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excepted, the ablest and most influential citizen of that 

 province, serving at different times as member and presi- 

 dent of the provincial council, justice of the court of com- 

 mon pleas, mayor of Philadelphia, chief justice and gov- 

 ernor. His library of 2,000 volumes which he bequeathed 

 to the city of Philadelphia was in 1792 annexed to the 

 Philadelphia Library, established in 1731 by Franklin 

 and now housed at the corner of Locust and Juniper streets 

 in that city, but has been kept separate under the name 

 of the Loganian Library. 



Note X. p "'' 

 St. George's Chapel stood at the corner of the present 

 Beekman and Cliff Streets, New York. Built and opened 

 in 1752, it was rebuilt after its destruction by fire in 1814, 

 and was occupied until 1841, when it was demolished and 

 its congregation removed to the present church in Ruther- 

 ford Place. Warehouses now cover its site and the burial 

 ground which aforetime surrounded it. 



Note XL ^ '^^ 

 The prison referred to by Burnaby stood in City Hall 

 Park, New York, on the line of the present Park Row. 

 Built in 1756, it was originally a graystone structure sur- 

 mounted by a tower which was long a famous outlook for 

 fires. During the Revolution and the British occupation 

 of New York it was used as a Patriot prison. Then it 

 became a place of detention for delinquent debtors, and 

 served that purpose until 1829, when the common council 

 decided to reconstruct it and devote it to the housing of 

 the city records. It was accordingly cut down a story 



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