<P> To be Let . Bedloe's Island, alias Love Island, together with the dwelling - house and lighthouse being finely situated for a tavern, where all kinds of garden stuff, poultry, etc., may be easily raised for the shipping outward bound, and from where any quantity of pickled oysters may be transported; it abounds with English rabbits ." </P> <P> In 1756, Kennedy allowed the island to again be used as a smallpox quarantine station, and on February 18, 1758, the Corporation of the City of New York bought the island for £ 1,000 for use as a pest house . </P> <P> When the British troops occupied New York Harbor in the lead - up to the American Revolutionary War, the island was to be used for housing for Tory refugees, but on April 2, 1776, the buildings constructed on the island for their use were burned to the ground . </P> <P> On February 15, 1800, the New York State Legislature ceded the island to the federal government, for the construction of a defensive fort to be built there (along with Governors Island and Ellis Island). Construction of a fort on the island in the shape of an 11 - point star began in 1806 and was completed in 1811 . Following the War of 1812, the star - shaped fortification was named Fort Wood after Lt. Col Eleazer Derby Wood who was killed in the Siege of Fort Erie in 1813 . The granite fortification followed an 11 - pointed star fort layout with mounting 24 guns . A larger fort mounting 77 guns was proposed under the third system of US fortifications but was not built . </P>

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