history of our country. 17. Our forefathers, to whose enterprise and fortitude, under Providence, we owe the blessings we enjoy. Among the volunteer toasts given were the following, after his Excellency the Governor and the Mayor had retired : By Mr. William Johnson, chairman: The Gov- ernor of the State of New York. By Mr. John Pintard: The Mayor and Cor- poration of the City of New York. By Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill: A speedy termina- tion of our foreign relations. By Col. Jonathan Williams, United States En- gineers: May our knowledge of past times teach us to enjoy the present and improve the future. By Simeon De Witt, Surveyor General: May our successors, a century hence, celebrate the same event which we this day commemorate. 20 By Dr. David Hosack, Professor of Botany, Columbia College: The memory of St. Nicholas. May the virtuous habits and simple manners of our Dutch ancestors be not lost in the luxuries and refinements of the present times. By Mr. Nathaniel Pendleton: May the same virtues and the same industry continue in our land which have converted an Indian cornfield into a botanic garden. By Mr. Anthony Bleecker: The Memory of General Washington. By Mr. Josiah Ogden Hoffman: Egbert Ben- son, our absent and respected president. By Dr. John Bullus, agent United States Navy: The Lieutenant-Governor (John Broome) of the State of New York. By Dr. Archibald Bruce, Professor of Mineral- ogy, College of Physicians: The Rev. Dr. Miller. His interesting discourse of to-day affords a pleas- ing anticipation of his promised history of New York. By Col. Peter Curtenius, of the New York Artillery: Pierre Van Cortlandt, the first Lieuten- ant-Governor of the State of New York. By Mr. Henry Gahn, the Swedish Consul: The Mouth of the Hudson. May it soon have a sharp set of teeth, to show its defense. By the Recording Secretary: The American Fair, without whose endearing society this west- ern world, the rich inheritance from our enter- prising ancestors, would still be a wilderness in- deed. 21 The publication of the first volume of its col- lections is distinctly due to the enthusiasm pro- duced by this generous banquet. A committee was appointed, after the delivery of the discourse, " to report materials for forming a volume of the pro- ceedings of this Society, together with such tracts relating to the history of this country as may merit republication." The anniversary meetings of the Society were held on St. Nicholas Day, December 6th. The customary place of dining on these occasions was for several years at Kent's Hotel, 42 Broad Street. A communication was received from the Acad- emy of Arts, September 9, 1809, inviting the Society to occupy a room in the Government House. The invitation was promptly accepted, and on September 15th the first meeting was held there. The northwest room in the second story of that building was appropriated to the use of the Society. The books, which had been previously kept in the City Library, were removed to the same place. The Government House, at the foot of Broad- way, facing Bowling Green, stood on the site of Fort Amsterdam, which after the conquest was called Fort James, in compliment to the Duke of York; in the reign of William and Mary, Fort William; and in the following reigns, Fort Anne and Fort George. The Government House was originally designed for the residence of Washing- ton, then President of the United States, but as the capital removed to Philadelphia, the house was 22 never occupied by him. It then became the Gov- ernment House, and was the residence of Governor George Clinton and John Jay, and from 1799 to 1815 used for the Custom-House, when it was taken down and succeeded by a handsome block of houses. The new Custom-House is now in course of erection on this site. In March, 1810, a petition of the Society, signed by Egbert Benson, president, praying that the Legislature would grant them such aid as they should deem meet and the general interest of the State would permit, to accomplish the objects for which the Society was associated and incorporated, was presented to the Legislature of New York. The following letters from De Witt Clinton and Dr. Mitchell, members of the Senate and Assembly respectively, show the action of that body: Albany, March 22, 1810. Dear Sir: I have the pleasure of informing you that the bill for endowing the Historical Society, and killing the wolves and panthers, passed the the Senate this morning without opposition. If the Federal Assembly shall act as liberally as the Republican Senate, it will go down, but I am fear- ful that your party will be very deficient in this respect. The Mechanics' Bank bill has passed the Senate with equal unanimity. I am, dear sir, yours sincerely, De Witt Clinton. John Pintard, Esq. 23 Albany, April 3, 1810. Dear Sir: I have the mortification to inform you that the bill from the Senate for the destruc- tion of wild beasts, and for the encouragement of history, was this day debated and finally rejected. The vote, in spite of all that the friends of the pro- jects could say, was 43 to 27. I supported it with as good a speech as I could make. But all was in vain. The great objection was that too many lottery jobs had been authorized already, and under this influence the thing would not work. Van Home made the motion to reject. He ought to be conveyed to his native town in a car drawn by wolves, panthers, and wild-cats. The public business has rendered it necessary to prolong the session from the 2d instant, as orig- inally agreed upon for the adjournment to Thurs- day, the 5th. On Saturday I hope to move home- ward in the steamboat. Truly yours, as ever, S. L. Mitchill. John Pintard, in a letter dated August 28, 1812, addressed to the Hon. De Witt Clinton, Mayor of the City of New York, formulated a plan to com- bine in one building, if possible, with the pat- ronage of the city, the Academy of Arts, City Library, Historical Society, and the American Mu- seum, with some other institutions that ought to be established and promoted, with all that at pres- ent exists in this city relating to these subjects, 24 and that by concentrating all our resources we may give a greater impulse and elevation to our intellec- tual character, and suggested that either the Alms- house, or Bridewell, in the Park, would be suitable buildings for the purpose. This letter has the following endorsement: " Memo. Mr. Clinton, on reading this communi- cation, observed ' that the request was too impu- dent to be submitted to the Corporation! ' " Never Despair " was the motto used by Mr. Pintard on his book-plate. He did not despair, for on December 7th of the same year the Society, in conjunction with the New York Society Library and the Academy of Arts, petitioned the Corporation of the city for the use of the Almshouse, or the Bridewell, for the use of the above institutions, and other scientific institutions to be established in this city. Three years later the city authorities set apart the Alms- house for the use of the several institutions, the name of the building being changed to the New York Institution. The Rev. Dr. Timothy Alden (later President of Meadville College, Pa. ) , happening to be on a visit to this city, January 11, 1813, offered his ser- vices for the preparation of a catalogue, which the Society accepted. The catalogue was printed De- cember 22, 1813, at first separately, and subse- quently in the second volume of the collections of the Society. The catalogue shows that the library consisted at that time of 4,265 titles of books and pamphlets ; 25 234 volumes of United States documents ; 130 titles of American newspapers; 134 maps and charts; 30 miscellaneous views; 119 almanacs; a portion of " Sterling Papers," with 48 separate manuscripts; 16 manuscript volumes of the House of Commons, 1650-76; several portraits in oil, and 38 engraved portraits — quite a collection brought together in the nine years of the existence of the Society. On January 11, 1814, it was " Resolved, that application be made to the Legislature of this State for their patronage of this Society, and that Mr. Clinton be appointed to draft a suitable me- morial on the subject." At the next quarterly meeting, held April 12th, Mr. Clinton informed the Society that, agreeably to their request at the last meeting, he had drawn up a memorial to the Legislature of this State for their patronage, which he presented at the present sessions of both Houses. That a clause granting this Society $12,000, which was included in the bill, entitled " An Act for instituting a Lottery for the promotion of Literature," had passed the Senate, but was non-concurred in in the House of Assembly. Ayes, 41; nays, 44. This act became a law on April 15, 1814. The following is an abstract of the same: " Section 51. And be it further enacted, That the managers to be appointed in compliance with the act, entitled ' An Act instituting a Lottery for the promotion of Literature, and for other pur- poses,' after the payments are completed, accord- ing to the several provisions contained in said act, 26 be and hereby are directed to raise the additional sum of twelve thousand dollars in the manner directed in and by the aforesaid act, which sum, when so raised, shall be paid to the Historical Society in the city of New York, for the purpose of procuring books, manuscripts, and other ma- terials, to illustrate the natural, literary, civil, and ecclesiastical history of America." The Society unfortunately engaged its credit in the purchase of books and of manuscripts before it was known how distant and precarious were the proceeds of this mode of raising money. It thus became involved in a debt which was not extin- guished without many and severe sacrifices. It had, however, before its usefulness was impeded by the pressure of this debt, published several vol- umes of transactions of great value. The debt incurred by the Society in anticipation of the funds to be received from this lottery amounted to several thousand dollars, and was chiefly assumed by the librarian, Dr. John W. Francis, to whom a mortgage on the property of the Society was executed by way of security. At length, after a long-continued struggle with pecu- niary embarrassments and difficulties, an arrange- ment was entered into with Union College, by which the Society agreed to take eight thousand dollars in cash for its lottery interest, out of which sum, in 1823, the debts were paid. Many valuable additions were made during the time that Dr. Francis officiated as librarian. Among the original papers, the military corre- 27 spondence of Gen. Horatio Gates was secured, July, 1816, through the influence of the celebrated Robert Fulton, then a resident member of the Society. The papers had been bequeathed by General Gates to Joel Barlow, who contemplated writing a history of the Revolution; but on the death of Barlow, in Europe, his widow had been induced by Mr. Fulton to transfer them to the Society. A special meeting of the Society was called August 13, 1814, in consequence of the ex- posed situation of this city to invasion by the enemy, and the danger attending a state of siege and possible bombardment. The Society, taking the matter into serious con- sideration, " Resolved, That the library of this Society be packed up in suitable boxes, ready to be removed and sent to some secure place up the Hudson River in case of necessity, and that Dr. Mitchill, Dr. Francis, and the Rev. Mr. Alden be a com- mittee to carry this resolution into effect." On January 14, 1815, Dr. Francis reported " that, in conformity with the resolution passed at the last meeting of the Society, the committee had caused all the most valuable and scarce books in the library to be carefully packed in portable cases. But that, happily, the campaign of 1814 had passed by without a necessity for removing them from the dangers of an hostile attack on this city. As, however, a similar cause may exist should the war between the United States and Great Britain 28 EGBERT BENSON 1805 1*15 PETER GERARD STUYVESANT I83( ———————————— GOUVERNEUR MORRIS PETER AUGUSTUS JA\ 1840 De WITT CLINTON 181/ 18'.9 ALBERT GALLATIN 849 ■ ■ " ■ —i PRESIDENTS continue, it was recommended to leave the books packed up ready for removal in case of emer- gency." On June 15, 1815, Mr. Pintard reported that " the Corporation of the city, on May 22d last, had appropriated the Almshouse, in rear of the City Hall, when no longer required for public use, to the several literary and scientific societies which had petitioned for their patronage. That the new almshouse established at Bellevue would be com- pleted for the reception of the tenants of the pres- ent almshouse in the course of this year. " And, further, that as the Corporation had resolved to sell the Government House and ground thereto belonging, the fee-simple of which had been purchased from the State, it is necessary to remove the library of the Society to some place until pos- session can be obtained of the apartments to be allotted to the Society in the New York Institu- tion, formerly the Almshouse. The library of the Society was temporarily stored in the store of Capt. James Farquhar, in Vesey Street, together with the pictures, casts, busts, etc., belonging to the Academy of Arts, until their removal in 1816 to the New York Institution." The Hon. Gouverneur Morris, who had been vice-president, 1810-15, was elected president of the Society, at the annual meeting held January 9, 1816. At a meeting held July 30, 1816, the following resolution was adopted: " Resolved, That the Society commemorate the 29 discovery of this part of the Continent of North America by Hudson in 1609, on Wednesday, the fourth day of September next, being the 207th anniversary of this memorable event. And that the inauguration of the Hon. Gouverneur Morris, president-elect of this Society, take place on that day, at twelve o'clock, and that suitable accom- modations be provided for the ladies who may honor the Society with their presence on that occasion." Through the courtesy of Mayor RadclifF the Society assembled at eleven o'clock on September 4th in the Sessions Court-Room in the City Hall, where the formal inauguration of Mr. Morris as president of the Society took place. Gouverneur Morris, statesman and orator, was born in Morrisania, January 31, 1752; died there, November 6, 1816; graduate of Kings College (now Columbia), 1768; member of Continental Congress, 1777-80; United States Minister to France, 1792-94; he succeeded in 1810 the Hon. Brockholst Livingston as vice-president of the Society. The Society, on November 12, 1816, adopted the following resolution on the death of Mr. Morris : " Resolved, That, as a tribute of respect to the memory of the Hon. Gouverneur