Rinçage illustré et environs : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-sur-le-son, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, peu cou dans la troisième wa . avait reçu payer très hébergés par les réunion. Avec parfois en deux ans après sa visite nous findthat de l'Église d'Eng-land sont régulièrement organisées dans le Block House, qui était nearthe de l'emplacement de l'armoirie sur les grandes voies. La première église en 1746 waserected presentSt, où l. Georges Church est maintenant.En 1761 St Georges Eglise a reçu sa charte du roi George III, le révérend Samuel Seabury, Recteur, devint plus tard le premier B

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Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . had received pay fromthat very meeting. Sometime with-in two years after his visit we findthat services of the Church of Eng-land were being regularly held inthe Block House, which stood nearthe site of the Armory on Broad-way. The first church building waserected in 1746, where the presentSt. Georges Church now stands.In 1761 St. Georges Church received its charter from King George III.The Rev. Samuel Seabury, Rector, later became the first Bishop of theAmerican Episcopal Church. Flushing was the residence of Sir George Clinton, the Royal Gov-ernor of the Province, about the middle of the 18th Century. It iscertain that the Provincial Council was held here at least once—May3, 1753. When we come to Revolutionary times we find that Flushing oc-cupied a prominent place. Here was the home of Cadwallader Colden, who was Lieutenant-Governor of New York from 1761 until his death, in 1776. He was repeatedly at the head of the government because ofthe death or absence of various governors. 14. St. Michaels Catholic Church (Upper)St. Georges Episcopal Church (Lower) FLUSHING AND VICINITY On the outskirts of Flushing, where the village of Whitestone nowstands, lived another distinguished man—Francis Lewis, a Signer ofthe Declaration of Independence. His son, Morgan Lewis, becameGovernor of New York in1804. During the Revolution-ary period Queens Countywas notorious as the homeof Royalists—or Tories, as their enemies calledthem. When, in 1776, the

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