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00:00:00CENTENNIAL. SO REALLY EXCITING TO ALSO SHARE
00:00:04ELIZABETH CADY STANTON'S WRITING DESK SOME OTHER COOL ARTIFACTS
00:00:07THAT KIND OF MIGHT COME TO LIFE AT NIGHT. IF WE STAY HERE LONG ENOUGH.
00:00:11BUT ONE OF OUR FAVORITE OBJECTS IS WASHINGTON'S TENT, SO WE WOULD LOVE TO SHOW IT TO YOU IF
00:00:15YOU WOULD LIKE TO THE STAIRS AND
00:00:16THE ELEVATORS UP TO SEE THAT I
00:00:20COLLEAGUE TYLER PUTMAN WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY. AND I JUST WANTED TO GIVE
00:00:24ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO OUR PANEL FOR TONIGHT.
00:00:26THEIR COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT.
00:00:31THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN ARE ALL
00:00:33VIPS TO US AND LET PLEASE LIKE LET'S LET'S HANG OUT AGAIN SOON.
00:00:38APPRECIATE IT.
00:00:59WELCOME, EVERYBODY. IT'S REALLY GREAT TO HAVE YOU
00:01:02ALL HERE TONIGHT TO. OUR FIRST OF FOUR SPEAKER
00:01:04SERIES, THIS SEASON'S. I'M GOING TO START OFF BY ASKING
00:01:08THAT ALL MUTE YOUR CELL PHONES. YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED ON THE WAY
00:01:12IN WE HAVE AN ENTOURAGE THIS EVENING. WE'RE REALLY TO HAVE C-SPAN HERE
00:01:16FILMING TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION
00:01:20BROKEN TO 50. WE'RE WORKING OUR WAY TO 2026.
00:01:23AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO OFFER THIS PROGRAMING TO
00:01:27YOU I WANT TO THANK THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND THE BOARD OF
00:01:30COMMISSIONERS FOR PROVIDING FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM.
00:01:34WITHOUT THEM, WE CAN'T CARRY THIS MISSION FORWARD.
00:01:37I WANT TO THANK BOB CARPENTER BEFORE WE GET STARTED FOR ALL THE WORK HE DOES BEHIND THE
00:01:41SCENES FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ROUNDTABLE HERE IN BERGEN COUNTY, HE'S REALLY THE THE
00:01:46DRIVING BEHIND ALL THIS. SO, BOB, THANK HE GETS GREAT
00:01:48PEOPLE LIKE PRESENTER THIS
00:01:51EVENING KEITH CHESKY HE IS A
00:01:53LIBRARIAN AND PROFESSOR AT THE
00:01:55NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY IN BROOKLYN FOR THE
00:01:59LAST YEARS, HE HAS VOLUNTEERED WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
00:02:02AS SITES AS ELLIS ISLAND, THE THEODORE ROOSEVELT BIRTHPLACE,
00:02:08FEDERAL GRANT TOMB AND OTHER LOCATIONS.
00:02:11BUT TONIGHT, WE'RE REALLY LUCKY HAVE HIM HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT HACKENSACK.
00:02:14SO OWN LIEUTENANT COLONEL RICHARD. VERY.
00:02:18KEITH THANK, YOU THANK.
00:02:25WELL, COLIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
00:02:27FOR THAT WARM INTRODUCTION. IT'S SUCH AN HONOR TO BE HERE IN
00:02:31BERGEN COUNTY AND SPEAKING IN NEW JERSEY, WHICH IN MANY WAYS
00:02:34WAS THE FOCAL POINT AND THE
00:02:36CROSSROADS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
00:02:39AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ROBERT CARPENTER AGAIN FOR INVITING ME
00:02:42AND THANK COLIN COLIN NIGHT FOR THAT INTRODUCTION.
00:02:48AND THANK ALL THE ORGANIZERS WHO HELPED PUT THIS TOGETHER AND
00:02:52TODAY I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT ONE
00:02:54OF NEW JERSEY'S FORGOTTEN, AND
00:02:56THAT WOULD BE RICHARD VARICK WHO
00:02:58WHILE SPENDING A GREAT DEAL OF
00:03:00HIS LIFE ACROSS, THE HUDSON
00:03:03RIVER IN NEW YORK CITY, BORN AND
00:03:06DIED AND IS BURIED HERE IN NEW JERSEY.
00:03:11IT'S BURIED RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD
00:03:13FROM IN THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH AND
00:03:15ACTUALLY CAME TO THIS ERA AFTER
00:03:19A FATEFUL TRIP IN JUNE OF 2018
00:03:22TO THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN.
00:03:25BECAUSE PRIOR TO THIS WAS REALLY
00:03:27MORE MY INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS
00:03:29WERE MORE TOWARDS AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
00:03:31BUT I TOOK TRIP A DAY TRIP WITH
00:03:33A FRIEND OF MINE TO PHILADELPHIA
00:03:37FROM NEW YORK CITY IN JUNE OF 2018.
00:03:40AND THIS KIND OF SPUN OFF IN
00:03:42THIS DIRECTION AND.
00:03:45ALSO, ONE THING THAT FASCINATED ME ABOUT THIS AREA AREA, WHICH I
00:03:48REALLY AGAIN, NEVER THOUGHT TOO MUCH ABOUT UNTIL SIX OR SEVEN
00:03:52YEARS AGO BECAUSE ALWAYS KIND OF THOUGHT OF THE REVOLUTION,
00:03:56REVOLUTION PERIOD, KIND OF DEAD
00:03:58HISTORY OR OR SOMETHING. AND AND, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T
00:04:02REALLY THINK TOO ABOUT IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS KIND OF SETTLED
00:04:06HISTORY AND AND THAT TRIP TO THE
00:04:10MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN
00:04:12REVOLUTION OPENED MY EYES TO THAT AND SO I'VE BEEN OFF ON
00:04:15THIS JOURNEY EVER SINCE AND ALSO AS A STORY AND I KIND OF
00:04:19CLASSIFY MYSELF AS I LIKE TO
00:04:20CALL A GLOBAL AMERICANNESS.
00:04:23AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS I'M VERY MUCH A A STUDENT AND A
00:04:28SCHOLAR OF AMERICAN HISTORY, BUT
00:04:30I IT THROUGH THE LENS OF THE
00:04:33STATES IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
00:04:35AND AND AS I THINK A LOT OF YOU
00:04:38KNOW, THE UNITED ACHIEVED ITS INDEPENDENCE WITH THE HELP OF
00:04:42THE FRENCH AND THE DUTCH, THE SPANISH.
00:04:44AND SO EVER SINCE THEN I'VE BEEN
00:04:48I'VE BEEN ON THIS JOURNEY AND
00:04:50EVERY DAY I FEEL LIKE I'M LEARNING SOMETHING NEW AND SO
00:04:54IT'S ALL IT'S ALL VERY EXCITING.
00:04:56AND I ALSO AN INTEREST IN DUTCH HISTORY, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN YOU
00:05:00NOT HAVE AN INTEREST IN DUTCH HISTORY WHEN YOU LIVE IN BROOKLYN?
00:05:04BECAUSE BECAUSE DUTCH HISTORY ALL AROUND YOU, IF YOU KNOW WHAT
00:05:07TO LOOK FOR AND BUT I DON'T REALLY HAVE THE NECESSARY
00:05:11LANGUAGE, YOU KNOW, TO STUDY DUTCH HISTORY.
00:05:14AND SO I WAS I'VE ALWAYS KIND OF THOUGHT OF THE VARIOUS AS BEING
00:05:18MY IN FOR DUTCH HISTORY AND.
00:05:20SO IT'S VERY EXCITING AND.
00:05:22SO HERE IS THE MAN OF THE HOUR
00:05:24RICHARD VARICK, WHO BORN IN
00:05:26HACKENSACK ON, MARCH 25TH, 1753,
00:05:32OF OLD DUTCH STARK. HIS PARENTS WERE, JOHAN VARICK,
00:05:34JOHN ERIC AND A GENETIC DYE JANE
00:05:40DYE AND VERY IS AN INTERESTING
00:05:44FIGURE BECAUSE HE WAS KIND OF HE
00:05:46WAS SORT OF THE WALTER MITTY OF,
00:05:48THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
00:05:50AND HE TENDED TO HE HE WAS ONE
00:05:54OF THOSE HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE, YOU KNOW
00:05:58WHERE WHERE MAJOR EVENTS TAKING PLACE.
00:06:00AND HE ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE WORKING WITH VERY IMPORTANT
00:06:05FIGURES. AND HERE SOME OF THE PEOPLE
00:06:08UNDER RICHARD DVORAK SERVED
00:06:10DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
00:06:12AND THE ONE ON THE IN THE MIDDLE IS ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL, WHO IS
00:06:16THE COLONEL OF THE FIRST NEW
00:06:19YORK REGIMENT IN WHICH RICHARD.
00:06:23ERIC WAS A CAPTAIN AND ON THE FAR LEFT WE HAVE MAJOR GENERAL
00:06:26PHILIP SCHUYLER WHO BASICALLY
00:06:30CONCURRENT LEE AT THE TIME THAT RICHARD VARICK WAS SERVING UNDER
00:06:35MACDOUGAL IN THE FIRST NEW YORK REGIMENT. HE WAS ALSO IN THE NORTHERN DEPARTMENT.
00:06:39SOMETIMES CALLED THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT UNDER.
00:06:41GENERAL SCHUYLER. SO HE WAS REALLY WEARING TWO
00:06:44HATS AT THE SAME TIME IN THE EARLY YEARS OF REVOLUTION.
00:06:50AND EVENTUALLY, HE CAME TO WORK
00:06:53UNDER THE COMMAND OF THIS GUY,
00:06:55MAJOR BENEDICT, MAJOR GENERAL
00:06:57BENEDICT ARNOLD AND A FEW FANS
00:07:03WHOM WE HAVE HERE IN THE
00:07:04AUDIENCE TONIGHT AND AND THE THE
00:07:09ALERT. YES, HE WAS THERE IN NEW YORK,
00:07:12VARICK WAS DURING GENERAL
00:07:15ARNOLD'S TREASON AND. SO HE WORKED FOR THESE FIGURES
00:07:19AND THEN HE SPENT SPENT.
00:07:25THE LAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF THE REVOLUTION SERVING UNDER
00:07:28THIS GUY, COMMANDER IN CHIEF,
00:07:32GEORGE WASHINGTON.
00:07:34SO WE HAVE A PORTRAIT OF
00:07:38WASHINGTON. I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS LETTER, BUT HERE'S A
00:07:41LETTER THAT WASHINGTON WROTE TO
00:07:43RICHARD VARICK ON YEAR'S DAY OF 1784.
00:07:45BY THIS POINT, THE THE WAR HAD BEEN OVER.
00:07:49EVACUATION DAY HAD BEEN NOVEMBER 25TH.
00:07:52AND SO BY JANUARY 1ST OF 1784,
00:07:56GEORGE WASHINGTON, A CIVILIAN
00:07:58ONCE AGAIN, AND HE'S BACK AT HIS HOME IN MOUNT VERNON AND HE'S
00:08:02WRITING LETTERS, INCLUDING THIS ONE, WHICH IS ON FOUNDER'S ON
00:08:06LINE. AND I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE
00:08:08BIT MORE ABOUT IT LATER AND
00:08:12AFTER THE WAR, IT'S ONLY 30 YEARS OLD, RICHARD VARICK, WHEN
00:08:15THE WAR ENDED, WHICH SHOWS YOU
00:08:18HOW YOUNG SOME OF THESE FIGURES WERE.
00:08:21AND BUT HE WAS ACTIVE IN POLITICS AFTER THAT.
00:08:24HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE YORK CITY COMMON COUNCIL.
00:08:28HE WAS THE RECORDER OF NEW YORK CITY, WHICH IS A POSITION THAT
00:08:30DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE. BUT HE WAS BASICALLY THE NUMBER
00:08:33TWO PERSON BEHIND THE MAYOR AND
00:08:37HE WITH ANOTHER ATTORNEY NAMED
00:08:39JONES, HE HELPED TO REVISE AND
00:08:43DIGEST ALL THE LAWS OF NEW YORK
00:08:47STATE SINCE THE TIME OF THE WRITING OF THE OF THE STATE
00:08:51CONSTITUTION. HE WAS THE SPEAKER OF THE NEW
00:08:54YORK STATE ASSEMBLY. HE WAS THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
00:08:59AND MOST FAMOUSLY, RICHARD
00:09:02VARICK WAS THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, WAS THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK
00:09:06CITY FROM 89 UNTIL 1801.
