Private  room  of  Sir  Henry  Clinton,  No.   1   Broadway,  in  which  Andre
received his last instructions.
 

NO.  1 BROADWAY,

HOIME OF

CAPT. THE  HON. ARCHIBALD KENNEDY

Notwithstanding the frequent changes in many locations
there have been but three buildings at number one Broad¬
way. The first structure was a tavern kept by one Martin
Krieger. The next was a private house erected in 1760
by the Honorable Captain Kennedy, who, it is believed,
received the land as part of the portion of his wife, the
sister of John Watts. At the period of its erection the
garden in the rear extended to the Hudson, so that the
shores of New Jersey and the Bay were in full view
from its windows.

Captain Kennedy returned to England prior to the
Revolution, and became Earl of Cassilis, and this house
went to his youngest son, Robert Kennedy, from whom it
passed to Nathaniel I'rime.    During the war of the Revo-

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