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Wilson, Ebenezer, 1707-1710, 283.
Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 1710, 1711, 1719, 1720, 294.
Heathcote, Caleb, 1711-1714, 247, 298, 299, 305. Johnston, John, 1714-1719, 300, 805.
Walters, Robert, 1720-1725, 305, 311.
Jansen, Johannes, 1725, 1726, 311.
Lurting, Robert, 1726-1735, 311, 847.
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Mayors-continued.
Richard, Paul, 1735-1739, 347. Cruger, John, 1739-1744, 353. Bayard, Stephen, 1744-1747, 370, 371.
Holland, Edward, 1747-1757, 373.
Cruger, John, jr., 1757-1766, 391 ; dispute with Lord Loudon, 391, 392; delegate to first Colonial Congress, 412; stamps received from Colden by, 421, 422, 441.
Hicks, Whitehead, 1766-1776, 437, 438, 454.
Mathews, David, mayor during the Revolution, 552.
Duane, James, first mayor after the Revolu- tion, 1784-1789, 474, 479, 574, 604.
Varick, Richard, 1789-1801, 604, 610.
Livingston, Edward, 1801-1803, 614, 662, 668. Clinton, De Witt, 1803-1807, 1808-1810, 1811-
1815, appointed, 668; removed from the mayoralty; reappointed and again removed, 687 ; restored to office, 688 ; elected governor, 704; in the Erie Canal, 716-721 ; death of, 722.
Willett, Marinus, 1807-1808, appointed mayor, 687 ; previous career of, 412, 480, 484, 486, 603; ambassador to the Creeks, 696.
Radcliff, Jacob, 1810, 1811, 1815-1818, ap- pointed, 639 ; reappointed, 703, 704.
Colden, Cadwallader D., 1818-1821, appointed to the mayoralty, 704; removed, 705.
Allen, Stephen, 1821-1823, appointed, 705 ; superseded, 706.
Paulding, William, 1823-1825, 1826-1829, 705, 709, 715, 730, 732.
Bowne, Walter, 1829-1833, 732, 733.
Lee, Gideon, 1833-1834, 733.
Lawrence, Cornelius W., 1534-1837, 743, 744. Clark, Aaron, 1837-1S39, 744.
Varian, Isaac L., 1839-1841, 744, 745.
Morris, Robert H., 1841-1844, 745.
Harper, James, 1844, 1845, 748.
Havemeyer, William F., 1845, 1846, 1848, 1849, 748, 749.
Mickle, A. H., 1846, 1847, 748.
Brady, William V., 1847, 1848, 749.
Woodhull, Caleb S., 1849-1851, 749-751.
Kingsland, Ambrose C., 1851-1853, 751.
Westervelt, Jacob A., 1853-1855, 751, 754.
Wood, Fernando, 1855-185S, 754, 760. Tiemann, Daniel F., 1858, 768.
McDougall, Alexander, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412; arrest and imprisonment of, 445, 446 ; one of the Committee of Fifty One, 474; colonel of New York regiment, 486.
McEvers, James, stamp distributor at New York, 407, 417.
McGillivray, Alexander, visit of, with Creek deputation, 603, 604.
Megapolensis, Domine, clergyman at New Am- sterdam, 184.
Melyn, Cornelis, arrival of, 83; grantee of Staten Island, 85; one of Council of Eight Men, 118; dispute with Kieft; exiled from the colony, 130, 131 ; shipwreck of, 132.
Mespath, destruction of, 119; Indian massacre at, 121.
Michaëlius, Rev. Jonas, supposed first clergyman at New Amsterdam, 63, 64, APPENDIX, NOTE C. Milborne, Jacob, dispatched by Leisler to Al- bany, 227 ; return to New York, 228; second expedition to Albany, 230, 231; arrest and im- prisonment of, 235; trial and execution of, 236-238 ; disinterred and buried in the Garden street church, 271.
Minetta Brook, 25, 324.
Molenaar, Abram, one of the council of Twelve Men, 107.
Montagne, Abraham, 443, 447, 455, 462.
Montgomery, Gen. Richard, interment of, in St. Paul's Churchyard, 710 ; tomb of, 711, 712.