Morris, de- ceased, late president of the Society, the members wear the accustomed badge of mourning for thirty days." The Society met for the first time in the New 30 York Institution, late Almshouse, July 9, 1816, occupying two rooms adjoining each other, on the first floor, on the southerly side of the building, and on the easterly side of the middle entry, with same accommodation in the basement. The prem- ises were leased to the Society by the Corporation of the city for a term of ten years dating from April 1, 1815, at a yearly rent of one peppercorn, " if lawfully demanded." The other occupants of the building were the Literary and Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Fine Arts, the Lyceum of Natural History, and Scudder's Amer- ican Museum. The edifice was erected in 1795, and was 260 feet long by 44 broad, with two pro- jections in front, 15 by 20 feet each, and was com- posed of brick, three stories high, with a basement, and with no claim to beauty. Owing to the fact that the New York Society Library had decided not to occupy rooms allotted to them in the New York Institution, by the Cor- poration of the city, the Historical Society re- quested from the Corporation of the city these ad- ditional rooms, for the establishment of a minera- logical cabinet and other purposes. This request was granted, and two southerly rooms on the west side of the middle entry, opposite to the rooms already occupied by them, were set apart. It was made a condition that the Society also accommodate the American Bible Society with the use of a room for their meetings. Dr. Mitchill, De Witt Clinton, and Col. George Gibbs were among the most zealous amateurs of 31 natural science. Col. Gibbs, who was chairman of the mineralogical committee, was particularly ac- tive in promoting the collection of minerals and specimens of natural history. A series of lectures was established February 11, 1817, on zoology, geology, vegetable physiology, mineralogy, chem- istry, and philosophy. The growth of this depart- ment became so large, and predominated over the real purposes of the Society to such an extent that in 1829 it was decided to present the collection to the Lyceum of Natural History, organized Feb- ruary 24, 1817, for the exclusive pursuit of those branches of science. The Hon. De Witt Clinton, vice-president of the Society, 1810-16, succeeded the late Gouverneur Morris as third president of the Society, January 14, 1817. The Chamber of Commerce of New York, at a meeting held November 7, 1769, had requested its president to ask David Rittenhouse and Capt. John Montressor to take the latitude of the south- west bastion of Fort George. At a meeting of this Society, held June 10, 1817, an abstract of these minutes of the Chamber was read by Mr. Pintard (then secretary of the Chamber). On motion, John Pintard, Dr. John Griscom, and Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill were appointed a committee to prepare a memorial to the Common Council, for the erection of a monument to mark the site. The Common Council reported in favor of the Society's memorial, and in the following year erected a block of white marble, properly inscribed, on the site of 32 the southwest bastion. On July 30, 1905, this relic was unearthed by laborers in the subway excava- tion in Battery Park. The Society has secured the custody of the monument, with a view to its re- erection in the near future. The original inscrip- tion for the monument, as proposed in 1817, is in the archives of the Society. An extensive and valuable cabinet of coins and medals was presented to the Society, July 14, 1818, by the heirs of Rev. Dr. John C. Kunze, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Frankfort Street, 1784- 1807. This collection was stolen from the Society a few years after its reception, nothing remaining but the cabinet which held the coins and medals. Dr. David Hosack, corresponding secretary, 1814-16, and vice-president, 1817-18, became the fourth president on the retirement of De Witt Clinton, January 11, 1820. He was one of the eleven who met to organize the Society, Novem- ber 20, 1804. Owing to the prevalence of yellow fever, no meetings of the Society were held during the months of August, September, and October, 1822. General Lafayette and his son, George Wash- ington Lafayette, were elected honorary members, August 18, 1824, and at a special meeting held the following day a reception was tendered to these gentlemen. Addresses were made by the president, Dr. Hosack, and General Lafayette. The Society has two portraits of Lafayette, one painted in France, and presented to the Society by Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, October 7, 1817. Also the por- 33 trait painted from life in 1825, by Ingham, and is the original head from which was made the full- length portrait for the State, presented to the So- ciety by the artist. A communication was read at the meeting De- cember 14, 1824, from James Renwick and William Gracie, a committee appointed by the Associates of the New York Athenaeum for the purpose of conferring with the Historical Society, the Society Library, and the Trustees of Columbia College on the subject of a union of their several interests (in such a way as to form one great public library), requesting this matter to be brought before the Society with the view to the appointment of a com- mittee of conference in its behalf. A committee was appointed, consisting of Dr. Hosack, chair- man, and Anthony Bleecker and Colonel Stone. At a meeting held February 8, 1825, Mr. Bleecker informed the Society that " the above- mentioned committee had met the committee of the other institutions, and that a project is contem- plated to be laid before the several institutions for the purpose of effecting this union." This attempt of consolidation of the various institutions was not successful. Notwithstanding the liberal grant of the Legis- lature, the Society became again seriously embar- rassed by debt, and so desperate was its condition regarded, that at a meeting held April 12, 1825, on motion of Dr. De Kay, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Jones, it was " Resolved j That it is expedient that a committee 34 of members be appointed to endeavor to extricate this Society from its present embarrassments, with full powers to bargain, sell, and convey (either in whole or in part, as circumstances may require) the property belonging to the Society (except donations), and to use any other means which they may deem proper for the obtaining of that object." At a special meeting held on Saturday, April 16, to take action on the above resolution, the following committee was appointed: Dr. De Kay, Rev. Cave Jones, Anthony Bleecker, William Gracie, Benjamin Haight. The committee reported, May 28, that the whole debt of the Society amounted to $7,500. To pay off this debt, the committee made arrange- ments for the sale, in whole or in part, of the library. Many offers were received, among them one from Mr. Isaac S. Hone, making an offer to purchase the library, with the intention of present- ing it to the New York Athenaeum. This offer led to serious results. The commit- tee did not consider they had authority to sell the whole library, and therefore called a meeting of the Society to obtain further power. A resolution ordering the sale of the property of the Society was adopted at the June 14, 1825, meeting by a vote of ten to six. Previous to the question being taken on the resolution, Dr. Hosack, the president, tendered his resignation, and Colonel Trumbull took the chair. After the question on the resolution was acted on, Colonel Trumbull also tendered his resignation of the office of second vice- 35 president, and, together with Dr. Hosack, with- drew. Dr. De Kay and Mr. Gracie resigned as members of the committee; Mr. Frederic de Peyster and Mr. Joseph Blunt were appointed to the vacancies. This was the last meeting of the Society until March 14, 1826, when, according to the minutes, Dr. Hosack presided, and Colonel Trumbull was recorded as present as vice-presi- dent. Evidently the Society had taken no action on the resignations of these gentlemen as president and vice-president. On January 13, 1827, a memorial setting forth the financial difficulties of the Society was sub- mitted, and Mr. Frederic de Peyster was requested to present it at Albany. Mr. de Peyster accord- ingly repaired to Albany during the session of 1827, and, with the aid of Governor Clinton, suc- ceeded in obtaining a grant of five thousand dol- lars, on condition that the debts of the Society should be so reduced as to render that sum sufficient to liquidate them altogether. This liberal donation was received in April, 1828, and, upon the nom- ination of Mr. de Peyster, the members of that Legislature were elected honorary members of the Society. Another attempt to house all the literary and scientific societies in the city in one building was made at a public meeting held in the Common Council Chamber, May 17, 1827. It was proposed to apply to the Corporation of the city for a lease for ninety-nine years of the building known as the New York Institution, City 36 Hall Park, to be appropriated for the accommoda- tion of the New York Historical Society, the New York Horticultural Society, the Literary and Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Fine Arts, the New York Lyceum, the New York Athenaeum, the New York Society Library, and the Law Library Association. This plan was abandoned, the anticipated aid not having been obtained, and small encourage- ment being held out to those directly interested in the measure suggested for carrying out fully and appropriately a design so important to the various institutions throughout the city and to the public at large. On January 15, 1828, the Hon. James Kent, LL.D., succeeded Dr. Hosack as the fifth presi- dent of the Society. James Kent, jurist, was born in Doanesburgh, N. Y., July 31, 1763; died in this city, December 12, 1847; graduated at Yale College, 1781; studied law with Egbert Benson; admitted to the bar, 1785; member of Assembly, 1791-93 and 1796; Professor of Law in Columbia College, 1793; Recorder of this city, 1797; Judge of Supreme Court, 1798; Chief Justice, July, 1804; and Chan- cellor, 1814-23; author of "Commentaries on the United States Constitution," and a treatise on the city charter and the powers of the municipal offi- cers. He was not only an eminent jurist, but was one of the first legal writers of his time. His anni- versary address before the Society, December 6, 1828, was published in 1829. 37 Three volumes of collections had already been published; a fourth was added in 1828, contain- ing a continuation of Smith's " History of New York " to the year 1762, from the original manu- script of the author, presented for the purpose by his son, William Smith, of Quebec. The first vol- ume, extending to 1732, was printed in London in 1757. The Society, in 1829, reprinted both vol- umes in a uniform edition, under the supervision of Dr. Francis, John Delafield, and Dr. Hosack. A memoir of the author, written by his son, was prefixed to this edition. The publications of the Society at this period were numerous. Among them may be mentioned the catalogue of the library, memorials to the Legislature with accompanying documents, Dr. Hosack's memoir of Hugh Williamson, delivered before the Society, and the annual addresses of Chancellor Kent, William Sampson, Joseph Blunt, and William Beach Lawrence. The discourse of the venerable Egbert Benson, the first president of the Society, delivered in 1816, was printed at his own expense. This circumstance arose from objec- tions having been made to certain portions of the discourse by individuals who were desirous they should be omitted if published by the Society. At these suggestions Judge Benson took offence, as appears from some remarks relating to the subject published with the memoir. He printed a new edition, with copious notes, in 1825, at Jamaica, Long Island. Judge Benson's discourse is a re- markable production, both as to matter and style. 38 It professedly treats of local names in this State, whether of Indian or European origin. In 1829 the Corporation of the city notified the Society that the rooms occupied by them were needed for the use of the city. Notwithstand- ing this notice, the Society received an extension of time, and did not remove until three years later. At the annual meeting, January 10, 1832, the Hon. Morgan Lewis was elected the sixth presi- dent of the Society. Morgan Lewis, son of Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in New York, October 16, 1754; died there, April 7, 1844; graduate of the College of New Jersey, 1773; He studied law in the office of John Jay; was Major of the Second Regiment New York City Militia, Col. John Jay, November 3, 1775; Colonel and Deputy Quartermaster- General in the North- ern Department of the Continental Army, Sep- tember 12, 1776, to the close of the war of the American Revolution. Admitted to the bar after the war, he practised in Dutchess County; member of Assembly 1789-90 and 1792; Attorney-General of the State, 1791 ; Judge of Supreme Court, 1792 ; Chief Justice in 1801 ; Governor of the State, 1804-07, State Senator 1811-14; Major-General in the War of 1812. In this year the Society received its first legacy, amounting to $300, a bequest of Isaiah Thomas, journalist and author, and founder of the Amer- ican Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass., who 39 died April 4, 1831. The principal is still held intact, and is known as the " Isaiah Thomas Fund." Having occupied rooms in the New York Insti- tution sixteen years by a gratuitous lease from the city, on April 19, 1832, the Society took possession of the third floor of the new building erected by Peter Remsen, and known as the Remsen Build- ing, at the southwest corner of Broadway and Chambers Street. On this occasion a discourse was delivered by William Beach Lawrence. This change of location proved unfavorable to the in- terests of the Society. The rent of the hall, and other expenditures, led to the creation of a new debt. The treasurer, John Delafield, generously assumed full responsibility for the amount. During the period July, 1833, to December, 1835, inclusive, no minutes of the meetings are preserved. Peter Gerard Stuyvesant was elected the seventh president of the Society, at an annual meeting held in the Remsen Building, January 3, 1836. Mr. Stuyvesant was the great-great-grandson of Gov- ernor Petrus Stuyvesant; was born in 1778; died August 16, 1847. Mr. Stuyvesant was one of the original eleven who met on November 20, 1804, to organize the Society. Measures were now taken for relieving the Society from its embarrassments. The treasurer was