1705
England's Queen Anne grants local land to be used for St. Paul's parish. ** The Reverend Peter Peiret, minister of the French Church, dies. ** A school is established with Andrew Clarke as teacher. ** Lord Cornbury grants the King's Farm property, at the western side of the city's northern limits, to Trinity Church for 3 shillings rent. ** Three English privateers sail into port with a captured 20-gun Spanish man-of-war in tow. A naval lieutenant is killed in a brawl during celebrations.
1706
A threatened French naval attack never happens.
1707
Jan 23
Cornelius Sebering and 40 supporters petition New York's Royal Governor Lord Cornbury for permission to establish a ferry across the East River between Red Hook, Long Island, and lower Manhattan.
Feb 5
The mayor and aldermen and the Corporation of New York publish a remonstrance to Lord Cornbury, to reject the Sebering proposal, which would threaten the ferry profits of the municipality.
Apr 8
Lord Cornbury grants the municipality's request for exclusive rights to East River ferry service.
Sep 10
Augustus Graham and William Bond provincial surveyors lay out Long Island's Newtowne (Newtown) and Bushwick.
City
Ebenezer Wilson is appointed mayor; serves to 1710. ** Presbyterian Francis Makemie is tried and acquitted during a prosecution of dissenters. ** Water Street is extended from Old Slip to John Street; Broadway is paved with a ten-foot strip of cobblestones with a gutter down the center - prone to flooding with mud during heavy rains - from Trinity Church to Bowling Green. ** Royal governor Lord Cornbury decrees that unlicensed Presbyterians may not preach in the city. Two ministers are fined then acquitted.
1708
Feb 10
French Protestant refugees petition Lord Cornbury to investigate claims of former French prisoner of war Morris Newinhuysen, regarding an alliance between the refugees and French citizens, to capture New York.
Feb 24
John van Brugh, shipmate of Newinhuysen, gives his deposition, attesting he found some letters on a French ship which he gave to Newinhuysen, who read them and tossed hem overboard.
Feb 25
Newinhuysen makes a deposition that while prisoner on a French privateer he came across letters, seemingly from Benjamin Fanueil of New York, inviting the French to capture the city. Commissioners Thomas Wenham, R. Mempesson and John Barborie report the two depositions to the governor, with the notation that they showed Newinhuysen letters written in French and that he understood "very little or nothing of either of them."
Mar 4
The council exonerates Benjamin Fanueil.
Mar 9
The French refugees in New York petition Lord Cornbury to do what he can to stop the rumors flying around the colony and to publish pertinent documents proving the accusations false.
Apr 19
New York colonial governor Montgomerie grants New York City a new charter, enlarging its municipal powers. The city is granted control over all Brooklyn lands between today's Navy Yard and Red Hook, lying between high and low water marks.
Sep 28
Newtown and Bushwick (in today's Brooklyn) surveyors Augustine Graham and William Bond request that patentees pay them in proportion to the size of their grants.
1709
A slave market is built at the foot of the main street. ** The Exchange Coffee House opens. ** Trinity Church founds its parish school.
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