CHRONOLOGY OF NEW YORK CITY'S FACTUAL "FIRST" 1524-1999
Researched and Compiled by Miriam Medina

SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR THE 1600S

WEB LINKS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

1) * (NYS history)History of New York State 1523-1927, Publisher: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc.-New York, Chicago. Copyright: 1927 Volume I and V.

2)* (Hollanders) Hollanders Who Helped Build America; Authors: Prof. Dr. Bernard H. M. Vlekke and Rev. Dr. Henry Beets. Publisher: American Biographical Company-N.Y.C. Copyright: 1942

3)* (eojk) "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Knowledge (in one volume) Edited by: Jacob De Haas (in collaboration with more than one hundred and fifty scholars and specialists) Publisher: Behrman's Jewish Book House-New York Copyright: 1934

4)  Concise Dictionary of American History. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons___New York. Copyright: 1940, 1962 Charles Scribner's.

5) * Historic Towns of the Middle States. Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Copyright: 1899.

6)* (honycdpd) History of New York City from the discovery to the Present day. Virtue & Yorston (1872)

7) * (A&C) Annals and Concurrences of New York City and State in the Golden Time, John Fanning Watson, Philadelphia, H.F. Anners, 1846.

8) * (Epic) The Epic of New York City, a Narrative History. Edward Robb Ellis. Old Town Books-New York. Copyright: 1966

9) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia In Ten Volumes, The Century Company-New York (1889)

10) * (bwy) The Greatest Street in the World; The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from the Bowling Green to Albany, G.P. Putnam's Sons-New York The Knickerbocker Press (1911) Stephen Jenkins

11) The Old Merchants of New York City, Carleton,New York City (1863) Walter Barrett

12) * (fff) Joseph Nathan Kane "Famous First Facts" (5th edition) The H.W. Wilson Company-N.Y. (1997)

13) *C.E. The Columbia Encyclopedia Third Edition edited by William Bridgwater and Seymour Kurtz Publisher: Columbia University Press-New York (1968)

14) * (eafd) (eoafd)The Encyclopaedia of American Facts and Dates; by Gorton Carruth, Harper Collins Publishers, Ninth Edition (1993)

15) American Inns & Taverns by Elise Lathrop, Tudor Publishing Co., Copyright: 1926

16) *(nycp&p) New York city, past and present; thirty photogravure illustrations, with statistics. New York, John Pettit realty company [1898]

17) *(hocny) History of the city of New York: from its earliest settlement to the present time; W.R.C. Clark & Co. New York (1860)

18) *(olcia) The oldest Lutheran church in America: a brief chronicle of events in the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew in the City of New York 1664-1914. New York: The Church, 1914.

19) * (mccny) Manual of the Common Council of New York, George P. Putnam, (1852) D.T. Valentine

20) * (ajtg) A Jewish Tourist's Guide To The U.S., The Jewish Publication Society of America (1954) by Postal and Koppman.

21) * (borobx) The Great North Side; or; Borough of the Bronx, New York, Anonymous; New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1891.

22) * (histguide) Historical Guide to the City of New York; Anonymous, New York., F.A. Stokes Co, 1913.

23) * (Huguenot Migration) The Huguenot Migration in Europe and America, Its Cause and Effect by C. Malcolm B. Gilman, M.D., ScD. Honorary President General, The National Huguenot Society; National Trustee, Sons of the American Revolution; Copyright: 1962 Publisher: The Arlington Laboratory For Clinical and Historical Research, Colts Neck, New Jersey.

24)  *(owc)  Our whole country; or, The past and present of the United States, historical and descriptive. In two volumes By John Warner Barber ... and Henry Howe ...Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1861.

25) * (cdony) Cradle Days of New York 1609-1825 by Hugh Entwistle McAtamney; Drew & Lewis, Publishers 1909

26) * (lcr) "Lost Chapters Recovered From the Early History of American Methodism by Rev. J.B. Wakeley Published by Carlton & Porter-New York 1858

27) * (honysy) History of New York Ship Yards by John H. Morrison Press of Wm. F. Sametz & Co.-New York 1909

28) * (jama) Survey of Jamaica : borough of Queens, New York City. New York: Jamaica Board of Trade, 1920 Anonymous

29) *(man1853)  Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York by D.T. Valentine 1853

30) * (n.i.e.) The New International Encyclopedia 1902-1905 Dodd, Mead and Company-New York 21 volumes

31) * (nahist) The Story of a Street: A Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908; New York: Harper & Bros., 1908, 217 pgs.

32) * (man1869) Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York; Joseph Shannon; 1869

33) * (E.L.I.) Early Long Island, A Colonial Study by Martha Bockee Flint; G.P. Putnam's Sons 1896

34) * The story of the volunteer fire department of the city of New York by George William Sheldon New York: Harper & Bros., 1882

35) * valentine's Manual of Old New York No. 7, New Series 1923; Edited by Henry Collins Brown, Copyright: 1922 Henry Collins Brown.

36) * Brooklyn daily eagle 9/25/1901

37) * New York: A Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress Of the Metropolitan City of America by a New Yorker, Published by Carlton & Phillips-New York: 1853.

38) * The Brooklyn Daily Eagle January 2, 1898
 

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