1700
Mar 20
Amsterdam merchants William Banker and Hero May write to advise officers of New York they will be arranging the freedom of hostages of the Barbary pirates and that Trinity Church funds from the colony, sent for the same purpose, will be returned.
City
The population reaches 5,000. ** Isaac De Reimer (D. Dromer) is appointed mayor. ** The second City Hall is completed, at the north end of Broad Street.
Brooklyn
The New Utrecht Reformed Church is built, , adjoining the ca. 1653 New Utrecht Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery.
Staten Island
An addition is made to the home of Captain Thomas Stillwell, containing a paneled fireplace and feather edge partition. The house, on the future Richmond Road, will later be known as the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House.
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1701
City
Thomas Noell is appointed mayor. **
Staten Island
A ferry begins running between Port Richmond and Bayonne, New Jersey.
1702
June
New York City mayor Thomas Hood dies.
September
New York City's common council reports many ill and dying of an epidemic.
Oct 19
Philip French is appointed mayor of New York City.
November
New York's epidemic dies out after killing 570 citizen, closet to 12% of the city's population.
Nov 6
Westchester County landowner Frederick Philipse dies in New York City at the age of 76.
Nov 26
The Reverend George Keith preaches in New York's Trinity Church. Afterwards Governor Cornbury invites him and church rector William Vesey to dine with him at Fort Henry. Cornbury passes along his recommendations for justices of the peace, occasioned by "abusive entertainment" suffered by Keith at the hands of local Quakers.
Dec 10
New York French Church minister the Reverend Peter Peiret petitions Lord Cornbury to resume a salary previously received from the city due to the smallness of his congregation, for his living expenses. Cornbury agrees to a 20 pound per year pension until Peiret's death.
City
The corporation of the city cedes land to the vestry of Trinity Church, as long as the churchyard will be maintained neatly. ** A three-month epidemic apparently comes in from St. Thomas (to be named yellow fever in 1973), kills off nearly one-tenth of the population. ** Dutch publisher Peter Schenk releases his drawing "New Amsterdam, a Small Town in New Holland in North America, on the Island of Manhattan, Renamed New York when it Became Part of the Territory of the English", portraying Nieu Amsterdam around 1673, in his Hecatompolis.
1703
Oct 4
William Peartree is appointed mayor of New York City, serves to 1707.
Oct 14
City government moves from the Dutch Stadt Huys on Pearl Street to City Hall on Wall Street.
Nov 27
New York acting colonial governor James De Lancey is born in New York City, to merchant Etienne (later Stephen) De Lancey (Delancey) and Anne Van Cortlandt De Lancey.
City
The population reaches 4,436. ** An unfamiliar and often fatal disease strikes the city - probably yellow fever - from St. Thomas. Many townspeople flee up the island for the duration. ** The City's Assembly votes 1,500 pounds to build two defensive batteries at the Narrows, the money raised by a poll (head) tax. Royal governor Viscount Cornbury appropriates the money for his own use. When the Assembly objects, Cornbury dissolves the body, and its successor. ** Creiger's (Kriger's) Tavern, at 9-11 Broadway, is replaced by the King's Arms tavern.
State
Legislation calls for the establishment of a road between New York City and the Connecticut line to the east (later the Boston Post Road
1704
Feb 28
French immigrant Elias Neau opens the first school for blacks in New York City.
Apr 3
New York officials, learning that the widow Rombouts and some of her neighbors plan to knock down fortifications on the west side of Broadway and fence in the area from the street to the Hudson River, forbid the project.
Apr 11
A group of New York citizens petition the authorities to ban public auctions, as favoring jobbers and brokers. Nothing is done.
May
The Reverend Jacques Laborie becomes pastor of New York's French Church - Le Temple du Saint-Esprit.
May 25
8,925 feet of city-owned land near New York's Battery is offered for sale at a minimum of threepence a foot.
Jul 18
The rector and trustees of Trinity Church petition royal governor Cornbury, to regain unused money set aside in 1697 for the ransom of those kidnapped by Barbaray pirates, for the church's buildng funds. It's referred to committee.
August
The committee approves the petition.
Dec 13
Reverend Laborie having petitioned Royal governor Lord Cornbury for a salary of 20 pounds a year, the amount his predecessor was allotted, has his request approved.
City
Dormer Island in the Bronx has become Dorman's Island. ** Mrs. Sarah Knight travels from Boston to New York and returns, describing her journey in The Private Journal. ** French Huguenots build the Church du St. Esprit on Pine Street near Nassau. ** Quakers begin holding services in a meeting house off an alley between Liberty Street and Maiden Lane. ** Ferry Road, a Brooklyn road, is laid out leading down to Fulton Ferry Landing.
Staten Island
Resident Captain Thomas Stillwell dies. His 1660s’ house is passed down to his son-in-law Nicholas Britton.
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