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 NEW YORK, Nov. 25th, 1783. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 J. B. CHANDLER, PRINTER, 306 & 308 CHESTNUT STREET, [GIRARD BUILDING.] 
 
 1861. 
 
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 TRIUMPHAL ENTRY, 
 
 NEW YORK, Nov. 25th, 1783. 
 
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 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 J. B. CHANDLEE, PRINTER, 306 & 308 CHESTNUT STREET, [QIRARD BUILDING.] 
 
 1861. 
 

 ENTERED ACCORDING TO THE ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENN- 
 SYLVANIA, 1861, AND PUBLISHED BY 
 
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Washington's Triumplial Entry into l^ew York. 
 
 This beautiful Print, now ofiFered to the public, is the best work of its kind ever 
 produced in this country, and is designed to illustrate the historical event of the 
 triumphal entry of General George Washington into New York on the 25th of 
 November, 1783, the same day on which the British Army evacuated that city. 
 
 The drawing was executed and printed in Oil Colors, at the Establishment of 
 P. S. Dotal & Son, Philadelphia, and is the largest specimen of Chromolithograph 
 ever executed. The view is represented at the point of junction of Third Avenue 
 and the Bowery. The annexed description will explain all of the important 
 characters in the picture. 
 
 George Washington was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, about half a 
 mile from the junction of Pope's Creek with the Potomac, on the 22d of February, 
 1732, he was descended from an old family of the English aristocracy. The name 
 of Washington as a family was known first about the middle of the 13th century. 
 There was a manor of this name in the county of Durham, England, from the pos- 
 session of which descended the branches of the .Washington family, both in England 
 and America. Of Washington little may be said here, it is presumed that a name 
 so completely identified with the glory of our nation is familiar to every child, and 
 the part which he played in the history of this country familiar as household words. 
 He died 1799. 
 
 George Clinton, born in Ulster county, New York, in 1739. He studied law, 
 and in 1768 was elected to a seat in the Colonial Legislature. In 1775 was a mem- 
 ber of the Continental Congress. In 1776 was appointed a Brigadier in the Army. 
 In April, 1777, was elected Governor, and Lieutenant-Governor under the New 
 Republican Constitution of the State He was President of the Convention assem- 
 bled at Poughkeepsie to consider the Federal Constitution in 1788, was again chosen 
 Governor of the State in 1801, and three years after was elected Vice President of 
 the United States, and died in Washington City iu 1812. 
 
 Martha Washington — maiden name Martha Dandridge — born in New Kent 
 county, Virginia, May, 1732. In 1749 married Colonel Daniel Parke Custis, also 
 of New Kent County, to whom she bore four children ; at twenty-five she lost her 
 husband by death, and about 1758 or '59 having formed the acquaintance of Colonel 
 Washington became his wife, after which event Mount Vernon became tlieir home 
 for the remainder of their lives, at which place she fell a victim to bilious fever, 
 having survived a little more than two years her illustrious husband. 
 
 J. Knox, born in Boston in 1750. At the time the Revolutionary War broke out, 
 he was engaged as a bookseller in that town. His gallant bearing as a volunteer. 
 
and services to Congress subsequently procured for him a Brigadier, giving him 
 command of the artillery department of the army. He was always near to Wash- 
 ington, and was with him in all his battles. After the capture of Cornwallis, was 
 commissioned a Major-General. In 1785 succeeded Lincoln in the office of Secre- 
 tary of War. He died at Thomaston, Maine, in 1806. 
 
 Israel Putnam was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on the 7th of January, 1718. 
 He was appointed to the command of the iirst troops raised in Connecticut for the 
 French and Indian Wars in 1775. After the peace, he returned to his farm, and 
 remained thus until the affair at Lexington. At the head of Connecticut troops, he 
 distinguished himself in the battle of Bunker Hill. His last military services were 
 performed at West Point and vicinity, in 1779. He died at Brooklyn, Windham 
 county, Connecticut, on the 29th of May, 1790, aged 72 years. 
 