00:09:12SO AS THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY FOR 12 YEARS AND SO BASICALLY
00:09:15THROUGHOUT THE AGE FEDERALISM,
00:09:20SO 1789, WASHINGTON IS SWORN IN
00:09:22IN APRIL OF 1789 AND JEFFERSON
00:09:27BECOMES IN 1801.
00:09:29SO 1789 TO 1801, WHAT WE CALL
00:09:32AGE OF FEDERALISM AND. VARICK WAS THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK
00:09:35CITY THROUGHOUT AGE OF THROUGHOUT THAT PERIOD.
00:09:38HERE WE HAVE PORTRAIT OF VARICK, WHICH WAS PAINTED BY JOHN
00:09:44TRUMBULL, 1805. AND HERE HAVE NEW YORK CITY HALL
00:09:48AS. IT LOOKED AROUND THE SO HERE'S
00:09:51NEW YORK CITY HALL WOULD LATER
00:09:53BECOME FEDERAL HALL AND AND IF
00:09:56YOU KNOW NEW YORK CITY IF YOU KNOW THIS AREA, THIS FEDERAL
00:10:02HALL THERE'S A NEW FEDERAL HALL, IF YOU WILL, THERE, WHICH WAS
00:10:06BUILT THE 1840S, WHICH IS A WHOLE OTHER STORY.
00:10:09BUT ESSENTIALLY LOOKING WEST
00:10:11DOWN WALL STREET AND HERE WE TRINITY CHURCH RIGHT HERE SO TO
00:10:15GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHERE THIS
00:10:16IS SO TRINITY CHURCH AT ON WALL
00:10:21STREET RIGHT THERE.
00:10:22AND HE SAID SOMETHING THAT
00:10:27HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY DURING
00:10:30MAYOR OF ERICK'S TIME OFFICE
00:10:32WHERE SUCH THINGS, THE JAY
00:10:36TREATY, WHICH WERE TWO OF WHICH WHICH IF WAS A SUPPORTER OF THE
00:10:39CITIZENSHIP AFFAIR, THE FRENCH
00:10:41REVOLUTION TOOK PLACE DURING RICHARD BARAK'S MAYORALTY, THE
00:10:45QUASI WAR WITH TOOK PLACE DURING
00:10:48RICHARD BARAK'S MAYORALTY.
00:10:50THERE WAS A YELLOW FEVER PANDEMIC KILLED.
00:10:52THEY KILLED THOUSANDS OF
00:10:54THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING
00:10:57RICHARD DVORAK'S PHYSICIAN
00:11:00BROTHER IN THE 1790S, THERE WAS
00:11:01THE FINANCIAL PANIC OF 1792 AND
00:11:05THERE WAS THE BUTTONWOOD AGREEMENT OF 1793 THAT LAID THE
00:11:11FOUNDATION FOR NEW YORK CITY AS
00:11:13THE CAPITAL THAT IT IS TODAY OF
00:11:16OF INVESTING AND FINANCE OF
00:11:19THESE THINGS HAPPENED DURING THE
00:11:21MORALITY OF NEW YORK OF RICHARD
00:11:23VARICK DURING TENURE MAYOR THE
00:11:27POPULATION DOUBLED FROM 30,000
00:11:30TO ABOUT 60,000 AND HE LEFT
00:11:35OFFICE 1801 SPOILED THERE HE LIVED ANOTHER 30 YEARS.
00:11:38HE DIED IN 1831 AND HE WAS
00:11:43ACTIVE RICHARD VARICK WAS IN
00:11:44MANY BUSINESS VENTURES. ONE BUSINESS VENTURE IN WHICH
00:11:48RICHARD VARICK ACTIVE WAS THE IN
00:11:52THE FOUNDING WHAT AT THE TIME WAS CALLED POWERLESS HOOK.
00:11:56BUT YOU AND I KNOW IT TODAY AS
00:11:58JERSEY CITY, SO JERSEY CITY WAS
00:12:02ACTUALLY FOUNDED IN 1804, BUT
00:12:06HERE WE HEAR WE SEE A SURVEY SURVEYORS RENDERING OF THE PLOTS
00:12:09THAT YOU CAN INVEST IN IN JERSEY CITY IN 1804.
00:12:15AND VARICK WAS ONE OF THE INVESTORS ALONG WITH ALONG WITH
00:12:19JACOB RADCLIFFE AND AND ANTHONY
00:12:24DE.
00:12:24HE WAS ACTIVE RICHARD VARICK,
00:12:29WAS HE WAS ACTIVE IN
00:12:33PHILANTHROPY HE ACTUALLY TOOK THESE IMAGE AT THE AMERICAN
00:12:37REVOLUTION INSTITUTE OF THE SOCIETIES SINCE CINCINNATI
00:12:41LIBRARY. THEY'RE ON DUPONT CIRCLE, WHERE
00:12:42I DID FELLOWSHIP IN JULY OF 2020
00:12:46TO AND SO HE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN
00:12:51PHILANTHROPY. SO WE HERE SEE HERE SOME
00:12:55CERTIFICATES HE WAS ACTIVE IN MISSIONARY SOCIETIES AND
00:13:00EDUCATION, AND THE AMERICAN
00:13:03BIBLE SOCIETY AND MANY OTHER THINGS TOO.
00:13:06THERE HE WAS ACTIVE IN PHILANTHROPY IN A A IN A NUMBER
00:13:10OF AREA, A NUMBER OF AREAS.
00:13:13AND SO IT WAS ACTIVE IN BANKING
00:13:16AND HE HELPED TO HELP PRESERVE THE HISTORY AND MEMORY OF THE
00:13:20REVOLUTIONARY WAR THROUGH HIS ACTIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS AS
00:13:24SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, WHICH
00:13:25I JUST WHICH IS A FRATERNAL
00:13:31ORGANIZATION THAT WAS BEGUN ORIGINALLY BY OFFICERS IN THE
00:13:35CONTINENTAL ARMY. AND HE IN JULY OF 1831 AND HIS
00:13:40BURIED LIKE WE JUST SAID, RIGHT DOWN THE RIGHT THE STREET FROM
00:13:44HERE AND WE ONE CHALLENGE IN
00:13:49STUDYING THIS ERIC AND, ACTUALLY BE THE CAPACITY RESOURCES AND
00:13:54BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE OUT THERE THAN THAN ONE MIGHT
00:13:58ORIGINALLY SUSPECT. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE
00:14:02ACTUALLY ON THE LEFT THIS IS ACTUALLY A BOOK COVER DUTCH NEW
00:14:04YORK BETWEEN EAST AND WEST THE
00:14:06WORLD THE WORLD OF MARGARITA VAN
00:14:11VARICK IN 2029 AND TWICE IN IN
00:14:14TEN BARD COLLEGE IN MANHATTAN.
00:14:16THEIR MANHATTAN CAMPUS ACTUALLY HAD AN EXHIBIT OF MATERIALS
00:14:22PERTAINING TO MARGARITA VAN
00:14:24VARICK WHO WAS BORN IN EUROPE
00:14:27AND SPENT SOME TIME IN MALAKA
00:14:29OUT IN THE PACIFIC AND
00:14:31EVENTUALLY SETTLED BROOKLYN, NEW
00:14:35YORK AND SHE RAN A SHE WAS
00:14:37BASICALLY A TRADER IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND SHE SHE
00:14:43SHE BOUGHT AND SHE BOUGHT AND SOLD GOODS FROM THROUGHOUT THE
00:14:46DUTCH EMPIRE IN THE IN THE THE
00:14:49IN THESE IN THE 17TH CENTURY AND
00:14:54IT'S ACTUALLY INTERESTING
00:14:56BECAUSE YOU LOOK THE WORLD OF
00:14:59MARGRIET VAN VARICK VAN VARICK
00:15:02SO THEY ARE DUTCH OBVIOUSLY AND
00:15:06BUT AS THE AS THE AS THE VARICK
00:15:09SAYS MULTIPLIED AND FORTH AND
00:15:13ANGLICIZED THEY DROPPED THE VAN AND THEY BECOME THE BRICKS SO
00:15:16THEY WERE THE VAN BRICKS AND THEN THE BRICKS.
00:15:19SO I LOVE THIS TOO JUST BECAUSE
00:15:22I LOVE THE COLOR LIKE IN IN, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN THINK OF
00:15:26THE PAST, WE THINK THE PAST PLACE IN BLACK AND WHITE.
00:15:29BUT THE PAST REALLY TAKE PLACE IN BLACK AND WHITE.
00:15:31WE WE WE KNOW BETTER AND BUT
00:15:34JUST LOOK AT THE JUST LOOK AT
00:15:36THE THE BEAUTIFUL ON THESE AND
00:15:41SO WAS ACTUALLY A DESCENDANT OF
00:15:44AN ANCESTOR I SHOULD SAY OF
00:15:47VARICK AND AND IT ACTUALLY GETS
00:15:51EVEN MORE COMPLICATED BECAUSE
00:15:53ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE VARICK IN
00:15:57THE VARICK WORLD WAS WAS THIS INDIVIDUAL JAMES VARICK.
00:16:00JAMES VARICK AN ENSLAVED MAN WHO
00:16:05WAS A HE WAS ENSLAVED WITHIN
00:16:10VARICK FAMILY. JAMES VARICK ACTUALLY WOULD
00:16:13LATER BECOME A BISHOP IN THE AME CHURCH.
00:16:17JAMES VARICK WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF
00:16:20THE FOUNDERS OF OF THE BLACK CHURCH. SO WHEN WE THINK OF THE THE THE
00:16:25HISTORY OF THE BLACK CHURCH IN
00:16:27AMERICA ACTUALLY IT WAS A VARICK
00:16:30JAMES VARICK, THEY'RE ACTUALLY
00:16:33STILL THERE, STILL CHURCHES IN
00:16:38THE UNITED STATES WHO HONORED
00:16:40JAMES AND THERE THESE TWO THERE'S A THERE'S ONE IN
00:16:44BROOKLYN AND ONE IN NEW HAVEN.
00:16:47SO IT'S A REALLY IT'S A VERY
00:16:51COMPLICATED, FASCINATING HISTORY.
00:16:54SO ONE THING I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE WHEN YOU'RE
00:16:58TALKING ABOUT, RICHARD, YOU SAID HE WAS REALLY A VARICK, BUT HE
00:17:01ALSO A DI WAS A MEMBER OF THE
00:17:02DEI FAMILY AND HE WAS BORN HERE
00:17:06IN HACKENSACK IN 1753 AND SPENT THE FIRST 18 YEARS OF HIS LIFE
00:17:10HERE IN HACKENSACK WHICH WAS A
00:17:14VERY BUCOLIC DUTCH ENCLAVE. IT WAS A GREAT PLACE FOR A YOUNG
00:17:19MAN TO GROW UP AND. HE GREW UP WITH PRIVATE TUTORS
00:17:22AND HE STUDIED FRENCH AND LATIN AND OTHER LANGUAGES.
00:17:27AND IN 1771, JUST AFTER HIS 18TH BIRTHDAY, RICHARD MOVED TO NEW
00:17:31YORK TO CLERK FOR AN ATTORNEY NAMED MOORE AND SCOTT.
00:17:35AND IT WAS A CONSEQUENTIAL DECISION TO MOVE ACROSS THE
00:17:39WATER. AND ONE INDICATIVE OF A TREND THAT WOULD CONTINUE FOR THE REST
00:17:42OF AMERICAN LIFE AND THAT HE WOULD BECOME TRUSTED, UNDERLING
00:17:45AND CONFIDANT OF A POWERFUL,
00:17:48WELL-RESPECTED FIGURE, JOHN MOORE. AND SCOTT WAS OF THE LEADING
00:17:52ATTORNEYS IN NEW YORK CITY,
00:17:54WHICH AT THE TIME A VERY INSULAR
00:17:57WORLD WITH REALLY JUST A FEW
00:17:59DOZEN LAWYERS LAWYERS, YOU KNOW,
00:18:03COLLABORATING OR COLBERT RAISING
00:18:05OR COMPETING IN EQUAL MEASURE,
00:18:07DEPENDING ON THE CLIENTS AND AND THE WORKLOAD AND.