Morgan, William, abduction and supposed mur- der of ; anti-Masonic excitement, 731, 782.
Morris, Lewis, antecedents of, 288, 289; in the councils of Hunter, 288-292 ; chief justice, 293, 303, 806, 329; removed from office by Cosby, 331; espouses the cause of Van Dam, 345 ; governor of New Jersey, 346; genealogy of family, APPENDIX, Note K.
Morris, Gouverneur, 485, 547, 550, 691, 719. Morrisania purchased by Lewis Morris, 288.
Morris' House, Col. Roger, head-quarters of Washington, 506, 621.
Negro plot of 1712, 291, 292; of 1741, 355-869.
New Netherland erected into a province, 51 ; conquest of, by the English, 153; recapture by the Dutch, 164; ceded to the English govern- ment in exchange for Surinam, 166.
Newspapers-
Constitutional Courant, issued in 1765, 409, 410.
Greenleaf's Patriotic Register, 5S9, 590.
Independent Reflector, organ of the Presbyte- rian party in 1754, 388.
New York Gazette, first paper in the city, pub- lished by William Bradford, 250, 811, 332, 334, 383.
New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, 383, 413, 444, 543.
New York Weekly Journal, issued by John Peter Zenger, 232; burnt by the hangman, 233; discontinuance of, 383.
Rivington's Gazette, destroyed by the Liberty Boys, 489; transformed into the Royal Ga- zette, 543.
Weekly Mercury, published by Ilugh Gaine, 383, 543.
Journalism in the city in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 656; from 1825 to 1841, 784-741; in 1859, 789.
Newtown founded, 137.
Notelman, Conrad, schout fiscal, 52, 59, 65, 72.
Opera House Riot, Astor Place, 749-752.
Oswald, Francis, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 487.
Packets, first line of European, established, 709 710.
Paine, Thomas, author of "Common Sense," 491.
Palatines, immigration of, 287; migration to Pennsylvania and Livingstou's Manor, 288. Parks, public, of 1859, 776.
Paulus Hook, purchase of, 57.
Pauw, Michael, patroon of Pavonia, 57.
Pavonia, first erected into a patroonship, 57; purchased by the company, 78; Indian massa- cre at, 111, 112.
Philipse, Frederick, member of council in 1689, 220 ; genealogy of family, APPENDIX, NOTE H. Philipse, Adolphus, judge of Supreme Court, 330, 331; in the Zenger trial, 3:5.
Plaick, Abraham, one of the council of Twelve Men, 107.
Pintard, John, reminiscences of, 513, 514, 526- 530, 710, 719.
Pitt, William, statue of, 431.
Polhemus, Domine Johannes, installed at Mid- wout, 142.
Potter's Field, 616, 617.
Prisons of the Revolution. 512-581.
Prison Ships of the Revolution, 531-540. Public Buildings-
Government House and public buildings erect- ed by Van Twiller, 65 ; stone tavern, in 1642, at Coenties Slip, by Kieft, 79 ; converted into a Stadt huys, 136.
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Public Buildings-continued.
First Market-house built at the Bowling Green, 147.
City Hall built in Wall street ; Stadt huys sold at auction, 258.
Alıns House erected on the Commons, 800, 347. First Merchants' Exchange, at the foot of Broad street, in 1752, 874.
King's College, at the foot of Park Place, 373 ; Columbia College, 627, 628.
New York Hospital, founded in 1773, 463, 464, 625, 626.
Bridewell, in the Revolution, 522, 523, 580, 581, 628.
New Jail, in the Revolution, 523-530, 581, 623, 624.
Federal Hall in Wall street fitted. up for Con- gress, 501.
Government House erected on the site of the old fort; afterward the Custom House, 596, 597, 655.
Alms House on the Commons. in 1796, 581.
State Prison at Greenwich, 623.
Bellevue Establishment, 627.
Post-office, 655.
Tontine Coffee House, 690.
Arsenal, 660.
City Hall built in the Park, 667, 668
Merchants' Exchange built in Wall street, 729 ; burning of, 742.
