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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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.It has been repaired at heavy expense from time to time. The year 1835 was made memorable by the most disastrous confla-gration that ever afflicted the city. There had been some famous firesbefore, which had figured in the history of the town. The first of these notable conflagrations was a series of fires thatoccurred almost simultaneously in different parts of the little city inthe spring of 1741, the time of the so-called Negro Plot, already de-scribed on page 21. The next most notable fire occurred on the 21st of September, 177G,just after the British army had invaded Manhattan Island and wereabout to enter the city from the north, mentioned on page 41. Dur-ing the British occupation of the city a destructive fire occurred, layingsixty-four houses, besides stores, in ashes. See page 43. The famous Coffee-House Slip fire broke out at Murrays Wharf,foot of Wall Street, between one and two oclock on the morning ofDecember 9, 1796, and before it was arrested laid in ashes about fifty
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 345 buildings well stocked with merchandise. The destruction was com-plete in the space of about four hours. The lire extended from WallStreet to Maiden Lane. Coffee-House Slip was the scene of the beginning of another destruc-tive conflagration, which was kindled in a grocery-store in Front Streeton the night of December IS, L804. The air was keenly cold, thewind high, and the flames spread so rapidly that before they werechecked forty buildings had been consumed, with most of their con-tents, the whole valued at nearly 82,000,000. Among the buildingsdestroyed was the famous old Coffee-House. At that time the popula-tion of the city was about seventy thousand. It possessed twenty-seven fire-engine companies and four hook-and-ladder companies. On the morning of May 1., 1811, a very destructive fire began in acoach makers shop in Chatham Street, corner of Duane Street. Thenow venerable merchant, John Degrauw, a boy at the time, was pass-ing, when, discovering t

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