Re: Hanover Square

I wrote, "...the American Revolution the statue of King George, II maybe ("King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover from 1727 to 1760 (1683-1760)") was pulled down and taken to Connecticut where it was melted down into musketballs..." Sorry, I've checked "Newsday" and my notes and that was the wrong King George. King George III's statue was taken down from Bowling Green by angry citizens. In the tome "Cradle Days of New York (1609-1825)" by Hugh Macatamney, NY: Drew and Lewes, 1909, on p. 61, it states: "When the statue of King George was destroyed by citizens, British soldiers, in revenge, pulled the Pitt statue down and broke off the head and an arm. It lay in the rubbish." It was put on exhibit at Riley's Fifth Ward Museum Hotel. William Pitt was a known legistlative supporter of colonist's rights in the English Parliament. The statue was put up sans head and arm. "There the relic of the past stood until Riley's death, when the New-York Historical Society secured it and now has it in its collection." It originally stood at Wall and William streets, close to Hanover Square. The King George III statue, once in Bowling Green, was taken to Oliver Wolcott's farm in Connecticut and made into bullets (over 43,000). Oliver Wolcott, Jr. was George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury. Oliver Wolcott, Sr. was Governor of Connecticut.