In the huge hall that ran through the house were mahogany tables loaded with silver baskets of fresh-made cake, and attended by negroes.
In our next chapter we are going back to meet this house a bit more intimately, and find out something of those who built it and lived in it, that fine gentleman, Sir.

Peter Warren and his beautiful lady,--Susannah.
But let us not forget.
Greenwich was not exclusively a settlement of the rich and great nor even solely a health resort and refuge.

There were, besides the fine estates and the mushroom business sections, two humbler off-shoots: Upper and Lower Greenwich.

The first was the Skinner Road--now Christopher Street; the second lay at the foot of Brannan Street--now Spring.

To the Upper Greenwich in 1796 came a distinction which would seem to have been of doubtful advantage,--the erection of the New York State Prison.