In six pages this historic site that was the location of a meeting between the Americans and the British is examined in an overview that includes charges it is haunted. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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words, in some houses-particualrly if it has a disturbing history-there is great evidence of an other worlds presence. Such a house is one called The Conference House in New York.
It is not only a haunted house, that many are intrigued with, but it is also a historic site. It is presently a museum, but that was not its original
purpose. The famous Conference house sits on Staten Islands southern tip and has a view of both the Arthur Kill and Raritan Rivers ("Staten," 2001). The Conference House takes its
name from a famous meeting that occurred in 1776 when British forces and American leaders met in order to negotiate an end to the Revolutionary War (2001). Those who were
in attendance included Benjamin Franklin and John Adams (2001). The negotiations failed ("New York," 2001). But the meeting is well known as an attempt to try to settle things
through negotiation. The Conference House had been constructed in 1680 and was at the time, a customs station where the British who collected taxes could see the ships coming
in ("Staten," 2001). It was a practical idea. The British killed two birds with one stone. They were able to spy ships as well as to figure out the taxes.
What they did exactly was to appraise cargo and levy taxes (2001). In 1680, when it was first built, that was long before the famous conference ever took place. It
was called The Billop House at the time ("The Cold," 1999). Captain Christopher Billop built the house out of stone and it was later owned by his great-grandson of the
same name during the Revolutionary War ("Conference," 2001; Porpora, 1999). The younger Billop was a Tory colonel, and had been captured twice by parties of Americans who raided across the