The Legislature having met in New York, in January, 1784, the powers of the Council ceased and the government went into full and peaceful operation over the whole State.

Mr. Duane, like most of the other patriots who had participated in the Revolution, found it necessary, at the conclusion of the war, to resort to business again for a livelihood, and he entered New York with a firm determination to resume the practice of his profession; but the members of the Common Council of the city now petitioned the Governor to nominate him Mayor, and

1 In 1831, Samuel B. Ruggles became possessed of a portion of the old Duane Farm. This farm had a front of about 400 feet on the Bowery-road, and ran thence easterly almost to the river, with seme upland, but much morass, overgrown with cat-tails, and through which wandered a stream known as Crummassie-Vly or Winding Creek, * * * He planted on the edge of the morass, in December, 1831, Gramerey park, by gratuitously giving the whole of the 66 lots it comprises--now worth two hundred thousand dollars-- and attaching to the grant a condition that ten dollars a lot should be annually paid for ever by the residents around the square as a fund out of which to plant, preserve, and adorn it. Disdaining too, the personal vanity of entailing his own name upon thig creation of his own energy and property, he preserved the name by which the old Duane estate was known, the Gramercy Seat--corrupted, probably, from the Crooked Creek, or