Whites—Men,946
Women,1018
Young men, young men and boys,864
Young women and girls,899
——3727
Blacks.—Men,209
Women,205
Boys and girls,161575
Total.4302

1731. The City of New-York contained

White males,3771
White females,32747045
Black males,785
Black females,7921577
Total.3622
1756.The City contained 10,881 inhabitants.
1771.It contained 21 863 inhabitants.
1786.It contained 3340 houses, and 23,614 inhabitants.
1790.It contained 33131 inhabitants.
1800.60189
1810.96373
1820.139000

[25] The town is now erecting a very neat building for an Alms-house, on the property lately purchased from Leffert Lefferts, Esqr.

[26] The first settlement in this town was made by George Jansen De Rapalje, the father of Sarah in 1625, on the farm which is now owned by the family of the Schencks at the Wallaboght.

[27] In 1700 the Court House was let to James Simson for one year, at L3 “in money.” In this agreement, “the Justices reserved for themselves the Chamber in the said house, called the Court Chamber, at the time of their publique Sessions, Courts of Common Pleas, and private meetings; as also the room called the prison for the use of the Sheriff if he hath occasion for it.”

[28] The above deed to the Corporation of New-York did not extend to the River. January 15, 1717, Samuel Garritsen, of Gravesend, quitclaimed to David Aersen of Brooklyn, all his right and title to a piece of land, “lying next to the house and land belonging to the City of New-York, bounded north-west by the River, south-east by the highway that goes to the ferry, south-west by the house and land belonging to the City of New-York, and north-east by the house and land belonging to the said John Rapalje, containing one acre be the same more or less.” On the 16th day of the same month, David Aersen sold this property to Gerrit Harsum of New-York, Gunsmith, for the sum of L108 current money of New-York.

[29] The compiler congratulates his fellow citizens on the extinction of those national animosities which in former times existed between the Dutch and English in this our happy country. We may now truly ask with Sterne, “are we not all relations?”

[30] “Lord Cornbury came to this province in very indigent circumstances, hunted out of England by a host of hungry creditors, he was bent on getting as much money as he could squeeze out of the purses of an impoverished people.” He was infamous for his “excessive avarice his embezzlement of the public money, and his sordid refusal to pay his private debts.” Cornbury became so obnoxious to the inhabitants of this province, that they sent a complaint to England against him. The Queen in consequence of this complaint displaced him. “As soon as his lordship was superseded, his creditors threw him into the custody of the sheriff of New-York.” See Smith’s History of New-York. Such was the man from whom the corporation of New-York obtained the rights of the town of Brooklyn.