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in other matters, and I here wish to thank those who have so 

 kindly taken the trouble to answer my inquiries or to give me 

 information. 



There are to-day in the old city of New York(the Borough 

 of Manhattan) but three pre-Revolutionary structures of a 

 public or semi-public character: Fraunces* Tavern, St. Paul's 

 Chapel, and the Roger Morris, or " Jumel, " mansion. Within 

 the Borough of The Bronx there are still a number of historic 

 landmarks. If this book lead to the preservation of but one 

 of these, I shall feel that it has not been written in vain. 



Stephen Jenkins. 

 Mt. Vernon, New York, 

 April, igi2. 



