USA > New York > New York City > Longworth's American almanack, New-York register, and city directory: for the year of American independence. 1835 > Part 66
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71
Resolvert Stevens and William Callender, clerks Police Office, upper, 341 Bowery c. Third
Portwarden's Office, 65 Wall
Post Office, Merchants' Exchange, Exchange-place
Powles Hook Ferry, foot of Cortlandt
Public Administrator, (Eber Wheaton) 2 Spruce
Recorder's Office, No. 4 City Hall
Register Office, (William H. Bunn) 2 Hall of Record
Resident Physician, (James R. Manley) 19 White Revenue Barge Office, (Joseph Scofield) Whitehall-dock
Revival Tract Depository, 162 Nassau
Seamen's Register Office, and Office of Seamen's Retreat, 49 Wall
Sheriff's Office, (John Hillyer) 21 City Hall Ship Letter Office, 19 Merchants' Exchange
Society for the promotion of Knowledge and Industry, 478 Broadway d
Soup House of Humane Society, 11 'Tryon-row
Steamboats, Hartford, 111 South
Steam Navigation Company, 76 Cortlandt
Stock Exchange, 43 Merchants' Exchange
Street Commissioners' Department, (G. B. Smith) 4 Hall of Record
Sunday School Union Depository, 205 Broadway Superintendent of Streets, (Jefferson Berrian) going from Leonard c. Elin
Superior Court Judges' Chambers, (Samuel Jones, chief justice, Josiah O. Hoffman and Thomas J. Oakley, assistants) 23 City Hall
Superior Court, Clerk's office, (C. A. Clinton) 15 City Hall Supreme Court, 27 City Hall
Supreme Court, Clerk's office, (Wm P. Hallett) 19 City Hall Surrogate, (James Campbell) 3 Hall of Records
Swiftsure Line Towboats, 33 Coenties-slip c. South Tammany Hall, 166 Nassau c. Frankfort
Theatres :
American, (Thos. S. Hamblin) 46 Bowery Franklin, (Diuneford) 175 Chatham, building Park, (E. Simpson) 21 Park
Richmond Hill, 170 Varick c. Charlton
Troy Steamboats, 53 West, up stairs
Ulster Iron Company, Wmn. Kemble, agent, 91 Washington Union Glass Company, 9 Burling slip
Union Line Transportation, 14 Washington Union White Lead Company, 175 Front
United States Army Quartermaster, 61 Washington United States District Attorn. (Wm. M. Price) New City
United States District Clerk, (F. J. Betts) United States Courts,
Hall, cast wing
748
LONGWORTH'S 1835-6
United States District Marshal, (W. C. H. Waddell) east wing new City Hall
United States Barge Office, Pier No. I Whitehall
United States Military Storekeeper, ord. department, 37 Greenwich
United States Paymaster's Office, 41 Chambers
Vice Chancellor's Court, clerk of (Walworth) 28 City Hall Washington Hotel, 282 Broadway c. Reade
Water Purveyor, Thomas D. Howe, Elm c. Franklin Watch-houses -- City Hall -- 22 Eldridge -- Wooster c. Prince-Attorney c. Delancey
WEIGHERS' department office, 87 South c. Burling-slip
Welland Canal Office, 42 Liberty
West Point Foundry, Beach c. West & 91 Washington Williamsburgh Ferry, foot of Grand, East River
New-York Public Schools :
Public Primary School, No. 1, 85 Orchard
2, 51 Orange
3, 335 Third
4, Chrystie c. Delancey
5, 666₺ Water
7, 178 Delancey c. Attorney
8, King n. Macdougal
9, Bleecker c. Amos
10, 154 Amos
11, Cityhall-place
12, 138 Broome
13, 51 Orange
14, Broadway n. Twenty-first
15, 34 Stanton n. Forsyth
17, 408 Broome
19, 273 Spring
Public School, No. 1, Chatham c. Tryon-row
2, 100 Henry n. Pike
3, 382 Hudson c. Grove
4, 203 Rivington n. Pitt
5, Mott n. Spring
6, Almshouse, Bellevue d.