00:18:11JOHN MOORE AND SCOTT WAS
00:18:16ACTUALLY THIRD OF WHAT WE CALL THE NEW YORK TRIUMVIRATE.
00:18:20AND SO WE SEE JOHN MOORE AND
00:18:21SCOTT HERE, THE FAR LEFT AND SO
00:18:26THE NEW YORK TIMES, THESE WERE THE THREE LEADING ATTORNEYS IN
00:18:30YORK CITY IN THE 15 TO 20 YEARS.
00:18:32JUST PRIOR TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE REVOLUTION.
00:18:36AND WE HAVE JOHN MOORE AND ON THE FAR LEFT AND IN THE MIDDLE
00:18:40HAVE WILLIAM SMITH JR, WHO WAS
00:18:44AN ATTORNEY AND A HE WOULD GO ON
00:18:47TO BECOME A JUDGE, WOULD ACTUALLY GO ON TO BECOME A LOYALIST DURING THE WAR.
00:18:51AND HE WOULD HE HE WAS A JUDGE
00:18:58IN MANHATTAN DURING THE BRITISH OCCUPATION.
00:19:01AND WHEN THE WAR ENDS, HE MOVES LONDON BRIEFLY AND EVENTUALLY
00:19:05SETTLES WILLIAM SMITH DOES IN BRITISH, WHERE HE IS, WHERE HE
00:19:09SERVED AS A JUDGE IN BRITISH CANADA. SO WILLIAM SMITH IN THE MIDDLE
00:19:14BECAME, A LOYALIST, AND THEN THE FINAL THIRD OF THE TRANSFER WAS
00:19:17LIVINGSTON, WHO WE SEE ON THE
00:19:20FAR RIGHT, WHO I THINK, AS YOU
00:19:22CAN PROBABLY GUESS, WAS PART THE LIVINGSTON FAMILY.
00:19:26AND SO JOHN MOORE AND SCOTT WAS
00:19:30ONE THIRD OF THE LIVINGSTON OF
00:19:32THE TRIUMVIRATE AND SO.
00:19:43NO NO CLERKING FOR AN ATTORNEY JOHN MOORE AND SCOTT WOULD HAVE
00:19:46ENTAILED LONG HOURS OF DRUDGE
00:19:48WORK, DRAFTING WILLS AND COPYING COURT BRIEFS AND DOING WHATEVER
00:19:53MUNDANE TASKS REALLY NEEDED TO BE DONE IN A IN AN OFFICE AS
00:19:56BUSY AS MOORE AND SCOTT WAS. AND THIS WAS IN ADDITION TO
00:20:02STUDYING BRITISH LAW.
00:20:04BECAUSE, OF COURSE, NEW JERSEY
00:20:06AND NEW YORK WERE BOTH COLONIES. RIGHT?
00:20:09SO IF YOU'RE AN ATTORNEY, YOU ARE GOING TO STUDY BRITISH LAW, YOU'RE GOING TO STUDY THINGS
00:20:14LIKE COMMENTARY, WHICH WE SEE HERE.
00:20:16I ACTUALLY TOOK THAT PICTURE AT THE GROLIER CLUB DURING THEIR
00:20:20LINCOLN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. SO HE WOULD HAVE STUDIED THINGS
00:20:24LIKE SAW, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN
00:20:26ENGLAND IN THE SEVEN IN THE LATE 1760S AND MADE AVAILABLE IN THE
00:20:30UNITED STATES STARTING 1771 AND 1772.
00:20:35SO ACTUALLY TWO VARICK, SOMETHING LIKE HAD JUST BEEN
00:20:39RELEASED WHEN HE WAS STUDYING IT
00:20:41IN IN EARLY 1770S.
00:20:45RICHARD ACTUALLY, HE HE, HE, HE
00:20:49PASSED THE NEW YORK BAR IN OCTOBER.
00:20:53OF 1774, ACTUALLY.
00:20:55HE, HE, HE PASSED THE BAR THE
00:20:59SAME WEEK THAT THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS WAS
00:21:02ADJOURNING IN.
00:21:04AND OF COURSE, AS WE KNOW, THE
00:21:06WAR BREAKS OUT MONTHS LATER.
00:21:09SO THIS WAS THE MILIEU IN WHICH
00:21:11IN WHICH RICHARD VARICK SPENT
00:21:15HIS CLERKING.
00:21:18RICHARD RICH, HIS MILITARY
00:21:23CAREER BEGAN ON JUNE 28TH, 1775,
00:21:27WHEN THE SECOND CONTINENT CONGRESS COMMISSIONED A CAPTAIN FAIR.
00:21:30OF COURSE ASSIGNED COMMAND OF THE SIXTH COMPANY OF THE FIRST
00:21:34NEW YORK REGIMENT OF LEADERSHIP OF THE FIRST NEW YORK'S SECOND
00:21:37COMPANY WAS GIVEN TO MARINUS WILLARD, A GREAT GRANDSON OF
00:21:41MARGARET VAN VARICK, AND THAT'S A COUSIN OR TWICE REMOVED OF
00:21:43RICHARD VARICK. ON JUNE 30TH, THE NEW YORK
00:21:48PROVINCIAL APPOINTED ALEXANDER
00:21:51MACDOUGALL, COLONEL OF NEW YORK, FIRST MACDOUGALL, HAD BEEN A
00:21:55PRIVATEER DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND ACTIVE IN THE
00:21:57SONS OF LIBERTY, ALONG WITH JOHN
00:22:00AND SCOTT, GOING BACK NEARLY DECADE.
00:22:02A LOT WITH THE HELP OF SCOTT ON
00:22:06JULY 1ST, VARICK WAS ALSO APPOINTED, AS I MENTIONED TO,
00:22:09PHILIP SCHUYLER IN THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT.
00:22:13VARICK WOULD ALSO BE THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT'S UNOFFICIAL
00:22:18QUARTERMASTER REQUISITIONING ANY AND ALL PROVISIONS THAT MIGHT BE NEEDED.
00:22:22I ACTUALLY TOOK THIS PICTURE TOO
00:22:24AT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
00:22:28INSTITUTE LIBRARY AT THE SOCIETY'S THERE IN DUPONT
00:22:32CIRCLE. AND THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT KNOW HOLDING SOMETHING LIKE THIS
00:22:36IN YOUR HAND RIGHT AND AND AND
00:22:38WE LOVE TO READ THE BOOKS AND LOOK AT THINGS ONLINE AND ALL OF
00:22:42THAT BUT BUT SO HERE WE HAVE WE
00:22:46HAVE THIS IS HIS HANDWRITING IN
00:22:48IN THE ACCOUNT BOOKS IN IN
00:22:53GENERAL SCHUYLER'S NORTHERN
00:22:56DEPARTMENT AND AND WHENEVER HE
00:22:59WAS DOING THIS AT THE SAME WELL, HE WAS ALSO DOING THIS FOR
00:23:03SCHUYLER. HE WAS ALSO WORKING UNDER THE
00:23:05COMMAND OF OF MCDOUGALL IN THE
00:23:08FIRST IN THE FIRST NEW YORK REGIMENT.
00:23:11MAJOR GENERAL SCHUYLER AND CAPTAIN VARICK BOARDED A
00:23:15TRANSPORT ON THE NORTH RIVER AND LANDED IN THE GENERAL HOMETOWN
00:23:18OF ALBANY ON JULY 9TH, 1775.
00:23:22BECAUSE AN INVASION OF CANADA WAS A PRIORITY. AND THE RECENTLY CAPTURED FORT
00:23:27TYGER TICONDEROGA, A NATURAL OFF
00:23:29POINT IN MAKING THAT THEY QUICKLY WENT THERE.
00:23:33SOON JOINING THEM WOULD BE BRIGADIER GENERAL RICHARD
00:23:37MONTGOMERY. THAT SUMMER, SCHUYLER PREPARED
00:23:39TWO PRONGED ATTACK ON CANADA WITH MONTGOMERY TO COMMAND ONE
00:23:43AND BENEDICT ARNOLD THE OTHER.
00:23:47SCHUYLER BECAME BEDRIDDEN WITH
00:23:49RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND GOUT
00:23:51AND PUT MONTGOMERY IN CHARGE AND RETURNED TO ALBANY.
00:23:55AND HERE WE.
00:23:58HAVE A PICTURE OF THAT.
00:24:01THE CANADIAN OFFENSIVE BEGAN. WELL, WITH THE REBELS TAKING
00:24:05MONTREAL PRETTY EASILY HERE WE
00:24:08AN IMAGE OF THE THE OF THE
00:24:12REBELS TAKING THIS PICTURE WAS
00:24:16THIS SURRENDERING FROM THE
00:24:18MID-19TH CENTURY AND HERE WE
00:24:20HAVE A DRAWING OF RICHARD
00:24:22MONTGOMERY AND WHO WAS ACTUALLY
00:24:27KILLED. TRYING TO TAKE QUEBEC ON DECEMBER FIRST OF 1775.
00:24:33AND RICK ATKINSON IN WHEN HE
00:24:35WRITES ABOUT THAT IN VOLUME ONE
00:24:39OF HIS SOON TO BE TRILOGY
00:24:43MENTIONS SIR GUY CARLETON, HIS RECOUNTING THAT AND TALKING
00:24:46ABOUT CARLETON WAS RIGHT ABOUT HOW HOW THE REBELS THEY WERE
00:24:50REPULSED BY SLAUGHTER AT THE GATES OF QUEBEC.
00:24:54AND SO MONTGOMERY IS KILLED IN
00:24:58QUEBEC AND ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
00:25:021776, MILITARY VICTORY OVER THE
00:25:04POWERFUL BRITISH UNCERTAIN AND INDEPENDENCE.
00:25:08STILL NOT NECESSARILY EVEN THE GOAL FOR MANY COLONISTS.
00:25:12TOM PAINE PUBLISHED COMMON SENSE
00:25:15ON JANUARY 10TH, THE PAMPHLET QUICKLY BECAME A BESTSELLER AND
00:25:19SWAYED A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT TO THE REBEL
00:25:23CAUSE. CAPTAIN AMERICA HIMSELF IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, WORKING HIS
00:25:27DUAL IN THE FIRST NEW YORK REGIMENT AND, THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT.
00:25:30THERE WERE MANY TASKS TO KEEP THE YOUNG OFFICER STILL IN HIS
00:25:34EARLY TWENTIES, BUSY IN ALBANY
00:25:36FOR TAKE AROUND TICONDEROGA AND
00:25:41VICINITY ON JUNE 9TH, 1776, THE NEW YORK PROVINCIAL OF WHICH
00:25:45JOHN WARREN SCOTT WAS A MEMBER, APPOINTED SCOTT, A BRIGADIER IN
00:25:49THE NEW YORK MILITIA JUST IN TIME, AS IT TURNED OUT, FOR THE
00:25:53ARRIVAL OF THE HOWE BROTHERS, GENERAL HOWE'S BRITISH TROOPS
00:25:57WERE SPOTTED OFF STATEN ISLAND ON JUNE.
00:26:0329TH. NOW ALL NEW YORKERS GRASPED THE
00:26:06DANGER OF THE HOWE BROTHERS ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK CITY, WHICH
00:26:09IS WHY JOHN MOORE AND SCOTT HAD
00:26:11SENT HIS DAUGHTER THE HUDSON
00:26:15RIVER, THE NEW JERSEY HOME OF
00:26:18WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, WHO 1772,
00:26:22HAD LEFT NEW YORK CITY TO TO TO
00:26:26SETTLE HERE IN NEW JERSEY,
00:26:28BECOME A GENTLEMAN FARMER AND. SO HERE WE HAVE ANYBODY EVER
00:26:32BEEN TO. LIBERTY HALL YEAH, IT'S A GREAT, ISN'T IT?
00:26:35AND ACTUALLY TOOK THIS PHOTOGRAPH WE SEE TOOK THIS A
00:26:39COUPLE OF SUMMERS AGO. WHAT HAPPENED WAS AT LIBERTY
00:26:42HALL ABOUT PROBABLY ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO NOW, THEY WERE DOING
00:26:46RENOVATIONS AND THEY PUNCHED THROUGH A WALL AND THEY FOUND
00:26:48THIS HIDDEN WINE CELLAR AND
00:26:54INCLUDES IT. YEAH, INCLUDED IN THE WINE
00:26:56CELLAR ARE BOTTLES OF WHICH DATE
00:26:59BACK WHICH ARE LIKE OVER 200
00:27:02YEARS OLD AT THIS POINT. I TRIED TO GET THEM TO OPEN THOSE BOTTLES OF.
