Identifier: newyorksgreatind00edwa (find matches)
Title: New York's great industries : exchange and commercial review, embracing also historical and descriptive sketch of the city, its leading merchants and manufacturers ...
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Edwards, Richard, fl. 1855-85
Subjects: Industrialists
Publisher: New York: Historical
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s, orders & Constitutions, as shall be made by the said Mayor & Aldermen, as they will answer the contrary at their utmost Perills. And for the due Administracon of Justice, according to the fforme and manner prescribed in this41 Commission, by the Mayor, Aldermen & Sheriffe, These Presents shall bee to them, & every of them, a sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalfe; Given under my hand & seale at Ffort James in New Yorke, this 12th day of June, 1665. Rich. Nicolls. The above curious document was the one that first created the office of Mayor in the city of New York,and the gentleman thus honored, Mr. Thomas Willett, was a merchant and trader. Mr. Thomas Delavall,another merchant, was Mayor in 1671; and Matthias Nicolls, a lawyer, held the office in 1672. But astartling change then came over the fare of the Britons dream of power, for in the following year, 1673,■the Dutch again gained possession of New Yorke and promptly changed the name to New Orange,
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60 BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF NEW YORK. and in so doing, to use a colloquial expression, they fired out the British Mayor and Aldermen andabolished all such officials. Here is what Benckes and Evertsens Charter, dated 1673, says: Whereas, we have deemed it necessary for the advantage and prosperity of our City, New Orange, recently restored to the obedience of the said High and Mighty Lord States General of the United Nether- lands, & His Serene Highness the Lord Prince of Orange, to Reduce the form of Government of this city to its previous character of Schout, Burgomasters, & Schepens, as is practiced in all the cities of our Fatherland. The charter goes on to appoint Anthony de Millt as Schout or Sheriff, and among the Burgomasterswe notice the familiar names of de Peyster and Beeckman. Return of the British. It was not long, however, before the British returned, and, again obtaining possession of the city,restored the name of New Yorke, and which it has ever since borne.Among the e

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