Note 791 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)

Cf. current accounts from the newspapers in Moore's Diary, p. 311. A popular colored print published in Paris not long afterwards assigned the cause to American incendiaries (Dufossé's Americana, 1879, no. 5,480). There is in Valentine's Manual, 1866, p. 766, a diagram marking the spread of the fire in 1776 compared with that of 1778. A view of Trinity Church, in New York, as ruined by the fire, is given in Harper's Mag., xlvii. p. 24; Valentine's Manual, 1861, p. 654; and Gay, iii. 510.