[26] “Diary of Philip Hone,” vol. II, p. 101.
[27] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.”
[28] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.”
[29] “In Old New York,” by Thomas A. Janvier.
[30] Remembered as the writer of that popular poem, “’Twas the night before Christmas,” etc.
[31] “Natl. Cyclo. of Amer. Biog.”
[32] “N. Y. Standard Guide,” p. 112.
[33] Joseph Alston became Governor of South Carolina. Mrs. Alston, the daughter of Aaron Burr, met with a tragic fate. On December 30, 1812, she sailed from Charleston in a small schooner, The Patriot, accompanied by Mr. Green, a friend of her father’s, her physician and her maid. The vessel never reached its destination. Forty years afterwards, three men, two in Virginia and one in Texas, made deathbed confessions that they had been members of the crew, that the crew had mutinied and murdered all the officers and passengers, Mrs. Alston being the last to walk the plank. The expression of her face, one man said, haunted him the rest of his life.
[34] Pintard was a very prominent man in the first part of the last century, the founder of the New York Historical Society and many other city institutions.
[35] The author of “The Old Merchants of New York City” gives this account of Hogan, written in his peculiar style: “Now look back forty-eight years ago to 1805, and there was but one Hogan in New York. His name was Michael Hogan, and he had only landed in the city a few months, but what attention he received from all the leading men of that day! Robert Lenox at that time lived in good style at 157 Pearl Street. He sent an invitation to the distinguished stranger the second day of his arrival. He was such a man as did not arrive in the then small city of New York every day. Michael Hogan brought with him in solid gold sovereigns four hundred thousand pounds, equal to two million dollars, and he had a wonderful history. What would I not give if I could write it all out! All these 160 Hogan families alluded to above, mostly Irish, are kith and kin of the great nabob, for such he was when he arrived here in 1804, with his dark Indian princess wife. Michael Hogan was born at Stone Hall, in the County of Clare, Ireland, September 26, 1766. ‘So he was thirty-eight years old when he landed in New York, with his dark-skinned lady and his fabulous amount of gold. But what scenes he had been through in these eventful thirty-eight years! He had been a sailor; he had commanded ships bound to ports in every quarter of the world—in Asia, Africa, America, and Europe; he had been to North as well as South America; and he had voyaged to the West as well as to the East Indies; he had made successful voyages to the almost then unknown land of Australia. In the East Indies he had married a lady of great wealth. This was the story that was talked about when Captain Michael Hogan came here.”—Fourth Series, p. 115.