Jun 1
The first book fair is held, in New York City.
The first book fair is held, in New York City.
Sep 13
The Board of Trinity, developing vacant property
known as the Church Farm, resolves to erect a
chapel.
November
Manhattan's Hanover Square fire engine house
is moved to the Old Slip.
Nov 24
George Colman the Younger's English romantic
comedy The Battle of Hexham is performed at
New York's Park Theatre. Washington Irving
will attend an early performance.
December
Burr is removed from the Manhattan Water
Company board, along with crony John
Swartwout. Swartwout, believing De Witt
Clinton to be behind the ouster, challenges
him to a duel, which is held in New Jersey.
After five rounds, in which Swartwout is
wounded in the thigh and ankle, and still
neither man will concede, Clinton leaves
the field.
Burr is removed from the Manhattan Water
Company board, along with crony John
Swartwout. Swartwout, believing De Witt
Clinton to be behind the ouster, challenges
him to a duel, which is held in New Jersey.
After five rounds, in which Swartwout is
wounded in the thigh and ankle, and still
neither man will concede, Clinton leaves
the field.
New York City
Brooklyn-to-Manhattan ferry operator Richard
Woodhull hires Benjamin Franklin's
grandnephew Jonathan Williams, an engineer,
to lay out streets in 13 acres in what will become
the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn. **
Washington Irving begins clerking in the office
of former state attorney general Josiah Hoffman.
In addition to his Jonathan Oldstyle letters for his
brother Peter's newspaper, he begins writing for
Peter's pro-Burr paper The Correction. ** New
street commissioner Joseph Browne recommends
that Manhattan's Collect Pond be filled in, using
dirt from nearby Bunker Hill. His proposal is
rejected. He has retained his job as Manhattan
Water Company superintendent while also
gaining his city position. ** Robert McQueen's
factory begins replacing the Manhattan Water
Company's horse pumps with steam-driven
models. By year's end 21 miles of pipe have been
laid by the water company, at a cost of close to
$45,000. The bank has invested $132,000 in
its waterworks, supplying 1,683 customers.
Annual expenses are $11,500; revenues $12,000.
** Burr's 1800 loan of $48,000 from the
Manhattan WaterCompany bank has grown to
$120,000 by mid-year. He is removed from the
bank's board along with John Swartwout -
by year's end. ** Alexander Hamilton's
18-room mansion in northern Manhattan,
named "Th Grange" for his Scottish ancestral
home, is completed. ** A 2 1/2
story wood-fronted building is erected on
Christopher Street and the future Bleecker Street.
** Released from a Parisian prison, where he
had been incarcerated for anti-Christian
segments in his Age of Reason, Thomas Paine, in
poor health returns to New York and moves into
a 2 1/2 story home between Columbia - later
renamed Grove - Street and Reason - later
named Raisin then Barrow - Street. ** A
building committee is formed to make plans for
a new City Hall.
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