 Kosciusko, born in Lithuania, 1756, of an ancient and noble family; educated 
 at the Military School of Warsaw. He came to America, recommended to General 
 Washington by Benjamin Franklin, and who appointed him an aide, also an engineer, 
 with the rank of Colonel, in October, 1776. He fortified the camp of General Gates 
 in his campaign against Burgoyne, and afterwards was sent to West Point, to erect 
 the works there. At the close of the war he returned to his native country, and 
 became at once the spirit of that country's I'evolutionary struggles. Being made 
 a prisoner, and carried to St. Petersburgh, he was after some time liberated by 
 Paul, 1797 ; he visited again the United States, and received a grant from Congress 
 for his services He died in Switzerland, October IGth, 1817. 
 
 B. Lincoln was born on the 3d of February, 173.3, His occupation that of a 
 farmer, which he continued in his native town, Hingham, Massachusetts. Until at 
 the age of forty years, he engaged in civil and military duties. In 1774, he was 
 appointed a Major-General of the Militia. In 1777, he joined Washington at Mor- 
 ristown with a reinforcement. On the 19th of that month, Congress appointed him 
 Major-General in the Continental Army ; wounded at Saratoga severely: appointed 
 to the chief command in the Southern Department, and arrived at Charlestown in 
 December, 1778. The following May was in common with the largest portion of the 
 Southern Army made prisoner at Charleston by Sir Henry Clinton. The succeed- 
 ing November he was exchanged, and the ensuing spring joined Washington on the 
 Hudson. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and was deputed to receive 
 that Commander's sword. After this event he was elected Secretary of War, which 
 he held for three years, and then returned to his farm In 1786-7, he commanded 
 the militia in the suppression of >hay's insurrection. In 1787, he was elected Lieu- 
 tenant Governor of Massachusetts ; was appointed Collector of the Boston Port 1789, 
 which he held for twenty years. He died at Hingham on the 9th of May, 1810, aged 
 77 years. He was temperate and religious, never having been known to utter a 
 profane expression. 
 
 Nathaniel Geebne was born of Quaker parents in Rhode Island in 1740 He 
 was an anchor smith, and was pursuing his trade when the Revolution broke out. 
 He hastened to Boston after the skirmish at Lexington, and from that time until the 
 close of the war he was one of the most useful officers in the army. He died near 
 Savannah, in June, 1786, and was buried in a vault in that city. His sepulchre 
 cannot now be identified. No living person knows in what vault his remains were 
 deposited, and there is no record to cast light upon the question. 
 
 Gilbert Motier De La Fayette, was born 6th September, 1757, in France; and 
 in 1774, mai'ried the daughter of the Duke de Noailles, a lady enjoying an immense 
 fortune. In 1777, he magnanimously joined the Revolutionary Army, and by his 
 arms, fortune, and influence at Court, greatly aided in securing our independence. 
 In October, 1778, he obtained a leave of absence to visit France, returning again to 
 America in the spring of 1780, having procured troops, arms and ammunition from 
 his native country. After the capture of Cornwallis, he returned to France to raise 
 another supply of men and means, when the news of peace reached him. He 
 returned to America in 1784, where he was most cordially received. Again he 
 revisited his native country, and played a distinguished part in all the great events 
 attending the revolution and its excitements, from 1789 to 1793. In consequence of 
 his moderation, he was obliged to flee France, and. being caught, was for three 
 years confined in a dungeon at Olmutz, Germany. The first downfall of Bonaparte 
 
brought him again into public life, and in 1815, he was a member of the Chamber 
 of Deputies. In 1824, he visited the United States by invitation, as the guest of the 
 nation, in the United States vessel of war Brandj^wine, and was received everywhere 
 with the most extravagant manifestations of joy. In the Republican Revolution of 
 France, 1830, he refused the crown of Constitutional Monarch, and designated 
 Louis Philippe as its recipient. La Fayette died in 1834, aged 77 years. 
 
 Frederick William Augustus, Baron de Steuben, was a German. Holding 
 important positions in the Prussian Army, being Aide-de-camp to Frederick the 
 Great, and also Lieutenant-General in the service of Prince Charles of Baden, sub- 
 sequently appointed Knight of the Order of Fidelity : tendered many offers by the 
 King of Sardinia, and the Emperor of Austria, yet he left all and came to America 
 to tight as a volunteer. He joined the American Army at Valley Forge, was in the 
 action on the field of Monmouth ; he commanded in the trenches at Yorktown, the 
 last great battle of the Revolution. At the close of the war, the State of New 
 Jersey gave him a farm, the Legislature of New York presented him with 16,000 
 acres of wild land in Oneida County, and the General Government granted him a 
 pension of $2,500. He built himself a hoTise at Steubenville, New York, where he 
 resided in summer, and during the winter lived in the city. He died 28th of 
 November, 1798, aged 64 years. Agreeable to his request he was wrapped in his 
 cloak, placed in a coffin, and buried in a lonely spot in the woods near his hut. 
 Subsequently a road being laid out over his grave, his remains were removed and 
 buried in the town of Steuben, seven miles north-west of Trenton Falls. 
 