7, 60 Chrystie
8, 65 Grand
9, Bloomingdale n. Eighty-second
10, 125 Duane n. Church
11, 180 Wooster
12, Seventeenth n. Avenue 8th
13, 327 Madison n. Scammel
14, 238 Houstoun n. Norfolk
15, Twenty-seventh. n. Avenue 3d.
African Public School, No. 1, 245 William 2, 137 Mulberry 3, 118 Amity 4, - Orchard.
NEW-YORK DIRECTORY. 749
African Public School, No. 5, 161 Duane
6, Columbia n. Stanton 7, 38 White Branch of No. 7, 24 Laurens
No. 1, City Infant Mission School, 15 Vandewater
Agent for Public School Society, S. W. Seton 1 Charlton
Newspapers and Periodicals :
Advocate of Moral Reform Albion
149 Nassau 77 Cedar
Alexandrian
106 Nassau
American Home Missionary
142 Nassau
American Musical Journal
24 Thames
American Railroad Journal
35 Wall
American Tract Magazine
150 Nassau
Bacheler's Religious Magazine
132 Nassau
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
162 Nassau
Children's Magazine
46 Lumber
Christian Advocate & Journal
200 Mulberry
Christian Intelligencer
102 Nassau c. Ann
Christian Library
162 Nassau
Churchinan
46 Lumber
Citizen of the world
84 Roosevelt
Comet
94 Chatham
Courrier des Etats Unis
Day's N. Y. Bank Note List, &c.
374 Pearl
Downfall of Babylon
131 Nassau
Emigrant
77 Cedar
Family Magazine
162 Nassau
Free Enquirer
94 Chatham
Evening Star, daily & country
47 William
Family Minstrel
Spruce c. Park 9 John
Independent Press
132 Nassau
Knickerbocker
161 Broadway
Ladies' Companion
58 Wall
La France Litteraire
36 Ann
Literary & Theological Review Man
6 l'hames 35 Wall
Merc. Advertiser & N. Y. Advocate 56 Wall
Methodist Mag. & Quarterly Review 200 Mulberry Missionary Herald
Monthly Distributor
150 Nassau
Moral Reformer
132 Nassau
Morning Courier & N. Y. Enquirer 58 Wall
Morning Herald
20 Wall & 34 Ann
Mothers' Magazine
150 Nassau
National Preacher
National Trades' Union
Nassau c. Spruce &. Park-row 1} Ann
1
141 Nassau
Mechanics' Magazine
Spruce c. Park-row
Franklin Library
36 Ann
750
LONGWORTH'S 1835-6
N. Y. American 35 Wall
Christian Messenger & Phd.
Universalist
$
2 Chatham-square
Com. Advertiser & Spectator 46 Pine c. William
Daily Advertiser
22 Merchants' Exch.
Evangelist
162 Nassau
Evening Post
49 William
Farmer
35 Wall
Gazette
2 Hanover-square
Jeffersonian
34 Ann
Journal of Commerce
2 Merchants' Exch.
Mercury
2 Merchants' Exch.
Mirror
Ann c. Nassau
Observer
143 Nassau
Parlor Magazine
67 Liberty
Times
10 Wall
Transcript, daily circulation of 12,000
34 Ann
Weekly Messenger
17 Ann
Weekly Register & Catho- lic Diary
10 29/
New-Yorker
20 Nassau
New Yorker Staal's Zeitung
99 Nassau
Old Countryman
57 Frankfort
People's Library
132 Nassau
Protestant Vindicator
114 Nassau
Revue Francaise
58 Wall
Sailor's Magazine & Naval Journal 82 Nassau
Shipping Com. List & Price Current 17 Exchange
Spirit of Seventy-six
25 Ann
Spirit of the Times
171 Broadway
Sunday School Visiter
46 Lumber : Nassau c. Spruce& Park-row
The Sun
222 William
Truth Teller
108 Elm
Working Man's Advocate
6 Thames.
751
NEW-YORK DIRECTORY.
