NEW YORK CITY: 1804-1808

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.

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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NEW YORK CITY TIMELINE - 1801

1801

Jan 5

Merchant James Griffiths dies.

Jan 12

16-year-old Catherine Laverty, wife of merchant Henry Laferty, dies.

Jan 14

New York armorer's mate John Burnham of the USS Portsmouth, dies in Norfolk, Virginia, 

after a lingering illness.

Jan 31

New York sea captain Zachariah Henshaw dies in Ramsgate, England, at the age of 50

Mar 13

The Russian ship Fortune, after being boarded and released by a British frigate, arrives in 

New York harbor.

Mar 30

Austrian-born Rachel Myers, wife of former Loyalist Benjamin Myers and mother of future 

Schenectady mayor Mordecai Myers, dies in New York City.

Mar 31

Merchant Andrew D. Barclay, of the firm of McEvers and Barclay, dies in the Bahamas.

Apr 2

Rebecca Michaels Hays, widow of shipping merchant Juday Hays (both Dutch-born Jews), 

dies in New York City at the age of 92.

Apr 16

Ann Griswold Hitchcock, wife of Doctor Daniel Marvin Hitchcock, dies in New York City at 

the age of 23, following a long illness.

Apr 18

29-yer-old jeweler and silversmith George Alexander dies at the Pearl Street home of his 

partner Henry Riker, near their shop at 350 Pearl Street.

Apr 21

Philemon Hunt, son of merchant Abraham Hunt, dies at the age of 20.

Apr 23

Distiller John C. Ehinger dies of burns suffered during a fire in his Cross Street plant.

Apr 25

Maiden Lane merchant Charles Holmes and six other New York City passengers drown 

when a Brooklyn Ferry is overturned during a storm, which also drowns fisherman Jacob 

Fornell.

Apr 26

The body of a tailor named Farlane is found drowned of a dock at Pine Street.  Farlane, who 

presumably had fallen in while drunk, had been in the water for some weeks.

May 5

Results of the 1800 U.S. ensues shows New York City, with  population of 60,482 people, is 

the largest in the nation.

May 11

Aaron Burr lieutenant William P. Van Ness is proposed for membership in the Republican 

political club, the Society of St. Tammany.

Jun 1

Captain Robert Richard Randall bequeaths his Staten Island property, formerly the Eliot 

Estate, for the Sailors Snug Harbor Home.

July

The Common Council contacts the Manhattan Water Company seeking compensation for 

paving displaced when water mains were run. The case will be in the courts for the next 

three years.

Jul 7

The Franklin Typographical Association meets to celebrate 26 years of U.S. Independence.

Jul 11

Songwriter (The  Soldier's Farewell), playwright and poet John Hill Hewitt is born n New 

York City to music publisher and publisher James Hewitt and his wife.

Jul 20

The Boston Gazette reports the four largest U.S. cities are Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore 

and Boston.

Aug 17

Physician Richard Bayley, the city's first heath officer, dies of yellow fever after checking a 

shipload of Irish immigrants. many of whom were dying of the disease.

Aug 25

John B. Provost replaces Richard Harrison as Recorder of New York City.

Sep 1

Staten Island's Sailors Snug Harbor is established.

Sep 10

New York State governor George Clinton has New York City mayor Richard Varick 

replaced by Edward Livingston.

Sep 18

The first issue of the New York Times daily newspaper is published.

Oct 7

A copy of the French treaty ratification arrives in New York and is forwarded to 

Washington.

Oct 20

Lawyer, politician and businessman Morris Franklin is born to merchant and Chief 

Engineer of the Volunteer Fire Department Thomas Franklin and his wife.

Nov 16

Federalist Alexander Hamilton founds the New York Post with William Coleman as its 

editor.

New York City

The office of City Comptroller is formed as an appointive office.    **    The Zion Episcopal 

Church is founded in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan.    **    The Gerogian-

Gothic, field stone  Church of the Transfiguration is built on Mosco Street (later 25 Mott 

Street) for the Zion English Lutheran Church.    **    Benjamin Moore is elected coadjutor 

bishop of New York, to assist Samuel Provost who is preparing to retire. He also replaces 

Charles Henry Wharton as President of Columbia University.    **    The 26th annual edition 

of Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register and City Directory is published.    

**    Christian Brown becomes a bookbinder.    **    Edward Livingston is appointed mayor 

for each of the next two one-yaer terms.    **    Elizabeth Ann Seton resides at the Church of 

Our Lady of eh Rosary, in lower Manhattan.    **    Eliza Astor is born to John Jacob and 

Sarah Astor, their youngest daughter.    Washington Irving laves the law office of  Henry 

Masterton to work for attorney Brockholst Livingston.    **    The Manhattan Company' 

Chambers Street reservoir is completed at a cost of $17,428, and filled, it's second half 

revenues total nearly $100,000 a, paying stockholders $2.50 a share.    **    Kinderhook 

lawyer Martin van Buren arrives to begin practicing here.    **    Art patrons establish the 

Columbia Academy of Painting.    **    Hugh Auchincloss arrives from  Paisley, Scotland, 

estabiles an importing business.    **    Construction begins on the Harlem home of 

Alexander Hamilton. The "Grange" will be competed next year.

Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is founded as a shipbuilding facility.

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