00:27:06MINE, I SAID, LET'S JUST OPEN ONE AND NO ONE WILL NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE. BUT I, I COULDN'T GET THEM TO DO THAT.
00:27:11BUT GO. GO FIGURE.
00:27:13AND SO JOHN WARREN SCOTT
00:27:15ACTUALLY BECAME A GENERAL.
00:27:17HE WAS ACTUALLY WITH WASHINGTON DURING THE COUNCIL OF WAR JUST
00:27:22BEFORE THE EVACUATION OF OF BROOKLYN.
00:27:25JOHN WARREN SCOTT WAS ACTUALLY PART OF THE PART OF THE EVACUATION.
00:27:32AND.
00:27:34VARICK ACTUALLY RESIGNED FROM THE FIRST NEW YORK REGIMENT ON
00:27:38SEPTEMBER 14, 1776, WHICH IF YOU
00:27:41DOING THE MATH, IS ABOUT TWO
00:27:42WEEKS AFTER THE BATTLE LONG
00:27:46ISLAND AND BUT HIS DUTIES EXPANDED HOWEVER, WHEN THE
00:27:50CONTINENTAL CONGRESS APPOINTED HIM DEPUTY MUSTER MASTER GENERAL
00:27:53OF THE NORTHERN ARMY.
00:27:55DAYS LATER THIS JOB.
00:28:07AND TAYLOR CODIFIED THAT POSITION WITH THE CREATION OF
00:28:10THE MUSTER DEPARTMENT.
00:28:12ON APRIL 4TH, CONGRESS CONFERRED DVORAK IN THE DEPUTY MASTER
00:28:15MASTER GENERAL TITLE ON APRIL
00:28:1810TH AND PROMOTED HIM TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL.
00:28:21NOW, THINGS REMAINED TENUOUS AS
00:28:24THE BRITISH WERE DETERMINED TO SQUEEZE THE NORTHERN ARMY AND
00:28:29ATTACK FROM CANADA AND.
00:28:34BUT AS I THINK YOU MIGHT KNOW,
00:28:37THAT DID NOT COME TO AND SO.
00:28:42IN OCTOBER OF 1777, THE
00:28:45SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS WHEN LIEUTENANT GENERAL BURGOYNE
00:28:52SURRENDERS. TO HORATIO GATES AND RICHARD
00:28:56DVORAK IS NOT IN THIS PAINTING, BUT ACTUALLY DID WITNESS THE
00:29:00SURRENDER.
00:29:01BURGOYNE SURRENDERED GATES AND
00:29:04IRONICALLY, WHEN PAINTED THIS,
00:29:07HE PUT HE PUT GENERAL SCHUYLER
00:29:11IN IN THE IN THE PAINTING BUT GENERAL SCHUYLER WAS NOT THERE
00:29:15SO SO SO FRIEDRICH WAS THERE.
00:29:19HE'S NOT IN THE FORTRESS. SCHUYLER NOT THERE, BUT HE IS IN
00:29:21THE PORTRAIT THAT'S, THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES.
00:29:25A A LITTLE ARTISTIC LICENSE I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY.
00:29:29AND YOU AND.
00:29:35HIS WORK DID CHANGE.
00:29:37HOWEVER, WHEN ON JANUARY 12TH,
00:29:401780, THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS ABOLISHED THE MOST YOUR MASTER
00:29:44DEPARTMENT AND DISCHARGED ITS OFFICERS. UPON GETTING THE NEWS, VARRICK
00:29:48RETURNED TO NEW JERSEY, AND FOR A TIME HE SERVED LIGHT DUTY IN
00:29:51THE BERGEN COUNTY MILITIA COMMANDED BY HIS UNCLE CURTIS,
00:29:55COLONEL TO EUNICE WAS ACTUALLY
00:29:59HE BRUSHED UP ON HIS LAW IN THIS
00:30:01PERIOD DID RICHARD WORK AND IT
00:30:03WAS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING THAT HE DID BRUSH UP ON LAW BECAUSE
00:30:07IN APRIL OF 1779 WILLIAM
00:30:10LIVINGSTON WHO BY THIS TIME WAS
00:30:13THE GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY,
00:30:15APPOINTED HIM A SOLICITOR AND
00:30:19GIVING THE RIGHT TO PRACTICE LAW HERE IN NEW JERSEY.
00:30:21SO VERY BY THIS TIME IS ACTUALLY ABLE TO PRACTICE LAW IN BOTH NEW
00:30:27YORK, NEW YORK STATE AND AND AND
00:30:31IN NEW JERSEY AND LIVINGSTON.
00:30:35HE WAS THE HE WAS FIRST GOVERNOR
00:30:37WILLIAM LIVINGSTON BECAME THE
00:30:40FIRST GOVERNOR, REPLACING
00:30:44WILLIAM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
00:30:46SOME SON WHO BECAME A LOYALIST
00:30:49AND SO.
00:31:05SO HE APPOINTS HIM DOES WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, APPOINTS HIM AS AN
00:31:09ATTORNEY. THE WAR, HOWEVER, REMAINED EVER PRESENT WITH A STRONG BRITISH
00:31:12AND HESSIAN PRESENCE IN THE
00:31:14AREA, CARRYING OUT OFFENSIVE AND
00:31:18STAY IN CLOSE. COMMANDER CHIEF GEORGE
00:31:22WASHINGTON ESTABLISHES HEADQUARTERS AT THE HOME OF
00:31:25COLONEL TUNIS DAY. RICHARD BARRACKS, UNCLE
00:31:29THROUGHOUT JULY OF 1780 AND
00:31:30AGAIN IN OCTOBER FALL OF 1780.
00:31:35ON AUGUST 13TH, RICHARD DIED AN
00:31:38AIDE DE CAMP TO ONE OF GEORGE
00:31:42WASHINGTON'S MOST TRUSTED
00:31:44ADVISERS AND OFFICERS BENEDICT.
00:31:48ARNOLD HAD PERFORMED WELL IN THE PATRIOT SINCE HELPING TAKE
00:31:54TICONDEROGA IN MAY OF 1775.
00:31:56AND THEN RECENTLY AT SARATOGA.
00:31:59NOW HE COMMANDED NEAR WEST POINT HEADQUARTERS AND SELF HIMSELF AT
00:32:04THE BEVERLY ROBINSON HOUSE ACROSS THE NORTH RIVER FROM
00:32:11POINT.
00:32:14IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, AND
00:32:17OTHERS BEGAN WHISPERING THAT. ARNOLD WAS ACTING STRANGELY.
00:32:20FOR ONE THING, THE GENERAL HAD BEEN SPENDING TIME IN THE COMPANY OF BRITISH MAJOR
00:32:25GENERAL. BRITISH MAJOR JOHN ANDRE AT THE
00:32:27HOME OF JOSHUA HEAD SMITH, THE
00:32:29YOUNGER BROTHER OF WILLIAM SMITH JR, WHO WAS ONE THIRD OF THE
00:32:33TRAMP AND YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE VARICK HAD
00:32:36LIKELY KNOWN THE SMITH BROTHERS PRIOR TO THE WAR.
00:32:40WILLIAM SMITH JR.
00:32:42I MENTIONED EARLIER, WHO IS ONE
00:32:44THIRD OF THE TRIUMPHANT WITH WILLIAM LIVINGSTON AND JOHN
00:32:49MOORE. SCOTT WAS AN ATTORNEY HIS
00:32:52BROTHER JOSHUA HEAD SMITH WAS AN ATTORNEY.
00:32:54THE WORLD OF NEW YORK CITY
00:32:58JURISPRUDENCE WAS VERY SMALL AND
00:33:00I DON'T AND SO IT IS ALMOST A CERTAINTY THAT RICHARD VARICK HE
00:33:04WOULD HAVE KNOWN JOSHUA HAD
00:33:05SMITH WHO HAD BEEN CONSPIRE WITH
00:33:08BENEDICT ARNOLD PRIOR TO THE WAR
00:33:12HE ALMOST CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE KNOWN HIM WHEN VARIOUS TREASON
00:33:16TO LIGHT HIS AIDES FIDELITY TO
00:33:18CAME INTO QUESTION. VARICK WAS BRIEFLY DETAINED AND
00:33:22THOUGH QUICKLY RELEASED, FELL UNDER A CLOUD OF SUSPICION.
00:33:26FAROUK WAS ILL THROUGHOUT THE ARNOLD AFFAIR AND DEMANDED A
00:33:28COURT OF INQUIRY TO EXONERATE HIMSELF.
00:33:32ON OCTOBER 12TH, HE WROTE GEORGE
00:33:34WASHINGTON, WHO IS AGAIN YOURSELF AT THE HOME OF OF
00:33:38ERIC'S UNCLE COLONEL TO THIS DAY THAT I HAVE THE HONOR TO INFORM
00:33:43YOUR EXCELLENCY, EXCELLENCY,
00:33:45THAT I THINK MY HEALTH IS SO FAR
00:33:47RESTORED AS TO ENABLE ME TO BEAR
00:33:50THE FATIGUE INCIDENT, TO AN ATTENDANCE AND A COURT OF
00:33:54INQUIRY INTO MY CONDUCT. WHILE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
00:33:58EXCELLENCY, WHICH YOUR EXCELLENCY WAS SO INDULGENT AS
00:34:00TO PROMISE ME AS SOON AS I
00:34:02SHOULD BE ABLE TO ATTEND TO. SO THE ACTUALLY BEGAN AT
00:34:08ROBINSON HOUSE.
00:34:12ON NOVEMBER 2ND. VARICK TESTIFIED ON HIS OWN BEHALF.
00:34:14HERE IS.
00:34:17A TEXT OF THAT. BARRACK TESTIFIED ON HIS OWN
00:34:22BEHALF AND READ INTO THE RECORD TO WHERE DEPOSITIONS THAT VARICK
00:34:24HAD SOLICITED FROM SUPPORTERS,
00:34:26INCLUDING PHILIP VARICK, WAS AND
00:34:30HIS REPUTATION CLEARED ON NOVEMBER 5TH, BUT STILL WITHOUT
00:34:34A STAFF. HE BECAUSE HE WAS STILL WITHOUT
00:34:38A STAFF POSITION HE HE HE
00:34:42PRACTICED IN NEW YORK STATE FOR A TIME.
00:34:46YOU KNOW WASHINGTON GEORGE WASHINGTON KEPT METICULOUS
00:34:50RECORDS BOTH AS A PLANTER AND AS A SOLDIER.
00:34:54AND GOOD RECORD KEEPING WAS ACTUALLY ESSENTIAL TO HIM BECAUSE.
00:34:58EVERYWHERE HE WENT IN HIS TENT THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAN
00:35:00REVOLUTIONARY WAR, THERE WERE JUST VAST AND VAST AMOUNTS OF
00:35:05PAPERWORK THAT PASSED THROUGH HIS HEADQUARTERS.
00:35:08YOU KNOW, PAPERWORK WAS ALSO IMPORTANT TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
00:35:12THROUGHOUT THE WAR BECAUSE HE DIDN'T DRAW A SALARY, BUT THEY
00:35:15DID PAY FOR HIS EXPENSES. SO HE KEPT EVERY RECEIPT.
00:35:19AND SO HE WAS GOING TO MAKE SURE
00:35:21THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS TO TO
00:35:23TO TO RECORD THAT PAPERWORK AND
00:35:27THE CORRESPONDENCE VOLUMINOUS
00:35:29AND GETTING OUT OF HAND.
00:35:31AND SO IN APRIL OF 1781, JUST AS
00:35:34THE WAR WAS ENTERING ITS SEVENTH YEAR. WASHINGTON TO SAMUEL HUNTINGTON,
00:35:40PRESIDENT THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS REGARDING HIS PAPERS
00:35:43AND AVERRED THAT UNLESS A SET OF WRITERS ARE EMPLOYED FOR SOLE
00:35:46PURPOSE OF RECORDING THEM, IT WILL NOT BE IN MY POWER TO
00:35:50ACCOMPLISH THIS NECESSARY AND
00:35:52EQUALLY IMPRACTICABLE
00:35:55PRACTICABLE, PERHAPS TO PRESERVE THEM FROM INJURY AND LOSS AND
00:36:00WASHINGTON CONTINUED TO HUNTINGTON.