authorized to raise one thousand dollars on the credit of the institution, and a committee was ap- pointed to select a new location. Several offers were made at this period, by different public insti- 40 tutions, for the gratuitous accommodation of the Society; among them was the Stuyvesant Institute, an association for literary purposes, by whom a building had been erected at 659 Broadway, oppo- site Bond Street, September 1, 1837. The offer was accepted. In the summer of 1837 the Society removed to its new quarters, with a generous lease of two spacious rooms for the term of ten years. Active measures were now taken to restore the prosperity of the Society. A public course of his- torical lectures was determined upon, which was commenced in January, 1838, by a brilliant dis- course by the Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks, before a crowded assemblage in the spacious lecture-room of the Stuyvesant Institute. This was followed by a series of lectures, chiefly from members of the Society, which was fully attended. The pecuniary proceeds of this course of lectures sufficed to extin- guish the debts of the Society. At the meeting held April 10, 1838, a resolution was adopted by the Society to memorialize the Legislature on the subject of collecting materials in Europe illustrative of the history of New York. The memorial was approved at the meeting held January 8, 1839, presented to the Legislature the same month, and forwarded to that body by a special message from Governor Seward on February 5th following. It was adopted with great unanimity. John Romeyn Brodhead was appointed by the Governor and Senate the agent of the State under the act passed. As a result of his labors abroad, the State has published ten large 41 folio volumes and index, of the highest importance not only to the student, but to the public at large. Besides this attention to the views of the Society, the Legislature, in compliance with another recom- mendation, ordered the publication of the journals of the New York Provincial Congress and Con- vention, together with the proceedings of the Com- mittee of Safety, from May, 1775, to the adoption of the State Constitution. The semi-centennial anniversary of the first in- auguration of George Washington was celebrated by the Society, April 30, 1839. The Hon. John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States, was selected as the orator. Mr. Adams arrived in town from Washington on Monday, April 29th, and in the evening met a large num- ber of the members of the Society at its rooms. From thence the company repaired by invitation to the residence of Mr. Stuyvesant, president of the Society, where a sumptuous entertainment was provided for the occasion. On Tuesday, at eleven o'clock a.m., the Society with their guests assembled at the City Hotel, where a large number of citizens joined them in paying their personal respects to the venerable ora- tor of the day, and to the Revolutionary veterans, who, disregarding the infirmities of age, had once more rallied in honor of their beloved chief. At twelve o'clock the company moved in pro- cession to the Middle Dutch Church, where an im- mense concourse of people was assembled. A temporary stage was erected in front of the pulpit 42 for the convenience of the guests. Peter G. Stuy- vesant presided. The exercises were opened by prayer by the Rev. Dr. John Knox, associate pas- tor of the Collegiate Dutch Church, followed by an ode written for the occasion by William Cullen Bryant. The address of Mr. Adams, entitled " The Jubilee of the Constitution," by the extraordinary ability, learning, and eloquence which it displayed, fully sustained the most sanguine anticipations of the friends of the distinguished orator. The ex- ercises were concluded with a prayer and benedic- tion by the Rev. Dr. Jonathan M. Wainwright, of Trinity Church. At six o'clock p.m. the company reassembled at the City Hotel, and about two hundred persons sat down to a dinner prepared in the best style of that well-known establishment. Thirteen regular and twenty-one volunteer toasts were tendered, and two odes by Grenville Mellen and William Cutter were read by the authors. In the course of the evening a fine transparency representing old Federal Hall, formerly standing on the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, the scene of Washington's inauguration, was disclosed by the withdrawal of a curtain at the upper end of the hall, and produced a brilliant effect. The figures of Washington and Chancellor Livingston were seen in the balcony, the one laying his hand upon the book, while the other administered the oath of office. On the approach of the centennial of the same 43 event, the Executive Committee was directed to formulate a plan for a suitable celebration of the occasion. This action on the part of the Society was followed by similar action on the part of the Chamber of Commerce and the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. The final result was the appointment of a citizens' committee, who took charge of the whole affair. Peter Augustus Jay, LL.D., succeeded Mr. Stuyvesant, as the eighth president of the Society, January 14, 1840. Mr. Jay was born in Eliza- bethtown, N. J., January 24, 1776, and was the eldest son of John Jay, the statesman. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1794, and accompanied his father to England, acting as his private secretary. On his return to New York he studied law, attaining great distinction soon after his admission to the bar. He was a member of the State Assembly in 1816; Recorder of New York, 1819-20. He presented to the Society many books and publications of the colonial period. Mr. Jay died in this city February 20, 1843. The Society was again forced to move, in con- sequence of the sale of the Stuyvesant Institute under a foreclosure of a mortgage. In this emer- gency Mr. Peter G. Stuyvesant offered to con- vey to the Society two lots of ground fronting on Stuyvesant Street, 40 by 70 feet, on condition that the lots be held in perpetuity by the Society, and that the amount of $18,000 be raised by the Society on or before May 1, 1841, for the erection of a building on the site offered. It was deemed in- 44 expedient, however, to attempt to raise the amount of money required for this object. In the meantime a liberal proposal from the New York University was accepted. On April 6, 1841, the Committee on New Location reported that accommodations could be obtained in the New York University on the following terms. " The library to be placed in the room occupied by the University library, second floor above the basement and on the same floor with the chapel. The standard books of the University to remain in a case to be provided by the University. The gallery above to contain the cabinet and museum of the Historical Society and of the Uni- versity, and such books and pamphlets as the two librarians might think proper. All books of each library to be open to the University and the Historical Society, under reg- ulations to be adopted by the librarians, under the advice of their several committees. The expense of placing the library in the building to be borne by the Society. The ex- pense of lighting, fuel, servants' hire, etc., to be equally divided between the University and the Society. The salary of the assistant librarian, including any charges for necessary assistance, to be equally divided ; and in the settlement of the yearly account for such expenses, one hundred dollars to be al- lowed to the University. The large or the small chapel to be used for lectures by the Society on the most liberal terms 45 which the University could afford to any associa- tion or individual." The Society, on May 22, 1841, accepted the liberal offer of the New York University, and a committee was appointed to complete the arrange- ments. On October 5th following the Society held its first meeting in the rooms of the University. At this meeting a communication from the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the New York So- ciety Library, dated May 12, 1841, was read, enclosing the following resolutions of that body: " Resolved, That it appears inexpedient to this Board to make arrangements with the Historical Society according to the terms contained in the report of the committee, submitted to this Board on the 19th of April last. " Resolved, That this Board would have no objection to a union of the New York Society Library with the Historical Society, upon such terms of equality as would best promote the interests of both institutions and the cause of literature. " It having been suggested that the Historical Society may speedily require different apartments from those which they now occupy, " Resolved, That the use of one of the basement stores be tendered to the Historical Society for the deposit of their property until they can obtain suitable accommodations." A vote of thanks was tendered to the New York Society Library for their offer of the use of their 46 basement store, and the offer was respectfully de- clined. At the annual meeting of the Society for the election of officers, January 3, 1843, it was an- nounced that the Hon. Peter Augustus Jay declined a reelection to the office of President. The vacancy was filled by the election of the Hon. Albert Gallatin, LL.D., as the ninth president. Mr. Gallatin was born in Geneva, Switzer- land, January 29, 1761, and died at Astoria, L. I., August 12, 1849. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Convention of 1789, and of the Legislature, 1790-92; member of Con- gress, 1795-1801; Secretary of the United States Treasury, 1801-13; Commissioner to St. Peters- burg, 1813; Commissioner to Ghent, where the treaty of peace was made, December 24, 1814; Minister to France, 1815-23; Envoy Extraordi- nary to Great Britain, 1826-27; President of the Council of the New York University, 1830; President of the New York National Bank, 1831- 39 ; a founder and first president of the Ethnologi- cal Society, 1848; author of several works on the Indians and finance. The fortieth anniversary of the Society was celebrated on November 20, 1844, by an address by John Romeyn Brodhead, delivered at six o'clock in the evening in the Church of the Messiah, Broadway, opposite the then newly erected New York Hotel. After the address the members and guests adjourned to the New York Hotel for dinner. 47 The Society continued to advance in prosperity and usefulness; its membership was largely in- creased; the library was much enhanced by valu- able additions; the stated meetings were fully at- tended, and a lively spirit of devotion to the cause for which they associated themselves was shown in the interest of the members generally. On June 1, 1847, a committee of nine was appointed to solicit subscriptions to raise the sum of $50,000, to be applied to the erection of a permanent fireproof building, the subscriptions to be binding when the sum of $10,000 was sub- scribed. It was resolved, on December 19, 1848, to pre- pare a memorial to the Legislature for an appro- priation toward the erection of the proposed new building. The memorial failed to receive the favorable action of the Assembly, thirteen months later. On Sunday morning, February 3, 1849, the smaller chapel in the University Building, the floor below the rooms of the Society, was discovered to be on fire. The prompt exertions of the inmates of the building, and of the firemen who assembled as soon as the alarm was given, saved the library and collections of the Society. During the excite- ment caused by the fire, the president's chair was thrown from the window and broken. This chair was purchased by Mr. Gouverneur Morris when Minister to France, at a sale of the contents of the Versailles. It was part of the furniture of Marie Antoinette, and was presented to the 48 Society, May 6, 1817, by Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, to be used by the presiding officer. A memorial of the Society was presented to the Corporation of the city, urging the importance of the publication of the minutes of the Common Council. A communication from the latter body Avas read at the meeting held April 3, 184*9, stat- ing that it was inexpedient to comply with the memorial of the Society to print the unpublished proceedings of the Common Council. After a lapse of fifty-five years, the English period of these records (1675-1776) is now in press, under the supervision of a committee of the Society, appointed in response to a second memorial ad- dressed to the Mayor of the city, dated April 1, 1902. The Hon. Luther Bradish, LL.D., first vice- president since 1845, and who was very active in the advancement of the Society, succeeded the late Albert Gallatin, as the tenth president of the Society, January 2, 1850. Mr. Bradish was born at Cummington, Mass., September 15, 1783; died at Newport, R. I., August 30, 1863. In 1826 he settled in Franklin County, N. Y., where he was a large land-owner; was member of the Assembly, 1828-30 and 1836- 38; Lieutenant-Governor of the State, 1839-43; Assistant United States Treasurer at New York, 1851-52; and at his death was president of this Society and of the American Bible Society. In 1851 the Society again memorialized the Legislature for aid in the erection of a fireproof 49 building. The Legislature adjourned without tak- ing any action. Four years later the committee on memorializing the Legislature was discharged. Owing to the insufficiency of accommodations in the library, the place of meetings was changed to the small chapel of the University, on May 4, 1852. On January 4, 1853, the committee reported that paid subscriptions amounting to $34,920.40 had been received. In the meantime the following sites for the new building were offered for consideration: Lafay- ette Place, west side, between Astor Place and Fourth Street; Sixteenth Street near Sixth Ave- nue, site of the present Everett House, East Sev- enteenth Street; southwest corner of Broadway and Twentieth Street, and the gore of land, Broad- way, Fifth Avenue, Twenty-second to Twenty- third Streets, now occupied by the Fuller Build- ing, known as the " Flatiron." The Society, by resolution, recommended to the favorable consideration of the Building Commit- tee a site on Second Avenue and Eleventh Street, consisting of 55 feet on Second Avenue by 100 feet on Eleventh Street, with 4>y 2 feet in width adjacent on the avenue, for air and light. The semi-centennial celebration of the founding of the Society was held at Niblo's Saloon, No- vember 20, 1854, at 2.30 p.m. George Bancroft delivered the address, entitled " The Necessity, the Reality, and the Promise of the Progress of the Human Race." 50 HOMES OF THE SOCIETY NEW BUILDING Seventy-sixth — Seventy-seventh Streets — Central Park West After the exercises, the Society, with their guests, proceeded to the Astor House, where they sat down to dinner at six o'clock. Thirteen regu- lar and twelve volunteer toasts were offered. The assembly adjourned shortly after twelve o'clock. The corner-stone of the present building was laid Wednesday, October 17, 1855, by the presi- dent of the Society, the Hon. Luther Bradish, with addresses by Frederic de Peyster, Rev. Dr. Bethune, and others. The newspapers of the day report that the stone was so large that fears were entertained that it would break down the platform, but by the aid of a derrick it was placed in position. After overcoming many serious and almost fatal obstacles to its progress, the Society held its first meeting with dedicatory ceremonies in the present edifice, November 3, 1857; and two weeks later celebrated the fifty -third anniversary of the found- ing of the institution. At the first meeing held in its new home, Mr. Benjamin R. Winthrop presented the " Washing- ton Chair " for the use of the presiding officer of the Society. This chair was made of timber from the house occupied by President Washington in 1789, which stood at the junction of Pearl and Cherry Streets, formerly known as St. George's Square, now Franklin Square. The edifice was erected in 1770, for Walter Franklin, a well-known and highly respected citizen. The chair is of oak, neatly carved; the high back is ornamented with scroll-work, in which are appropriately wrought the initials G. W. A bust of Washington, in a 51 wreath of laurel, forms the centre ornament of the upper part of the chair. The front of the seat bears the escutcheon and arms of the United States, while the arms of the city and State of New York are carved in relief on medallions. Mr. Winthrop, seven years later, presented similar chairs for the use of the first and second vice- presidents. A fund was established by the Society in 1858, for the publication of its transactions and collec- tions in American history. Of the shares of the capital stock of this fund, limited in number to one thousand, 829 have been sold. The interest of the principal is used for the publication of each successive volume. The jn-ice of the remaining 171 shares is one hundred dollars per share. Each share is transferrable on the books of the fund, and entitles the holder, his heirs, administrators or assigns to receive all the publications. Thirty volumes have been published as Collections. The Society had acquired a small collection of portraits, and proposed to enlarge and extend their Art Collections, with a view of providing a public gallery of art in this city. The entire collection of the New York Gallery of Fine Arts was transferred to the Society in 1858. Any notice of this collection would be deficient which should fail to commemorate the name of Luman Reed, whose taste, judgment, and generosity formed the nucleus of what may now be justly regarded as the foundation of a gallery of art. In this connection the Society was chiefly 52 indebted to the liberality and cordial cooperation of one of their valued members, Mr. Jonathan Sturges, who was the chief promoter of the orig- inal design of the New York Gallery of the Fine Arts. Mr. James Lenox, having acquired the Nineveh Sculptures, presented them to the Society April 5, 1859. The Abbott Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, collected by Dr. Henry Abbott during a residence of twenty years in Cairo, became the property of the Society through some public-spirited citizens of this city in 1860. The jewelry in the collection is unique, and contains, among other articles, the gold necklace and ear-rings bearing the name of Menes, the first Pharaoh of Egypt; also the large gold signet-ring of Shoufou, or Cheops, as High Priest and King. The collection also contains three large mummies of the Sacred Bull, Apis, the only speci- mens known in the world. The Society was the first to formulate a plan to establish a museum and art gallery for the pub- lic in Central Park, as may be seen by the action of the Executive Committee, August 14, 1860: : ' Whereas , The position and character of the building known as the New York State Arsenal, near the southeastern corner of Central Park, point it out as a proper location for a grand mu- seum of antiquities, science, and art; " And, Whereas, There appears to be no exist- ing institution whose present collections and pros- pects for future acquisitions seem more suitable to 53 the occasion than this Society, the recent and pros- pective increase of whose museum and gallery of art already indicates the rapidly approaching ne- cessity of a more ample provision for their accom- modation ; " Therefore, mindful of their relations and duties to the citizens of New York, who have so liberally sustained all their efforts to place upon an endur- ing foundation the establishment of this Society as a public institution, whose collections in all depart- ments may be accessible to all classes of the com- munity, subject only to such regulations as may be essential for security and preservation, and antici- pating cordial and universal approbation; " Resolved, That a committee of five members, of which the president of the Society shall be a member and requested to act as chairman, be appointed to take such preliminary measures as may be advisable, with a view to securing the State Arsenal and adjoining ground in the Central Park for the museum of the Society." A special committee was appointed, who secured the approval of the plan by the Commissioners of Central Park, and in 1862 the Society memorial- ized the Legislature to set apart the Arsenal Build- ing in the Park for the proposed museum. An act to improve Central Park was passed by the Legislature, March 25, 1862, authorizing the Commissioners to set apart and appropriate to the Society the building known as the New York State Arsenal, with such grounds adjoining as the Com- missioners may determine necessary for the pur- 54 pose of establishing and maintaining by the So- ciety a museum of antiquities and science and a gallery of art. Efforts to secure the necessary funds for the promotion of the plan failed. In consequence of the low ground and the prox- imity of the reservoir near the Arsenal Building, the Society urged a change to higher ground in the Park. The Legislature passed an act, April 29, 1868, setting apart for the use of the Society a site in the Park, covering Eighty-first to Eighty- fourth Streets, 300 feet west of Fifth Avenue, the building to be erected at the expense of the Society. Renewed efforts were made in 1870 to carry out the plan of the Society to establish a museum of history, antiquities, and art, by the erection of a building on the new site in the Park; but owing to the great cost of the proposed building, and the erection of the same on city property, the scheme was finally abandoned. The Metropolitan Museum of Art occupies this site, the buildings being erected by the city at a cost of. $1,000,000, and an annual appropriation from the city of $150,000 for its support. Mr. Bradish was succeeded in the office of president by Frederic de Peyster, LL.D., who was secretary, 1827-37, and second vice-president, 1850-63, becoming the eleventh president of the Society, January 5, 1864, and serving until 1867. Mr. De Peyster was again elected president (the fifteenth) in 1873, and served until his death, which took place on August 17, 1882, in the eighty- 55 sixth year of his age, at the residence of his son, Gen. J. Watts de Peyster, Tivoli, N. Y. Frederic de Peyster was born in this city, No- vember 18, 1796. He was a direct descendent of Johannes de Peyster, and son of Frederic de Peys- ter. He was graduated at Columbia College, 1816. During the War of 1812, he served as a volunteer, with other students of the college, in the erection of fortifications at " McGown's Pass " for the de- fense of this city. In 1819 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1820 was appointed a Master in Chan- cery. Shortly after his admission to the bar he was appointed a captain in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment. In 1825 he was aide to Brigadier-General Fleming, and later became a member of Governor De Witt Clinton's staff. He served most faithfully in the boards of manage- ment of many charitable and educational institu- tions, and the instances of his liberal benefactions are numerous on their records. During a membership in the Society covering fifty-eight years, Mr. de Peyster was its constant and ardent friend, and one of its liberal benefac- tors. Besides valuable donations of his own, he gave his aid effectually on more than one occa- sion when the very existence of the Society was at stake. In 1827, Mr. de Peyster, as agent of the Society, successfully appealed to the Legisla- ture for an appropriation for the relief of the institution. The following letter from Mr. de Peyster reports the progress of the bill before the Legislature : 56 Albany, February 8, 1827. Sir: I have the pleasure of informing you that the Senate this day unanimously passed the bill appropriating five thousand dollars for the relief of the New York Historical Society. The bill was then sent to the House; has been twice read; and is already committed. To effect a favorable result in the Assembly will, I am aware, require a great sacrifice of time and unremitted personal exertion. But animated by my success hitherto, and the fair claims of the Society for legislative aid, I am willing to encounter every obstacle, in the hope and belief of accomplishing the present undertaking. I have the honor to be, sir, your obt. sevt., Frederic de Peyster, Jr. Dr. David Hosack^ Pres't N. Y. H. S. The following resolution was adopted at a meet- ing held March 13, 1827: " Resolved, That the thanks of this Society be presented to Frederic de Peyster, Jr., Esq., for his zealous, efficient, and disinterested services in proceeding to Albany and presenting to the Legis- lature the claims of this Society." The Society celebrated the two hundredth anni- versary of the conquest of New Netherland by an address, delivered in the hall of Cooper Union, October 12, 1864, by John Romeyn Brodhead. The Hon. Hamilton Fish, LL.D., was elected the twelfth president of the Society at an annual 57 meeting held January 2, 1867; and resigned March 29, 1869, to become Secretary of State of the United States. Mr. Fish was born in this city, August 3, 1808; son of Col. Nicholas Fish. He graduated at Columbia College, 1827; admitted to the bar in 1830; member of Congress, 1843-45; Lieutenant- Governor of New York, U847-49; Governor, 1849- 51; United States Senator, 1851-57; Secretary of State, 1869-77. After his return to this city Mr. Fish served as first vice-president of the Society from 1881 to 1888, declining a reelection in consequence of advancing years. He died at Garrisons, New York, September 7, 1893, aged eighty-five years. The Society is indebted to the munificence of Mr. Thomas J. Bryan for the gift, April 2, 1867, of his noble collection, so well known as the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art, which was arranged and described under his own direction. During a sub- sequent visit to Europe Mr. Bryan continued his purchases, still further to enrich this gallery, and the zeal and enthusiasm to which the Society is deeply indebted were uninterrupted to the time of his death, May 14, 1870. Originally this collection was arranged for ex- hibition on the walls of a spacious room on Broad- way, where Mr. Bryan took up his abode in the adjoining chambers. There he could be found, seated in an old-fashioned arm-chair, with his snow-white hair and florid complexion, like some 58 old Venetian or Florentine in his ancestral palace, surrounded with pictorial heirlooms. He found it impossible to insure his treasures, exposed as they were, without great expense. Often he lamented that there was no public gallery where they would be accessible to the people and perfectly safe. He finally placed his pictures temporarily in the Cooper Union. Six paintings including a miniature of himself by Staigg were stolen from the collection before it was received by the Society; the miniature was subsequently recovered at a curiosity shop. The splendid results of Mr. Bryan's judicious taste and persevering liberality, thus dedicated to the public in the interest of art, are alike honorable to him, to the Society, and to the city. The library of the Society was enriched, May 7, 1867, by the addition of the library relating to American history, of the Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks, purchased from the family of the Doctor and presented to the Society by Mr. William Niblo. The library is named the " Hawks-Niblo Collection." At a stated meeting held June 1, 1869, the Rev. Thomas De Witt, D.D., second vice-president, 1840-49, first vice-president, 1850-69, and very active in the advancement of its welfare, succeeded Mr. Fish as the thirteenth president of the Society. Dr. De Witt was born in Kingston, N. Y., September 13, 1791; died in this city, May 18, 1874. He was graduated at Union College, 1808, and from the Theological Seminary at New 59 Brunswick, N. J., 1812. The same year he was ordained pastor of the combined congregations of New Hackensack and Hopewell, Dutchess County, N. Y., where he remained until 1827, when he accepted a call to the Collegiate Dutch Church of New York city, of which he was the senior clergyman from 1858 until his death. He was an active director of the Bible, Colonization, Tract, and Sunday-school Societies, as well as the boards of his Church. He was one of the last of the ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church who could preach in the Dutch language. The Hon. Augustus Schell, first vice-president, and a member of the executive committee since 1845, was elected the fourteenth president of the Society, January 2, 1872. Mr. Schell was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Au- gust 1, 1812, the son of Christian and Eliza- beth (Hughes) Schell. He graduated with marked distinction from Union College in 1830. He was admitted to the bar of this city, October, 1832. In 1857 he was appointed by President Buchanan Collector of the Port of New York. In 1867 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Con- vention of the State of New York, and bore a prominent part in its most important labors. In 1872 he was appointed by Governor Hoffman a member of the Commission to propose amendments to the Constitution of the State. During his half century of active life in New York Mr. Schell was conspicuous in most of the literary, social, and charitable institutions which 60 have been so marked a feature of the period. He was for thirty years