 Horatio Gates was a native of England, and was educated for military life. 
 He was the first Adjutant General of the Continental Army, and was made Major- 
 General in 1776. He retired to his estate in Virginia at the close of the war, and 
 finally took up his abode in New York, where he died in 1806, at the age of 78 years. 
 
 Rev. David Jones was born in AVhite Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County, 
 Delaware, on 12th of May, 1736. His ancestors were from Wales, and settled on 
 the Welsh Tract. His ministerial education was obtained from the Rev. Isaac 
 Eaton of Hopewell, New Jersey. For many years he was pastor of the Upper Bap- 
 tist Freehold Church in that State, from which he went on a religious mission to 
 the Shawnee and Delaware Indians. He again returned to his charge at Freehold, 
 and by his zealous espousal of the Colonial cause, became so obnoxious to the 
 Tories, that to save his life he removed to Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1775, 
 and took chai-ge of the Great Valley Baptist Church. On the occasion of the con- 
 tinental fast, he preached a sermon entitled, "Defensive War in a Just Cause Sin- 
 less," which exerted a very salutary influence. In 1770 he was appointed Chaplain 
 to a Pennsylvania Regiment under Colonel St. Clair, which was ordered to the 
 Northern Department. He served through two campaigns under General Gates, 
 was Chaplain to a Brigade under Wayne in 1777, with whom he was also at the 
 battle of Monmouth, and all his subsequent campaigns until the surrender of 
 Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. He was at the massacre at Paoli, and narrowly 
 escaped death. A few days before, he had been at the battle of Brandywine and 
 also at Germantown. His activity had become so notorious that General Howe 
 offered a reward for him, and a detachment was sent to the Great Valley to secure 
 him In 1794 he accompanied Wayne on the North-western e.xpedition against the 
 Indians. When the war of 1812 broke out, he again entered the army, being 76 
 years of age, and served under Generals Brown and Wilkinson, until the close of 
 the contest. His last public act was to address the people assembled to dedicate 
 the Paoli monument. He died on the 5th of February, 1820, aged 84 years, and 
 was buried in the Great Valley Churchyard in sight of Valley Forge. 
 
 Stephen Hopkins was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, on the 7th of March, 1707. 
 He was a self-taught man, became member and speaker of the Rhode Island Assem- 
 bly, and in 1754 was a member of a Convention of Delegates from the several 
 Cidonies held at Albany. He was a member of the first Continental Congress in 
 1774, and also was a member in 1776. He left that body in 1778, and was after- 
 wards a member of the Legislature of his native State. He died on the 19th of 
 July, 1785, in the 78th year of his age. 
 
 Alexanher Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, British West Indies, on 
 the 11th January, 1757. He was of Scottish descent by his father, French by his 
 
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 mother. He was fond of study and writing, which secured for him the co-operation 
 of his friends in sending him to New York to be educated. He was placed under 
 the tutorship of Francis Barber of New Jersey, who became himself a distinguished 
 officer of the Revolution, he entered King's College, 1773, and at seventeen years of 
 age addressei public meetings. His political writings in 1774-5, gave him con- 
 siderable reputation. When the Revolution broke out, he entered the field as an 
 Artillery Captain. He fought at White Plains : was with his company at Trenton 
 and Princeton. In 1777, Washington appointed him his Aide-de-Camp, with the 
 rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was Washington's chief Secretary and confidential 
 Aide, until 1781, when with the same rank he obtained the command of a light 
 corps, and with these he fought bravely at Yorktown under La Fayette. 1782, left 
 the army, and was admitted to practise at the bar of the Supreme Court of New 
 York, and became a member of Congress. His pen prepared the public mind for 
 the Federal (constitution. His financial knowledge induced Washington to appoint 
 him his first Secretary of the Treasury. In 1804 he became involved in a quarrel 
 with Aaron Burr, which resulted in his being challenged to mortal combat. They 
 fought on the 12th July on the Hudson, and Hamilton fell mortally wounded, sur- 
 viving only long enough to meet his wife and children. 
 
