The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

OF jVE W YORK CITEY.

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street now). He had it splendidly illuminated in 1762,
for the news of the Stamp Act, repealed, probably as a
measure to conciliate the people. In the same house
once dwelt Gen. Alexander, afterwards one Earl of
Sterling of the Revolution.
The year before, 1767, in June, on the anniversary
of the king's birth-day, the General had his house in
" great pomp."
Frequently General Gage is mixed up with General
Gates. He was a different sort of person altogether,
though General Gates lived in the city at the same
time.
General Horatio Gates was an Englishman. He was
a captain under General Braddock (where General
Washington made his first essay in war), and lie was
afterwards captain and aid to General Monckton, then
Governor of New York, and both were out in 1763, in
the expedition to Martinique. He had a place on the
island called Rose Hill House. The farm extended
from Twenty-third to Thirtieth street. The Second,
Third, and Fourth avenues would now cross it. He
died in this city on the 10th April, 1806, aged seventyeight. He had been a Major-General all through the war
in the service of the United States. In 1792 he was a
member of the St. George's Society. In 1757 the first
wife.of General Gates was reported as riding about the
city in men's clothes, from the fact that she wore an
English riding-habit, the first ever seen in New York,
after the manner of the ladies in England, where she
had been born and educated.
" John Dalthus Dash, tinman, has moved from the
Oswego market into the corner house, where Nicholas
Stagg used to live."
The descendants of that Dash kept the same store on