Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, in Federal Hall. The oath of office was administered to him by Chancellor Livingston from the balcony facing Broad Street.

Original Room at Fraunces' Tavern, Cor. Broad and Pearl Streets, New York, where General Washington Bid Farewell to His Officers on the 4th of December, 1783.

Fraunces Tavern. Corner Pearl and Broad Streets. The most historic site in the city. Erected 1719. Here Washington bade farewell to his officers 1783.

"New Amsterdam becomes New York" - The English captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664 and re-named it New York in honor of the Duke of York.

Fraunces Tavern, Built in 1700. Broad and Pearl Streets.

54 Pearl Street at the corner of Broad Street. Fraunces Tavern.

Peter Stuyvesant, the fourth and most famous of the Dutch Governor - Generals was appointed in 1647. It was his lot to be obliged to surrender New Netherland to the English in 1664.

Float- Washington's Farewell to his Officers.

Fraunces Tavern, Broad & Pearl Sts.

Fraunce's Tavern. New York.

The first vessel was the ship "Restless" built on the Island of Manhattan by Adrian Block in 1614 to replace the ship "Tiger," which was destroyed by fire.

In Sept., 1776, Capt. Nathan Hale volunteered to enter the enemy's lines to gather information on the British army, disguised. He was discovered and hanged Sept. 21, 1776, regretting that he had but

Lafayette, the friend of Washington, was received with popular demonstrations of affection wherever he went.

Fraunces Tavern

"The Dutch Doorway." - This picture respresents a Dutch doorway in New Amstersdam, a prominent resting place for family and social purposes in those days.

Bowling Green, at the foot of Broadway, is the oldest park in New York City. It had been used as a public place for many years, when in 1732 it was laid out especially as a bowling green.

After the repeal of the Stamp Act, the people erected in Bowling Green, in 1770, a leaden statue of George III, which the patroits pulled down July 9, 1776, and melted into bullets.

In 1639 Jonas Bronck, after whom the Borough of the Bronx was named, purchased land in that Borough from the Indians. In 1642, after many hostilities, a treaty with the Indians was signed in his house

In 1689 Governor Nicholson fled from New York, and Jacob Leisler assumed the reigns of government. In 1691 Leisler was hanged as a traitor, but later the stigma was officially removed.

Marinus Willet and other citizens seized the arms of the retreating English, which were used by some of the American troops.