DIRECTORY CALENDAR.
Ycar of Am. Independ.
A. D.
Names. Price.
11 David Franks
1786
821
12 do.
1787 ·
1582
14 Hodge, Allen & Campbell, 1789 15 ..
1790
. 4250
16
1791
. 4752
17
.1792
. 5698
20
1795
. 8712
55 ..
a 21
.L
1796
. 7904
22
1797
. 9126
23
1798
. 9113
6s.
21
1799
.
9934
6s.
25
R. T.
1800
. 10200
63.
26
1801
c. 10584
7s.
৳ 27.
1802
. 12012
7s.
28
1803
. 11800
7s.
29
LI.
1804
. 11319
7s.
30 .J.
1805
. 11844
8s.
c 31.
1806
.. 13536
8s.
32
1807
. 13776
8s.
33
1808
. 14350
9s ..
34.
1809
14450
10s.
35
1810
. 14600
10s.
36
E. & C.
1811
. 17500
37
E.
1812
. 17700
38
1813
c. 15602
39
S.
1814
c. 15900
40
1815
c. 17748
13s.
41
1816
e .. 19398
13s.
42
1817
c. 19448
14s.
d 43
1818
c. 17264
12s.
44
1819
c. 21412
12s.
e 45
M.
1820
c. 23320
12s.
46
1821
c. 23870
14g.
47
1822
c. 24344
14s.
49.
1823
. 23856
14s.
f 49
1824
c. 24416
14s.
50
1825
c. 23856
14s.
51
1826
c. 27500
16s.
52
1827
c. 28160
16s.
53
.1828
. 31240
18s.
54
1829 abt. 31212
18s.
55
1830
. 31295
18s.
53.
1831
. 34100
18s.
57.
1832
. 34760
18s.
58
1833
. 32120
18s.
59
1834
. 37070
20s.
60
1835
. 37730
20s.
.
7538
18 William Duncan 19
1793
c. 6550
4s.
1794
.
c. 3940
3s6
753
NEW-YORK DIRECTORY.
ADVERTISEMENT.
New-York, July 13, 1835.
THE Directory for the present year might possibly have- been issued some twenty-four hours earlier-but it will be published some twenty-four hours later than the Directory of last year. Should it be the lot of the Editor to publish another volume, he will not make even the attempt to issue it at a much earlier date ; certainly, he cannot hope to make it more perfect, being of opinion that he has succeeded in rendering the present far more correct. and more valuable than any of the preceding volumes. Let the public bear this in mind, and appreciate it ac- cordingly.
The sole purpose of the Directory is emphatically to afford information ; with the consideration of this as his rule, the Editor will, wherever practicable, insist upon inserting in full the given names of all persons ; in most cases this practice will prove indispensable in order to discover the particular individual sought for : also, he will hereafter decline acceding to the request of any per- son to expunge the whole or part of his address. The Editor professes to exert all his ability and capacity to render the work as useful and as perfect as is practica- ble; the public, purchasers and pensioners, place, per- haps, unparalleled reliance on his integrity upon this point, and he will not voluntarily forfeit his title to their confidence.
Henceforth the occupation, profession, or trade of per- sons will be designated by the use of the most brief term possible : the Editor performs all that can be required of him, if he clearly distinguishes each individual ; a de- mand for the insertion of any thing further will be only granted upon the payment of a fee of two shillings; if the insertion of any thing extra, for the benefit of the individual, be not of the value of this trifle, it cannot be
754
LONGWORTH'S
1835-6
of importance sufficient to warrant the request of a de- viation from this rule.
