34 THE HISTORY OF COFFEE. 



the well-known names of John Jay, member of Congress, minis- 

 ter to Spain, minister to England, and Governor of New York ; 

 Gouverneur Morris, Robert R. Livingston, Morgan Lewis, Eg- 

 bert Benson, Gulian Verplanck, President of the Bank of New 

 York ; John Watts, Leonard and Anthony Lispenard, Richard 

 Harrison, Peter Yan Schaack, Daniel Ludlow, afterwards 

 President of the Manhattan Bank; William Imlay, and Dr. 

 Samuel Bard, Washington's favorite physician. The Clnb 

 was broken up in 1775. In the parlor on the second floor of 

 Fraunces's Tavern, on the 4th day of December, 1783, occurred 

 the most sadly impressive scene in Washington's history. At 

 noon the officers of the army were there assembled, at the re- 

 quest of the great chieftain, to finally part. The scene has 

 been so often described that it needs no repetition here. In 

 1789, Fraunces, or, as he was sometimes called, " Black Sam," 

 became the chief steward in Washington's household, at the 

 residence of the first President, No. 3 Cherry street, near Frank- 

 lin square, where we are told Mrs. Washington furnished her 

 guests on New Year's day, 1790, with coffee, tea, plum and 

 plain cake. 



The celebrated Tontine Coffee-House, on the north-west cor- 

 ner of Wall and Water streets, was commenced in 1792, and was 

 the scene of many stirring events in the annals of history and 

 trade. The Merchants' Coffee-House, on the opposite corner, 

 was then called the Old Coffee-House, and its business was 

 gradually transferred to the Tontine, to which place the Ex- 

 change was moved from the dingy building in the middle of 

 Broad street, between Pearl and the river, where it had been 

 since the revolution. The following extracts from an article on 

 the Tontine Coffee-House will be read with interest : 



" In 1795 the old Coffee-House was in full operation, but who 

 can tell us of the scenes therein? Who can call back the voices 



