MEI^ AND THIlSrGS IN ALBAITYTWO CEN"TURIES 

 AGO, AND THE ORIGIN OF THE DUTCH AND 

 ENGLISH CHURCHES. 



By Joel Munsell. 



[Read before the Albany Institute, April 18, 1876.] 



This diagram of the ancient city of Albany I used when 

 speaking of the city a few weeks since, as it existed a 

 hundred years ago ; but the map belongs to a much earlier 

 date. A hundred years ago, in the time of the revolution, 

 the stockades had been extended to Hamilton street on the 

 south, and the north gate stood a little above Orange 

 street. I now propose to take you on a tour about the streets 

 within the purlieus of these quaint old walls, for the pur- 

 pose of pointing out, by the aid of the map, some inte- 

 resting localities as they existed two hundred years ago, and 

 to revive a memory of men and things long since departed, 

 and whose places are now so differently occupied. 



The original of this profile was made by the Rev. John 

 Miller, chaplain of the English grenadiers in New York, 

 who was the only Episcopal clergyman in the colonj^ from 

 1693 to 1695, when he made drawings of the few military 

 defenses then existing within the borders of this state. 

 As we know from the present configuration of this portion 

 of Albany, the map could not have differed much from the 

 actual form of the city within its wooden walls. Pearl 

 and Beaver streets are the only thoroughfares which the 

 common council has left unchanged in name of all that 

 this plan exhibits. It will be seen that the streets have now 

 very nearly the same direction as then, and that the present 

 curvatures were conformed to the courses which the stock- 

 ades gave them. 



