1804
July
Aaron Burr departs from Manhattan, travels to Albany. He will soon move on to Amboy, New Jersey, and then further south.
Jul 12
Alexander Hamilton, mortally wounded yesterday in his duel with Aaron Burr in Weehawken, New Jersey, is brought to Manhattan where he dies at the home of his banker friend Robert Bayard near today's Greenwich Village.
Oct 18
Future lawyer Eugene Kateltas is born to a wealthy and respected family in Manhattan.
New York City
Wealthy merchant Jonas Wood builds a house at 314 Washington Street. ** John Jacob Astor purchases a plot of land at 133 LaGrange Terrace (Colonade Row). ** Young ship's mate Dennison Wood, working on a vessel bringing sugar to the city, marries 17-year-old Lydia McKildo. ** The approximate date Connecticut shoemaker Benjamin de Forest comes to Manhattan and opens a shop - Benjamin de Forest and Company - in the harbor area at 31 Peck Slip.
1805
New York City
Construction begins on the Commandant's House at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the East River, in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. It will be completed next year.
Construction begins on the Commandant's House at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the East River, in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. It will be completed next year.
1806
New York City
Population: 60,000.
1807
Apr 3
A New York City act is issued under the title Remarks of the Commissioners for Laying Out Street and Roads in the City of New York.
New York City
The Orphan Asylum Society of New-York is founded by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (wife of Alexander), the city's first private orphanage, at West End Avenue and 73rd and 74th streets.
1808
Apr 25
Brooklyn municipal official and U.S. Representative James Samuel Thomas (S.T.) Stranahan is born in Peterboro, New York, to Samuel Stranahan and his wife Lynda Josselyn Stranahan.
May 28
Minstrel show producer Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice is born in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Aug 8
Merchant and real estate operator Henry Evelyn "E." Pierrepont is born in Brooklyn to Hezekiah B. Pierrepont and his wife Anna M. Constable Pierrepont.
New York City
Grace Church is organized at Broadway and Rector Street. ** Visiting free Ethiopian seamen and African-American parishioners, protesting racially restricted seating, leave the First Baptist Church at Broadway and West 79th Street. Next year they will found the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the third oldest Baptist Church in America.
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