To diminish, as much as is within the control of the Editor, the confusion that must ensue from the fact that three different streets, or parts of streets, bear the name of Washington, the direction, as printed in this book, will exhibit to the eye a marked distinction : thus, Wash- ington for the street commencing at the Battery ; Wash- ing-place for the street extending from Broadway to the Washington-square, and Wash-square for a part of the street which was properly named Sixth-street, and was so called until the name was changed to Waverley-place. If the public regard this caution, they will, in part, avoid a perplexity which however is daily increasing, and which is likely to become a positive evil, if such yearn- ings for silly distinction be indulged by a people who ought to rest contented with the positive blessings af- forded by our republican institutions.
Waverley-place has been adopted among the suitably named streets, and is printed as Waverley street, thus relieving it from the paltry tag of the word place.
The Editor notifies the public that it has become ne- cessary to confine his operations within the line of Four- teenth-street ; therefore, the Directory, if hereafter pub. lished by him, will not contain the names of persons residing beyond that limit, unless handed in by them- selves.
The price of the book has not been advanced this year, under the confident expectation that the entire edition will be disposed of: twenty-two hundred copies have been printed for sale, being about five hundred more than were sold last year: and if at the close of the season any number of copies remain unsold, the Editor will feel himself at liberty either to discontinue the work, or to publish at a considerably advanced price. In the year 1824-5 the number of copies sold was ten hundred and forty ; for the year 1823-4 the number of copies sold was less than nine hundred; at which time the public at large entertained the opinion that the number of copies sold amounted to some four or five thousand. The num- ber sold during the past year something exceeds seven-
755
NEW-YORK DIRECTORY.
teen hundred; to effect the sale of even this number, three persons were employed to traverse the entire city .- Among the wealthy inhabitants who have partially re- tired from business, the Editor numbers only some three or four purchasers ; and, perhaps, nineteen out of twenty of the guests invited to the splendid entertainments gi- ven by the wealthy and fashionable inhabitants of this city may contemplate and ponder upon the fact-that their liberal host is indebted to the use of a borrowed Di- rectory for ascertaining the address of the guests invited by him.
Circumstances in which the public entertain no inter- est, and over which they possess no control, may decide the Editor to discontinue his labours in the publication of the New-York Directory with the present volume ; he has served the public, as he thinks, faithfully and ho- nestly for the period of thirty years ; the slender amount of what he has received may be gathered from the facts stated above in relation to the number of copies sold :- and he remarks here, that in order to exhibit evidence of the number of copies which may be sold this year, he will not take the money for any copy of the work with- out being informed of the name of the purchaser : with a very few exceptions he can give the name of each per- son who has purchased the work during the last eleven years ; to those persons and to the previous patrons of the work he now tenders the expression of his unfeigned gratitude. The approbation and the kindness with which many of his fellow citizens have encouraged him in the performance of his arduous and perplexing task, have deeply affected him, and he regrets his want of ability to make a more suitable expression of the sense of grati- tude which he entertains for the many proofs of partiality which they have displayed towards himn.
The Editor has not had time to bestow any at- tention to the preparation of the matter comprised in the Register-all the articles were prepared and printed without being inspected by him.
AMERICAN CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. [Continued from 1834-1835.]
I' The following articles for 1825 were omitted insertion in their proper places, in the Directory of last year.
1825, Feb. 12 Treaty between the U. S. and the Creeks, concluded at the Indian Springs, by which the claim of the latter was relin- quished, and their removal stipulated for the Ist Sep. 1826.
March (6.) Rev. John B. Romeyn, D. D., died at New-York.
March 15. Treaty between Colombia and Central America con- cluded at Bogota.
March 28. Decree of Bolivar, as liberator of Peru, removing the disabilities imposed on foreigners by the commercial regulations of Sep. Ist, 1821.
Ap. 26. The province of Chiquitos, in Upper Peru, possessed by the Brazilian forces under Gen. Antonio Silva.
June 2. Treaty between the U. S. and the Osages.
