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Billopp House and the historical facts and traditions and recent 

 news items relating to it. 



The first one consists of reprints of two newspaper accounts 

 written in connection with certain of the many attempts to 

 secure the property for a public park and museum, from the 

 News Letter of March 14, 1903, and the New York Times of 

 September 7, 1913, respectively. The second one is stated to be 

 a " Paper read by Mrs. Ralph McKee before the Richmond 

 County Chapter Society, Daughters of the Americain Revolution, 

 December 22, 1914." It is an excellent presentation of the 

 historical facts connected with the conference between Lord 

 Howe and the American commissioners, Benjamin Franklin, 

 Edward Rutledge, and John Adams, and it is to be regretted 

 that it is not illustrated by a reproduction of John Ward 

 Dunsmore's painting of that historic event, which was issued in 

 connection with the 1910 calendar of the Title Guarantee and 

 Trust Company and was also utilized in connection with a story 

 of the Billopp House conference in the New York Press of No- 

 vember 29, 1 914. However, one of the illustrations is a full-page 

 photogravure reproduction of A. W. Thompson's painting 

 designed to represent the exterior of the old house under British 

 occupation, which serves as a frontispiece for the two articles 

 jointly; and in connection with the second one is a photograph 

 of the tablet placed on St. Andrew's church by Richmond County 

 Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, in commemora- 

 tion of the patriots who took part in the engagement between the 

 British forces and the Continentals under General Hugh Mercer 



on October 16, 1776. 



A. H. 



History, Story, Legend of the Old King's 

 Highway, etc.® 

 This little pamphlet is headed " Publication of the Staten 

 Island Antiquarian Society, Inc., Headquarters: Old Perine 



' History— Story— Legend | of the | Old King's Highway \ now the | Rich- 

 mond Road I Staten Island, N. Y. | . . . Copyrighted 1916 by C. G. Hine. 

 I2mo pamph., 27 p. incl. two maps. 



