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was raised by life annuities; the whole to revert to the survivor, on what is known as the Tontine plan. In this case the plan provided for distribution of the property among seven survivors of a company of two hundred and three persons named by the original subscribers, one person for each share. In 1876 the division was made, the seven surviving nominees being William Bayard, Gouverneur Kemble, Robert Benson, Jr., Daniel Hoffman, Horatio G. Stevens, Mrs. John A. King, and Mrs. William P. Campbell (see illustration, p. 48).

In the strait known and termed as the East River, though it is in nowise a river, there was off Hallett's Point, in Hell Gate, a sunken rock of a peculiar form, which gave rise to a whirlpool known as The Pot, which at half flows of the tide was of an area and volume to render navigation in small vessels hazardous. Modern engineering has divested this strait of its terrors. Blackwell's Island was at this time still in private hands. More than two centuries ago it was owned and occupied by John Manning, an ex-sheriff of New York, who was in command of the city and surrendered it to the Dutch on their attack in 1673; for which feat he was promptly cashiered by the English when they had renewed their possession. Manning left the island to his daughter, the wife of Robert Blackwell. The City bought it in 1828 for fifty thousand dollars. The islands now called Ward's and Randall's were then known as Great and Little Barn Islands, " Barn " being apparently a corruption of Barent, an earlier name. haven " Randall's " seems an incorrect title, since the city bought this property in 1835 (also for fifty thousand dollars) from the executors of Jonathan Randall, who had given twenty-four pounds for it about seventy years earlier. This island, then held by British troops, was the scene of a sharp action in September, 1776, when the assaulting column of Americans suffered a repulse with the loss of twenty-two killed, and failed to gain the

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