a most efficient member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Institu- tion for the Blind, and since 1866 its president. For nearly half a century Mr. Schell had been one of the most active members of the Society. As one of the executive committee from 1845 to 1872, and its chairman for twenty years, during the period of its most arduous labors and activity, and subsequently during his terms of office as president, Mr. Schell was devoted to the interests of the Society. On January 3, 1883, he was elected the sixteenth president of the Society, and served until his death, March 27, 1884. The centennial of the Battle of Harlem Heights was celebrated Sej3tember 16, 1876. The proceed- ings were under the charge of a Committee of One Hundred of the members of the Society. The guests were received at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where a collation was provided, and were then escorted by the officers of the Society to the site of the battle-ground, where platforms, gayly decorated with the Continental, Union, State, and city flags, were arranged for their reception. The ground, covered with tents, presented the appear- ance of an encampment, and from its elevated position commanding extensive views of the North and East rivers, was visible from a great distance, presenting a scene of rare and animated beauty. The officers and their guests arrived upon the field at the appointed hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, and were closely followed by the 61 Seventh Regiment New York State Militia, who marched past to the position assigned them, where they halted in military formation. The meeting was called to order by President de Peyster, who introduced the Rev. Dr. Dix, Rector of Trinity Church, who delivered the in- vocation, followed by the oration, delivered by the Hon. John Jay. The proceedings were closed by a benediction pronounced by the Rev. William Adams, D.D. The address of Mr. Jay was pub- lished, with an historical appendix compiled by Mr. William Kelby. The one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the State of New York (April 20, 1877), was celebrated by the Society at the Academy of Music, May 8, 1877. The address was delivered by Mr. Charles O' Conor, on " The Constitutions." At the meeting of November 1, 1881, the subject of an appropriate celebration by the Society of the centennial anniversary of the evacuation of New York by the British, was referred to the executive committee, who, in a communication to the Mayor and Common Council, called their attention to this event, and expressed the desire of the Society to cooperate with them in a suitable celebration. Subsequently the Chamber of Commerce also asked the city authorities to take action in the matter. The event was celebrated by the city, with the cooperation of the Society, the Chamber of Commerce, and other civic and military bodies. In 1882, one hundred and fifty paintings of the 62 most meritorious works of art in the collection of Mr. Louis Durr, a member, were presented to the Society by his executors, in accordance with the terms expressed in his last will. The remainder of his collection was sold, and the proceeds merged in a " Durr Gallery Fund." The Durr collection is especially valuable to the Society in increasing the admirable facilities offered to the student in connection with the " Bryan Gallery." At an annual meeting held January 6, 1885, Mr. Benjamin H. Field was elected the seventeenth president of the Society. Mr. Field was born at Yorktown, N. Y., May 2, 1814; died in this city, March 16, 1893. He received his early education at home, and finished his studies at the North Salem Academy. Having decided to go into business he entered the office of his uncle, and in 1832 he became his partner. Among the institutions with which Mr. Field was connected as director or trustee were several banks, the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, the New York Dispensary, and the Eye and Ear Infirmary. He was president of the Home for Incurables at Fordham from the time of its organization until his death. In 1844 Mr. Field became a life member of this Society; treasurer, 1860-77; second vice-president, 1878-84; for many years a member of the executive committee, and was very active in aiding and secur- ing the necessary funds for the erection of the present edifice. On December 1, 1885, Mr. John S. Kennedy 63 submitted a letter from a friend of the Society, stating there was deposited with the Central Trust Company the sum of $100,000, for the purchase of a site and the erection of a building suitable for the purposes of the institution, subject to the con- dition that the further sum of $300,000 be secured therefor within two years from November 30, 1885. It being found impossible to raise the amount within the time specified by the donor, Mrs. Rob- ert L. Stuart, the Society requested an extension of twelve months, which was granted. The amount of the sum required by its conditions to be sub- scribed for the proposed object was reduced from $300,000 to $150,000. The Hon. John Alsop King was elected the eighteenth president of the Society, January 4, 1887, and became chairman of the committee on subscriptions. Active measures were begun, and through the great exertion and generosity of Presi- dent King the necessary sum was secured. Hon. John Alsop King, son of Governor John Alsop King, and grandson of Hon. Rufus King, was born at Jamaica, L. I., July 14, 1817; gradu- ated at Harvard University in 1835; studied the profession of law, and was chosen presidential elector in 1872, and member of the New York State Senate, 1874-75. Mr. King became a member of the Society in 1881, and in 1887 was elected its president and held that office at the time of his death, November 21, 1900. He delivered the eighty-third anniver- 64 sary address before the Society. The ability, grace, and dignity which were his characteristics in the discharge of the duties of his office are known to all. Endowed by nature with a kindly and generous disposition, his fine qualities were further developed by a classical education, and by inter- course with the leading men of the world. During his whole association with The New York Historical Society, either as member or officer, he devoted himself to its interests in a singular degree. To his untiring efforts the Society owes the mag- nificent site selected for its future home, and it was the dream and hope of his last years that a build- ing worthy of this venerable Society be erected thereon. The following resolution was adopted, Decem- ber 4, 1900: " Resolved, That in the death of the Hon. John Alsop King The New York Historical Society la- ments the loss of an accomplished presiding officer, whose courtesy, tact, and sound judgment have stamped its proceedings with dignity; whose per- sonality contributed largely to its prosperity, and whose unselfish devotion to its interests will be held in grateful memory by every member of this Society." A memorial of Mr. King was read before the Society, February 5, 1901, by Dean Hoffman. On May 21, 1889, a special committee was ap- pointed to examine and report on a suitable site for a new building. In answer to an inquiry con- cerning the possible purchase of the Madison 65 Avenue front of the Lenox Library, the Trustees of that institution advised the committee that the property was not for sale. It being found that no suitable site on the east side could be secured at a cost within the means of the Society, the commit- tee selected the property situated on Eighth Avenue (Central Park West), consisting of ten city lots, with a frontage of 204 feet 4 inches on the avenue and a depth of 125 feet on Seventy- sixth and Seventy-seventh Streets, respectively. The purchase was effected June 1, 1891. In consequence of the depression of business throughout the country, the special committee whose appointment was authorized by the Society to solicit subscriptions for the erection of the new building were unable to report any progress until 1899, when subscriptions amounting to $17,000 were received. On the afternoon of Saturday, April 8, 1893, through the courtesy of the officers and members of the New York Cotton Exchange, the Society assembled in the large hall of the Exchange building, to celebrate the two hundredth anniver- sary of the introduction of the printing-press in the colony and city of New York, by William Bradford, April 10, 1693. The building of the Cotton Exchange is erected upon the site where the first newspaper was issued. The commemora- tive address was delivered by Mr. Charlton T. Lewis. To commemorate the event the Society erected two tablets in bronze. The first has been placed at No. 81 Pearl Street, to mark the site 66 where the first printing-office in the city and colony of New York was established, in 1693, and reads as follows: On This Site William Bradford Appointed Public Printer April 10, A.D. 1693 Established The First Printing Press In The Colony Of New York Erected By The New York Historical Society April 10th, A.D. 1893 In Commemoration Of The 200th Anniversary Of The Introduction Of Printing In New York. The second tablet was erected on the southeast corner of the New York Cotton Exchange, to mark the site where the first newspaper in New York was printed, in 1725, and read as follows : 67 On This Site William Bradford Appointed Public Printer, April 10th, A.D. 1693 Issued, November 8th, A.D. 1725 The New York Gazette The First Newspaper Printed In New York Erected By The New York Historical Society- April 10th, A.D. 1893 In Commemoration Of the 200th Anniversary Of The Introduction Of Printing In New York. These historic sites were located by Mr. William Kelby, late Librarian of the Society, an authority on colonial New York. The Society had pre- viously celebrated, in May, 1868, the two hundredth anniversary of the birthday of William Bradford. The Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D., LL.D., succeeded Mr. King, as the nine- teenth president of the Society, January 2, 1901. Dean Hoffman was born in this city March 21, 1829. He was sixth in descent from Martinus Hoffman, who came from Holland to America in 1657. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1847, and in 1851 from the General Theological Seminary. During the years 1853-79 he was rec- tor of Christ Church, Elizabeth, N. J., St. Mary's, Burlington, N. J., Grace Church, Brooklyn, and St. Mark's, in Philadelphia, respectively. In 68 1879 he was elected to the office of Dean of the General Theological Seminary, and filled that office until his death. He has left an enduring monument in the growth and prosperity of that institution. As president of this Society, Dean Hoffman hecame chairman of the Building Committee, which committee recommended for adoption the plans submitted by Messrs. York and Sawyer, and approved by the Society, October 1, 1901. At this meeting the Society decided to erect the central portion of the new building, 135 by 115 feet. Through the active efforts and personal generosity of Dean Hoffman a large number of subscriptions were secured for the building fund. The Society, at a meeting held October 7, 1902, adopted the following preamble and resolutions: " Whereas, The New York Society has received the sad intelligence of the death, on June 17, 1902, of the Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D, LL.D., D.C.L., president of the Society; " Resolved, That we wish to unite with his kin- dred and friends in lamenting his decease. " Resolved, That we record with gratitude his great interest in the advancement of the Society's welfare during the years of his membership, ever actively cooperating in furthering the completion of the proposed new building of the Society. " Resolved, That we offer our tribute of high esteem to his memory for his generous gifts to the Society during his lifetime, and are deeply sensi- 69 ble of his lasting interest in our institution as expressed in his latest bequest. " Resolved, That the Society do now adjourn out of respect to the memory of our late president." An address commemorative of Dean Hoffman was read before the Society, December 2, 1902, by the Rev. Dr. William It. Huntington. On September 10, 1902, the informal breaking of ground for the new building took place. Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, son of the late presi- dent, raised the first spade of earth, in the pres- ence of the recording secretary, the librarian, and one of the architects. On September 24, 1902, a contract was made for the excavations and founda- tions for the new building. Mr. Samuel Verplanck Hoffman was elected the twentieth president of the Society, at an annual meeting held January 6, 1903, succeeding his father, the late Dean Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman entered upon his duties as presi- dent with a determination to carry out the plans of his predecessors to secure for the Society the erection of a suitable building for the proper ex- hibition of the large collections of the institution. The foundations for the central portion of the new building were completed, and on November 17, 1903, the officers, members, and guests as- sembled at two o'clock for the purpose of wit- nessing the laying of the corner-stone of the Society's new building. Through the courtesy of the officers of the American Museum of Natural History, the So- 70 JOHN ALSOP KING 1887-1900 EUGENE AUGUSTU8 HOFFMAN, 0. D. 1901-1902 SAMUEL VERPLANK HOFFMAN 1903— - ■ " ■ " ■■ ■ ' PRESIDENTS ciety was permitted to assemble in the " Wood Room " of that building, and thence proceeded to the site of the new edifice. Upon request of the president, the Rev. Charles Edward Brugler delivered the invocation. The president, in a short address, reviewed the history of the Society from its foundation, and read a list of the articles and publications in the copper box to be placed in the corner-stone. The corner-stone was then laid by the Hon. Seth Low, LL.D., Mayor of the city of New York. After the ceremonies the assembly adjourned to the lecture hall of the American Museum of Nat- ural History, to celebrate the ninety-ninth anni- versary of the founding of the Society. The address was delivered by Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie, the subject being " The Genius of the Cosmopolitan City." The exercises concluded with the benediction, pronounced by the Rev. Alexander Hamilton. On June 2, 1903, the Society amended Section III of the By-Laws, to constitute a new order of membership to be known as Patrons and Fellows. In accordance with this amendment, a diploma for the patrons and fellows of the Society was en- graved by Mr. E. D. French, and is 7% by 9% inches in size. At the top, in the centre, is an heraldic eagle representing the national character of the Society, while underneath are shields con- taining the city and State coat of arms, surrounded by a scroll bearing the Society's name. Three medallions give views of the new building, the 71 Half Moon in the Hudson River being the vign- ette used on the diploma of the Society, and an early view of New Amsterdam from the original by Block, owned by the Society, together with a suitable inscription. The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Society was celebrated on Tuesday evening, November 22, 1904, by a banquet at Delmonico's. The banquet hall and dais were decorated with flowers and American flags, and the walls were adorned with the following portraits : John Pintard, founder. Hon. Egbert Benson, first president, 1805-15. Hon. Gouverneur Morris, second president, 1816. Hon. De Witt Clinton, third president, 1817-19. Hon. James Kent, fifth president, 1828-31. Hon. Albert Gallatin, ninth president, 1843-49. Hon. Luther Bradish, tenth president, 1850-63. Hon. Frederic de Peyster, eleventh and fif- teenth president, 1864-66, 1873-82. Rev. Thomas De Witt, D.D., thirteenth presi- dent, 1869-71. Hon. Augustus Schell, fourteenth and sixteenth president, 1872, 1883-84. Benjamin H. Field, seventeenth president, 1885-86. Hon. John Alsop King, eighteenth president, 1887-1900. The Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D., LL.D., nineteenth president, 1901-03. Mr. Henry Dexter, Benefactor. 