1799
Apr 2
The Manhattan Company is formed.
June
Jacob Housman, a future developer of Florida's Indian Key, future county seat of Dade County, is born in Staten Island.
Sep 22
Irish immigrant James Jackson dies in Manhattan at the age of 28. He will be buried at the potter's field, located at the future site of Washington Square Park. A backhoe working on the site in October of 2009 uncovers his gravestone. His body will not be found.
Dec 22
Twenty-one-year-old Gulielma "Elma" Sands leaves her home in the Lispenard Meadows area of the future Greenwich Village.
Dec 24
The body of Elma Sands is found at true bottom of a well near her home. Boyfriend Levi Weeks, a carpenter, is taken into custody and indicted for murder, although the evidence is circumstantial. He will be exonerated when Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr defend him, and will soon move to Natchez, Mississippi, and become a major architect.
New York City
When Colonel William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, runs into financial problems he sells the unfinished Manhattan home he began last year on what will become East 61st Street to wealthy merchant William T. Robinson. ** The summer home of Scottish-born shipping merchant Archibald Gracie is completed, on the eastern side of Manhattan. ** Wholesale merchant Joshua Isaacs build a clapboard home at the future Bedford Street - the first house in the future Greenwich Village. ** The thrice-weekly Gazette Francaise newspaper, begun in 1796 by the Claude Parisot and Company, ceases publication. ** The Manhattan Company, formed as a water company that will serve 2,000 homes through 25 miles of piping. At this year's end the company - now serving mainly as a bank - has cash resources totaling $447,029. ** Yellow fever strikes the city. ** A house claimed to be dating back to this year is built in Jamaica, Queens, for the Reverend Abraham Ketelas. ** A carriage house - the future 1826 Mount Vernon Hotel - is built at the future East 61st Street.
Staten Island
The New York State legislature passes an act appointing commissioners to select sites on Staten Island, appraise the lands for their value, appropriate them from their owners, and erect quarantine stations on them. A Marine Hospital/Quarantine Station is erected in the St. George neighborhood, largely due to fears over Yellow Fever. ** The 8-acre Fountain Cemetery on Staten Island opens on the site of a Revolutionary War skirmish and an Indian burial ground. The first burial will take place in 1802.
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