Long Bridge Boys Explained

The Long Bridge Boys were one of two early gangs formed in New York that participated in the Conspiracy of 1741.^[1] Their name either came from the Coffee House Bridge near the end of Wall Street, or the bridge at the foot of Broad Street over the sewer.^[2]

According to the testimony of Adolphus Philipse's slave Cuffee, the Long Bridge Boys controlled the west-side of New York City while the Fly Boys controlled the east.^[3] Historian Leopold S. Launitz-Schurer believed the gang was organized by John Hughson and was modeled after the previous Geneva Club and the Freemasons.^[4]

Sources

• Book: Burrows . Edwin G. . Wallace . Mike . Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 . 19 November 1998 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-974120-5 . 10 August 2023 . en.
• Book: Foster . Herbert L. . Ribbin', Jivin', and Playin' the Dozens: The Persistent Dilemma in Our Schools . 1990 . Herbert Foster . 978-0-9624847-0-4 . 10 August 2023 . en.
• Book: Horsmanden . Daniel . Davis . Thomas J. . The New York conspiracy . 1971 . Beacon Press . Boston . 978-0-8070-5436-9 . 14 August 2023 . en.
• Launitz-Schurer . Leopold S. . Slave Resistance in Colonial New York: An Interpretation of Daniel Horsmanden's New York Conspiracy . Phylon . 1980 . 41 . 2 . 137–152 . 10.2307/274967 . 14 August 2023 . Clark Atlanta University . 274967 . en.

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