72 Invitations were extended to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Governor of the State of New York, and Mayor of the city, representatives of historical societies and universities, and delegates of the various pa- triotic and other societies of this city. President Roosevelt, Secretary of State John Hay, Bishop Potter, Governor Odell, and Mayor McClellan were unable to be present. The invocation was pronounced by the Rev. Edward B. Coe, D.D. The following toasts were offered: The President of the United States. The State of New York. The City of New York. Our Sister Societies. Charles Francis Adams, LL.D., president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. America of the Future. Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D. Popular Education. James H. Canfleld, LL.D., librarian of Columbia University. The Twentieth of November. Robert H. Kelby, librarian of the Society. Hon. Charles V. Fornes, president of the Board of Aldermen, in the absence of the Mayor, responded to the toast, " The City of New York." A medal in bronze and silver, designed by Mr. Victor D. Brenner, has been struck to commem- orate the one hundredth anniversary, showing on the obverse the first president, Egbert Benson, and the founder, John Pintard ; on the reverse, the first 73 home of the Society, City Hall, Wall Street, and the new building now in course of erection. As a fitting sequel to the efforts of the zealous friends of the Society during the past century, it is a pleasure to acknowledge the generous gift, by Mr. Henry Dexter (a member since 1863), of a sum sufficient to insure the erection of the central portion of the new building. 74 HENRY DEXTER APPENDIX. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY, 1905. PRESIDENT, SAMUEL VERPLANCK HOFFMAN. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, FREDERIC WENDELL JACKSON. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT, FRANCIS ROBERT SCHELL. FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, ARCHER MILTON HUNTINGTON. DOMESTIC CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, GEORGE RICHARD SCHIEFFELIN. RECORDING SECRETARY, ACOSTA NICHOLS. TREASURER, CHARLES AUGUSTUS SHERMAN. LIBRARIAN, ROBERT HENDRE KELBY. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. FIRST CLASS — FOR ONE YEAR, ENDING 1906. F. ROBERT SCHELL, DANIEL PARISH, Jr., FREDERIC WENDELL JACKSON. SECOND CLASS — FOR TWO TEARS, ENDING 1907. ISAAC J. GREENWOOD, CLARENCE STORM, JAMES WILLIAM BEEKMAN. THIRD CLASS — FOR THREE TEARS, ENDING 1908. GHERARDI DAVIS, WALTER L. SUYDAM, FRANK TILFORD. FOURTH CLASS — FOR FOUR YEARS, ENDING 1909. JOHN A. WEEKES, J. PIERPONT MORGAN, GEORGE R. SCHIEFFELIN. DANIEL PARISH, Jr., Chairman. ROBERT H. KELBY, Secretary. [The President, Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and Librarian are members of the Executive Committee.] TRUSTEES OF NEW BUILDING. SAMUEL VERPLANCK HOFFMAN, Chairman. FREDERIC WENDELL JACKSON, V ice-Chairman. ROBERT HENDRE KELBY. JAMES WILLIAM BEEKMAN. CLARENCE STORM, Secretary. OFFICERS— 1805-1905. OFFICERS OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Instituted November 20, 1804. Organized January 14, 1805. PRESIDENTS. Egbert Benson, LL.D 1805-1815 GOUVERNEUR MORRIS 1816 DeWitt Clinton, LL.D 1817-1819 David Hosack, M.D., LL.D 1820-1827 James Kent, LL.D 1828-1831 Morgan Lewis 1832-1835 Peter Gerard Stuyvesant 1836-1839 Peter Augustus Jay, LL.D 1840-1842 Albert Gallatin, LL.D 1843-1849 Luther Bradish, LL.D 1850-1863 Frederic de Peyster, LL.D 1864-1866 Hamilton Fish, LL.D 1867-1869 Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1869-1871 Augustus Schell 1872 Frederic de Peyster, LL.D 1873-1882 Augustus Schell 1883-1884 Benjamin Hazard Field 1885-1886 John Alsop King 1887-1900 Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D., LL.D 1901-1902 Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 1903- FIRST VICE-PRESIDENTS. Benjamin Moore, D.D 1805-1809 Gouverneur Morris 1810-1815 DeWitt Clinton, LL.D 1816 William Johnson 1817 David Hosack, M.D 1818 Samuel L. Mitchill, M.D 1819 83 John Trumbull 1820 Cadwallader D. Colden 1821 Peter Augustus Jay 1824-1827 Philip Hone 1828-1839 William Beach Lawrence 1840-1844 Luther Bradish 1845-1849 Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1850-1869 Gulian C. Verplanck 1870 Augustus Schell 1871 Erastus C. Benedict 1872 William Cullen Bryant 1873-1878 Charles O'Conor 1879-1880 Hamilton Fish 1881-1888 John A. Weekes 1889-1895 J. Pierpont Morgan 1896-1902 Frederic Wendell Jackson 1903- SECOND VICE-PRESIDENTS. Brockholst Livingston 1805-1809 DeWitt Clinton, LL.D 1810-1815 William Johnson 1816 David Hosack, M.D 1817 John Trumbull 1818-1819 Anthony Bleecker 1820 John Trumbull 1821-1822 Peter Augustus Jay 1823 John Trumbull 1824-1827 Charles King 1828-1831 Samuel Ward, Jr 1832-1835 William Beach Lawrence 1836-1839 Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1840-1849 Frederic de Peyster 1850-1863 Benjamin R. Winthrop 1864-1867 Gulian C. Verplanck 1S68-1869 John A. Dix 1870 Erastus C. Benedict 1871 James William Beekman 1872-1877 Benjamin H. Field 1878-1884 Cornelius Vanderbilt 1885 John A. Weekes 1886-1888 John S. Kennedy 1889-1901 Nicholas Fish 1902 Francis Robert Schell 1903- 84 FOREIGN CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. (Office established March 7 1843.) Frederic de Peyster 1843-1844 John Russell Bartlett 1845-1849 Edward Robinson, D.D 1850-1862 George Bancroft, LL.D 1863-1867 John Romeyn Brodhead, LL.D 1868-1870 William Cullen Bryant, LL.D 1871-1872 William J. Hoppin 1873-1875 George H. Moore, LL.D 1876-1878 Erasttjs C. Benedict 1879-1880 John William Draper, M.D., LL.D 1881 William M. Evarts, LL.D 1882-1887 John Bigelow 1888-1895 Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D 1896-1900 Nicholas Fish 1901 Francis Robert Schell 1902 Archer Milton Huntington 1903- CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. Samuel Miller, D.D 1805-1813 David Hosack, M.D 1814-1816 John W. Francis, M.D 1817-1818 Lyman Spalding, M.D 1819-1820 Frederick C. Schaeffer, D.D 1821 Henry M. Francis, M.D 1822-1826 Frederic de Peyster, Jr 1827-1829 (This office was merged in that of Recording Secretary in 1829, and revived in 1838.) Frederic de Peyster 1838-1843 (Name of office changed March 7, 1843, to Domestic Corresponding Secretary.) George Folsom 1843-1844 John Jay 1845-1847 James William Beekman 1848-1854 Samuel Osgood, D.D 1855-1864 John Romeyn Brodhead, LL.D 1865-1867 William J. Hoppin 1868-1872 Evert A. Duyckinck 1873-1878 Edward F. de Lancey 1879-1899 Nicholas Fish 1900 Frederic Wendell Jackson 1901-1902 George R. Schieffelin 1903- 85 RECORDING SECRETARIES. John Pintard 1805-1819 John B. Beck, M.D 1820-1822 Matthew C. Patterson 1823-1824 Benjamin Haight 1824-1827 Joseph Blunt 1828 Frederic de Peyster, Jr 1829-1837 Benjamin R. Winthrop 1838 John C. Jay, M.D 1839 Benjamin R. Winthrop 1840-1841 Charles Ray King, M.D 1842 John Jay 1843-1844 John Bigelow 1845 Andrew Warner 1846-1849 Matjnsell B. Field 1850-1853 Andrew Warner 1854-1899 Sydney H. Carney, Jr., M.D 1900-1904 Acosta Nichols 1905- TREASURERS. Charles Wilkes 1805-1818 John Pintard, LL.D 1819-1827 John Delafield 1828-1836 Hickson W. Field 1837-1839 Russell H. Nevtns 1840 Archibald Russell 1841-1842 Cyrus Mason, D.D 1843-1847 William Chauncey 1848-1859 Benjamin H. Field 1860-1877 Benjamin B. Sherman 1878-1884 Robert Schell 1885-1900 Charles A. Sherman 1901- LIBRARIANS. John Forbes 1805-1809 John Pintard 1810-1811 John W. Francis, M.D 1812-1818 Frederick C. Schaeffer, D.D 1819-1820 Henry M. Francis, M.D 1821 Matthew C. Patterson 1822 Henry W. Ducachet, M.D 1823 Robert Greenhow, M.D 1824-1826 86 Richard Rat 1827 James A. Hillhouse 1828 John Delafield, Jr 1829-1830 Samuel Ward, 3d 1831-1835 Joseph Blunt 1836-1839 George W. Folsom 1840-1841 George Gibbs 1842-1847 Jacob B. Moore 1848 George H. Moore 1849-1875 John Austin Stevens 1876-1878 Jacob B. Moore 1879-1887 Charles Isham 1888-1892 William Kelby 1893-1898 Robert H. Kelby 1898- STANDING COMMITTEE. William Johnson 1805-1815 Samuel L. Mitchill, M.D 1805-1818 David Hosack, M.D 1805-1813 John M. Mason, D.D 1805-1817 Daniel D. Tompkins 1805-1808 John McKesson 1805-1817 Anthony Bleecker 1805-1819 DeWitt Clinton 1808-1809 Gulian C. Verplanck 1810-1827 Peter Augustus Jay 1814-1820 Samuel F. Jarvis, D.D 1816 James Eastburn 1817-1819 John G. Bogert 1818-1820 Jacob Morton 1818 John McKesson 1819-1820 Joseph W. Bracket! 1819-1820 John W. Francis, M.D 1820-1828 Thomas Eddy 1820-1821 Anthony Bleecker 1821-1827 William Gracie 1821-1828 Matthew C. Patterson 1821 Henry W. Ducachet, M.D 1821-1822 Zachariah Lewis 1822-1823 Ezra Weeks 1822 William L. Stone 1823-1824 John H. Beck, M.D 1823-1824 William Cooper 1824 87 Joseph Blunt 1825-1827 Robert C. Sands 1825 James E. DeKay, M.D. 1825 Henry Brevoort 1828 William Sampson 1828 Hugh Maxwell 1828 Matthew C. Patterson 1828 Samuel Ward 1828 (This Committee was abolished by an amendment of the Constitution of the Society, January 9, 1829.) COMMITTEE ON PRINTED PUBLICATIONS. Francis L. Hanks, D.D 1837-1838 Frederic de Peyster 1837-1839 Henry M. Francis, M.D 1837-1838 George Folsom 1839 John L. Stephens 1839-1841 George Gibbs 1841 Archibald Russell 1841 John Russell Bartlett 1841 John Neilson, Jr., M.D 1842 COMMITTEE ON MANUSCRIPTS. George B. Rapelye 1837 Gouverneur Morris Wilkins 1837-1839 George Folsom 1837-1838 Archibald Russell 1839 George Gibbs 1839 John Knox, D.D 1840-1841 William W. Campbell 1840-1842 Prosper M. Wetmore 1841-1842 Henry R. Schoolcraft 1842 (The above Committees were succeeded by an Executive Committee, November 1, 1842.) 88 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Cyrus Mason, D.D 1842-1847 Prosper M. Wetmore 1842-1848 George Folsom 1842 John Jay 1842-1847 Frederic de Peyster 1842-1866 Gttlian C. Verplanck 1843-1845 Edward Robinson, D.D 1843-1862 John L. Stephens 1843 Alexander W. Bradford 1843-1845 William L. Stone 1843 Erastus C. Benedict 1843-1848 Albert Gallatin 1843-1849 William Beach Lawrence 1843-1845 Thomas DeWitt, D.D 1843-1871 George Gibbs 1S43-1848 Henry R. Schoolcraft 1S45-1847 John Romeyn Brodhead 1845-1872 Augustus Schell 1845-1884 Luther Bradish 1845-1863 John Bigelow 1845 John Russell Bartlett 1845-1849 James William Beekman 1846-1854 Andrew Warner 1846-1899 William Chauncey 184S-1869 Jacob B. Moore 1848 William W. Campbell 1849 Marshall S. Bidwell 1849-1857 George H. Moore 1843-1892 Benjamin H. Field 1849-1893 Francis L. Hawks, D.D 1849-1889 Charles H. Russell 1850 Maunsell B. Field 1850-1855 Erastus C. Benedict 1851-1880 Benjamin R. Wintrhop 18.55-1867 Samuel Osgood, D.D 1855-1879 George Folsom 185S-1868 89 Benjamin W. Bonney 1860-1867 George Bancroft 1863-1867 Charles P. Kirkxand 1864-1883 George Gibbs 1864-1867 Robert L. Stuart 1864-1866 William Tilden Blodgett 1867-1874 John Adriance 1867-1873 Hamilton Fish 1867-1869 Evert A. Duyckinck 1868-1878 James William Beekman 1868-1877 Robert Lenox Kennedy 1869-1887 Edward F. de Lancey 1869-1900 William R. Martin 1870-1873 John Taylor Johnston 1872-1886 Frederic de Peyster 1873-1882 Joseph B. Varnum 1873-1874 Henry Drisler 1874-1876 James H. Titus 1874-1879 John Austin Stevens 1875-1878 Jacob D. Vermilye 1877-1885 William Dowd 1877-1888 Benjamin B. Sherman 1878-1884 Jacob B. Moore 1879-1887 Joseph W. Patterson 1880-1881 John A. Weekes 1880-1900 Royal Phelps 1881-1884 William Libbey 1881-1887 John C. Barron, M.D 1881-1886 Willard Parker, Jr., M.D 1881-1887 Robert Schell 1885-1900 John W. C. Leveridge 1885-1896 John S. Kennedy 1885-1900 Daniel Parish, Jr 1886- Charles H. Russell, Jr 1887-1898 John Alsop King 1887-1900 Charles Isham 1888-1902 Frederic Gallatin 1888-1898 George W. Vanderbilt 1889-1902 J. Pierpont Morgan 1889- Francis Tomes 1890-1897 William Kelby 1892-1898 Isaac J. Greenwood 1895- John J. Tucker 1897-1902 Robert H. Kelby 1898- Frederic Wendell Jackson 1899- 90 Nicholas Fish 1900-1902 Francis Robert Schell 1900- A. V. W. Van Vechten 1900 Sydney H. Carney, Jr., M.D 1900-1904 Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D 1901-1902 Charles Frederic Hoffman, Jr 1901-1902 Charles A. Sherman 1901- John A. Weekes, Jr 1902- George R. Schieffelin 1902- Frank Tilford 1902- Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 1903- Clarence Storm 1903- James William Beekman 1903- Gherardi Davis 1904- Walter L. Suydam 1904- 91 MEMBERS. HONORARY MEMBERS. Alden, Timothy Massachusetts 1810 Allen, William " 1810 Adams, John " 1813 Adams, John Quincy 1813 Austin, David Connecticut 1813 Austin, Capt. Henry 1817 Anderson, Andrew Scotland 1818 Allston, Washington Massachusetts 1819 Aspinwall, Thomas England 1819 Adams, Jasper South Carolina 1836 Arfwedson, Charles David Sweden 1840 Alexander, James Eward England 1842 Antinori, C. Vincenzio Italy 1842 Amici, Vincenzo " 1842 Amici, C. Giovanni B " 1842 Arista, Mariano Mexico 1842 Anderson, Robert U. S. A 1861 Anderson, Alexander, M.D New York 1868 Adams, Charles Francis Massachusetts 1871 Arthur, Chester Alan New York 1881 Bard, Samuel New York . .1810 Brown, Charles Brockden Pennsylvania 1810 Buckminster, Joseph S Massachusetts 1810 Bozman, John Leeds Maryland 1811 Buchan, Earl of Scotland 1813 Banks, Sir Joseph England 1813 Bostock, John " 1813 Bloomfield, Joseph. New Jersey 1813 Boudinot, Elias " 1813 Boudinot, Elisha " 1813 Bentley, William Massachusetts 