Identifier: relicsofrevolutidc00bolt (find matches)
Title: Relics of the revolution; the story of the discovery of the buried remains of military life in forts and camps on Manhattan Island
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bolton, Reginald Pelham, 1856-1942
Subjects: Fortification -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- History Revolution, 1775-1783
Publisher: New York, the author
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Two large square sockets having a handle on a chain,were found, of which another specimen was taken inn, of the bar-rack site on Bennett Avenue. These were followed by more deter-minate evidence in the shape of a pewter button of the AmericanContinental army, and a silver button of the 54th British footregiment. The latter corjjs was that in which Major Andre heldhis commission, and which was, according to von Krafft, encampedupon the Heights in August, 1781. The Tilth English Regi-ment came here, he writes, from Pauls hook, and pitched theircamp in front of the 38th Regiment near New York. The pit containing the rubbish dcseeiided to alinut three feetdepth at the lowest point, and eventiuilly extended to ten or morefeet diameter. It contained, besides the military objects, quantitiesof bones, shells, large and .small forged nails, spikes, hinges, pad-locks, broken bottles and scraps of earthenware, and a few house-hold articles such as knives and forks, evidencing the usual house- 68
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Relics of the Revolution hold waste. )\rasses of red Colonial brick lay at the end of thepit nearest the dwelling. A careful examination uf the great cherry trees was made; oneof these was l>et\veen Id and 11 feet in eircumference, and thoughperhaps successors of the orchard of Kiersen and van Dalsen, theywere all less than a hiuidred years of age, and probably wereplanted along tlie course of a driveway that led from the oldhigh road to the farndiouse. Connected as it is with the history of the leading family of thelittle old townslii)). and occupying laiul the history and use ofwliich extends liack licyond the advent of the white man, it may bereiiarded as a very fortunate occurrence that it was possible tosecure so nuich evidence, identifying for future record the site ofthe home of the old Dutch family of van Oblienis. After the sale of the northerly part of the Oblienis farm in1769, the propertv passed from Hlazlns Moore through severalhands to the late Hosea I.. Perkins. His

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