CHRONOLOGICAL  SKETCH

of the Progress of.

THE  CITY OF NEW YORK

To the Close
of the Revolutionary War

Continued from Valentine's Manual, No. 8
 

1700. City watch increased to a constable and twelve men,
citizens, to serve by turns.

1701. Earl of Bellamont died in this city, and was buried
under the chapel in the fort.

-----A market-house erected at the present Old slip, then

Burgers path.

1702. A free grammar school first established in this city,
(Andrew Clarke appointed schoolmaster in 1705.)

----- Great pestilence in the city.

-----(May,)  Lord Cornsbury arrived as Governor.

1703. Trinity Church-yard granted to the church by the city.

----- Population of the city, 5,250.

------A cage pillory and stocks, for exposure of criminals,

erected in front of the City Hall, at Coenties slip.

1704. French Church, in Pine street, erected.

----- Beekman Swamp leased by the city to Rip Van Dam,

for twenty-one years, at 20s. per annum.

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