 Thomas iMiri'LiN was born in Philadelphia, in 1744. His ancestors were Quakers. 
 He entered public life in 1772, was a representative of Philadelphia in the Colonial 
 Assembly, and a member of the first Continental Congress. He entered the military 
 service, was with Washington at Cambridge, in 1776 was commissioned a Brigadier 
 in the Army, in 177ii was made Major General, in 1783 was a representative to 
 Congress, and in the autumn of that year was appointed its President. In 1785 
 was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and in 1787 was in the Convention 
 which framed the Federal Constitution. Under the provision of that instrument he 
 was elected the first Governor of Pennsylvania, which office he filled for nine years. 
 He retired from office in 1799, and on the 20th of the same month expired at 
 Lancaster, aged 56 years. 
 
 John Marshall — The eminent Chief Justice of the United States, was born in 
 Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1755, and was the eldest of fifteen children by the 
 same mother. He entered the military service in the Virginia militia against Dun- 
 more, in 1775, and was in the battle at the Great Bridge. He remained in service 
 as an excellent officer, until early in 1780, when he studied law and became very 
 eminent in his profession. He was again in the field in 1781. In 1782 he was a 
 member of the Virginia Legislature. He was chosen Secretary of War in 18(J0, 
 and the next year was elevated to the Chief Justiceship of the United States. His 
 Life of Washington was published in 1805. Judge Marshall died at Philadelphia 
 in 1835, in the eightieth year of his age. 
 
 Indians — Part of the six nations, and Great Chief Thayondanegea. 
 
 Continental Guard. 
 
 The old man beside his daughter and grand-daughter, with his hat containing the 
 newspaper and glasses, is introduced to convey the idea of a Free Press: 
 
 Old soldier wounded at an early period in the struggle, comes out on the occasion 
 to welcome his old general. 
 
 Pine Tker Flag — The field of this flag is white bunting, and a green pine tree 
 on the middle 
 
 Banner < f Washington's Life Guard. 
 
 Ladies — Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Bingham, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs Jay, Mrs. Polly 
 Caton, Mrs. Abigail Adams, formed the Republican Court, from their prominent 
 position in society. 
 
 The New England Flag — This flag was a blue ground with the red cross of St. 
 George. The origin of the red cross comes from St. George, who was the Patron 
 Saint of the English Realm. In the 14th and subsequent centuries, Nicholas 
 observes, every English soldier wore this badge over his armor. 
 
 The houses in the back ground are good sptcimens of architecture of the earlj' 
 German settlers. 
 
^' ^ZnlTi??u ^r^' Washington, Esq., General and Com- 
 mander of the Armies of the United States of America. 
 
 The Address of the CUlzens of Nero Tork v^ho have returned from exile, in 
 behalf of themselves and their suffering brethren: 
 
 New York, Nov. 25, 1783 
 
 tions th7htn! r'^r."'!^" 'I' ^™ '' 'y^---y - yielding up its fondest usurpa- 
 tions, the hope the salutation of long suffering exiles, but now happy freemen will 
 
 and tnumph, while the ensigns of slavery still linger in our sight, we look up to 
 fhTs'ZtT' ^f — ^^-"-d-ndjoy. Permit us I ^.eloon.. yl' 
 this city, long torn from us by the hard hand of oppression, but now by your 
 Jisdom and energy under the guidance of Providence, once more the s at of pe ce 
 and freedom. We forbear to speak our gratitude or your praise. We should bu 
 echo the voice of applauding millions. But the citizens of New York are emilent"v 
 mdeMed to your virtues ; and we, who have now the honor to address JouXe^ 
 ons P " > 'rr^^^'^-^ °f y°- offerings, and witnessed'your exer- 
 cerity of freemen, and to assure you that we shall preserve, with our latest brel 
 our gratitude to your services, and veneration for your character; and accept o^ 
 our .ncere and earnest wishes that you may long enjoy that calm do'mesl Stf 
 wh ch you have so generously sacrificed that the cries of injured liberty may nevt 
 more interrupt your repose-and that your happiness may be equal to your virtues' 
 Signed at the request of the meeting. 
 
