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See also:PORT See also:RICHMOND , a See also:part of the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Richmond in the See also:city of New See also:York, U.S.A., on the N. See also:shore of Staten See also:Island and on the Kill See also:van Kull Channel. Before 1898 it was a See also:separate See also:village of Richmond See also:county, New York, containing 6290 inhabitants in 1890. It is served by the Staten Island Rapid Transit railway, and by a See also:ferry to See also:Bergen Point, New See also:Jersey, and has See also:steam and electric railway connexions with the municipal ferry at St See also:George, which furnishes easy See also:access to the business districts on Manhattan Island. Among its places of historic See also:interest are the Dutch Reformed See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, which is the See also:direct successor of the church established on Staten Island in 1664 or 1665 by Waldenses and See also:Huguenots; and the Danner Hotel, built soon after the See also:War of See also:Independence on the site of a temporary fort that had been erected by See also:British troops, and used as a private dwelling until 1820. In this See also:house See also:Aaron See also:Burr spent the last years of his See also:life, dying there on the 14th of See also:September 1836. Among the See also:industrial establishments are a shipyard, dry See also:dock and manufactories of See also:flour, See also:lumber, See also:lead paint and builders' supplies. On the first of See also:January 1898, when the See also:act creating Greater New York came into effect, the village became a part of the third See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward of Richmond borough.
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