Public buildings of 1859, 775-788.
l'ublic Improvements and municipal ordinances-
Fort staked out ; horse-mill built, 53.
Fort rebuilt ; graveyard laid out; windmills built, 65.
Civil and criminal court established; excise laws established by Kieft, 80.
Two annual fairs instituted in 1641, 96.
City wall built along the line of Wall street, 123. Fire wardens appointed ; weights and measures regulated, 184.
Fortifications erected in Wall street, 137.
Burgher rights established in the city, 145, 146. Fire-buckets, hooks and ladders imported, and a rattle watch organized ; thatched roofs and wooden chimneys abolished, and improved property subjected to taxa ion, 146.
Latin school opened, 147.
Road opened to Harlem, 148.
Public meeting for merchants in 1669, in Broad street, instituted ; monthly mail established between New York and Boston, 162.
Ordinances of Andros, 197-200.
Broad street improved, 199.
Slaughter houses removed from the city, 200.
Public wells built in the city, 134, 201.
City divided into six wards, 209, 210.
Powder magazine established at the Emit's Vly, 212.
Water street projected ; Wall street laid out, 218, 214.
City fortified by Leisler, 226.
Water street extended ; Pine and Cedar strects laid out, 241.
Maiden Lane regulated, 258.
Streets cleaned at public expense, and for the first time lighted, 258, 259.
First night watch established, 259.
First English school established in the city, 273, 274.
Freedom of the city in Cornbury's administra- tion ; street cleaning ; public pound, 279, 281.
Water street extended ; Broadway paved ; ordinances of 1707, 253.
Market opened at the upper end of Broad street, 296, 297.
Public improvements-continued.
First purchase of furniture for the use of the Common Council, 297, 298.
Public clock put up on the City Hall, 300.
First ropewalk built in Broadway, 301.
New ferry established, 301.
Jews' burial ground established near Chatham Square, 315.
Powder Magazine built on the island in the Collect, 315.
Greenwich and Washington streets commenced; new ships bullt, 819.
Line of stages established between New York and Philadelphia, 319.
First public library established in the city, 319, 320.
Markets of 1735, 321.
The "Strand " sold at public auction, 322
Pearl street laid out and regulated, 322.
City divided into seven wards, 325.
Fire engines first introduced, 325 ; fire depart- ment organized, 326.
Alms House and House of Correction built on the Commons, Cortlandt street opened, 347. First stone of the new battery laid on the Whitehall rocks, 248.
Water street named and extended, 348.
Rector street opened, 349.
Quarantine established at Bedlow's Island, 355. Market House built in Broadway, opposite Lib- erty street, 353.
John, Dey, Beekman and Thames streets paved and regulated, 374.
First Merchants' Exchange built at the foot of Broad street, 374.
King's College proposed, 873.
Walton house built, 384.
Ferry established between Staten Island, 384.
New York and
Peck Slip opened and paved, 384.
Fulton street opened and regulated, 394.
Theatre opened in Beekman street, 395.
Public lamps and lamp-posts for the first time erected, 897.
Sandy Hook lighthouse lighted for the first time, 398.
Ferries established between New York and Pau- lus llook, and Staten Island and Bergen, 398. New York Hospital commenced, 463.
Canal constructed in Canal street, 578, 579. Collect filled up, 580.
First sidewalks laid in the city, 581, 592.
Broadway graded below Canal street, 582. Streets numbered, 592.
Manhattan Water-works constructed, 663, 667. Public schools established In the city, 674-677. Introduction of Steam Navigation, 678-688.
Steam ferry-boats first used on the rivers, 696, 687.
New York Island surveyed and laid out, 621, 692.
Fortification of the harbor, 697-701.
European packet lincs established, 709, 710. First Savings Bank opened in the city, 710. Introduction of Gas into the city, 723, 724.
Marble first used as a building material, 726, 727.
Penny press first established, 734-733.
Introduction of the Croton water into the city, 745-748.
Crystal Palace opened in 1853, 751-753.
Central Park purchased and laid out, 754-760. Putnam, Gen. Israel, in command at New York, 490; in the battle of Long Island, 495-498; evacuation of the city by, 503, 504, 508.