00:36:02THAT ORGANIZING THE PAPERS MUST
00:36:05BE DONE UNDER THE INSPECTION. A MAN OF CHARACTER IN WHOM
00:36:09ENTIRE CAN BE PLACED AND WHO IS
00:36:11CAPABLE OF ARRANGING THE PAPERS
00:36:14AND METHODS METHOD DISGUISING THE REGISTER.
00:36:19CONGRESS QUICKLY AGREED TO
00:36:21WASHINGTON'S REQUEST, AND ON MAY
00:36:2325TH, WASHINGTON OFFERED LIEUTENANT COLONEL RICHARD
00:36:27VARICK TO POSITION A RECORDING.
00:36:29HE BEGAN.
00:36:33IN JULY 1781, IN HIS CAPACITY, GEORGE WASHINGTON'S RECORDING
00:36:37SECRETARY. RICHARD VARICK WAS IN A GENUINE ONE OF THE FIRST HISTORIANS OF
00:36:41THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. HE SPENT THE FINAL TWO AND A
00:36:45HALF YEARS OF, THE WAR PRIMARILY
00:36:47IN POUGHKEEPSIE, OVERSEEING A
00:36:49STAFF OF APPROXIMATE LEE, HALF A
00:36:52DOZEN MEN IN TRANSCRIBING,
00:36:54COLLATING AND LETTERS ORDERS
00:36:58AND COMMUNIQUES ON TOPICS LARGE
00:37:00AND SMALL THAT POURED TO AND
00:37:04FROM WASHINGTON'S HEADQUARTERS.
00:37:11AIDED BY ROCHAMBEAU, LAFAYETTE,
00:37:15WASHINGTON ACCEPTED THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS AT
00:37:17YORKTOWN IN OCTOBER OF 1781.
00:37:19THE WAR WAS LARGELY OVER.
00:37:22NEXT CAME THE LONG WAIT FOR PEACE IN EUROPE.
00:37:25EVEN BEFORE PEACE OFFICIALLY CAME, MILITARY LEADERS BEGAN
00:37:29THINKING OF THEIR LEGACY LARGELY AT THE IMPETUS OF HENRY KNOX.
00:37:34NOW A MAJOR GENERAL CONTINENTAL OFFICERS MET AT THE FISHKILL
00:37:39HEADQUARTERS OF MAJOR GENERAL FREDERICK FRENCH. TOIBIN ON MAY 13TH, 1783, AND
00:37:44FOUNDED SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, A FEDERAL, A
00:37:47FRATERNAL ORGANIZED NATION OF
00:37:49REVOLUTIONARY WAR, WHOSE PURPOSE
00:37:53WAS TO ADVOCATE FOR VETERANS INTERESTS, PERPETUATE THE WAR'S
00:37:57MEMORY AND PRESERVE REPUBLICAN
00:38:01VIRTUES TO GO WITH THE NATIONAL BODY. THE CINCINNATI'S FOUNDERS
00:38:05CREATED STATES CHAPTERS THAT ARE STILL HERE US NEARLY TWO AND A
00:38:07HALF CENTURIES LATER, ALEXANDER
00:38:11WOULD SERVE AS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK STATE
00:38:15SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI JOHN
00:38:19BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND JOHN JAY. THE TREATY OF PARIS.
00:38:22ON SEPTEMBER 3RD, 1783, THE BRITISH EVACUATED NEW YORK CITY
00:38:27ON NOVEMBER 25TH, AFTER WHICH WASHINGTON AND AND HIS ENTOURAGE
00:38:31RODE TRIUMPHANTLY INTO THE CITY,
00:38:34THOROUGHLY DECEMBER, THERE WAS MUCH CELEBRATING.
00:38:36WASHINGTON BADE FAREWELL TO HIS OFFICERS AT SAMUEL FRANCIS
00:38:40TAVERN, LOWER MANHATTAN, ON DECEMBER 4TH RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION TO THE CONTINENTAL
00:38:44CONGRESS IN ANNAPOLIS ON THE 23RD AND RETURNED TO MOUNT
00:38:49VERNON TIME FOR CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER.
00:38:51AND THAT MONTH, RICHARD VARICK
00:38:53COMPLETED WASHINGTON'S PAPERS
00:38:58PAPERS. AND HERE'S A WRITTEN COPY OF THAT LETTER I SHOWED YOU EARLIER
00:39:02IN VARICK.
00:39:06GEORGE WASHINGTON, WRITES TO ERIC.
00:39:10SO WASHINGTON WROTE TO ERIC ON YEAR'S DAY 1784 TO EXPRESS HIS
00:39:15APPRECIATION IN THE PUBLIC AND OTHER PAPERS WERE COMMITTED TO
00:39:18YOUR CHARGE AND BOOKS IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN RECORDED UNDER
00:39:22INSPECTION HAVE COME SAFE TO HAND.
00:39:24I TAKE FIRST OPPORTUNITY OF
00:39:28SIGNIFYING ENTIRE APPROBATION OF THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU HAVE
00:39:32EXECUTED THE IMPORTANT DUTIES OF
00:39:34RECORDING AND THE SATISFACTION FEEL IN HAVING MY PAPERS.
00:39:39SO ARRANGED AND SO CORRECTLY
00:39:42RECORDED AND BEG YOU WILL ACCEPT THANKS FOR THE CARE AND
00:39:45ATTENTION WHICH YOU HAVE GIVEN THIS BUSINESS.
00:39:48AND SO HERE WE HAVE THE LETTER
00:39:50AND ALSO THAT SAME DAY, GEORGE
00:39:55AS PRESIDENT GENERAL, THE
00:39:58SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI SIGN
00:40:00AND RICHARD VARICK DIPLOMA, HIS
00:40:04MEMBERSHIP DIPLOMA IN THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI, WHICH
00:40:07CLEARLY MEANT A LOT TO RICHARD DVORAK. THIS BALL IS ACTUALLY AT
00:40:11MORRISTOWN, A NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK WITH WHAT WE SEE
00:40:14HERE ACTUALLY IS A COPY OF
00:40:16RICHARD VERA SOCIETY, TEA OF THE
00:40:19CINCINNATI DIPLOMA THAT WAS
00:40:20WRITTEN OUT THIS DAY BY GEORGE
00:40:24WASHINGTON. THIS BALL WAS ACTUALLY MADE IN
00:40:26CHINA, WAS PART OF THE TRADE
00:40:32AND.
00:40:33CHINA IN THE LATE 17TH, IN THE
00:40:38LATE 18TH CENTURY, WAS THEY WERE
00:40:43EXPERTS AT PRODUCING FINE CHINA, PRIMARILY FOR THE EUROPE.
00:40:46AND NOW THE AMERICAN MARKET. AND THE THAT THEY HAVE THERE,
00:40:51MORRISTOWN IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE THE MOST EXQUISITE EXAMPLES
00:40:54OF CHINESE PORCELAIN THAT THAT
00:40:58ONE THAT ONE WILL EVER SEE.
00:41:03AFTER FLUSH OF VICTORY CAME THE
00:41:06HARD WORK OF INDEPENDENCE THE YOUNG NATION FACED SEEMINGLY
00:41:10INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGES. THESE INCLUDED.
00:41:13BUT HARDLY LIMITED TO ECONOMIC
00:41:16CIVIC UNREST.
00:41:18TENSIONS WITH NATIVE AMERICANS
00:41:21LEERY NESS OF A RESENTFUL, STILL POWERFUL BRITAIN WHO WHO WAS
00:41:26STILL MUCH HERE IN THE WITH THEIR BASES IN THE WEST INDIES
00:41:29AND IN BRITISH AND ELSEWHERE
00:41:33DEBTS OWED TO FRANCE AND OTHER EUROPEAN POWERS.
00:41:36BORDER DISPUTES BETWEEN VARIOUS
00:41:39THE UNCERTAINTIES WESTERN EXPANSION.
00:41:43POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND BACK PAY
00:41:47AND OTHER RESTITUTION FOR
00:41:50OFFICERS AND MEN. THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
00:41:53WERE A WEAK VESSEL HANDLE THESE AND OTHER ISSUES.
00:41:57RICHARD RICHARD VARRICK HAD SPENT HIS FORMATIVE TWENTIES IN
00:41:59THE SERVICE OF THE PATRIOT CAUSE AND WAS JUST WHEN THE
00:42:03REVOLUTIONARY WAR THE NEW YORK
00:42:07CITY TO WHICH HE HAD RETURNED HAD EXPERIENCED TWO DEVASTATING
00:42:11FIRES, THE WAR THAT HAD DESTROYED MUCH THE CITY'S
00:42:13BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE HIS
00:42:16MENTOR AND FRIEND JOHN MOORE AND
00:42:18SCOTT DIED ON SEPTEMBER 14TH.
00:42:21AND AMIDST THESE CHALLENGES,
00:42:23HOWEVER, WERE OPPORTUNITIES AS MENTIONED, VARICK HELD OF
00:42:27INCREASING RESPONSIVE, QUALITY REBUILDING NEW YORK CITY AND
00:42:31STATE AND THE POSITIONS AS I MENTIONED THAT HE HELD.
00:42:34HE WAS PART OF THE COMMON HE WAS THE RECORDER OF NEW YORK CITY.
00:42:38HE WAS THE SPEAKER OF THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY. HE WAS THE STATE ATTORNEY
00:42:42GENERAL. AND THEN, OF COURSE, HE WAS THE
00:42:44MAYOR MAYOR.
00:42:46ANOTHER PROJECT THAT HE WORKED
00:42:48ON, WHICH I DISCUSSED A LITTLE
00:42:50BIT, WAS THAT HE AND ATTORNEY
00:42:52SAMUEL JONES DISTILLED INTO INTO
00:42:56A COMPREHENSIBLE DIGEST FORM ALL
00:43:01OF THE LEGAL STATUTES THAT HAD
00:43:03WRITTEN OVER NOW WOULD BEEN
00:43:05ALMOST A DECADE SINCE THE NEW
00:43:07YORK STATE CONSTITUTION TUTION
00:43:09HAD BEEN RATIFIED IN APRIL OF 1777.
00:43:14THERE VARICK AND JONES SPENT NEARLY YEARS ON THIS PROJECT.
00:43:18THEY KNEW MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAD DRAFTED THE NEW YORK STATE
00:43:21CONSTITUTION, WHICH HAD BEEN DRAFTED BY JOHN J.
00:43:23AND JOHN MOORE AND SCOTT AND JAMES, DUANE AND ROBERT, OUR
00:43:27LIVINGSTON AND THEY BROUGHT A LAWYER'S TOUCH TO WHAT THEY DID.
00:43:31IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING, PERIOD.
00:43:34RIGHT AFTER THE WAR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A THERE'S AN EXPRESSION
00:43:36THAT THEY USE IN BRITISH HISTORY FOR THE PERIOD RIGHT AFTER THE
00:43:41GLORIOUS REVOLUTION OF THE 1680S, WHAT THEY CALL THE WHAT
00:43:44IS CALLED THE REVOLUTION
00:43:48BASICALLY, WHICH MEANS ONCE THE
00:43:50FIGHTING IS OVER AND THE PEACE HAS BEEN RESTORED, YOU HAVE TO
00:43:54GET DOWN TO THE GRITTY DETAILS
00:43:57OF OF LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE.
00:43:59ONCE YOU HAVE THAT TRANSFER OF
00:44:02POWER FROM FROM ONE GROUP TO
00:44:06ANOTHER, YOU KNOW THAT IS AFTER ALL WHAT MAKES IT A REVOLUTION, RIGHT?
00:44:10SO YOU HAVE A REVOLUTION SETTLEMENT AND VARICK AND SAMUEL
00:44:13PUT INTO INTO DIGEST FORM OF THE
00:44:18LAWS THAT HAD BEEN OVER THE
00:44:20PREVIOUS OVER THE PREVIOUS DECADE.
00:44:23AND THE CONFEDERATION CONGRESS
00:44:25MOVED TO NEW YORK CITY IN JANUARY OF 1785, MAKING
00:44:30MANHATTAN THE CAPITAL OF THE NATION. SO NEW YORK CITY BECOMES THE
00:44:34CAPITAL IN JANUARY OF 1785.