June 3. Treaty between the U. S. and the Kansas.
June 9. Treaty between the U. S. and the Poncas.
June 22. Treaty between the U. S. and the Teton, Yancton and Yanctonies.
July 5. Treaty between the U. S. and the Sioux.
July 6. Treaty between the U. S. and the Chayenne's.
July 12. Treaty between the U. S. and the Ogatalas.
July 16. Treaty between the U. S. and the Hunkpapas.
July 18. Treaty between the U. S. and the Ricaras.
July 20. Treaty between the U. S. and the Mandans and the Minnetarees.
Aug. . The province Ceara, in Brazil, desolated by a famine. Aug. 3. Major Enoch Humphrey, of the U. S. army, died at Fort St. Philip, near New Orleans.
Aug. 4. Treaty between the U. S. and the Crows.
- Aug. 10. Treaty between the U. S. and the Osages.
Aug. 16. Treaty between the U. S. and the Kansas.
Aug. 18. The court martial for the trial of Capt. Charles Stew- .art, U. S. navy, assembled at Washington.
Aug. 19. Treaty between the U. S. and the Sioux, Chippewas, Sacs and Foxes, Menomenies, Joways, Winnebagos, Ottawas and Potawatamies.
Sep. 3. Capt. Charles Stewart, U. S. navy, honorably acquitted.
Sep. . Eugene Robertson, the French æronaut, made an as- cent from New-York.
- Sep. 20. Treaty of union between Colombia and Mexico con- cluded.
C
1
26
AMERICAN
1825, Sep. 26. Treaty between the U. S. and the Ottoes and Mis-
souris.
Sep. 30. Treaty between the U. S. and the Pawnees.
Oct. . Gen. Daniel Shays, the leader of the Massachusetts re-
bellion of 1786, died at Sparta, aged 84.
Oct. . Wm. Miller, charge des affaires of the U. S. to Guate- mala, died at Thompson's Island, when about to embark on his mission.
Oct. . Alex. Berkeley died at Amelia County, V. aged 114.
Oct. 7. Destructive fire at Frederickton, N. B., by which 82 buildings, including the king's stores and fuel yard, were de- stroyed, and the loss sustained by individuals amounted to £32,522, or $144,540.
Oct. (10.) The Eagle Bank at New Haven, Con. stopped pay- ment.
Oct. 12. Battle of Duragno, between the Buenosayrean army, under Lavalleja, and the Brazilians, under Silva, in which the latter was defeated with the loss of his whole force, killed 400, prisoners 1000.
Oct. 25. Buenos Ayres incorporated with the Republic of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata.
Nov. 4. John M.Lean, died at Upper Little River, N. C. aged 102.
Nov. 7. Treaty between the U. S. and the Shawnees.
Nov. 10. Destructive fire at Boston, by which upwards of 50 buildings were destroyed.
Nov. 15. The Independence of Brazil acknowledged by John VI. King of Portugal.
Nov. (20.) The Derby Bank, at Derby, Con. stopped payment
Dec. 5. Treaty between the U. S. and Central America, con- cluded at Washington, by Henry Clay and Anthony Jose Canas Dec. 10. War declared by Brazil against the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata.
Dec. 19. Theatrical riot at Boston, occasioned by the attempt of Kean, the English tragedian, to reappear upon the stage.
Dec. . The bank of Niagara, at Buffalo, N. Y , stopped pay- ment.
Dec. . The bank at Plattsburgh, N. Y., stopped payment.
Dec. 13. The church at Frankfort, K., fitted up temporarily for the use of the legislature, destroyed by fire.
Dec. 13. Fire at Pittsburg, P., by which 30 tenements and an extensive brewery were destroyed.
Dec. 16. Col. Ninian Pinkney, U. S. army, died.
Dec. 25. Manifesto of Admiral Lobo, of the Brazilian navy, de- claring " all the ports and coasts of the republic of Buenos Ayres," in a state of blockade.
