Margaretta Faugères, daughter of John and Ann Eliza Bleecker, was born in New York City in 1771. After her birth, the family move their country estate in Tomhannock, presently known as Troy, New York. After the death of Ann Eliza Bleecker in 1783, twelve-year-old Faugères and her father moved back to New York City. There, …
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Ann Eliza Bleecker
Bleecker was born in October 1752 in New York City. Being raised among the aristocracy of New York City, she developed a love for poetry as a young girl and gained a reputation for her precocious aptitude for her verse early in life. Although she never published them, she showed her poems to her closest friends …
The Bowling Green
The Bowling Green is the oldest park in NYC, founded in 1773, and sits at the bottom of Broadway. During the Revolution, there was a large fence and a statue of King George the III, which originated in the 1760s. After hearing the Declaration of Independence in 1776, an angry mob went to the park, …