00:44:39JANE CONGRESSMAN, CONFEDERATE
00:44:42CONGRESSMAN JAMES MONROE MET GIRL ELIZABETH COURT RIGHT HERE
00:44:46IN MANHATTAN ON AND ON FEBRUARY
00:44:5016TH, 1786, THE TWO MARRIED IN
00:44:54TRINITY CHURCH.
00:44:57THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING IN THE AIR, YOU KNOW, THAT YEAR
00:45:01BECAUSE THAT SPRING ON MAY
00:45:03EIGHT, RICHARD VARICK, WHERE DID
00:45:07THE WOMAN WE SEE HERE, MARIA ROOSEVELT, HERE WE SEE THIS
00:45:11PHOTO IS TAKEN AGAIN AT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INSTITUTE.
00:45:14AND HERE WE SEE RICHARD VARICK
00:45:16IN HIS LATER YEARS AND MARIA
00:45:18MARIA ROOSEVELT, HIS HIS WIFE,
00:45:25AND JUNE AND JULY OF 70, 88,
00:45:27THEIR EX NEW FATHER IN LAW, ISAAC ROOSEVELT, JOINED OTHER
00:45:32FEDERALISTS AS JAMES DUANE. JOHN CHANCELLOR.
00:45:35ROBERT AH, AND ALEXANDER
00:45:39HAMILTON IN RATIFYING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND AT THE
00:45:42STATE CONVENTION, POUGHKEEPSIE
00:45:43ON APRIL 30TH 1789 AT FEDERAL
00:45:48HALL ON WALL STREET, THE
00:45:50UBIQUITOUS LIVINGSTON, A DRAFTER
00:45:52OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPEND
00:45:55ENCE AND BROTHER OF RICHARD
00:45:57WIDOW JANET SWORE WASHINGTON IN
00:46:02AS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE
00:46:04UNITED STATES.
00:46:06WHEN NEWTON WHEN NEW YORK MAYOR
00:46:10JAMES DUANE ACCEPTED A FEDERAL JUDGESHIP FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE
00:46:13CLINTON APPOINTED VARICK AS HIS SUCCESSOR.
00:46:17HE BEGAN THE MAYORALTY ON
00:46:19OCTOBER 14TH, 1789.
00:46:23MAYOR ERIC WROTE TO VICE
00:46:25PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS ON JULY
00:46:28FIRST, 1790, THAT THE
00:46:31CORPORATION OF THIS CITY HAVE APPLIED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
00:46:35UNITED STATES TO PERMIT COLONEL JOHN TRUMBULL TO TAKE HIS
00:46:38PORTRAIT, TO BE PLACED IN THE CITY HALL TO WHICH THE PRESIDENT
00:46:42HAS CONSENTED.
00:46:47AND WHEN ERIC WROTE THAT LETTER
00:46:49TO VICE PRESIDENT ADAMS, HE WAS ACTUALLY REFERRING TO A LETTER
00:46:53THAT HE'D WRITTEN A DAY OR TWO
00:46:54EARLIER TO NOW PRESIDENT,
00:46:58PRESIDENT WASHINGTON SECRETARY
00:47:02TOBIAS ASKING IF GEORGE
00:47:05WASHINGTON WOULD SIT A SIT FOR A
00:47:09PORTRAIT WHICH WERE WASHINGTON
00:47:11AS OBVIOUSLY DID AND THIS WAS
00:47:13ACTUALLY MORE CONTROVERSIAL AT THE TIME THAN WE MIGHT THINK
00:47:17BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY UPSET ABOUT THIS,
00:47:19BECAUSE THE IDEA OF PAINTING A
00:47:21PORTRAIT LIKE THIS OF THE
00:47:23PRESIDENT, TOO MANY AMERICANS IN
00:47:28THE EARLY AMERICAN PERIOD SMACKED ARISTOCRACY AND
00:47:31MONARCHIES. SO FOR 444 VARICK TO WRITE A
00:47:35LETTER SEEKING A SEEKING
00:47:41COMMISSION TO TO PAINT WHAT
00:47:43PRESIDENT WASHINGTON WAS
00:47:45ACTUALLY A SOMEWHAT A SOMEWHAT
00:47:47MOVE SO SOMETHING TO KEEP IN
00:47:52MIND. MAYOR ERIC SOON COMMISSIONED
00:47:55TRUMBULL TO PUT TWO FOR A PORTRAIT OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR
00:47:59GENERAL AND CURRENT YORK GOVERNOR GEORGE CLINTON.
00:48:03TRUMBULL WAS THE PERFECT CHOICE FOR THIS PROJECT, HAVING SERVED
00:48:07ON WASHINGTON'S STAFF DURING THE
00:48:09WAR AND JUST RETURNED STUDYING ART IN EUROPE.
00:48:13BENJAMIN UNDER UNDER BENJAMIN
00:48:15WEST, LIKE MAYOR, THE GOVERNOR
00:48:18AND THE PRESIDENT TRUMBULL WAS
00:48:20ALSO A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF
00:48:22THE CINCINNATI, THE ARTIST FINISHED THE PAINTINGS AND ONE
00:48:26THING I FIND SO INTERESTING
00:48:28ABOUT THESE PAINTINGS IS THAT IF
00:48:31YOU NOTICE, HE DOESN'T PAINT
00:48:32THEM AS THE THAT THEY WERE THIS TIME.
00:48:36GEORGE WASHINGTON, OF COURSE, WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
00:48:40STATES. AND GEORGE CLINTON, THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK.
00:48:44AND BUT HE DOESN'T PAINT THEM AS CIVILIANS. HE ACTUALLY JOHN TRUMBULL, HE
00:48:48PAINTS THIS HE PAINTS THEM AS
00:48:50MILITARY OFFICERS, WHICH I THINK
00:48:52IS ACTUALLY WHICH IS ACTUALLY
00:48:55QUITE TELLING.
00:48:59THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT LEFT NEW
00:49:02YORK CITY IN AUGUST OF 1790,
00:49:04AFTER WHICH HALL AGAIN BECAME
00:49:06CITY HALL. AS I MENTIONED, IT WAS A
00:49:10CONTENTIOUS WITH MUCH UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN THE LATE 1790S.
00:49:13NEW YORK CITY RAPID ECONOMIC
00:49:17DEVELOPMENT NEARLY DOUBLED ITS POPULATION TO OVER 60,000 AS NEW
00:49:23YORKERS THEIR CITY. WHEN THOMAS JEFFERSON BECAME
00:49:25PRESIDENT, HE AND HIS ALLIES CLEANED HOUSE.
00:49:28THE SAME HAPPENED NEW YORK CITY
00:49:31ON AUGUST 24TH, 1801. VARICK WAS BY JANET MONTGOMERY'S
00:49:36BROTHER THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN EDWARD
00:49:40LIVINGSTON VARICK. AS I MENTIONED, ACTIVE IN
00:49:42BANKING FILLON'S IN REAL ESTATE
00:49:45AND AMONG ELSE, HE WAS A FOUNDER OF JERSEY CITY.
00:49:49HE WAS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
00:49:51TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, AND HE WAS LATER PRESIDENT OF
00:49:55AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.
00:49:57HE AND MARIA ALSO PURCHASED A
00:50:01HOUSE HERE IN NEW JERSEY IN JUST
00:50:03ACROSS THE RIVER AND.
00:50:09NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE.
00:50:14SAYS IS GOING TO SHUT DOWN.
00:50:26THEN.
00:50:36OH, THERE YOU GO. APPRECIATE IT.
00:50:40IF I'D ONLY AND SO HE AND HE AND
00:50:46MARIA, THEY THEY THEY PURCHASED
00:50:48A HOUSE ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER.
00:50:54ACTUALLY YOU CAN SEE THE HUDSON RIVER AND YOU CAN SEE MANHATTAN ACROSS THE STREET FROM ACROSS
00:50:58THE THE RIVER.
00:51:00SO THEY MAINTAIN THIS AS A AS A
00:51:04SUMMER HOME AND BUT THEY WERE
00:51:06THEY WERE THEY WERE STILL PRETTY
00:51:09MUCH MANHATTAN NIGHTS AT THIS TIME.
00:51:12THEY LIVED NEAR STREET.
00:51:15AND IN 1806, RICHARD BECAME
00:51:17PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK STATE OF THE CINCINNATI.
00:51:20SO ACTUALLY, RICHARD DVORAK,
00:51:22DOES THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEW
00:51:24YORK STATE SOCIETY OF THE
00:51:27CINCINNATI, WHICH HE WOULD WHICH HE WOULD REMAIN THE NEXT 25
00:51:31YEARS UNTIL HE DIED IN 1831.
00:51:37AND AFTER THE WAR OF 1812, THERE WAS INCREASING OF EXHUMING
00:51:40GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY IN
00:51:42QUEBEC AND REENTERING HIM
00:51:45REENTERING HIM IN NEW YORK CITY
00:51:47AT A JULY 4TH, 1880. IN NEW STATE SOCIETY OF THE
00:51:52CINCINNATI CHAPTER, PRESIDENT VARICK READ A LETTER FROM
00:51:55GOVERNOR DEWITT CLINTON OFFERING
00:51:57ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL FOR THIS PROJECT.
00:52:01A COMMITTEE COMPRISING JOHN AND OTHERS WAS GRANTED UNLIMITED
00:52:05POWERS TO MAKE THE ARRANGENTS
00:52:09FOR PAYING THE LAST TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE REMAINS OF THAT
00:52:12DISTINGUISHED HERO OF THE
00:52:14REVOLUTION, AND THAT THEY DID.
00:52:17TWO DAYS LATER, JANET MONTGOMERY
00:52:20STOOD ON THE PORCH OF HER HUDSON VALLEY HOME AND WATCHED THE
00:52:22RICHMOND SAIL SOUTHWARD, CARRYING THE REMAINS OF HER
00:52:26HUSBAND. SHE ACTUALLY FAINTED, DEAD AWAY
00:52:28WHEN SHE SAW HIS REMAINS PASSING DOWN THE HUDSON.
00:52:31SHE BEEN A WIDOW BY THIS TIME FOR 43 YEARS.
00:52:34SO IT SHOWS YOU YOUNG THEY WERE
00:52:36AGAIN AND. WHEN RICHARD MONTGOMERY WAS
00:52:41REINTERRED ST PAUL'S CHAPEL ON LOWER BROADWAY, JULY EIGHT,
00:52:451818, RICHARD VARICK, MARINUS
00:52:47WILLETT AND JOHN TRUMBULL WERE AMONG THE PALLBEARERS.
00:52:51SO HERE WE SEE A NEWSPAPER
00:52:55CLIPPING FROM THAT TIME.
00:52:57AND WE SEE RICHARD MONTGOMERY
00:53:00HEADSTONE AND.
00:53:02IF YOU KNOW, IF YOU KNOW SAINT
00:53:05PAST HE HE HE'S BURIED LIKE
00:53:08BASICALLY RIGHT THERE TOOK THIS PICTURE LAST SUMMER SO SO HE
00:53:12SERVED MILLIONS THOUSANDS OF
00:53:14PEOPLE WALKED PAST EVERY DAY AND
00:53:16HAVE NO IDEA THAT HE RIGHT THERE
00:53:23AND. THE CONCLUSION OF THE WAR OF
00:53:261812 HAD USHERED IN THE
00:53:28SO-CALLED ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS.
00:53:32FROM 1815 TO 1825, AMERICAN HAS NEGOTIATED THE MISSOURI
00:53:37COMPROMISE, EXPANDED THE NUMBER OF STATES, THE UNION TO 24, AND
00:53:40BUILT THE ERIE CANAL.
00:53:43AMERICANS WERE FEELING CONFIDENT.
00:53:45THIS WAS THE MILIEU IN WHICH
00:53:47PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE CONGRESS
00:53:49INVITED THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES FOR A
00:53:53TOUR IN AUGUST 1824.
00:53:56THE FRENCHMAN SAILED INTO NEW YORK FOR WHAT WOULD BE A
00:54:00WHIRLWIND AND 14 MONTHS THROUGH.
00:54:03ALL 24 STATES ON SEPTEMBER SIXTH
00:54:061824, RICHARD DVORAK, THE NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY OF THE
00:54:10CINCINNATI WITH AMERICA'S PRESIDENT, HOSTED THE EFFORT IN
00:54:13HONOR OF LAFAYETTE'S 67TH BIRTHDAY FABRIC.