Dec. . John Elliot, a revolutionary soldier, died at Baltimore, aged 1.04.
Dec. . Michael Wollard, died in Pasquotank County, N. C., aged 105.
Dec. . Nath. Tatman, died at Barre, M. aged 105.
- Dec. 23. The Congressional Library, in the Capitol at Washing-
27
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
ton, took fire, which was subdued without having done much damage.
Dec. 25. Mary Thompson, a negro, died at Newark, N.J. aged 118
1826, Jan. 1. Amount of public debt $81,054,059,
Jan. An act passed by the Legislature of Maryland removing the disability of the Jews holding public office.
Jan. 4. Fire at Petersburg, Va. in which about fifty buildings were destroyed.
Jan. 6. An order issued by Gen. Paez for enrolling the militia of Caraccas.
Jan. 7. Wm. C. Somerville, American charge des affaires to Sweden, died at La Grange in France.
Jan. 9. Widow Alex. Berkeley died in Amelia Co. Va. aged 111. Jan. 14. John Williams of Tenn. appointed charge des affaires to Central America.
Jan 18. Gen. Quintanilla surrendered the Forts, &c. of Chiloe to the republicans under Freyre, and thereby extinguished the power of Ferdinand on the American Continent.
Jan. 23. Gen. Rodil, after having his garrison reduced from 1500 to 300 men, surrendered the Castles of Callao, and terminated the war in Peru.
Jan. 24. Treaty between the U. States and the Creeks concluded at Washington, annulling the treaty of Feb. 12, 1825, and extend- ing their removal in two years from that date.
Feb. Destructive fire at Barbadoes, W. I. by which 150 houses were destroyed, and several lives lost.
Feb. The influenza prevailed very generally throughout the U. States, and in S. Carolina was very fatal, especially among the blacks.
Feb. 11. Charles Incledon the vocalist, died in England.
Feb. 13. John. M. Forbes, Charge des Affaires of the U. States at Buenos Ayres, protested against the principles of blockade as- sumed by Admiral Lobo.
Feb. 18. Lindley Murray, a distinguished lawyer and grammari- an of New-York, died at Holgate in England, aged 81.
Feb. 18. Thomas Tod, A. J. C. S. U. S. died at N. Carolina.
Feb. 25. Jasper Ward, by a unanimous vote, expelled from the Senate of New-York, for corrupt practices in obtaining the pas- sage of bills.
Feb. 26. Grand Canal opened to Coeymans.
Feb. 26. John Gaillard, an eminent statesman of S. Carolina, and one of the Senators of the Congress of the U. States, died at Washington.
- Mar. 5. Grand Canal opened.
Mar. 10. Resolution of the delegation of Alabama, authorizing the appointment of Commissioners to settle the boundary line between Alabama and Georgia.
Mar. 11. Dorothy Somerlot died at Germantown Pa. aged 101.
Mar. 15. The expediency of the mission to the Panama Con- gress decided in the Senate, 25 to 19, and the nomination of Richard C. Anderson and John Sergeant as ambassadors thereto confirmed.
Mar. 30. Gen. Paez suspended from his command by a decree of the Senate.
f
28
AMERICAN
1826 Apl. The Bank of Eastport Me. stopped payment.
- Apl. The Marble Manufacturing Company at New-York, stop- ped payment.
- Apl. 7. Fire at Vera Cruz, by which the Custom House stores were consumed, and the loss sustained estimated at $500,000.
- Apl. Baron Thuyll, Russian Ambassador, died on his passage from New- York to Falmouth, and was buried at Halifax N. S.
- - Apl. 8. Meeting between John Randolph and Henry Clay accommodated after two exchanges of shots.
Apl. 26. Treaty between the U. States and Denmark concluded at Washington.
- Apl. 28. Fire in New-York, by which the Exchange Buildings, corner of William and Garden Streets, were consumed and proper- ty destroyed estimated at $200,000.
