This did not prevent the British from capturing the organ designed for it and holding it up for ransom in the War of 1812.

The organ was made in Philadelphia, but was captured en route by the British ship _Plantagenet_, a cruiser with seventy-four guns, which was in the habit of picking up little boats and holding them at $100 to $200 each.

Luckily the church bell had been obtained before the war! In regard to the organ, the _Weekly Register_ of Baltimore has this to say: "A great business this for a ship of the line....

Now a gentleman might suppose that this article would have passed harmless." St.John's Park, now obliterated and given over to the modernism of the Hudson River Railroad Company, used, in the early fifties, to be still fashionable.

Old New Yorkers given to remembrance speak regretfully of the quiet and peace and beauty of the Old Park--which is no more.