Quackenbos, Isaac, in the battle of Golden Hill, 443-450.
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Randall, Thomas, 477.
Rapelje, George Jansen de, arrival of, 50 ; family of, 84 ; one of the Council of Twelve Men, 107. Rasières, Isaac de, first koopman of the province, 52; letter to Governor Bradford of, 53, 54.
Rawlins, Col., at Fort Washington, 507, 508 ; pris- oner at New York, 512.
Rensselaer, William Van, first patroon of Rens- selaerswick, 57.
Rensselaerswick, erected into a patroonship, 57.
Riker, Richard, recorder, 698, 703, 704.
Ritzma, Domine, of the Collegiate Church, 532.
Ritzma, Adolph, colonel of New York regiment, 487.
Robertson, Gen., military commandant of the city, 505, 533.
Robinson, Thomas, one of the Sons of Liberty, 410, 417. Robinson, Beverly, 421.
Rou, Rev. Louis, of the French church in Pine street, 309.
Sandy Hook, discovery of, 32.
Saybrook founded, 73.
Schuyler, Peter, 224, 265, 294, 305 ; genealogy of family, APPENDIX, NOTE I.
Scott, John Morin, one of the Sons of Liberty, 411 ; in the Broad street affair, 485.
Seal, first, granted to the city, 139, 140 ; first Eng- lish seal, 162; seal of 1686, 213, 214.
Sears, Isaac, one of the Sons of Liberty, 410, 417; wounded at the Liberty Pole, 432, 435 ; in the battle of Golden Hill, 448-450 ; removal from office of, 462, 477 ; delegate from the city to the first Provincial Congress, 479 ; arrest and subsequent release of, 480; enters the army, 487; office of Rivington's Gazette destroyed by, 439.
Selyns, Domine Henry, installed at Breuckelen, 171.
Shoemaker's Land, the, 323.
Skinner, Abraham, American Commissary, 539. Smits, Claes, murder of, 106.
Smith, William, 293, 305; in the Zenger trial, 331, 333 ; struck from the list of attorneys by Cosby, 334 ; restored to the bar, 373, 376, 409.
Smith, Michael, in the battle of Golden Hill, 451. Societies, benevolent, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 628-630 ; in 1859, 784; religious, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, 631.
Sons of Liberty, organization of, 409 ; leaders of, 410 ; patriotic handbills of, 413; Committee of Correspondence chosen by, 417; Colden burnt in effigy on the Commons by, 418-420 ; stamps delivered by Colden to,422, 423 ; stamp distribu- tor for Maryland se zed by, 426 ; stamps on board the Minerva seized and burnt by, 427, 428 ; first stamped paper scen in the city, 428, Lord Grenville, Lord Colville and General Murray burnt in effigy on the Commons, 428, 429 ; re- peal of the Stamp Act ; Liberty Pole erected on the Commons by, 429, 430; battles about the Liberty Pole, 429-436; handbills denouncing the Assembly issued by, 444; arrest of John Lamb, 445 ; Liberty Pole cut down by the sol- diers ; indignation meeting of the Sons of Liberty, 447 ; battle of Golden Hill, 448-453; Liberty Pole erected by, 454, 455 ; Hampden Hall purchased by, 455, 456; Nathan Rogers, 458; spirited action in respect to the landing of tea, 467, 468 ; arrival of the tea ships; tea-party in New York Harbor, 469-473; leave taking of the captains by the Sons of Liberty, 472, 473 ; correspondence with the Sons of Liberty in Boston ; the Committee of Fifty-one; renewal of the non-importation agreement pro- posed, 473, 474; great meeting in the fields,
476, 477 ; boards for the Boston barracks seized by, 480; reception of the news of the battle of Lexington by, 481-483 ; seizure of the stores at Turtle Bay by, 483; the Broad street affair, 484-486 ; removal of the cannon from the Bat- tery ; bombardment of the town by the Asia, 488 ; Rivington's Gazette destroyed by, 489 ; declaration of Independence in New York; statue of George III. demolished by the Lib- erty Boys, 492; after the occupation of the city by the British 510, 511; at the fire of 1776, 541 ; burning of Oliver De Lancey's house at Bloomingdale by, 542, 543.
