1800
Jan 7
The ship Liverpool Packet arrives in New York, having survived a serious storm soon after departing England.
Jan 23
Lawyer, historian and politician Gabriel Fuhrman is born in Brooklyn, to Judge William Fuhrman and his wife.
Mar 15
Actor James Henry Hackett is born in New York, to Dutch immigrant Thomas G. Hackett and his wife.
Jul 19
Joseph Corrrie, former French cook to an English officer, opens his Mount Vernon Garden restaurant in lower Manhattan at the northwest corner of Leonard Street.
October
The temperature does not fall below 36 degrees all month.
New York City
The population of the region is approximately 60,000. ** Anne Greenleaf, widow of the Argus newspaper publisher Thomas Greenelaf, who died during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic, sells the newspaper to Jame Cheetham. ** Members of the local Masonic Order begin meeting in the former City Hall at Broadway, near Trinity Church; will continue to meet there through 1803. ** The drain that runs through the future Canal Street is currently covered by a stone bridge, which will soon be removed when the drain is covered.
Bronx
House of the Holy Comforter hospital is founded on the Grand Concourse at number 2751.
Brooklyn
Kings County (Brooklyn) has 5,740 inhabitants, chiefly of Dutch extraction. Nearly 60% of households have at least one slave, the highest percentage in the North. ** Farmer Hendrick I. Lott moves the house his family built in Marine Park in 1719 to 1940 East 36th Street, joining it to a larger existing house. ** The Brooklyn Post Office, with a staff of six, serves 36,000 residents. ** The approximate date Johannes Van Nuyse begins building a home - the VanNuyse-Magaw House - on Flatlands property owned by his farming father Joost Van Nuyse.
Queens
Former innkeeper Benjamin Lowerre builds a house and general store in the Alley Pond section of eastern Queens (today's Flushing). ** The population is 6,642, up 7.8% over that of 1790. ** U.S. Representative John Watson (W.) Lawrence is born in Flushing.
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