New York as an Eighteenth Century Municipality: Prior to 1731, Part 1 |
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... pence 2 was exacted to guard against absence , but it had to be imposed many times . The qualifications of a juror and the privilege of challenge were established by provincial law.1 Cases of challenge are infrequent . Cornelius Clopper ...
... pence 2 was exacted to guard against absence , but it had to be imposed many times . The qualifications of a juror and the privilege of challenge were established by provincial law.1 Cases of challenge are infrequent . Cornelius Clopper ...
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... pence half penny . 99 3 Another official designated in the charter was the coroner , " to be Appointed Chosen and Sworn In Manner Hereafter Mentioned . " There is not another word about him , how- ever , in the document , and references ...
... pence half penny . 99 3 Another official designated in the charter was the coroner , " to be Appointed Chosen and Sworn In Manner Hereafter Mentioned . " There is not another word about him , how- ever , in the document , and references ...
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... pence , shillings , and pounds sterling , we read of pounds Flemish , current money of Curaçoa , Boston cur- rency , Spanish pieces of eight ( in whole and half pieces ) double doubloons , pistoles and half pistoles , reals and half ...
... pence , shillings , and pounds sterling , we read of pounds Flemish , current money of Curaçoa , Boston cur- rency , Spanish pieces of eight ( in whole and half pieces ) double doubloons , pistoles and half pistoles , reals and half ...
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... pence and the weight of the same varied from twelve to sixteen ounces , with the price of wheat . All bakers were required to bake all the kinds specified in the assize . One can easily imagine times when the margin of profit under a ...
... pence and the weight of the same varied from twelve to sixteen ounces , with the price of wheat . All bakers were required to bake all the kinds specified in the assize . One can easily imagine times when the margin of profit under a ...
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... pence ; butter , six pence . There occurred no appreciable change in this general mar- ket system for several years after English rule commenced . Timotheus Gabrie , the farmer of the slaughter excise in 1665 , was warned to go and ...
... pence ; butter , six pence . There occurred no appreciable change in this general mar- ket system for several years after English rule commenced . Timotheus Gabrie , the farmer of the slaughter excise in 1665 , was warned to go and ...
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³ Ibid aldermen appears appointed April boats bridge Brooklyn building burgher burgomasters and schepens carmen charge charter in M. C. C. chimneys Church Citty city clerk's city hall city's clerk colonial committee common council constable corporation coun Dongan charter Dutch East River election English erected February February 23 fees ferry house ferryman fire florins former freemen Governor Dongan granted guilders Harlem Ibid inhabitants interesting John John Cruger keeper land later Laws lease legislature lessee Lott magistrates Manhattan Manhattan Island March March 25 Marshall mayor mayor and aldermen Montgomerie Charter months municipal negro November ordered ordinance overseers paid penalty pence persons Peter Delanoy petition Petitioners poor pounds prison provincial received records regulations rent repairs reported revenue schout session sheriff shillings stivers streets vote wampum ward watch William York
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Page 228 - Be it Ordained by the Mayor Recorder Aldermen and assistants of the City of New York convened in Common Council...
Page 230 - Council convened and it is hereby ordained by the Authority of the same That from...
Page 43 - A Copy of the Poll List of the Election for Representatives for the City and County of New York...
Page 196 - On the top of which cage was placed a pillory, for the punishment of bakers offending in the assize of bread, for millers stealing of corn at the mill, for bawds, scolds, and other offenders.
Page 15 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 104 - York the magistrates occasionally ordered lights "hung out on a Pole" from the upper windows of houses "in the Darke time of the Moon." This was done by private persons, "without expense to the Corporation." In 1697, "the great Inconveniency that Attends this Citty, being A trading place for want of Lights" led the authorities to order lanterns or lights put in the windows nightly, under penalty of a fine for neglect. Within a month, however, they changed this rule, and ordered "A Lanthorn & Candle...
Page 72 - ... to teach the said apprentice, the business or occupation which he pursues for a livelihood; and also, to read, write, and cipher, as far as the rule of three ; and at the expiration of said apprenticeship, to furnish the said apprentice with two complete new suits of clothing.
Page 118 - That the supreme legislature did intend a transportation to America, for a punishment of these villains, I verily believe: but so great is the mistake, that confident I am, they are thereby, on the contrary, highly rewarded. For what, in God's name, can be more agreeable to a penurious wretch...
Page 124 - The Citizens are summoned, at least four Times a Year to watch, or pay their Two and Six-Pence to a Parcel of idle, drunken, vigilant Snorers, who never quelled any nocturnal Tumult in their Lives; but would, perhaps, be as ready to join in a Burglary, as any Thief in Christendom.
Page 171 - Broadway fronting to the Fort to some of the Inhabitants of the Said Broadway in Order to be Inclosed to make A Bowling Green thereof with walks therein, for the Beauty & Ornament of the Said Street as well as for the Recreation & Delight of the Inhabitants...