Excerpt from The Evelyns in America: Compiled From Family Papers and Other Sources, 1608 1805Some particulars relating to the death of Cap tain Evelyn were related to the present owner of Wotton more than thirty years ago, by Mr. Daniel Webb Webber, of Dublin, who knew Cap tain Evelyn personally, and was indeed a distant connexion of the Evelyn family. In recent years, an inquiry was started to ascertain the place of burial of the writer of these letters, in New York. Nothing definite could be ascertained, beyond the fact that an English officer was interred during the month of October, 1776, in the ground of the Lutheran Church on Broadway. For their zealous and able assistance in this inquiry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.