It is today one of the most variously important regions in town, embracing as it does both Broadway and Fifth Avenue and including a most lively business section and a most exclusive aristocratic quarter.

Andrew Elliott was the son of Sir.

Gilbert Elliott, Lord Chief Justice, Clerk of Scotland.

Andrew was Receiver General of the Province of New York under the Crown and a most loyal Royalist to the last.

When the British rule passed he, in common with many other English sympathisers, found himself in an embarrassing position.