Through the Gates ofOld Romance


THE PARK THEATRE, NEW YORK CITY, IN 1807

Through the Gates
of Old Romance

BY W. JAY MILLS

Author of "Historic Houses of New Jersey"
Editor of "Glimpses of Colonial Society and the Life
at Princeton College, 1766-1773"

With Illustrations by John Rae

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PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1903


Copyright, 1903
By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published November, 1903

Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.


TO THE FOUR MANNERS
OF MANNERS HOUSE ON
OLD BARROW STREET


Contents

PAGE
An Unrecorded Philadelphia Romance the Franklin Family helped into Flower15
The Love-story of the Noted Nathaniel Moore and "The Heavenly Ellen," a Belle of Chambers Street, New York City59
A True Picture of the Last Days of Aaron Burr99
The Poetic Courtship of Philip Freneau, the Poet of the Revolution, and Beautiful Eleanor Forman123
The Chevalier de Silly and his Newport Sally159
Susanna Rowson, of "Charlotte Temple" Fame, and her British Grenadier179
The Ghosts of an Old Staten Island Manor197
Major André's Last Love213
Pinderina Scribblerus, an American Montagu253

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List of Illustrations

PAGE
The Park Theatre, New York City, in 1807Frontispiece
The West Family in London
Painted by Benjamin West
41
How can I describe to You his Eyes, his Hair, his Voice61
A Sidewalk filled with
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