00:54:17NEXT HOSTED LAFAYETTE AT PROSPECT AND SAW HIM OFF ON HIS
00:54:21A TRIUMPHANT LAFAYETTE RETURNED
00:54:25TO NEW YORK CITY FOR REST AND REVELRY IN OF 1825, WHICH
00:54:30INCLUDED A TRIP ACROSS THE RIVER TO PROSPECT HALL JULY 9TH FOR
00:54:33SOME QUIET TIME. HIS OLD FRIEND NO LAFAYETTE HE
00:54:39ACTUALLY SAILED HOME WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER ACROSS THE STREET IN THE OLD
00:54:42DUTCH CEMETERY. BUT LAFAYETTE, HIS GRAND TOUR,
00:54:46HE SAILED HOME FROM WASHINGTON,
00:54:50D.C. ON SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1825. AND IF YOU'RE DOING THE MATH ON
00:54:54THAT. YOU WILL NOTE THAT THAT WAS 200
00:54:57YEARS AGO YESTERDAY.
00:54:59SO YESTERDAY WAS THE BASE OF
00:55:03LAFAYETTE SAILING BACK, YOU
00:55:05KNOW, LAFAYETTE WAS GONE, BUT
00:55:11VARICK AND THE OTHERS IN THE
00:55:13SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI REMEMBERED
00:55:16HIM HERE WE HAVE A PORTRAIT, A
00:55:18DRAWING OF LAFAYETTE.
00:55:23AND ON THE LEFT, OBVIOUSLY WHICH
00:55:28IT' RENDERING OF LAFAYETTE IN
00:55:31PARIS DURING THE JULY REVOLUTION
00:55:35OF 30. AND ON THE RIGHT WE HAVE A
00:55:39LETTER WRITTEN BY RICHARD
00:55:42VARICK, PHILIP HOEHN, WHO THE
00:55:44MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY IN THE
00:55:481820S, AND HE WAS A DIARIST. HE WAS SORT OF GEORGE TEMPLETON
00:55:52STRONG BEFORE GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG FELL UPON.
00:55:55HE KEPT A DIARY FOR FOR MANY
00:55:58DECADES AND HE WAS A DIARIST AND A BON VIVANT.
00:56:02AND HERE RICHARD VARICK IS
00:56:05PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI, IS WRITING A LETTER
00:56:08TO PHILIPPON IN WHICH ARE THEY ARE THEY ARE STATING PUBLICLY
00:56:12THEIR SUPPORT LAFAYETTE AND THE
00:56:16JULY REVOLUTION WOULD OVERTHROW
00:56:20KING CHARLES KING CHARLES TENT IN PARIS.
00:56:24SO THEY THEY KEPT UP.
00:56:28THEY DID WITH VARICK. YOU KNOW, IT'S AN INTERESTING TIME BECAUSE BY THIS TIME ARE
00:56:32NOW IN THE 1830S AND A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICANS IS
00:56:38ENTERING THE POLITICAL STAGE
00:56:41HERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A LETTER
00:56:43WRITTEN BY DANIEL WEBSTER IN
00:56:47WHICH HE IS ACCEPTING A DINNER
00:56:51INVITATION TO SPEAK IN NEW YORK
00:56:53CITY IN MARCH OF 1931, A ABOUT
00:56:58THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS.
00:57:00BY THIS TIME WE ARE IN THE JACKSONIAN ERA.
00:57:04ACTUALLY, THIS IS THIS IS AN INVITATION, ACTUALLY SEE RICHARD
00:57:08VERY NAME UP TO RIGHT THERE YOU
00:57:10CAN KIND OF SORT MAKE IT OUT AND
00:57:13SO ACTUALLY LIVED DID RICHARD VARICK INTO THE TIME OF HENRY
00:57:17CLAY AND JOHN CALHOUN AND DANIEL
00:57:20AND THE THE THE STATESMAN THE
00:57:22STATESMAN OF OF OR IN THE
00:57:28ENSUING AS AMERICANS CELEBRATED.
00:57:321826 JUBILEE AND ENTERED THE JACKSON IAN ERA RICHARD VARICK
00:57:36ENTERED WINTER OF HIS LIFE A. NEW GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP WAS
00:57:40EMERGING, MANY OF WHOM HE HAD ONCE KNOWN WERE GONE.
00:57:43AND HE WAS BECOMING RUEFUL.
00:57:45IN MAY 1831, HE VISITED MOUNT,
00:57:49STILL A PRIVATE RESIDENCE OWNED
00:57:51BY THE WASHINGTON FAMILY.
00:57:53JAMES MONROE HIMSELF DIED ON
00:57:57JULY 4TH, 1831, DIED THE 55TH
00:58:01ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE DAY,
00:58:04FIVE YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER JEFFERSON AND ADAMS HAD BURTON.
00:58:08HE DIED ACTUALLY AT THE HOME.
00:58:10HIS DAUGHTER AND SON IN LAW, WHICH WAS AT 63 PRINCE STREET
00:58:15AND NORTHWEST CORNER OF PRINCE AND LAFAYETTE.
00:58:18SO HERE THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE
00:58:21NORTHWEST OF PRINCE AND LAFAYETTE. IT'S A PHOTO OF THE JAMES MONROE
00:58:24HOUSE WHERE MONROE DIED. AND BRYCE SAID WAS A KIND OF
00:58:30CONFEDERATION. AND YOU MET HIS WIFE AND MARRIED
00:58:32HERE IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:58:34SO JAMES MONROE ACTUALLY DIED IN THIS BUILDING.
00:58:37THIS IS A OF IT, AS IT WAS
00:58:40AROUND THE TURN OF THE LAST CENTURY.
00:58:44AND HERE'S A PHOTO OF THAT SAME
00:58:46SPOT THAT I TOOK THIS PAST SUMMER.
00:58:48THEY ACTUALLY CLOSED SOME OF THE IN NEW YORK CITY DOWN DURING THE SUMMER.
00:58:52SO CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS CAN
00:58:54GO UP AND DOWN AND SO SO THIS
00:58:58THIS IS THAT SPOT ACTUALLY THIS
00:59:03IS NOT THAT FUNERAL YOU KNOW WHEN JAMES MONROE DIED IT'S
00:59:05INTERESTING BECAUSE WHEN JAMES
00:59:07MONROE DIED, MORE THAN 100,000 NEW YORKERS TURNED OUT FOR JAMES
00:59:12MONROE FUNERAL, IN WHICH RICHARD
00:59:14DVORAK WAS A PALLBEARER. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE THINK OF NEW
00:59:17YORK STATE, NEW YORK CITY PRESIDENTIAL FUNERALS, WHAT NORMALLY COMES TO MIND IS
00:59:22ULYSSES S GRANT'S FUNERAL ABOUT A HALF A CENTURY LATER.
00:59:25BUT BEFORE THE GRANT FUNERAL, WE
00:59:29HAD THE MONROE FUNERAL, 100,000 PEOPLE SHOWED UP IN A CITY WHOSE
00:59:32POPULATION AT THE TIME WAS ONLY 200,000. SO OF NEW YORK CITY TURNED OUT
00:59:36FOR JAMES FUNERAL. HE ACTUALLY HE WAS BURIED IN NEW
00:59:40YORK CITY MARBLE CEMETERY IN JULY OF 1831.
00:59:44THIS IS ACTUALLY HE ACTUALLY IS
00:59:46NO LONGER THERE. HE WAS ACTUALLY EXHUMED AND
00:59:50REINTERRED IN 1858, WHICH WAS
00:59:54THE OF JAMES AND ROSE BIRTH.
00:59:56BUT HE WAS HE HE HE WAS HE WAS
01:00:01HE WAS EXHUMED AND HE WAS REINTERRED IN VIRGINIA.
01:00:03HE'S BURIED IN A HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY.
01:00:07SO MONROE YEAH IT'S NOT HE'S HE
01:00:11IS HE IS NO LONGER THERE ON
01:00:18AUGUST. FIRST 1831, ABOUT THREE WEEKS
01:00:20AFTER JAMES MONROE FUNERAL,
01:00:22FORMER MAYOR AND DIARIST PHILIPPON WROTE THAT COLONEL
01:00:26RICHARD VARICK DIED ON SATURDAY
01:00:28NIGHT, JULY 30TH AT HIS
01:00:32RESIDENCE, JERSEY CITY, IN THE 79TH YEAR OF HIS AGE OF CHOLERA.
01:00:37MORBIUS MEASURES ARE BEING TAKEN TO PAY GREAT RESPECT TO HIS
01:00:41MEMORY. GENERAL ORDERS ISSUED FOR THE
01:00:44DIVISION OF ARTILLERY, THE
01:00:46SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI HAVE ANNOUNCED HIS DEATH AND.
01:00:50THE ORDER OF THE FUNERAL
01:00:51CEREMONIES UNDER GENERAL MORGAN
01:00:55LEWIS, VICE PRESIDENT. BOTH HOUSES OF THE COMMON
01:00:58COUNCIL AND THE COURT OF SESSIONS WERE SITTING ADJOURNED
01:01:01THIS MORNING. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH.
01:01:05JOHN TRUMBULL, PETER AUGUSTUS
01:01:07JAY, THE ELDEST SON JOHN JAY AND
01:01:09AND NICHOLAS, WITH WHOM VARRICK
01:01:12HAD CLERKED IN THE OFFICE OF THEIR MENTOR, JOHN MOORE AND
01:01:16SCOTT, WERE AMONG THE PALLBEARERS.
01:01:18RICHARD VARICK REST HERE TODAY
01:01:20IN THE CEMETERY OF, HACKENSACK.
01:01:22AT FIRST DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH
01:01:24MARIA RECEIVED REVOLUTIONARY WAR
01:01:27PENSION OF $600 PER ANNUM UNDER
01:01:32LEGISLATION IN 1838, GRANTING BENEFITS, WIDOWS WHO HAD MARRIED
01:01:37VETERANS PRIOR TO JANUARY 1ST, 1794.
01:01:40SHE DIED IN 1841 AND REST TODAY
01:01:43BESIDES BESIDE RICHARD.
01:01:48IF NEW YORKERS KNOW RICHARD
01:01:51VARICK TODAY IT IS FOR A STREET BEARING HIS NAME IN LOWER AND I
01:01:55WOULD THROW IN DYE STREET TOO
01:01:57BECAUSE REMEMBER HE WAS A VERY CANDID LET'S NOT FORGET THE DYE
01:02:00PART OF VERY LITTLE REMAINS OF
01:02:03RICHARD VARICK, NEW YORK. BUT MUCH OF THE ICONOGRAPHY
01:02:07MATERIAL CULTURE THAT HE HELPED
01:02:09CREATE SURVIVES TODAY THE CITY
01:02:12HALL, IN WHICH RICHARD FRICK
01:02:14PRESIDED WAS TORN DOWN THE 18 TENS AFTER.
01:02:18THE COMPLETION OF A NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING A FEW BLOCKS NORTH.
01:02:22THAT'S NEW YORK CITY HALL, WHICH
01:02:24IS OUR CITY HALL STILL TODAY.
01:02:29THE TRUMBULL PORTRAITS OF, WASHINGTON AND CLINTON.
01:02:32THAT MAYOR OF VARICK WERE
01:02:34RELOCATED TO THE NEW AND IF HANGED IN NEW YORK CITY HALL.
01:02:38NOW, FOR OVER TWO CENTURIES BESIDE THEM.
01:02:42IF YOU LOOK. SO WE SEE THAT PORTRAIT OF
01:02:47PRESIDENT WASHINGTON. HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN IT WAS
01:02:52PAINTED JOHN TRUMBULL. BUT ACTUALLY WE SEE THAT
01:02:54PORTRAIT OF ERIC UP THERE IF
01:02:56KNOW BECAUSE HE WAS THE FIRST
01:03:00THE FIRST MAYOR IT'S INTERESTING
01:03:04TOO BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS FRAME, IF YOU LOOK AT
01:03:10THE FOR THE WASHINGTON PORTRAIT
01:03:15ACTUALLY 1790 TO WHEN VARICK WAS
01:03:17THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, THEY
01:03:21THEY THEY THEY THEY PAID 135
01:03:27POUNDS. BRITISH STERLING HAVE THE
01:03:31WASHINGTON PORTRAIT AND THE
01:03:33GEORGE CLINTON PORTRAIT FRAMED.
