12,000 at Jones Wood New York ? at annual Fenian Picnic in 1869

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The evening telegraph. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 25 Aug. 1869.

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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...ext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

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[h=1]THE FENIAN PICNIC.; A Large and Orderly Assembiage--Review and Address by John Savage.[/h] AUG. 18, 1870

The great picnic of the Fenian Brotherhood was held yesterday at Jones' Wood, and was very well attended. In the morning the greater part of the Fenian Legion of New-York assembled at Washington-square under command of Gen. DENIS F. BURKE, and soon after 11 o'clock marched by way of Fourth-street, Broadway, Astor-place and Second-avenue to Jones' Wood. The troops mustered nearly 700
 

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