. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ernopposite the How linn- (irecn. At a later period, w hen the city was incorporatedand a municipal governmenl formed, ho was a niemher of Governor Stuy-vesanfs council, and from this tunc until the capture of the city hy the Britishhe filled many important offices. Thomas Hall was an Englishman. Havingbeen captured by the Dutch and j)aroled, he took up his residence among hisfriendly captors, and in time became a man of wealth, filling many publicoffices. He owned a large farm
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ernopposite the How linn- (irecn. At a later period, w hen the city was incorporatedand a municipal governmenl formed, ho was a niemher of Governor Stuy-vesanfs council, and from this tunc until the capture of the city hy the Britishhe filled many important offices. Thomas Hall was an Englishman. Havingbeen captured by the Dutch and j)aroled, he took up his residence among hisfriendly captors, and in time became a man of wealth, filling many publicoffices. He owned a large farm in the vicinity of Spruce and Beekman St farm in later years passed into the hands of William Beekman. the ances-i tor of the Beekman family. Adrian Keyser was officially connected with theDutch West India (ompany, hy whom the New Netherlands was founded. Hewas afterwards a member of the Executive Council. George Wool soy, likeThomas Hall, was an Englishman. He came out as the agent of Isaac Aller-ton, a leading Dutch trader. The descendants of these men are to this dayhonored residents of this NEW YORK (MANHATTAN), 1656. A survey of the town was begun in 1G54 and completed in 165G. The citywas then laid down on a map and confirmed by law, to remain, from thattime forward, without alteration. Streets were also laid out, some of whichi were crooked enough. The city then contained by enumeration, one hundredand twenty houses, with extensive garden lots, and one thousand of the first acts of the city authorities, after the incorporation of NewAmsterdam, was the framing and passage of an order similar to the one pro-mulgated in 1648. From this it is inferred that hut little attention was paidto the previous proclamation, and as a consequence several fires had occurred, and further dangers are apprehended. Then the ordinance decrees that itis incumbent on the fire officials to perform their duties as tire wardensaccording to the-custom of our Father
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