[16] “Nat. Cyclo. of Am. Biog.,” vol. VI, p. 360.
[17] “King’s Handbook of New York,” p. 38.
[18] Goede Vrouw of Man-a-hata.
[19] Magazine of American History.
[20] The British took possession of the City Hall and “they also plundered it of all the books belonging to the subscription library, and also of a valuable library which belonged to the corporation, the whole consisting of not less than sixty thousand volumes. This was done with impunity and the books publicly hawked about the town for sale by private soldiers” (“Lamb’s History of the City of New York,” vol. II, p. 134).
[21] Mrs. Cruger spent her summers at that quaint castellated structure, Henderson House or Home, seven miles from Richfield Springs, the grounds being part of twenty thousand acres received by letters patent from the English crown.
[22] “Bulletin of Metropolitan Museum,” January, 1907.
[23] Named after the three daughters, Countess of Abingdon, Lady Southampton (Fitzroy), and Mrs. Colonel Skinner.
[24] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.”
[25] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.”