. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. a sum not exceeding three thousand pounds by way of a lot- for building a lighthouse. The merchants had petitioned the Mays,lieutenant-governor for a lighthouse at Sandy Hook, and Colden stronglyrecommended the enterprise in his luessage to the Assembly in April,1761. Thus originated the SandyHook Lighthouse, which was firstilluminated, for the benefit of mari-ners, in May, 1763. Shortly after a bill passed theHouse for a lottery to raise funds•to complete the new jail. Thecorporation about the same timeintroduced la
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. a sum not exceeding three thousand pounds by way of a lot- for building a lighthouse. The merchants had petitioned the Mays,lieutenant-governor for a lighthouse at Sandy Hook, and Colden stronglyrecommended the enterprise in his luessage to the Assembly in April,1761. Thus originated the SandyHook Lighthouse, which was firstilluminated, for the benefit of mari-ners, in May, 1763. Shortly after a bill passed theHouse for a lottery to raise funds•to complete the new jail. Thecorporation about the same timeintroduced lamps upon publiclamp-posts, to supersede suspendedlanterns, which had hitherto beenthe oidy mode of lighting the — then knowm as PartitionStreet — had long had a partialexistence, but, simultaneously withthe introdiiction of street lamps, itwas paved, as was also FrankfortStreet. A variety of municipal or-dinances marked this year, some regulating weights and in(!asures, andothers the markets, docks, etc. The modes of punislinicul inilirtcd upcm. Sandy Hook Lighthouse. (iJG HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ciiuiinals arrest the eye with wonder as we turu over the records. Oneinstance must suffice : —/ On Tluirsilay, the 20th instant, between the hours cif nine ami eleven, Christiana Young and another lady, her associate from Philadelphia,being found guilty of grand larceny last week, at the mayors court, are to beset on two chairs exalted on a cart, with their heads and faces uncovered, andt(j be carted from the City Hall to that part nf Broadway near tlie old EnglishC^hurch, from thence cLnvn Maiden Lane, then down the Fly to the White Hall,thence to the church aforesaid, and then to the whipping-post, where each ofthem are to receive thirty-nine lashes, to remain in jail for one week, and thenV to depart the city. Kings College was yet in its infancy. The excellent Eev. Dr. SamuelJohnson wrote to Archbishop Seeker, under date of April 10, 176
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