Nature Done Wright

Interesting factoid of the day, Part 1:

According to ace historian Patricia Webb Wardell, Peter Fell (John Fell's son) was bondsman for the marriage license of Aaron Burr & Theodosia Prevost 4 July 1782.

Interesting factoid of the day, Part 2:

According to "The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton":

"Peter R. Fell employed Hamilton as his counsel to prepare a memorial to the Assembly of the State of New York, in which he urged his grievances.

"In this he stated that he was one of those from whose windows leads were taken by order of the Convention at the commencement of the late war; that soon after the last sitting of the legislature it was learned that one Daniel Dunscomb was ordered to render an account to the auditor of the leads to taken; that Fell requested Dunscomb to give a certificate to this effect, but the latter exacted nine shillings therefor from the messenger, although he, Dunscomb, had been allowed twenty pounds by the auditor as full compensation for his services. He naturally complained that "as leads were taken from one thousand houses in the city, the exaction of nine shillings is a species of petty extortion, highly censurable, and unbecoming the publick confidence."

More information on the re-use of window leads during the Revolutionary War is here.