which started in the Fighting Cocks Tavern, destroying between 400 and 500 buildings and houses, and leaving thousands of New Yorkers homeless. Six days later, most of the city's volunteer firemen followed General Washington north. Rev. Charles Inglis served throughout the war and then fled to Nova Scotia at the war's end.

The Rev. Samuel Provoost was appointed Rector of Trinity (1784-1800) in 1784, and the New York State Legislature ratified