Simeon Johnson, from 1737 to 1769. No records during the revolutionary war. Samuel Jones, from 1823 to 1824. Robert H. Morris, from 1838 to 1841. Frederick A. Tallmadge, from 1841 to 1846. Frederick A. Tallmadge, from 1849 to 1852. John T. Hoffman, from 1861 to 1867. John K. Hackett, 1866. DISBURSING AND ACCOUNTING OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, From the organization of its government, in 1653, to the present time. 1657-The Retiring Burgomaster....Oloff Stevensen Van Cortland. 1661-The Retiring Burgomaster....Martin Crigier. 1662 66 1663 66 1664 66 1665 66 66 ....Paulus Leendersen Vandiergrist. ..Oloff Stevensen Van Cortland. 1666 to 1668-The Clerk, on the order of the Mayor, Thomas Willit. Conelis Steenwyck. 1668 to 1671 1671 1671 1672 Thomas Delavall. Mathias Nicholls. .Daniel Phoenix. Whitehead Fish. John Fleming. Corn. W. Lawrence. Joseph Lawrence. Andrew V. Stout. Nathan C. Platt. COMPTROLLERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Selah Strong, from 1801 to 1805. Benjamin Romaine, from 1805 (Jan.) to 1806 (Dec.) Jacob Morton, 1807. Garret N. Bleecker, from 1808 to 1813. Thomas R. Mercein, from 1813 to 1816. Garret N. Bleecker, from 1816 to 1831. Talman J. Waters, from 1831 to 1836. Douw D. Williamson, from 1836 to 1839. Douw D. Williamson, 1842. Alfred A. Smith, from 1839 to 1842. Alfred A. Smith, 1843 and 1844. Douw D. Williamson, 1844 and 1845. Joseph R. Taylor, from 1850 to 1853. THE principal financial mart of the Western continent has a history as curious in its early beginnings and as interesting from its connection with the advancement of the city of New York as any other thoroughfare in the city. We are enabled to trace it, step by step, from its original condition as an open common through its successive stages of progress, until its culmination in modern times as the throne of the American Mammon, whence flow the edicts of the money god through all the land. As is well known, the Dutch West India Company, which purchased the island of Manhattan from the natives, was liberal in granting to settlers suitable parcels of land for their habitations, gardens, and farms; but no considerable tract for farming purposes was granted below Wall street. The lower part of the island was appropriated to the city proper, and, as occasion offered, was granted in suitable lots to settlers who engaged to make improvements. During twenty-five years subsequent to the advent of Christian families these building sites were confined to a few lanes or thoroughfares adjacent to the fort, on the south point of the island, and along the East river in the same vicinity. During that interval of a quarter of a century the ungranted land below Wall street laid in common, being known in the Dutch language as T'SCHAAPE WAYTIE, or the Sheep Pasture, its natural condition being partly rolling upland and partly meadow of a swampy character. |