TABLE OF DATES IN NEW-YORK HISTORY. 1492 1497 1498 Columbus discovers America. The Cabots sight the North American coast at Labrador. 1524 Verrazano explores New-York and Narragansett Bays. 1525 Gomez gives the name of San Antonio to the Hudson River. 1609 Henry Hudson sails into New-York Bay and explores the Hudson River to the head of navigation. 1610 Trading voyages from Holland to the Hudson River begun. 1613 Trading camp established on Manhattan Island. 1614 The New Netherland Charter granted. 1618 Treaty with the Iroquois at Tawassgunshee. 1623 The West India Company send the first emigrants (Walloons) to New Netherland. 1626 Peter Minuit is appointed Director-General and purchases Manhattan Island from the Indians. 1628 The first clergyman, Rev. Jonas Michaelius, arrives, and a church is organized. 1629 The Patroonships created. 1633 1635 1638 Director-General Walter Van Twiller arrives. Fort Amsterdam completed. Director-General William Kieft's term commences. 1640 Wars with the Indians begin. 1642 The Church in the fort built; also the City Tavern, afterwards the "Stadt Huys" or City Hall. 1644 After several decisive battles final peace with the Indian tribes surrounding Manhattan Island is made. 1647 Director-General Peter Stuyvesant arrives at Manhattan Island. 1653 New Amsterdam incorporated as a city. 1656 Massacre of citizens by Indians in Stuyvesant's absence. 1658 Some of the streets are paved, and police and fire departments are inaugurated. 1664 Charles II., grants New Netherland to James, Duke of York, and an English Squadron takes New Amsterdam. 1665 Municipal Government in New-York changed to the English form. Trials by jury established. 1667 Treaty of Breda confirms New-York in possession of the English. The Dutch take Surinam in exchange. 1668 Francis Lovelace succeeds Richard Nicolls as Governor. 1672 Postal service between New-York and Boston instituted. 1673 New-York recaptured by the Dutch. 1674 Retrocession of New-York to the English by the treaty of Westminster, and Sir Edmund Andros Governor. 1678 Bolting privilege granted to New-York City. 1679 The great East River dock built. 1680 Trial of Philip Carteret, Governor of East Jersey. 1682 Thomas Dongan becomes Governor of New-York. 1683-October. The first General Assembly of the Province meets, and Courts of Justice established. 1683-November. The city is divided into six wards. 1686 New-York City Charter granted by Governor Dongan. 1688 New-York and New England made one Province, and Sir Edmund Andros appointed Governor-General. 1689-February. William and Mary proclaimed King and Queen. 1689-June. Jacob Leisler made Captain of the Fort and Commander of the Province by the Committee of Safety. 1689-December. Leisler assumes the Lieutenant-Governorship, on ground of the King's letter. 1690 Massacre at Schenectady, and a Colonial Congress called to consider an attack on Canada. 1691 Governor Sloughter arrives, and Leisler and Milborne executed. 1692 Governor Benjamin Fletcher arrives. 1693 Expedition against the French enemy repulsed at Schenectady; Bradford appointed Government printer in New-York. 1696 Captain William Kidd sent out against pirates. 1697 Governor Fletcher superseded by the Earl of Bellomont. 1698 Trinity Church completed and Rev. William Vesey inducted rector. First services held on March 13th. 1699 The erection of the City Hall in Wall street begun. The Stadt Huys sold at auction for about $4500. 1700 Population at close of century between five and six thousand. A carefully prepared and exhaustive index to the complete work will appear in the fourth and concluding volume. EDITOR. END OF VOLUME I. PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, From the earliest settlements on Manhattan Island to the year 1892, the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus. Edited by Gen. James Grant Wilson, assisted on the coöperative plan by a corps of able writers who prepare chapters on periods or departments in the history and life of the city to which they have given special study. To be illustrated by portraits and autographs of prominent personages, also by fac-similes of important and rare documents, and by maps, views of historic scenes, houses, tombs, etc., executed in the handsomest manner, and numbering more than one thousand, including several hundred vignettes by Jacques Reich, the accomplished artist who has contributed portraits to the "Cyclopædia of American Biography" and other important works. No time seems more propitious than the present for placing before the public a work like this, which shall utilize the abundant original material bearing on the history of the metropolis which has come to light since the last history of the city was published, and which combines the united researches of several writers in their chosen and lifelong fields of inquiry. It is for this reason that the publishers do not hesitate to commend the present work to the scholar and to the general reader alike as a trustworthy source for the latest and most accurate historical information. The Memorial History of the City of New-York will be completed in four volumes, royal octavo, of about 600 pages each. The first volume was published in November, 1891, and the others will follow at intervals of six months, the work to be completed in the spring of 1893. VOLUME II Will cover the Eighteenth Century (the first having treated of the Seventeenth), continuing the Colonial period until its close, and presenting the history and life of New-York during the stirring times of the ante-Revolutionary and Revolutionary days, the critical years until the adoption of a Constitution, and the beginning of Republican Government during the first two Presidential Administrations, when New-York was the capital of the nation. VOLUME III Will treat of the Nineteenth Century to the Memorial year 1892, bringing the history down to our own times, telling the story of the city's marvelous progress and rapid growth, and including every historical event of importance connected with the city's history during the four score and twelve years of the century. VOLUME IV Will contain exhaustive monographs and interesting accounts of special departments, such as the Churches, Arts and Sciences, Museums, Hospitals and other Charities, Commercial and Literary Associations and Societies, Libraries, Seats of Learning, Clubs, Theaters, Markets, the Military, Navy Yard, Shipping, Yachts, and an extended article by the Editor on the Authors of New-York, illustrated with about thirty beautiful vignette portraits. Among the contributors to the work may be mentioned the following well-known gentlemen: Hon. CHARLES P. DALY, Mr. JULIAN HAWTHORNE, Mr. CHARLES R. HILDEBURN, Gen. OLIVER O. HOWARD, U. S. A., Prof. EUGENE LAWRENCE, Mr. WILLIAM NELSON, Mr. BAYARD TUCKERMAN, Rev. ASHBEL G. VERMILYE, D. D., THE NEW-YORK HISTORY COMPANY, 132 NASSAU STREET, NEW-YORK. |