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Lost Stories: How the New York City Fire of 1776 Illuminates Unfamiliar Lives of the American Revolution

  • Fraunces Tavern Museum 54 Pearl Street New York, NY, 10004 United States (map)

On September 21, 1776, five days after the British occupied New York City, a devastating fire burned down about a fifth of the city. This mystery brings together a startling cast of characters from around the Atlantic World: soldiers and officers, but also Loyalists, women, and people of African and Indigenous descent.

Fraunces Tavern Museum hosts the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society and author Benjamin L. Carp to explore these themes in the context of his new book, The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution.

This FREE lecture will take place in person at Fraunces Tavern Museum and via Zoom. All in-person attendees will receive a copy of the book. Registration is required, through the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society.

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