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Fraunces Tavern Museum New Exhibition Governing

the Nation from Fraunces Tavern
NEW YORK, NY – While Fraunces Tavern in after the Revolutionary War and how those decorative arts, many pieces of which have
New York City is one of the 18th-century’s challenges affected the formation of the been donated from private collections, but they
best-known taverns and the site of General U.S. Constitution. will also gain insights into an often-overlooked
George Washington’s famous farewell to his After an exhaustive search to locate objects period in American history with a circa 1700s
officers at the end of the American Revolution, that would have been found in the original map of “A New and Accurate Map of East and
it is less known that in the late 1700s, the office, visitors will not only see an extraordinary West Florida” drawn from the best authorities;
site at 54 Pearl Street in lower Manhattan assemblage of fine American and British engraved by J. Prockter, London, highlighting
was also home to the nation’s first executive Spanish-controlled West Florida; a rare copy
governmental building that housed three of the French-language newspaper Courier de
offices of the Confederation Congress. L’Europe published in London on September
(Although Congress met in City Hall, the space View of desks of a clerk and the under secretary for the 29, 1786, reporting on America’s diplomatic
was too small for the government’s depart- Department of Foreign Affairs at Fraunces Tavern. activities with Prussia and Spain; and an
ments and other office space had to be leased.) array of directional and mapping compasses
In 1785, the Department of Foreign Affairs, illustrating the Department’s first two pressing
Department of War, and offices of the Board of matters: the Barbary Pirate Crisis, which
Treasury leased space at the Tavern and led to the 1787 diplomatic treaty with
remained tenants there until 1788. Thanks to Morocco to end pirate seizures of American
an extraordinary document—a cashbook that vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, and negotia-
detailed the purchases for the Department of tions with Spain regarding control of the
Foreign Affairs during its time at the Tavern Mississippi River.
that is now housed at the National Archives— Other featured objects in the exhibition
the Department's office will be recreated in a include the negotiation table, made in
new permanent exhibition, Governing the New York of mahogany and pine in the
Nation from Fraunces Tavern. Chippendale style, c. 1780 and engraved map,
This new exhibit features approximately 60 Plan of the City of New York in North America,
objects, most of which are authentic to the published in 1776 by Jeffreys & Faden,
period and many of which have never before London, commonly referred to as “the Ratzer
been on public display, including tables, chairs, map.” One of the best depictions of the city
desks, maps, newspapers, and other items. before the Revolutionary War, it was originally
Visitors will have the opportunity to travel back issued in 1770 and was heavily influenced by a
to post-colonial New York City and enter the View of the negotiation table inside the Department 1767 map of New York by British engineer
Department of Foreign Affairs office as it of Foreign Affairs at Fraunces Tavern with map of John Montresor. The map offers a bird’s-eye
appeared during a fascinating period in the east and west Florida in the foreground. view of lower Manhattan Island, eastern New
nation’s history when John Jay was the first Jersey, and western Brooklyn and includes the
Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Visitors will learn city’s important landmarks, many of which are
about the diplomatic, military, and financial listed in the legend or key.
challenges that all three departments faced Governing the Nation from Fraunces Tavern
is made possible through a major gift from
Stanley and Elizabeth Scott who are longtime
supporters of the Museum.
STORMVILLE serve and interpret the history of the American
Fraunces Tavern Museum’s mission is to pre-
AIRPORT Revolutionary era through public education. This
mission is fulfilled through the interpretation
Celebrating and preservation of the Museum’s collections,
52 Years! landmarked buildings, and varied public
programs that serve the community. To learn
more, visit our frauncestavernmuseum.org.
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