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 **1749-1805**\\  **1749-1805**\\ 
 //([[Orchard Jacob 1724|Jacob]] - [[Orchard Joseph 1678|Joseph]] - [[Orchard Tobyas 1644|Tobyas]] - [[Orchard Tobias 1607|Tobias]] - [[orchard_thomas_somerset|Thomas]])//\\  //([[Orchard Jacob 1724|Jacob]] - [[Orchard Joseph 1678|Joseph]] - [[Orchard Tobyas 1644|Tobyas]] - [[Orchard Tobias 1607|Tobias]] - [[orchard_thomas_somerset|Thomas]])//\\ 
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 +[[http://www.theartofrandomology.co.uk/genealogy/media/Joseph_Orchard-20210208.pdf|View abridged page, also noting American Loyalist Claim]], in downloadable PDF format.\\ 
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 Joseph ORCHARD was born 7 Jan 1749, Stokes Croft, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Joseph ORCHARD was born 7 Jan 1749, Stokes Croft, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
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 ==== Pinpointing the Manhattan land and house ==== ==== Pinpointing the Manhattan land and house ====
-=== The Oliver De Lancey Farm - Bloomindale / Striker's Bay ===+=== The Oliver De Lancey Farm - Bloomingdale* === 
 +*A reference noting the name "Little Bloomingdale" can be found in 2 **West Side Rag** online articles by Pam Tice of the [[https://www.upperwestsidehistory.org/|Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group]], both of May 2021:  [[https://www.westsiderag.com/2021/05/01/blon|Weekend History: 18th Century Bloomingdale Residents Before the American Revolution]] and [[https://www.westsiderag.com/2021/05/22/weekend-history-the-revolutionary-war-in-bloomingdale|Weekend History: The Revolutionary War in Bloomingdale]] 
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 [[http://www.theartofrandomology.co.uk/genealogy/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=wiki:aplanofnewyorkislandin1776.jpg|{{ wiki:cutfromaplanofnewyorkislandin1776c.jpg|A plan of New York Island during August 1776 }}]]\\  [[http://www.theartofrandomology.co.uk/genealogy/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=wiki:aplanofnewyorkislandin1776.jpg|{{ wiki:cutfromaplanofnewyorkislandin1776c.jpg|A plan of New York Island during August 1776 }}]]\\ 
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 **Note:**\\  **Note:**\\ 
-It has been quite hard tracking down exact details, as most accounts jump from De Lancey straight to Henry Brockholst Livingston - the latter having build his property on the corner of W.90th and Riverside. Yet, as can be seen by the above maps, the Orchard property was probably located on the south-side of W.88th.+It has been quite hard tracking down exact details, as most accounts jump from De Lancey straight to Henry Brockholst Livingston - the latter having built his property on the corner of W.90th and Riverside. Yet, as can be seen by the above maps, the Orchard property was probably located on the south-side of W.88th. 
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 +**See also:** \\  
 +Business Insider article of June 2017 [[https://www.businessinsider.com/manhattan-nyc-farmland-photos-2017-6|Incredible photos of New York City when it was covered in farmland]], by Leanna Garfield. 
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 +Building the Grid: From Paper to Street, Block and Lot, [[https://thegreatestgrid.mcny.org/greatest-grid/opening-streets/43|Farm House at 84th Street]]. Brennan Farm House, 84th and Broadway, 1879: "This image documents the intersection of West 84th Street and Broadway as it appeared in 1879. In the 1840s, the writer Edgar Allan Poe and his family rented a room at Patrick and Mary Brennan’s farmhouse, which is likely where he wrote his famous poem “The Raven.”..."
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 //The Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, popularly known as "the Cattle Market"... opened in 1855... has no striking history of its own, it is interesting as being built on the site of Copenhagen House, a famous tavern, with tea-gardens attached, and Copenhagen Fields...\\  //The Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, popularly known as "the Cattle Market"... opened in 1855... has no striking history of its own, it is interesting as being built on the site of Copenhagen House, a famous tavern, with tea-gardens attached, and Copenhagen Fields...\\ 
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-Both house and fields were frequently used for political meetings, and one of Gillray's best caricatures represents the great meeting at Copenhagen House, on November 13th, 1795, callled by the London Corresponding Society, to [[https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/account-of-a-london-corresponding-society-meeting|petition Parliament]] against the "Bill for the Protection of the King's Person," introduced in consequence if the "Bread Riots."//\\ +Both house and fields were frequently used for political meetings, and one of Gillray's best caricatures represents the great meeting at Copenhagen House, on November 13th, 1795, called by the London Corresponding Society, to [[https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/account-of-a-london-corresponding-society-meeting|petition Parliament]] against the "Bill for the Protection of the King's Person," introduced in consequence if the "Bread Riots."//\\ 
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 A meeting called by the [[wp>London_Corresponding_Society|London Corresponding Society]], 1795. A meeting called by the [[wp>London_Corresponding_Society|London Corresponding Society]], 1795.
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