Chapter VIII: Hampden Hall 227

The Queen's Head Tavern, Where Was Organized the New York
Chamber of Commerce--Pre-Revolutionary Excitement--Battle
of Golden Hill--Hampden Hall, Meeting Place of the Sons of
Liberty and Attacked by the British--List of Members of the
Social Club, 1775--Other Clubs and Societies of the
Period--The Moot, a Lawyers' Club and Its Charter
Members--The Tax on Tea, Committee of Correspondence and
Outbreak of the Revolution