 THOMAS RANDALL, EPHRAIM BRASHIER 
 
 DANIEL PH(ENIX, THOMAS TUCKER 
 
 PAUL BROOME, HENRY KEPP ' 
 
 WM. GILBERT GENIN, pat. DENNISON 
 
 FRANCIS VAN DYCK, WM. GIBER, Jk ' 
 
 GEO. JANEWAY, JEREMIAH WOOL, 
 
 ABRAHAM P. LOTT. 
 
 His Excellence's answer to the Citizens of New York, who have returned 
 from exile. 
 Gentlemen_I thank you sincerely for your affectionate address, and entreat you 
 to be persuaded that nothing could be more agreeable to me than your polite con- 
 gratulations. Permit me in return to felicitate you on the happy re-possession of 
 
 Great as your joy must be on this pleasing occasion, it will scarcely exceed that 
 which I feel at seeing you, gentlemen, who, from the noblest motives have suffered 
 a voluntary exile of many years, return again in peace and triumph, to enjoy the 
 fruits of your virtuous conduct. J j- '° 
 
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 The fortitude and perseverance which you and your suffering brethren have 
 exhibited in the course of the war, have not only endeared you to your countrymen, 
 but will be remembered with admii-ation and applause to the latest posterity. 
 
 May the tranquility of your city be perpetual — may the ruins soon be repaired, 
 commerce flourish, science be fostered, and all the civil and social virtues be 
 cherished in the same illustrious manner which formerly reflected so much credit 
 on the inhabitants of New Yoi'k. In fine may every species of felicity attend you, 
 gentlemen, and your worthy fellow citizens, 
 
 GEOKGE WASHINGTON. 
 
 On the evening of the evacuation the Governor gave a public dinner, at which 
 the Commander-in-Chief and other general ofiicers were present. The arrange- 
 ments for the whole business were so well made and executed, that the most admir- 
 able tranquility succeeded through the day and night. On Monday the Governor 
 gave an elegant entertainment to the French Embassador, the Chevalier de la 
 Suzerne. Gen. Washington and the principal ofiicers of New York State and of 
 the army, and upward of a hundred gentlemen, were present. Magnificent fire- 
 works, infinitely exceeding everything of the kind ever before seen in the United 
 States, were exhibited at the Bowling Green in Broadway, on the evening of Tues- 
 day, in honor of the definitive treaty of peace. They commenced by a dove de- 
 scending with the olive branch, and setting fire to a marine battery. 
 
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KEY TO WASHINGTON'S TRIl 
 
 Novenxbe: 
 
 '-hiilixhed hy 5ta.T.J'e.rrj'. Entered accordznof to Act CoJi^ri^s in thtTta.rlSSlhyGtorge.T'Ptrrjintkt . 
 
 No. 1. Gen. Washington. 
 
 2. Mrs. Washington. 
 
 3. Gov Clinton. 
 
 4. Gen. Lafayette. 
 6, Gen. Steuben. 
 
 6. Gen. Kosciusko. 
 
 7. Gen. Knox. 
 
 No. 8. Gen. Putnam. 
 
 9. Alex. Hamilton. 
 
 10. Gen. Green. 
 
 11. Gen. Gates. 
 
 12. Gen. Lincoln. 
 
 13. Thos. Mifflin. 
 
 14. John Marshall. 
 
 No. 15. Stephei 
 
 16. Rev. D 
 
 17. Mrs. P. 
 
 18. Mrs. A 
 
 19. Mrs. C, 
 
 20. Mrs. B 
 
 21. Mrs. H 
 
IPHAL ENTRY INTO NEW YORK 
 95th, 1783. 
 
 mes. 
 on. 
 Idama. 
 
 No. 22. Mrs. Jay. 
 
 23. Miss J. Marshall. 
 
 24. Miss Bingham. 
 
 26. Indians of Six Nations. 
 
 26. Great Chief Thayondanegea. 
 
 27. Contiaental Guards. 
 
 ^^' 1^' ^'■eedom of Press. 
 
 29. Wounded Soldier. 
 
 30. St. George Cross Flae. 
 
 31. New England Pine Tree 
 
 Flag. 
 
 32. Washington Life Banner 
 
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