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have retired from the Holland trade. He had a beautiful garden, and a choice collection of fruit, seldom left his house, and in pleasant weather passed most of his time upon his piazza, which fronted the harbor, or in his garden. He usually dressed with silk breeches, a silk loose-gown, a silk cap upon his head, and carried a gold-headed cane. His residence was then a most retired spot, having no immediate neighbors, except the ÒOld Stone House,Ó at that time belonging to Gov. Cadwallader Colden, and afterwards owned and occupied by Samuel Jackson, Esq.1 This house, on Doughty street, fronting on Elizabeth street, was occupied by the Hessian troops as a guardhouse and prison, and was the place where all persons arrested in this vicinity were detainedÑthe whole island being at that time under a strict military police. It was a long, one-and-a-half story building, of stone and brick, with a line large garden in the rear, and was afterwards the residence of Mr. Geo. Hicks. Past this old stone house ran a private lane or footpath, from Love Lane (which then led from Fulton street to the edge of the hill) along the brow of the hill, and descending its side to a landing on present Furman, near Clark street.

his country-house, above referred to, on the corner of Clark and Willow streets. It had within it, when taken down, some curious carvings done for the Bampers. The property was bought by Henry Waring from Gideon Kimberly, who bought it from John Barbarin. Mr. Bamper was largely interested in the establishment of a glass factory, on almost the identical spot lately occupied by the glass-works, on State street. The first bottle ever made at this factory, having blown on it a seal bearing the name of Mr. Bamper and the date 1754, is still preserved among the curiosities of the Long Island Historical Society. The factory, however, did not have a long career, on account of an insufficient supply of the necessary kind of sand. Mr. and Mrs. Bamper were members of the Moravian church, New York. They had two daughters, one of whom, during the Revolutionary War, was married to Dr. John Noel Barbarin, from Nantes, in France—then a physician in the British service, and attached to the naval hospital at the Livingston mansion. Subsequently, towards the conclusion of the war, he resigned his position and settled at Brooklyn, in the practice of his profession. Nov. 22, 1784, in Assembly, a petition of Noel Jean Barbarin, praying by law the privilege of being naturalized and becoming a citizen, was read and referred to Mr. Ford, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Joseph Laurence. (Furman MSS.) He was the flrgt settled physician in this town, where he was very much respected and esteemed. A curious MS. record, in the French language, of accouchement cases, from 1791 to 1796, kept by Dr. Barbarin, is still in existence, and might prove interesting to some descendants of the .old families" of Brooklyn. His son, Aime J. Barbarin, was a resident of Brooklyn within the recollection of many old Brooklynites.

1 Jackson leased it to John Wells, a distinguished lawyer of that day, who died of Yellow fever in 1823.