- May. A law passed by Congress, under which one of the two frigates built at New-York for the Greek Government, was pur- chased for the use of the U. States Navy, and named the Hudson.
- May 2. Decree of the Mexican Government ordering all the escutcheons, arms, and other symbols which bring to mind the ancient dependence of Mexico on Spain, to be destroyed by the owners of edifices, coaches, and other furniture for public use.
May 3. The steamboat "Susquehannah of Baltimore," plying the Susquehannah, collapsed a flue when opposite Berwick, by which two persons were killed and nine wounded.
May 3. Gen. Paez, at the request of the municipal authorities of Valencia, reassumed the command of which the Senate had deprived him.
- May 5. The municipality of Carraccas approved the recall by Valencia of Gen. Paez.
- May 9. The Senators and Representatives from Georgia present- ed a protest against the passage of the bill making appropriations. to carry into effect the treaty of Jan: 24.
May 9. Robert Trimble of Ky. appointed A. J. S. C. U. S. vice, Thomas Tod.
Mav 10. Albert Gallatin, of N. Y. appointed Ambassador to G. B.
May 17. The foundation of the Bowery Theatre, New - York, laid.
May 18. Sharp verbal rencounter in the Senate between Messrs. Holmes and Lloyd, and John Randolph, by which the insuffi- ciency of the power of the Vice President to preserve order in debate by the then existing rules of the Senate, was forcibly exhibited.
May 20. Congress passed a resolution requiring the President to cause the necessary surveys to be made for constructing dry docks at the Navy Yards at Portsmouth, N. H. Charlestown, M. Brooklyn, N. Y. and Gosport, Va.
May 20. Congress adjourned.
May 30. Gen. John Beatty, a soldier of the revolution, died at Trenton N. Jersey, aged 78.
May and June. Excessive and continued drought during both these months, whereby the crops of hay and oats were so injured, that hay commanded 40 and 50 dollars a ton, and horses were fed upon wheat.
- June. The Hudson Insurance Company stopped payment, -
29
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
1826 June 5. Robert McKee jun. indicted for wilfully obstructing the passage of a stage conveying the U. States Mail, tried and con- victed at Williamsport, Pa. and in consideration of his youth fined $80 and costs.
June 7. Wm. Griffith, a distinguished lawyer and clerk of the S. C. of the U. States, died at Burlington N. Jersey.
- June 7. A sea serpent seen in lat. 41 30, lon. 67 32, by Henry Holdredge, master of the line packet ship Silas Richards.
- June 9. Jedediah Morse, D. D. LL. D. &c. geographer, &c. died at New Haven, aged 65.
June 15. Decree of the State of Vera Cruz, offering a premium of $100,000 to the discoverer of a specific remedial or preventive of the yellow fever.
June 16. Scarcity of corn in S. Carolina, the price being $2 per bushel, and flour selling at $10 per barrel.
June 22. Grand Congress of Delegates from the S. American Republics of Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, met at Panama.
June 23. Fire at Charleston, by which 34 buildings were con- sumed, and property destroyed estimated at $100,000.
June. An elephant, valued at $12,000, wantonly shot while travelling the public road near Chepachet, R. Island, by some unknown fanatic. '
July 3. The Burlington Canal opened.
U. S. sloop Vincennes 18 g. launched at New-York U. S. sloop Warren 18 g. launched at Boston.
July 4. Thomas Jefferson, ex-President of the U. S. died at Montecello, Va. aged 82.
July 4. John Adams, ex-President of the U. S. died at Braintree, Mass. aged 90.
July 4. Wm. Ross died at Wayne, Penn. aged 109.
July 6. The Franklin Bank of Jersey City, stopped payment.
- July 7. Major Saunders Donoho, of the U. S. army (4th reg. inf.) shot by a drunken sergeant on parade, aged 42.
July 10. Luther Martin, a distinguished jurist and pleader of Maryland, died at New-York, aged 82.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.