Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2012-07-21 - Identified through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -Database Manager
2012-07-24 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- In "Organ Building in New York City," The Organ Literature Foundation, Braintree, Massachusetts, 1977, John Ogasapian writes: "Late in 1727, fourteen years after Thomas Brattle had bequeathed the first church organ in the colonies to King's Chapel in Boston, William Burnet, Colonial Governor of New York, gave a similar instrument to teh South Dutch Reformed Church on Garden (now Exchange) Street in the latter city. South Church thus became the second colonial parish, and the first non-Anglican one, to put an organ to regular use. The instrument was probably Burnet's own, of British manufacture, and brought over by him in the late summer of 1720 as part of his household furnishings." -Database Manager
2012-07-25 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -Database Manager
2012-08-06 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -Database Manager
2012-08-06 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- In her book, "History of the Organ in the United States," Ochse writes, "The organ was used for about fifty years, but came to an unhappy end during the Revolution. The British troops had appropriated various churches for use as hospitals, riding schools, and prisons. Garden Street Church for some reason escaped this use and the accompanying ruin, suffering 'no loss but the use of its organ'." -Database Manager
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