1813 Beck, Theodoric Romeyn New York 1813 Bradford, Alden Massachusetts 1813 Bradbury, John England 1816 Brown, Jacob Washington, D. C 1817 Brewster, David Scotland 1817 95 Busby, Charles A England 1817 Brackenridge, Henry W 1817 Blatchford, Samuel 1818 Botta, Carlo Italy 1818 Brown, Francis New Hampshire 1819 Biimey, Horace Pennsylvania 1819 Bowditch, Nathaniel Massachusetts 1821 Beck, Lewis C 1821 Birdseye, Victory New York 1827 Barstow, Gamaliel H " 1827 Buckline, David W " 1827 Bancroft, George " 1839 Bethune, George W Pennsylvania 1839 Blythe, Calvin " 1839 Barlow, Timothy Illinois 1840 Bacon, Leonard Connecticut 1840 Brignole di Brunnhoff, John Italy 1842 Burci, Charles " 1842 Berrien, John McPherson Georgia 1844 Baldwin, Roger S Connecticut 1846 Burnet, Jacob Ohio 1849 Barrundia, Jose Central America 1852 Buchanan, James Pennsylvania 1855 Bowring, Sir John England 1858 Bryant, William Cullen New York 1860 Bryan, Thomas J " 1865 Burlingame, Anson Massachusetts 1868 Bigelow, John New York 1869 Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Edward Leopold . Germany 1890 Clinton, George New York 1810 Correa de Serra, Jose Portugal 1813 Clark, Adam England 1813 Chisholm, Colin " 1813 Cooper, Thomas Pennsylvania 1813 Coffin, Charles Tennessee 1813 Cogswell, Joseph Massachusetts 1813 Carmichael, Dr Mississippi 1816 Cogswell, Joseph G Massachusetts 1816 Cochran, William Nova Scotia 1817 Chauncey, Isaac 1818 Chase, Philander Ohio 1818 Corsini, Prince 1819 Carter, Nathaniel H New Hampshire 1819 Chauncey, Charles Connecticut 1819 96 Croswell, Edwin New York 1827 Carroll, Charles H " 1827 Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton Maryland 1828 Curry, William Wallace 1832 Cushing, Caleb Massachusetts 1837 Charming, William E " 1839 Cogswell, William " 1840 Condit, John S New Jersey 1841 Carrillo, Cura Don E Yucatan 1843 Cass, Lewis Michigan 1844 Cogswell, Jonathan Connecticut 1844 Clarkson, Thomas England 1844 Cochrane, Andrew W Canada 1846 Choate, Rufus Massachusetts 1852 Clark, Myron H New York 1855 Capponi, Marquis Gino Italy 1858 Cornell, Alonzo B New York 1880 Cleveland, Grover " 1883 Davis, John Massachusetts 1810 Dwight, Timothy . .Connecticut 1810 Duer, William A New York 1813 Duncan, Andrew, jr England 1813 De Lisle, Alire R France 1813 Dunbar, Elijah New Hampshire 1813 Davidson, Richard Mississippi 1816 Dickerson, Mahlon New Jersey 1816 Dewar, Henry Scotland 1817 Duponceau, Peter S Pennsylvania 1819 Dinsmore, Silas New Hampshire 1819 Durand, Asher B New York 1821 Dalhousie, Earl of Scotland 1823 Drake, Samuel G Massachusetts 1838 Dunn, Henry England 1839 Davies, C. S Maine 1841 Dod, Albert B New Jersey 1841 Davidson, Robert " 1843 Day, Thomas Connecticut 1843 Dix, John A New York 1848 Draper, John William " 1865 Dewey, George U. S. N 1898 Davidson, Randall Thomas England 1904 Eliot, John Massachusetts 1810 Ebeling, Christoph Daniel Germany 1816 Eddy, Samuel Rhode Island 1819 97 Edelcrantz, Baron Sweden 1821 Evans, David E New York 1827 Everett, Edward Massachusetts 1839 Elton, Romeo Rhode Island 1839 Ericsson, John New York 1862 Freeman, James Massachusetts 1810 French, Jonathan New Hampshire 1813 Franklin. William T England 1816 Fromentin, Eligius Louisiana 1818 Ferdinand III Tuscany 1819 Fossombrini, Vittoria 1819 Farmer, John New Hampshire 1819 Featherstonehaugh, G. W England 1821 Fine, John New York 1827 Foote, Elial Todd " 1827 Flagg, Azariah C " 1827 Fenner, James Rhode Island 1828 Felt, Joseph B Massachusetts 1839 Friederichstahl, Le Chev Austria 1840 Force, Peter Washington, D. C 1845 Fillmore, Millard New York 1850 Field, Cyrus W " 1858 Fish, Hamilton " 1859 Fenton, Reuben E " 1865 Gibbs, George Rhode Island 1810 Gahn, Henry Denmark 1813 Good, John Mason England 1813 Gore, Christopher Massachusetts 1813 Gorham, John Massachusetts 1813 Green, Ashbel New Jersey 1816 Garden, Alexander South Carolina 1817 Galusha, Jonas Vermont 1818 Gregoire, Abbe France 1818 Gallizioli, Filippo 1819 German, John F Pennsylvania 1826 Greig, John New York 1827 Gardiner, David 1827 Granger, Francis 1827 Gaines, Edmund P Virginia 1827 Gordon, Thomas F New Jersey 1833 Greene, George W Rhode Island 1839 Griiberg de Hemsd J Sweden 1841 Gray, Francis C Massachusetts 1843 Gilpin, Henry D Pennsylvania 1844 98 Gayarre, Charles Louisiana 1845 Grant, Ulysses S U. S. A 1865 Grote, George England 1866 Gladstone, William E " 1879 Garfield, James A Ohio 1881 Hazard, Ebenezer Pennsylvania 1810 Holmes, Abiel Massachusetts 1813 Hoffman, George F Germany 1813 Haygarth, John England 1813 Humphreys, David Massachusetts 1813 Harris, Thaddeus M " 1813 Hall, John E Pennsylvania 1817 Hitchcock, Edward Massachusetts 1817 Hawkins, Samuel 1818 Hurlburt, M. L South Carolina 1818 Harby, Isaac " 1818 Hartmann, C. F. A Germany 1819 Humboldt, Alexander Prussia 1 820 Henry, William England 1820 Hay, William, jr New York 1827 Hunt, Montgomery 1827 Hawley, Gideon 1827 Hoyt, Epaphras Massachusetts 1842 Hamilton, Sir William Ireland 1843 Herschel, Sir John England 1843 Hodgson, William B Georgia 1843 Home, Thomas H England 1S47 Hornblower, Joseph C New Jersey 1849 Hunt, Washington. New York 1850 Hoffman, John T " 1869 Hayes, Rutherford B Ohio 1879 Harrison, Benjamin B Indiana _ . . . . 1889 Higgins, Frank Wayland New York 1905 Ireland, William M 1817 Ives, Eli Connecticut 1819 Ingraham, Joseph H Mississippi 1840 Johnson, William S Connecticut 1810 Jefferson, Thomas Virginia 1813 Jenner, Edward England 1813 Jones, Samuel 1813 Jackson, James Massachusetts 1813 Jeffrey, Francis Scotland 1813 Jameson, Robert " 1817 99 Johnson, William South Carolina 1818 Janaieson, Robert 1819 Jordan, Ambrose L New York 1827 Johnson, Alexander B 1827 Jackson, Andrew Tennessee 1833 Julius, N. C Germany 1836 Jonge, Jongheer J. C. de Netherlands 1842 Jomard, M France 1842 James, George P. R England 1 850 Johnson, Andrew Tennessee 1865 Kirkland, John T Massachusetts 1810 Kent, James New York 1813 Kendall, James Massachusetts 1814 Kemper, Jan Melchior Netherlands 1817 Knight, Thomas A '. 1823 Kirkland, Joseph New York 1837 King, Jonas Greece 1865 Lettsom, John C England 1813 L'Escalier, Baron France 1813 Lowell, Charles Massachusetts 1813 Low, James 1813 Lambrechtsen, N. S Netherlands 1816 Lee, William Washington 1817 Lewis, Morgan New York 1821 Lafayette, Marquis de France 1824 Lafayette, George W " 1824 Lansing, Derrick New York 1827 Lemon, Robert England 1843 Lelewel, Joachim France 1845 Lincoln, Abraham Illinois 1861 Laboulaye, Edward France 1864 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Massachusetts 1897 Murray, Lindley England 1810 Morse, Jedidiah Massachusetts 1810 McKean, Joseph " 1810 Mease, James Pennsylvania 1810 Madison, James Virginia 1813 Muhlenbergh, Henry Pennsylvania 1813 Mellen, John Massachusetts 1813 Michaux, Andre France 1816 Maclure, William 1817 Murray, John Scotland 1817 Monroe, James Virginia 1817 100 Marbois, Barbe France 1818 Mossell, S. Amos Pennsylvania 1818 Magini, Dr 1819 Milnor, James New York 1819 Moulton, Joseph W " 1824 Marcy, William L " 1827 Moseley, Daniel " 1827 Magnusen, Finn Denmark 1838 Moore, Richard C Virginia 1839 Milledoler, Philip New Jersey 1839 Murdoch, James Connecticut 1839 Mcllvaine, C. P Ohio 1840 Markoe, Francis, jr Washington 1841 Morpeth, Viscount England 1843 Murray, Charles Augustus England 1844 Marsh, George P Vermont 1848 MacGregor, John England 1855 Motley, John Lothrop Massachusetts 1856 Morse, Samuel F. B New York 1858 Morgan, Edwin D " 1859 Milman, Henry Hart London 1860 McClellan, George B U. S. A 1862 McKinley, William Ohio 1897 Nason, Reuben Maine 1813 Nichols, Ichabod " 1813 Neil, Patrick Scotland 1817 Norman, B. M Louisiana 1843 Navarette, M. F. de Spain 1844 Ogden, Aaron New Jersey 1816 Oakley, Thomas J New York 1819 Ombrosi, James Italy 1819 O'Callaghan, Edmund B New York 1876 O'Conor, Charles " 1881 Odell, Benjamin B., jr " 1901 Pearson, George England 1813 Putnam, Rufus Ohio 1813 Prince, John Massachusetts 1813 Peck, W. Dandridge " 1813 Pierce, John " 1813 Pickering, Timothy " 1814 Prescott, Samuel J 1814 Peale, Charles Wilson Pennsylvania 1817 Plumer, William New Hampshire 1817 101 Perkins, Cyrus New Hampshire 1819 Puccini, Aurelio 1819 Persoon, C. W France 1819 Pazos, Vicente 1819 Porter, Peter B New York 1827 Pitcher, Nathaniel " 1827 Pickering, John Massachusetts 1839 Prescott, William H " 1839 Pennington, William New Jersey 1841 Pitkin, Timothy Connecticut 1843 Perez, Juan Pio Yucatan 1843 Polk, James K Tennessee 1845 Poussin, William Tell France 1848 Paez, Jose A Venezuela 1850 Pierce, Franklin New Hampshire 1853 Pedro II Emperor of Brazil 1856 Peabody, George England 1857 Quincy, Josiah Massachusetts 1810 Rush, Benjamin Pennsylvania 1810 Ramsay, David South Carolina 1810 Roxburgh, William India 1813 Roscoe, William England 1813 Rush, Richard Pennsylvania 1813 Rumford, Count France 1813 Randolph, Edward Mississippi 1816 Roberdeau, Isaac Pennsylvania 1817 Riley, James 1817 Ridolfi, Marquis Cosimo 1819 Robertson, William D 1820 Rudd, John C New York 1827 Root, Erastus " 1827 Rain, C. 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Alexander fSmith, William W fSmith, William Wheeler fSmull, Thomas Smyth, Herbert C fSoutlunayd, Charles F Spears, Harry D Speir, Archibald W °f Speyer, James f Spofford, Paul N Squires, Grant Stanton, Mrs. John Stanton, Lucius M Stearns, John Noble f Steers, James R Steinmuller, George A f Sterling, Charles Burr f Stevens, Byam K Stevens, Rev. C. Ellis Stevens, Edward L f Stevens, Frederic W T f Stevens, John Austin f Steward, John, jr Stewart, John A 1902 Stewart, Wm. Rhinelander 1894 1902 fStillman, James 1887 1877 Stillwell, John Edwin, M.D .... 1901 1877 f Stimson, Darnel M., M.D 1903 1873 Stimson, Mrs. Daniel M 1897 1898 f Stokes, Anson Phelps 1891 1902 °f Stokes, Caroline Phelps 1889 1904 f Stokes, I. N. Phelps 1900 1857 fStokes, James 1864 1867 Stone.Mason A 1902 °fStorm, Clarence 1902 1900 f Storm, Edna Graham 1903 1895 f Storm, Mabel Louisa 1903 1905 f Straus, Oscar S 1884 1904 Sturges, Henry C 1874 1898 °f Sturges, Frederick 1880 1901 fSturges, Rev. 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Gouverneur Morris 1892 f Wilkinson, James 1887 fWillcox, David 1901 fWillets, JohnT 1886 tWilliams, Benjamin C 1902 fWilliams, David 1882 Wills, CharlesT 1902 fWilson, George 1883 Wilson, Henry R 1902 fWilson, M. Orme 1902 fWindmuller, Louis 1891 fWinthrop, Benjamin R 1857 fWinthrop, Egerton Leigh 1857 fWinthrop, Grenville L 1893 fWinthrop, William Neilson. . . . 1857 fWitthaus, Rudolph A., M.D . . . 1862 fWood, Arthur King 1901 tWood, Charles F 1892 fWood, Mrs. Isaac F 1878 fWood, William H. S 1889 fWoodruff, Baker 1857 t Woodruff, Francis E 1898 Woolsey, Theodorus B 1870 fWright, John M 1857 fWyckoff, William F 1901 tWysong, John J 1902 f Young, William Hopkins 1896 fYork, Edward Palmer 1902 fZabriskie, Andrew C 1881 Note. — In the preceding list, a dagger (f ) before the name indicates a Life Member, * Patron, ° Fellow. 1]9 SUBSCRIBERS. SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND FOR THE PUR- CHASE OF SITE FOR NEW BUILDING Central, Park West Seventy-sixth to Seventy-seventh Streets. Mrs. Robert L. Stuart $100,000 Oo John S. Kennedy 15,000 00 George W. Vanderbilt 15,000 00 J. Pierpont Morgan 10,000 00 Cornelius Vanderbilt 10,000 00 Miss Catherine Wolfe Bruce 10,000 00 Miss Matilda Wolfe Bruce 10,000 00 John Alsop King 8,500 00 Alfred Corning Clark : 7,200 00 John Divine Jones 5,000 00 Mrs. Augustus Schell 5,000 00 Miss Charlotte A. Mount 2,500 00 Miss Susan Mount 2,500 00 William K. Vanderbilt 2,000 00 Robert Schell 2,000 00 Benjamin H. Field 1,500 00 Henry Herrman 1,000 00 Mrs. Henry Herrman 1,000 00 David Dows 1,000 00 William Waldorf Astor 1,000 00 Collis P. Huntington 1,000 00 Henry G. Marquand 1,000 00 Goldsborough Banyer 1,000 00 Ambrose K. Ely 1,000 00 Phillips Phoenix 1,000 00 Lloyd Phoenix 1,000 00 W. Bayard Cutting 1,000 00 R. Fulton Cutting 1,000 00 Miss Julia Rhinelander 1,000 00 Miss Serena Rhinelander 1,000 00 Robert J. Livingston 1,000 00 Darius O. Mills 1,000 00 123 William H. Jackson $1,000 00 Charles Lanier 1,000 00 James M. Constable 1,000 00 Robert Winthrop 1,000 00 Percy R. Pyne 1,000 00 Frederick Billings 1,000 00 Cornelius N. Bliss 1,000 00 Gerard Beeknian 1,000 00 Daniel Parish, jr 1,000 00 John A. Weekes 1,000 00 Franklin H. Delano 1,000 00 Adrian Iselin 1,000 00 Frederick Sturges 1,000 00 Charles L. Tiffany 1,000 00 William C. Schermerhorn 1,000 00 William Austin 1,000 00 William L. Skidmore 1,000 00 Samuel D. Babcock 1,000 00 William D. Sloane 1,000 00 Mrs. Charles H. Rogers 1,000 00 William B. Isham 1,000 00 Abram Dubois, M.D 1,000 00 David Stewart 1,000 00 Miss Rachel L. Kennedy 1,000 00 Harris C. Fahnestock 1,000 00 Levi P. Morton 1,000 00 George Bliss 1,000 00 Daniel B. Fayerweather 1,000 00 Woodbury G. Langdon 1,000 00 Orlando B. Potter. . 1,000 00 Martin E. Greene 1,000 00 Samuel Riker 900 00 Albert R. Gallatin 500 00 Miss Mary L. Kennedy 500 00 William Astor 500 00 Thomas N. Lawrence 500 00 Mrs. Sarah J. Zabriskie 500 00 Morris K. Jesup 500 00 Frederick F. Thompson 500 00 George G. Williams 500 00 Elliott F. Shepard 500 00 J. Hampden Robb 500 00 Isaac J. Greenwood 500 00 Mary Greenwood 500 00 Andrew C. Zabriskie 500 00 124 Edward F. de Lancey $500 00 Mrs. William H. Osborn 500 00 Richard T. Auchmuty 500 00 William M. Evarts 500 00 Henry Dexter 500 00 A. Van Home Stuyvesant 250 00 Charles Howland Russell 250 00 Maturin L. Delafield 250 00 Mrs. Jonathan Sturges 250 00 George Peabody Wetmore 250 00 Mrs. Frank W. Jackson 250 00 Amos R. Eno 250 00 Josiah M. Fiske 250 00 Frederic Bronson 250 00 John L. Riker 200 00 Herman C. van Post 200 00 William Remsen 200 00 Jacob Wendell 200 00 George F. Baker 200 00 James C. Carter 200 00 Hugh N. Camp 200 00 Charles W. Sloane 200 00 Elbridge T. Gerry 100 00 Stuyvesant Fish 100 00 John H. Riker 100 00 William T. Bucldey 100 00 Jenkins Van Schaick 100 00 Rev. Samuel M. Jackson 100 00 Samuel Sloan 100 00 Charles G. Langdon 100 00 James W. Gerard 100 00 Frederick B. Jennings 100 00 Mrs. James A. Glover 100 00 John Bigelow 100 00 Robert Halstead 100 00 William Lummis 100 00 Edward N. Dickerson 100 00 Henry T. Drowne 100 00 Robert Harris 100 00 Hicks Arnold 100 00 Orlando M. Harper 100 00 Charles A. Peabody 100 00 James D. Lynch 100 00 John T. Agnew 100 00 John A. Hadden 100 00 125 Henry Clews $100 00 Morgan Dix, D.D 100 00 James A. Garland 100 00 James Talcott 100 00 Charles F. Southmayd 100 00 Rev. Richard L. Burtsell 100 00 Hiram Hitchcock 100 00 Robert Ray Hamilton 100 00 Abram S. Hewitt 100 00 Albert L. Loomis, M.D 100 00 Henry C. Sturges 100 00 W. Seward Webb, M.D 100 00 Walter Langdon 100 00 Franklin Burdge 100 00 Woolsey R. Hopkins 100 00 John McKesson, jr 100 00 Henry Dudley 100 00 Jonathan H. Crane 100 00 Elihu Chauncey 50 00 Henry E. Lawrence 50 00 Oliver G. Barton 50 00 John T. Lockman 50 00 Hamilton B. Tompkins 50 00 John Clinton Gray 50 00 William Augustus White 50 00 Thomas C. Wood 50 00 Robert Goelet 25 00 Ogden Goelet 25 00 Henry E. Gregory 25 00 Charles E. Strong 25 00 Edgar M. Crawford 25 00 John S. Craig 25 00 Lazarus Rosenfeld 25 00 Addison Brown 25 00 Richard J. Leggat 25 00 George Wilson 25 00 126 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE BUILDING FUND. Legacy of Robert Schell $23,812 50 Archer Milton Huntington 20,000 00 Miss Matilda Wolfe Bruce ». . . 