Identifier: publicpapersofda11newy (find matches)
Title: Public papers of Daniel D. Tompkins, governor of New York, 1807-1817
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Governor (1807-1817 : Tompkins) Tompkins, Daniel D., 1774-1825 Hastings, Hugh, 1856-1916. cn
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Publisher: New York and Albany
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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om the district of Xew York was .^S.lSn.lOl, against 54 Annual Kep<.)Rt of the State Historian. $26,357,903, in 1S07; the abstract of duties on imported merchan-dise for 1S13, amounted to §1,62-1,574.20, against §5,223,696.-45, in1810, and §10,785,354.42 in 1816. Nearly all the goods importedwere procured on credit. Private and public indebtedness had in-creased to a disastrous extent during the war, and general bank-ruptcy, private and municipal, State and national, was threatened.Banks had refused to redeem their issues; public stocks droppedfar below par, and general depression settled over the land, crip-pling many of the largest and hitherto prosperous establishments,and discouraging nearly all, except those who were trading on■what was left of the credit of the general and State Governments.As a war measure the city authorities issued a vast amount ofsmall bills, to supply the place of specie, and these bills, for a longtime were the chief circulating medium of the citv.
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)£, u4 V EAKLY FORTIFICATION?^ AROUND NEW YORK CITY. A GENERAL IIISTOIiY OF THEM SANDY HOOK AND THE NARROWS FROM EARLIEST TIMES REGARDED AS NATURAL POSITIONS FORDEFENCE AGAINST AN ArPROACHING ENEMY. The strip of deep water, which divides the Long Island andStateu Island shores, called tin- Narrows, has always from earli-est times, been regarded as the most natural approach to Man-hattan Island. Through this strait passed the Half-moon, Hud-sons eighty-ttly complied. New York city atthat -time consisted of four houses, whose tenantspublicpapersofda11newy

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