Sproat, David, British Commissary, 533-540.
Steuben, Baron, arrival of, 507 ; public reception by the civic authorities of, 575; in the Doc- tors' Mob, 586.
Stirling, Lord, Long Island granted by Plymouth Company to, 85, 86.
Stirling, Lord William Alexander, in the battle of Long Island, 494-498; expedition against Staten Island of, 556.
Streets of New Amsterdam in 1664, 188-190. Strickland's Plain, battle of, 122.
Sugar House in Liberty street, erection of, 316, 317 ; in the Revolution, 514-516, 521.
Sugar House, Rhinelander's, in the Revolution, 521.
Sullivan, Gen., in the battle of Long Island, 494- 498.
Swaanendael, claimed as a patroonship, 57; massacre at, 58, 59 ; purchased by the Com- pany, 72.
Swamp, the, 323.
Telegraph, first magnetic, from New York, 748. Telegraph Cable Celebration, 764, 765. Tombs, 783. Tompkins, Daniel D., 701, 702, 715. Treaty of Tawasentha, 44, 45.
Underhill, John, settles in New Netherland, 83; in the Indian war, 118-121 ; revolts against the Dutch government, 137.
Utrecht, New, founded by Jaques Cortelyou, 150.
Van Cortlandt, Oloffe Stevensen, alderman, 157 ; genealogy of family, APPENDIX, NOTE F. Van Couwenhoven, 92, 133, 136.
Van Dam, Rip, member of Council of Hunter, 288, 293; of Burnet, 305; administers affairs after the death of Montgomerie, 328; contest with Cosby, 330, 331 ; contest with Clarke, 345. Vandercliff's Orchard, 323, 324.
Vandergrist, Paulus, one of the first schepens, 136. Van Dincklagen, Lubbertus, schout fiscal of the province; dispute with Van Twiller, 72; sus- tained by the States General, 77, 78; Vice- Director under Stuyvesant, 125.
Van Dyck, Hendrick, in the Indian war, 109.
Van Fees, Anthony, earliest conveyance of pro- perty in the city made to, 95.
Van Gheel, Maximilian, one of the first schepens, 136.
Van Hatten, Arent, one of the first burgomasters, 136.
Van Ness House, the, 613, 619.
Van Remund, Jan, koopman, 52, 63, 65. Van Ruyven, Cornelius, alderman, 157.
Van Schelluyne, Dirck, first lawyer of New Amsterdam, 184.
Van Tienhoven, Cornelius, koopman, 64, 79 ; in the Indian war, 104, 105; schout, 136.
Van Vaurk, James, 445.
Van Wyck, Pierre C., recorder. 687-689.
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Van Zandt, Jacobus, 445. Verrazani, Jean, discovery of Manhattan by, 28; narrative of, 28, 29.
Vesey, Rev. William, first clergyman of Trinity church, 251, 282.
Wallabout, the, settled, 50, 51. Walloons, arrival of, 50. Walton House, the, erected, 385, 286.
Wampum, description of, 99, 100; ordinance respecting, 100, 101.
Washington, Gen., in command at New York, 491; at the battle of Long Island, 495-498; retreats from Long Island, 498-500; evacuates the city, 501 ; in the battle of Harlem Plains, 505, 506; at Morrisania, 506; evacuates the island, 501; conspiracy against, baffled by the New York delegation, 549, 550 ; enters the city
on the 25th of November, 1783, 568; at Fraunces' Tavern, 572, 573; inaugurated first President of the United States in the City Hall in Wall street, 594, 595; life in New York, 596-600.
Wiley, William, one of the Sons of Liberty, 412, 417, 487.
Williams, Erasmus, one of the Sons of Liberty, 445.
Wistar, Caspar, one of the Sons of Liberty, 445. Wolfert's Marsh, 25, 324.
Woodhull, Gen. Nathaniel, death of, 498.
Zantberg-See Hills.
Zenger, John Peter, birth and history of, 332; New York Weekly Journal published by, 332; arrest and imprisonment of, 333; "the Zenger trial," 335-343.
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