Keeping still to the bucolic days of the Avenue, we pass, going from Fifteenth to Eighteenth Street, through what was the farm of Thomas and Edward Burling, relatives of John and James Burling, old-time merchants whose name was given to Burling Slip, down by the East River.

Also in the course of these blocks the Avenue crosses land that was the farm of John Cowman until 1836.

Between Eighteenth and Twenty-first Streets was part of the farm acquired in 1791 by Isaac Varian, who bought from the heirs of Sir Peter Warren.
This Sir Peter Warren was one of the great figures of the old town.

Many have written of him.

It was only a year or so ago that Miss Chapin devoted to his story a chapter of her book on Greenwich Village.