Henry Remsen (1736-1792)

He was in the West Indian Trade as an importer of European Goods from 1759 to 1775 with agents in several American cities as well as in France and Holland. After the British occupied New York, he fled to Morristown, New Jersey, where owned saw mills and 1,500 acres of land. In New York, he lived in a three-story red brick mansion over a stone basement with attic space on the northeast corner of Cherry and Clinton Streets. Both entrances were accessed by split stone staircases and the main entrance was flanked by two pairs of Corinthian columns under a Palladian window and a triangular pediment. It was surrounded on three sides by gardens and outbuildings. He and his wife had nine children of whom only one (listed) reached maturity and married.