See attached Lefferts Drawing I pulled from the NYHS website a few months
ago..
I wonder of this the one he illustrated???
Phil
In a message dated 12/3/05 11:09:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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>From: Dave Ruch <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:12:24 -0500
>
>
>Very interesting Walter, thanks.
>
>And here is the song that Washington's troops reportedly sang as they
>marched
down to New York City to take it back from the British:
>http://home.earthlink.net/~jeffwarnertradmusic/DoodleDandy.mp3
>
>Dave R.
>www.daveruch.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Walter Greenspan
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:40 AM
> Subject: [NYHIST-L] Today is 222nd Anniversary of Evacuation Day
>
>
> On November 25, 1783, the British Army boarded their naval vessels and >
> evacuated New York City (then coterminous with New York County), their
>wartime
> headquarters and their last military position in the United States >during
the
> Revolutionary War.
>
> As they sailed away in retreat through the Narrows separating Long >Island
and
> Staten Island, the last thing they saw, as their ships sunk below the
> horizon, was the Flag of the United States of America flying atop the
>Liberty
Pole
> (an extended flag pole) in the frontyard of the Dutch Reformed Church >in
the
> Hamlet of New Utrecht, Town of New Utrecht, Kings County. Today this >is
at 18th
> Avenue and Liberty Pole Boulevard (84th Street) in the neighborhood of >
> Bensonhurst in the Borough of Brooklyn (Kings County), New York City.
>
> Replaced six times over the years, the 106' Liberty Pole is the last
> remaining Liberty Pole in the original thirteen United States. On top >of
the Pole is
> the original eagle and weathervane. The eagle is made of wood and has >a
5'
> wingspan. After two hundred and twenty-two years, the weather has >weakened
it
> considerably and it has been reinforced with iron bands.
>
> Here's the URL for the New Utrecht Liberty Pole Association:
> http://www.historicnewutrecht.org/LPA.html
>
> Here's the URL for the Dutch Reformed Church:
> http://www.newutrechtchurch.org/
>
>
> I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Walter Greenspan
> Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY
>
>
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