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CHRONOLOGY OF NEW YORK CITY'S FACTUAL "FIRST" 1524-1999
Researched and Compiled by Miriam Medina
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*Please note this is a work in progress. New
researched information will be added periodically.
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1) The first ancestor of the Van Tuyl family emigrated from
Holland to Staten Island, New York about 1700 and as the
family married, members at different times moved up the
Hudson River to New Jersey, Later Ohio, Illinois and
Michigan. * (hollanders)
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1) During 1701, seven public wells were constructed in the
city. These were built in the middle of the streets, and
were especially designed for security against fires. Water
was generally scarce and bad. * (hocny)
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1) The first great epidemic of yellow fever occurred in
1702. * (Concise)
2) New ordinances were passed in respect to cleaning the
streets a matter in which the primitive New Yorkers seem to
have experienced a foretaste of the trouble endured by their
descendants. In 1702 an ordinance was enacted that all the
inhabitants should sweep the dirt in heaps in front of their
doors on Friday morning, and have it conveyed away and
thrown into the river or elsewhere before Saturday night
under penalty of six shillings. This, the cartmen were
required to carry away at the rate of three cents per load,
or six, if they loaded their carts themselves; and were
subjected to heavy fines in case of a refusal.* (hocny)
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1) The first free school was opened.
2) The Friends or Quakers came into the city at a very early
day. They built their first meeting house in 1703. *
(Gaslight)
3) In 1703, the King's Farm was granted to the church by
Queen Anne, thus becoming the celebrated Trinity church
property. The church was enlarged in 1735, and again in
1737, to meet the increasing wants of the congregation, and
thus remained until it fell a victim to the conflagration of
1776, which laid waste the greater portion of the city. It
lay in ruins until 1788, when it was again rebuilt, and
consecrated by Bishop Provost in 1791. * (hocny)
4) In 1703, William Peartree, a West India merchant and
trader, was chosen mayor, and continued in the office for
the ensuing four years. During the first year of his
administration, the French Protestant church Du Saint-Esprit
was built in Pine street by the Waldenses and Huguenots,
many of whom had settled in New York and its vicinity. The
Rev. James Laaborie was the first pastor, and the church
soon numbered a flourishing congregation. * (hocny)
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1) In 1706 Francis Makemie who is considered the founder of
the
Presbyterian church in America, being arrested in New York
for preaching
without a license. * (NYS History)
2) In 1706, a widow by the name of Rebecca Van Schaick
received the appointment of city pound-keeper. * (hocny)
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1) St. Andrew's Church in Richmondtown, Staten Island, N.Y.
was founded in 1708. * (Museums)1 7 0 9
1) St. Andrew's Cemetery and Church on Richmond Hill Road,
in Staten Island just north of Richmond and Arthur Kill
Roads. It's one of the few reminders of New York's colonial
past, having been established in 1709.
2) On the 18th of December, 1708, John, Lord Lovelace, Baron
of Hurley, who had been appointed the spring before as
Cornbury's successor, arrived at New York, and was joyfully
welcomed by the citizens. In April, 1709, he convened his
first Assembly, of whom he demanded the grant of a permanent
revenue and the payment of the governmental debts, together
with a full examination of the public accounts, "that it
"might be known to all the world that the public debt "was
not contracted in his time." * (hocny)
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1) In 1710, Trinity School was established in New York City
under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel. * (EAFD)
2) The first American "Book of Common Prayer" was issued in
1710 by William Bradford. * (EAFD)
3) The southwest corner of Rector Street was occupied at one
time by a German Lutheran Church, erected about 1710 by
immigrants from the Palatinate who had been driven out of
their desolated country by the armies of Louis XIV. The
church was burnt in the fire of 1776.* (BWY)
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1) In 1711, a public market for slaves was established at
the market-house at the foot of Wall street slip, where all
negroes or Indians who were to be hired were ordered to
stand in readiness for bidders.
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1) A city ordinance was passed, providing that any negro or
Indian slave who should presume to appear in the streets
after nightfall without a lantern with a lighted candle in
it should be committed to jail, to remain there until
released by the payment of a fine of eight shillings by his
master, and as an equivalent, the authorities pledged
themselves that the culprit should receive thirty-nine
lashes at the public whipping-post, should his master
desire. But the negroes did not submit tamely to these
despotic regulations, so from time to time, an outbreak
warned the whites of the strength of the power which they
were endeavoring to repress and of the deadly peril which
was brooding among them. * (hocny)
2) First reported slave revolt in NYC; twenty slaves hanged
after nine whites were killed. *(beatl)
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1) Captain Zacharias Hoffman II built the stone mansion at
Red Hook known as the "Hoffman Mansion" in 1713 which is
still well preserved. * (Hollanders)
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1) The first Baptist Congregation in New York held its
meetings in the private house of Nicholas Eyres, a wealthy
brewer who resided in Broad street in New York City , 1715.
* (NYS History)
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1) NY Dissenters organize Ist Presbyterian Church on Wall
Street; Scotsmen Robert Livingston and William Smith, Sr.
among the prime movers .
2) In 1716, John Johnston, a shipping merchant of the city
was appointed mayor. In the first year of his rule, the City
Hall was graced by the first public clock ever put up in the
city. This was a gift from Stephen De Lancey, who, having
been paid fifty pounds for his services as representative in
the Assembly, invested the sum in a clock, which he
presented to the Corporation for the use of the city. * (hocny)
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1) Cornelis Van Santvoord and Maartje Van Poelgeest
emigrated to America in 1717 and settled down in Staten
Island, New York where the son became a minister of the
reformed church. * (hollanders)
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1) In 1719 the first Presbyterian building ever erected in
this city, was put up. It stood on Wall street, near
Broadway. * (hocdcny)
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1) Dr. Cadwallader Colden, accepted his first political
appointment, that of surveyor-general of New York. He also
wrote and published in 1720 his first medical article "An
Account of the Climate and Diseases of New York." *NYS
History
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1) A Baptist Church opens in New York City on Cliff Street.
*(beatl)
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1) NEW YORK GAZETTE: First publication was October, 1725, by
William Bradford. Although his was the first New York
newspaper, It was the organ of the governor and aristocratic
or court party.
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1) The Garden street church having become full to
over-flowing, a portion of the congregation determined to
colonize, and, in 1726, purchased a lot of ground on the
corner of Nassau and Liberty, then Crown street, and
commenced the erection of the Middle Dutch church. * (hocny)
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1) In 1727 Bradford issued the first historical work
published in the colony of New York entitled "A History of
the Five Indian Nations" it was written by Cadwallader
Colden. *(EPIC)
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1) On December 19, 1728 a small piece of land on Mill Street
was acquired by several leaders of the congregation, thus
the first synagogue building in North America was dedicated
in 1730. *EOJK
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1) The first stage line to Philadelphia was established in
1730. * (Concise)
2) The Pelton House in Staten Island on Richmond Terrace at
the foot of Pelton Avenue was in part erected about 1730,
another part was added about 1776. December of 1731.
Designed by Richard Newsham,
3) In 1730, the first stoneware furnace or Kiln, was
established in New York City. * (EAFD)
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