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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
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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as subsequently buried when the ground washeightened by filling in, and the canal disappeared. That bridge maybe discovered in future ages, and be regarded by antiquarians as astructure belonging to a buried city older than Xew York. The Commons (City Hall Park) yet lay open, and occupied onlybv the Xew Bridewell, the Xew Jail, and the Almshouse at thenorthern part. Between the latter and the Bridewell stood the gallows. In 1790 the first sidewalks in the city were laid on each side of Broad-wav, between Yesey and Murray streets. They were of stone andbrick, and were so narrow that only two persons might walk abreast.Above Murray Street, Broadway passed over a series of hills, thehighest at (present) Worth Street. The grade from Duane to CanalStreet was fixed by the corporation in 1707, and when the improve-ment Avas made Broadway was cut through the hill at Worth (formerlyAnthony) Street about twenty-three feet below its surface. Thestreets were first systematically numbered in 1793.
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OUTLINE HISTORY, 1009-1830. 47 During the deliberations of the State Convention of New York, atPoughkeepsie in the summer of 178S, to consider the National Consti-tution, the city was much excited by the discussions of opposing fac-tions. On the 8th of July, eighteen days before that instrument wasratified by the convention, a frigate called The Federal ship Hamil-ton manned by seamen and marines, commanded by CommodoreNicholson and accompanied l>y a vast procession, was drawn from theBowling Green to Bayards farm, near Grand Street, where tables werespread and dinner provided for about five thousand people. At thehead was a table of circular form, somewhat elevated, at which wereseated members of Congress, their principal officers, foreign ambassa-dors, and other persons of distinction. From this table diverged thir-teen other tables, at which the great concourse sat. It was the firstprocession of the kind ever seen in the city. Greenleafs Patriotic Register spoke so sarcastically

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