The New York neighborhood called Chelsea takes its name from the estate of Captain Thomas Clarke, who retired to the then rural land after winning glory in the French and Indian Wars. He named the estate, ironically, for the home for retired soldiers in London, but during the Revolutionary War the British occupied Chelsea. Their daughter Charity married the Episcopal Bishop of New York, Benjamin Moore, and it was their son, Clement Moore, who penned the famous "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (remembered by most as "The Night Before Christmas"). By the 1850s Clement had divided the estate into lots and developed his grandfather's estate into a proto-suburb, now a thriving neighborhood of brownstones, tenements, tree-lined streets, and ferociously ugly apartment towers.