A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II.

CHAPTER IX

BROOKLYN AFTER THE REVOLUTION

1784-1810

Effect of the British Occupation on Life and Business in the County. Brooklyn particularly disturbed. Town Meetings resumed. The Prison Ships and their Terrible Legacy. Tragedies of the Wallabout. Movement to honor the Dead. Burial of the Remains. The Tammany Enterprise and the Removal of the Bones. Further Removal to Fo...