15,000 00 The Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D 10,000 00 F. Robert Schell. . ..'. 10,000 00 'A Friend of the Society" (through Gouverneur Tillotson) .... 10,000 00 "A Friend of the Society" (through Samuel Thorne) 10,000 00 Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 5,500 00 John Alsop King 5,000 00 Miss Charlotte A. Mount 5,000 00 Miss Susan Mount 5,000 00 Charles A. Sherman (in memory of Charles P. Huntington) 5,000 00 Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson 5,000 00 William C. Schermerhorn 5,000 00 Mrs. Eugene Augustus Hoffman 2,000 00 Miss Phebe Anne Thorne 1,000 00 Miss Mary Rhinelander King 1,000 00 Miss Serena Rhinelander 1,000 00 Edward S. Clark 1,000 00 Daniel Parish, jr 1,000 00 Mrs. Richard T. Auchmuty 1,000 00 Herman C. von Post 1,000 00 Theodore F. Jackson 1,000 00 Isaac J. Greenwood 1,000 00 Mrs. James M. Lawton 1,000 00 Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes 1,000 00 Nicholas Fish 1,000 00 Charles A. Hoyt 1,000 00 Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman 1,000 00 Frederic Wendell Jackson 1,000 00 Henry Phipps 1,000 00 George G. Williams 1,000 00 William K. Vanderbilt 1,000 00 James Speyer 1,000 00 Mrs. Joseph M. White 1,000 00 Samuel Sloan 1,000 00 Frank Tilford 1,000 00 Mrs. Henry Herrman 1,000 00 127 Henry H. Cook $1,000 00 George F. Baker 1,000 00 Harris C. Fahnestock 1,000 00 Mrs. Morris K. Jesup 1,000 00 Mrs. John E. Parsons 1,000 00 Murray Guggenheim 500 00 John C. Osgood 500 00 John E. Parsons 500 00 Frederick Billings 500 00 Mrs. J. Henry Watson 500 00 Mrs. Thomas W. Nickerson, jr 500 00 Mrs. Charles L. Hackstaff 500 00 Mrs. Daniel M. Stimson 300 00 Sidney Webster 250 00 Mrs. J. Herman Aldrich 250 00 Stuyvesant Fish 250 00 John C. Havemeyer 200 00 William Alexander Smith 100 00 Marinus W. Dominick 100 00 James J. Higginson 100 00 Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt 100 00 Woodbury G. Langdon 100 00 Anson Phelps Stokes 100 00 Nathaniel W. Hunt 100 00 A. Lanfear Norrie 50 00 Addison Brown 50 00 Frederic J. de Peyster 50 00 George Abeel 25 00 Mrs. Eugenia Brodhead 25 00 Wm. R. Huntington, D.D 25 00 Abram S. Post 25 00 Evert Jansen Wendell 25 00 Francis E. Woodruff 25 00 Mrs. Frederick Hasbrouck 25 00 Jacob Rothschild 20 00 J. Marcus Boorman , 20 00 Samuel Sherwood 15 00 Miss Mary F. Hall 10 00 John Neilson Beekman, M.D 10 00 Thomas Gallaudet, D.D 10 00 Wm. Gray Schauffler, M.D 5 00 Cash 1 00 Henry Dexter, for erection of Memorial Building 250,000 00 128 FUNDS. PERMANENT FUNDS. The Isaiah Thomas Fund. — The legacy of Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., in 1832, $300. The Elizabeth Demilt Fund. — The legacy of Miss Elizabeth Demilt, of New York, in 1849, $5,000. The Seth Grosvenor Fund. — The legacy of Seth Grosvenor, of New- York, in 1858, $10,000. The David E. Wheeler Fund. — The legacy of David E. Wheeler, of New York, in 1870, $1,000. The Thomas Barron Fund. — The legacy of Thomas Barron, of New York, in 1875, $10,000. The Richard E. Mount Fund. — The legacy of Richard E. Mount, of New York, in 1880, $1,000. The Edward Bill Fund. — The legacy of Edward Bill, of New York, in 1884, $5,000. The Augustus Schell Fund. — The legacy of Augustus Schell, of New York, in 1884, $5,000. The Mary Rogers Fund. — The legacy of Mrs. Charles H. Rogers, of New York, in 1891, $1,000. The James Francis Evans Fund. — The legacy of Captain James Francis Evans, of New York, in 1893, $1,000. The Henry Keteltas Fund. — The legacy of Henry Keteltas, of New York, in 1898, $5,000. The Charles P. Daly Fund. — The legacy of Charles P. Daly, of New York, in 1900, $5,000. The Maria Branson Mount Fund. — The legacy of Miss Maria Branson Mount, of New York, in 1901, $1,000. The Eugene Augustus Hoffman Memorial Fund. — The legacy of Dean Hoffman, 1902, late President of the Society, $50,000. 131 SPECIAL FUNDS. The Publication Fund. — Established by the Society in 1858, for the Publication of its Proceedings and Collections. Of the shares of the capital stock of this Fund, limited in number to 1,000, 829 have been sold up to the present time, as follows: 750 shares were sold prior to June 6, 1866, at $25 per share; subsequently the price of shares was advanced to $50, when thirty shares were sold at the latter figure; the price of shares was again advanced, January 1, 1883, to $100 per share, since then forty-six shares have been sold, realizing $25,150, the interest of which is used for the publication of each successive volume. Thirty volumes have been published, 1868-1897. The Fund of the Sons of Rhode Island. — The gift of the Association in New York known by that name during the Civil War, presented in 1866, and devoted to the purchase of works for the Library relating to the history of Rhode Island, $600. The John Divine Jones Fund. — Founded by John Divine Jones, of New York, in 1879, for the publication and sale by the Society of works relating to the early history of New York and other American Provinces. This fund now amounts to $4,416.55. The History of New York during the Revolutionary War. By Thomas Jones. Edited by Edward F. de Lancey. 2 volumes. 8vo. New York, 1879, have been published. The Stephen Whitney Ph(enix Fund. — The bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, of New York, in 1882, for the maintenance and increase of the Phoenix Collection of Heraldry and Genealogy, $15,000. BUILDING FUND Balance on hand $85,396.74 Trustees of the New Building. Henry Dexter gift $250,000.00 132 BIBLIOGRAPHY. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 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The second part of this volume, which was to have contained "The Duke of York's charters of liberties and privileges to the inhabitants of New York, anno 1683," was never published. Second series, Vol. iv. Catalogue of the Library of the Society. 8vo, pp. viii, 653. New York, 1859. Discourse before the Society, at their anniversary meeting, December 6, 1812. By Gouverneur Morris. 8vo, pp. 40. New York, 1813. Catalogue of the books, tracts, newspapers, maps, charts, views, portraits, and manuscripts in the library. 8vo, pp. (2) 2, 9-139. New York, 1813. Memorial of the Society to the legislature of New York. 8vo, pp. 11. New York, 1814. A catalogue of the resident and honorary members of the Society. 8vo, pp. 12 (2). New York, 1814. Inaugural discourse before the Society, by Gouverneur Morris, September 4, 1816; the two hundred and sixth anniversary of the discovery of New York by Hudson. 8vo, pp. 24. New York, 1816. Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, Decem- ber 31, 1816. By Egbert Benson. 12mo, pp. 72. Jamaica, 1816. Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, Decem- ber 31, 1816. By Egbert Benson. 8vo, pp. 72. New York, 1817. Same. Second edition, with notes. 12mo, pp. 127. Jamaica, 1825. Memoir read before the Historical Society of the State of New York, Decem- ber 31, 1816. By Egbert Benson. Reprinted from a copy with the author's last corrections. 8vo, pp. 72. New York, 1848. Circular of the Mineralogical Committee, March 11, 1817. 4to, pp. 2. Circular. American zoology and geology. 4to, pp. 2. New York, March 11, 1817. Report on botany and vegetable physiology read at a meeting of the Society, April 8, 1817. Broadside. Circular of Committee on Botany, April 8, 1817. 4to sheet, one page. Directions to be observed in collecting and preserving Plants, April 8, 1817. 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Letter of committee on publications, February 23, 1891. 8vo, pp. 3. [New York, 1891.] A monograph on the founding of Jersey City. By Charles H. Winfield. Read before the Society, June 2, 1891. 8vo, pp. 97. Portraits and plates. New York, 1891. Resident members of the Society, January, 1892. 8vo, pp. 15. [New York, 1892.] New York in 1850 and in 1890. A political study. An address delivered before the Society on its eighty-seventh anniversary, Tuesday, November 17, 1891, by the Hon. Seth Low, LL.D. 8vo, pp. 32. New York, 1892. Appeal to the members and to the citizens of New York, January 19, 1892. 8vo, pp. 2. [New York, 1892.] King George's personal policy in England. How it forced his subjects in America, against their wishes, into a successful revolution. By Edward F. De Lancey. Read before the Society, April 5, 1892. 8vo, pp. 431-448. [Reprint, New York, 1892.] Columbian celebration of 1792. The first in the United States. An address before the Society, October 4, 1892. By Edward F. De Lancey. 8vo, pp. 18. Two portraits and four plates. Reprint. New York, 1893. Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1893. 8vo, pp. vii, 73, 98. New York, 1893. Political parties and their places of meeting in New York City. By Thomas E. V. Smith. Read before the Society, February 7, 1893. 8vo, pp. 30. New York, 1893. The siege of Cuantla, the Bunker Hill of Mexico. An address before the Society, April 4, 1893. By Walter S. Logan. 8vo, pp. 27. New York, 1893. Circular letter of committee on the two hundredth anniversary of the intro- duction of the printing press in New York, April 5, 1893. 4to, pp. 3. [New York, 1893.] Anneke Jans Bogardus and her farm. By James W. Gerard. Read before 158 the Society, May 6, 1879. In Harper's New Monthly, May, 1885. 8vo, pp. 836-849. New York, 1885. The Manor of Philipsburgh. A paper read before the Society, by T. Astley Atkins. June 5, 1894. Svo, pp. 23. Yonkers, 1894. Published by the Yonkers Historical and Library Association. Hopoghan Hackingh, Hoboken, a pleasure resort for old New York. By Charles H. Winfield, in two parts. Part II. read before the Society, December 4, 1894. 4to, pp. 80. Facsimile of Indian deed, July 12, 1630, and 8 plates. [New York, 1895.] The charter and by-laws of the Society. Revised May, 1895. 8vo, pp. 24. New York, 1895. The patriot clergy and the New York City chaplains in the War of the Revolu- tion. An address before the Society, April 3, 1894, by Ashbel G. Vermilye, D.D., Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America. 8vo, pp. 28. New York, 1895. William Atwood, chief-justice of the colony of New York, 1701-1702. By Charles P. Daly, LL.D. Read before the Society, May 1, 1894. In the Green Bag, March-May, 1895, with additions. Cabot and the transmission of English power in North America. An address before the Society on its ninety-second anniversary, November 18, 1896. By Justin Winsor, LL.D. Svo, pp. 38. New York, 1896. The establishment of public parks in the City of New York. By Gherardi Davis. Read before the Society, April 6, 1897. 12mo, pp. 46, (1). [New York, 1897.] List of members of the Society, January, 1898. Svo, pp. 14. [New York, 1898.] The Palisades. By Ashbel G. Vermilye, D.D. Read before the Society, October 5, 1897. 8vo, pp. 335-350. Reprint. A memoir of William Kelby, librarian of the Society. By John Austin Stevens. Read before the Society, November 1, 1898. Svo, pp. 40. New York, 1898. List of members of the Society, February, 1900. 8vo, pp. 14. [New York, 1900.] Journalism in New York in 1800. A paper read before the Society, April 3, 1900. By Francis W. Halsey. In The Journalist, New York, April 7, 1900. The old and the new century. An address before the Society on its ninety- sixth anniversary, November 20, 1900. By Marvin R. Vincent, D.D. Svo, pp. 45. New York, 1900. Memorial of the Hon. John Alsop King, eighteenth president of the Society. By the Very Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman, D.D. Read before the Society, February 5, 1901. 8vo, pp. 27. Portrait. New York, 1901. Appendix to catalogue of gallery of art, 1894-1901 . Svo, pp. 3. [New York, 1901.] Circular letters building committee, April 17 and November 4, 1901. 4to. Plates. £New York, 1901.] 159 Colonial homes in the Bronx. By Randall Canifort. Read before the Society, November 6, 1901. In Bronx Borough Record, October 21, 1901. Letter of committee on membership, November 21, 1901. 4to, pp. 3. Plates. [New York, 1901.] Before and after the treaty of Washington. The American Civil War and the war in the Transvaal. An address before the Society on its ninety- seventh anniversary, November 19, 1901. By Charles Francis Adams, LL.D. Svo, pp. 141. New York, 1902. John Pintard, founder of The New York Historical Society. An address before the Society, December 3, 1901. By James Grant Wilson. Svo. pp. 37. Portrait. New York, 1902. List of subscribers to the building fund, to December 31, 1901. Svo, pp. 4, Plates. [New York, 1902.] List of members of the Society, February, 1902. Svo, pp. 15. New York, 1902. Letter of committee on publications, February 15, 1902. 8vo, pp. 3. [New York, 1902.] Communication to the members of the Society, from the building committee, February 15, 1902. Oblong 4to, pp. 13. Plates. [New York, 1902.] Address commemorative of Eugene Augustus Hoffman. By William R. Huntington, D.D. Read before the Society, December 2, 1902. 8vo, pp. 28. Portrait. New York, 1903. Memorial to the Governor, the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York, December, 2 1902. 4to, pp. 2. List of members of the Society, February, 1903. Svo, pp. 15. [New York* 1903.] Catalogue of the museum and gallery of art, 1903. 8vo, pp. vii, 73, 102. New York, 1903. The genius of the cosmopolitan city. An address before the Society on its ninety-ninth anniversary, November 17, 1903. 8vo, pp. 42. New York, 1904. Charter, by-laws, officers, members, report of executive committee. 8vo, pp. 67. Plates. New York, 1904. Banquet of the Society, November 22, 1904, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of its founding. Menu, toasts, committee, views of homes of Society. 8vo, pp. 14. New York, 1904. Seating plan, members and guests present at banquet, November 22, 1904. Broadside. Letter of committee on anniversary medal, January 3, 1905. 8vo, pp. 2. Plate. [New York, 1905.] The New York Historical Society, 1804-1904. By Robert H. Kelby. With appendix, list of officers and members, subscribers to building fund, funds of the Society, and bibliography. Svo, pp. viii-160. 5 Plates. Fac- simile of minutes of the Society, November 20, 1804; Portraits of founders; Homes of the Society; Portraits of Presidents, 1805-1849 and 1850-1905; Portrait of Henry Dexter. Printed for the Society. New York, 1905. 160