01:03:35SO VARICK HELPED PAY FOR THOSE
01:03:39FRAMES AS MAYOR AND HERE THEY
01:03:42ARE TODAY PROBABLY SAW THIS
01:03:44BUILDING BECAUSE THIS WAS BUILT
01:03:46NEW YORK'S CURRENT CITY HALL WAS BUILT AS I JUST SAID IN THE 18
01:03:50TENS AND YOU INTO THE 1830S AND REALLY LIVED DOWN THE STREET
01:03:54FROM HERE SO HE PROBABLY WALKED IN. HE PROBABLY WALKED IN THAT VERY
01:03:57ROOM ROOM.
01:04:01THE EXTENDED FAMILY OF DYES AND
01:04:04FABRICS INHERITED OF THE VARIOUS PERSONAL EFFECTS. EVENTUALLY GIVING THEM TO
01:04:08SEVERAL LEADING INSTITUTES.
01:04:11AND IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY
01:04:1320TH CENTURIES, VARICK HAD PERSONAL TIES TO MANY OF THESE
01:04:19ORGANIZATIONS, MANY OF WHICH STILL EXIST TODAY.
01:04:22THE PRECURSOR OF THE ALBANY OF
01:04:24HISTORY AND ART WAS THE SOCIETY
01:04:26FOR THE PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE, ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
01:04:30FOUNDED IN CITY HALL IN 91.
01:04:34THIS NAME MAKES ITS MISSION
01:04:36CLEAR THE FURTHERANCE OF FARMING
01:04:39AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PROMOTION
01:04:41OF AGRICULTURE AND FACILITATION
01:04:43OF MANUFACTURING. ITS FIRST PRESIDENT WAS ROBERT,
01:04:47OUR LIVINGSTON, WITH RICHARD VARICK AS ONE OF ITS OFFICERS
01:04:52AND. THESE WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN THESE
01:04:56PAINTINGS ARE TODAY IN THE ALBANY INSTITUTE OF HISTORY AND ART.
01:05:00WE AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN
01:05:05IN 24 BY SARAH WALSH TO IT,
01:05:07WHO'S ON THE FAR LEFT AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD VARICK.
01:05:11DO IT HER DAUGHTER. THEIR DAUGHTER. YEAH.
01:05:15PASSED AWAY IN 1924 AND BEQUEATH
01:05:19THESE ALL OF THESE ARTWORKS THAT WE SEE HERE TO THE TO THE
01:05:23ALBERTINA. SO FIND THE HISTORY AND PROVENANCE OF THESE ARTWORKS TO
01:05:28BE TO BE QUITE FASCINATING.
01:05:34RENDERINGS OF ERIC RESIDE IN COLLECTIONS OF THE ALBANY
01:05:38INSTITUTE OF AND ART OBVIOUSLY
01:05:40THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY WHICH
01:05:44ORIGINATED IN NEW YORK CITY AND NOW IS IN PHILADELPHIA AND
01:05:46MORRISTOWN NATIONAL HISTORICAL
01:05:48PARK WHICH HOLDS THE CHINESE
01:05:51PORCELAIN SOCIETY OF THE
01:05:53CINCINNATI BOWL ALONG WITH OTHER
01:05:55VARIOUS ITEMS DONATED BY A
01:05:58DESCENDANT IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY NEWARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
01:06:02AND THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL HOLD MANY OF HIS PAPERS AND OTHER
01:06:05PERSONAL, AS DOES THE AMERICAN
01:06:08REVOLUTION INSTITUTE OF THE
01:06:12SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES THE RAY
01:06:16HOLDINGS SO FASCINATING THERE AT
01:06:19ANDERSON HOUSE IS THAT THE SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI HAS.
01:06:22240 PLUS YEARS OF HISTORY AND PROVENANCE TO FALL BACK ON.
01:06:26AND I LOVE THIS. THIS IS ACTUALLY IN RICHARD
01:06:30BARACK'S TIME, THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY WAS NOT APPOINTED.
01:06:34HE WAS NOT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. HE WAS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR
01:06:36AND A A COMMITTEE.
01:06:38AND SO WE ACTUALLY SEE HIS
01:06:42UNVEILING, THE SATIRIC
01:06:44APPOINTING VARICK AS THE MAYOR
01:06:47OF NEW YORK CITY. THIS ACTUALLY THE SEVENTH FROM
01:06:511795. AND THE GOVERNOR AT THE TIME WAS
01:06:55JOHN. SO ONE OF MY FAVORITE ITEMS.
01:06:58SO HERE'S THE MAYOR'S COMMISSION
01:07:02VARICK AS SIGNED BY JOHN JAY IN
01:07:071795 AND.
01:07:10SOME OTHER THINGS THEY HAVE HERE
01:07:13ONE DAY THE THE THE HEAD OF
01:07:16COLLECTIONS THERE AT AT THE
01:07:19MUSEUM SHOWED AROUND AND HERE ARE SOME OF RICHARD VARIOUS
01:07:24SORTS AND ACTUALLY WE SEE ONE OF HIS RIBBONS FROM THE SOCIETY OF
01:07:31CINCINNATI.
01:07:33SCHOLARS THEMSELVES.
01:07:36OH RICHARD VARICK A HUGE DEBT FOR THE WORK HE DID IN THE WARS FINAL AND A HALF YEARS ON GEORGE
01:07:42WASHINGTON'S PAPERS. VARICK WAS IN A VERY REAL SENSE,
01:07:45ONE OF THE FIRST HISTORIANS OF THE REVOLUTION IN WHAT ARE NOW
01:07:48CALLED THE RICHARD WHAT ARE NOW CALLED THE VARICK TRANSCRIPTS
01:07:53REMAINED IN THE WASHINGTON
01:07:55FAMILY UNTIL 1918 34 WHEN CONGRESS PURCHASED A PORTION OF
01:07:59THEM IN 49.
01:08:02CONGRESS BOUGHT THE REMAINDER,
01:08:05THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE MANAGED
01:08:07THE VERY TRANSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTS UNTIL JUNE OF 1904, WHEN THE
01:08:12FULL WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND THERE
01:08:15THEY REMAIN TODAY AN INVALUABLE
01:08:18SOURCE FOR HISTORIANS.
01:08:23THERE ARE REASONS THAT PARTLY
01:08:26WHY RICHARD VARICK IS KNOWN TODAY.
01:08:28THESE INCLUDE THE FACT THAT HE
01:08:30AND WIFE MARIA ROOSEVELT VARICK
01:08:33HAD NO CHILDREN PROMOTE HIS LEGACY, A TENDENCY OF
01:08:38CONTEMPORARIES TO VIEW VARICK WITH SUSPICION DUE TO HIS
01:08:40SERVICE UNDER ARNOLD DURING THE
01:08:43TIME OF GENERAL ARNOLD'S TREASON, WHICH UNFAIRLY TAINTED
01:08:48VARICK WITH GUILT BY ASSOCIATION, HIS DUTCH AND NOT
01:08:52BRITISH HERITAGE AND HIS TIES TO
01:08:54BOTH JERSEY AND NEW YORK, WHICH
01:08:57IS SOMETIMES LED HISTORIANS
01:08:59WORKING ON THE LOCAL LEVEL.
01:09:05TO. HIS HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS, IF YOU
01:09:08WILL, KIND OF SPREAD OUT ACROSS
01:09:10THE TWO STATES AND KIND OF
01:09:12DILUTING HIS HIS LEGACY. YOU WILL.
01:09:14AND A TENDENCY SEE HIM AS A SUPPORTING AND NOT A PRIMARY IN
01:09:18THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. SO, RICHARD WAS A MAN OF DUTCH
01:09:24LINEAGE BORN IN BRITISH COLONIAL NEW JERSEY WHO EVENTUALLY BECAME
01:09:27AN AMERICAN COMING OF AGE IMAGE. GREAT.
01:09:30HE WAS FORTUNATE, SEEMINGLY
01:09:33ALWAYS TO MEET THE RIGHT PERSON,
01:09:35THE RIGHT MOMENT THAT CREATED
01:09:37GREATEST BENEFIT FOR HIMSELF, HIS ASSOCIATES.
01:09:40HE BEGAN A COLONIAL LAWYER WHO
01:09:43LEFT A PROMISING CIVILIAN CAREER
01:09:45TO SERVE AS A CONTINENTAL ARMY
01:09:47IN A REVOLUTION THAT EASILY
01:09:50COULD HAVE ENDED IN FAILURE ONCE
01:09:52INDEPENDENCE CAME. VARICK HELPED CODIFY NEW YORK
01:09:56STATE JURISPRUDENCE FOR A NEW
01:09:58ERA, THEN HE PUT HIS EXPERIENCE
01:10:00AS A CIVIL SERVANT TO USE IN HIS
01:10:04TENURE AS NEW YORK CITY MAYOR OVER 12.
01:10:06EXCITING AND CHALLENGING.
01:10:09HE ALSO SERVED THE GOOD THROUGH
01:10:10HIS CHARITABLE WORK AND EFFORTS
01:10:13AT CREATING A PAST AND AN
01:10:16AMERICAN ICONOGRAPHY IN SO DOING RICHARD VARICK STEWARDED.
01:10:19THE CREATION NOT JUST OF MODERN NEW YORK CITY IN NEW YORK STATE,
01:10:23BUT THE UNITED STATES ITSELF.
01:10:25SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:10:36GREAT JOB. THANK YOU, KEITH. WE TIME FOR THREE QUESTIONS FOR
01:10:39THIS EVENING'S. SO IF YOU WANT TO RAISE YOUR
01:10:42HAND, I'LL TRY GET YOU THE ORDER THEY COME UP. ALL RIGHT WELL, I'LL HAVE A
01:10:46MICROPHONE.
01:10:46WE'LL GET YOU.
01:10:51HOW DID THE VARICK FAMILY END UP
01:10:53IN HACKENSACK THE FIRST PLACE?
01:10:55THEY WERE TRAITORS. THEY WERE TRAITORS.
01:10:59THEY TENDED TO HAVE LARGE AND SO
01:11:03THEY BASICALLY SPREAD OUT LIKE
01:11:07LIKE THROUGHOUT THE DUTCH
01:11:09ENCLAVES IN WHAT STILL AT THE
01:11:11TIME WHERE NEW NETHERLAND AND
01:11:15AND AND SO THEY WERE THEY WERE
01:11:19VERY ACTIVE THEY WERE VERY ACTIVE IN A LOT DIFFERENT AFFAIRS.
01:11:22THEY SOME THEM WERE TRAITORS. SOME OF THEM BECAME FARMERS AND
01:11:26SO YOU KNOW THEY THEY WERE THEY, THEY, THEY SPREAD AND
01:11:30MULTIPLIED. THAT'S WHAT THEY THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY WERE I DON'T KNOW
01:11:34IF THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION.
01:11:37DID HE ACCOMPANY BENEDICT ARNOLD
01:11:39UP TO QUEBEC ON A TREK TO
01:11:43QUEBEC. HE DID NOT HE WAS NOT HE WAS IN
01:11:45QUEBEC ALL RIGHT.
01:11:47LAST QUESTION FOR THE EVENING
01:11:51EVENING. A LOT OF LOCATIONS MENTIONED,
01:11:54ESPECIALLY UP THE HUDSON RIVER, IS A LOT OF THE LOCATIONS YOU
01:11:58MENTIONED ACTUALLY DEFINED LIKE ON GOOGLE MAPS OR SOMETHING LIKE
01:12:02THAT ARE THESE YOU KNOW, JUST IN
01:12:04PAPERS OR THE ELECTRONIC VERSION OF WHERE THESE PLACES ARE?
01:12:08I THINK A FAIR NUMBER OF THEM ARE.
01:12:10YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW,
01:12:12YEAH, I SAY YEAH, I WOULD SAY YES, THERE IS THE QUESTION.
01:12:18THE QUESTION IS A LOT OF ARE
01:12:20THESE LOCATIONS EASILY FOUND ON
01:12:22SOMETHING LIKE GOOGLE MAPS? YES, I WOULD SAY YES. ALL RIGHT.
01:12:28WONDERFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREAT PRESENTATION. THANKS FOR THE KEYNOTE.
01:12:32IT WAS MY PLEASURE.
01:15:57WELL, WELCOME TO THE