Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Stone House at Gowanus, Scene of the Battle of Long Island
My uncle, Thomas Easton, was of that fam ily of Eastons from which Easton's Beach, at Newport, was named, and to which belonged Nicholas Easton, twice president of Rhode Island under the Parliamentary Patent of 1643 - his second term immediately preceding that of Roger Williams - and governor under the Royal Charter; also John Easton, governor under the same charter from 1690 to 1695.
The picture had been in my uncle's posses sion forty-one years, and he had received it from his uncle, George Andrews, of Brook lyn, in whose possession it had been twenty one years, and to whose order it was painted.
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