TABLE   OF   DATES   IN   NEW-YORK   HISTORY

1701-March 5, Lord Bellomont died. October, Thomas Noell ap¬
pointed Mayor.

1702-Colonel Nicholas Bayard tried for High Treason. Lord Corn¬
bury arrives.    Philip French appointed Mayor.

1703    William Peartree appointed  Mayor.    Free Grammar School

established under care of City Corporation.

1704    French Huguenot Church in Pine street built.

1706     The " French Scare."    A Treasurer of the Province appointed.

1707    Ebenezer Wilson appointed Mayor.    Two Presbyterian minis¬

ters arrested for preaching.

1708    A Charter  relating to ferry privileges  granted to the city.

Lord Lovelace arrives and succeeds as Governor.    Begin¬
ning of German immigration.

1709     Death of Lord Lovelace, and a Canadian campaign undertaken

by Colonels Nicholson and Vetch.

1710    Jacobus Van Cortlandt appointed Mayor.    Governor Robert

Hunter arrives with three thousand Palatines.

1711     Caleb Heathcote appointed Mayor.    Slave-market established

at the foot of Wall street.

1712     Census of New-York taken—4848 whites, 970 blacks.    First

Negro Insurrection.
1714    John Johnston appointed Mayor.

1719    Presbyterian Church in Wall street built.    Governor Hunter

returns to England.

1720    William Burnet, Governor, arrives.   Robert Walters appointed

Mayor.
1722    Water street ordered to be laid out on East River front.

1725    Johannes Jansen appointed Mayor.   " The New-York Gazette"

begun by William Bradford.

1726    Robert Lurting appointed Mayor.

1728    Governor Burnet transferred to Massachusetts, and succeeded

by Colonel John Montgomerie.

1729     The City Library founded.   Greenwich and Washington streets

surveyed.