Researching New York ancestors? Did you
know this?
In 1663
an ordinance was passed prohibiting the bringing of Quakers into the Province
of New Netherlands?
In 1638
there were tobacco plantations on Manhattan Island?
On the
1855 census, the New York population was 3,466,212 with 3,420,926 whites and
45,286 blacks and “1847 Indians.”
Hundreds
of thousands of immigrants crossed into New York from Canada without their
names ever appearing on any U.S. government records. These immigrants consisted
chiefly of Irish and German with a large number of English, Scotch (sic) and
Norwegians. The greater part of the immigrants either located in the cities or
immediately passed on to the wild lands of the West.
In 1838
district public libraries were established and from then on to 1851 an annual
sum of $55,000 was appropriated for the purchase of books for these libraries.
The books were generally comprised of scientific and literary subjects and
afforded people the means to obtain information which would otherwise be
unobtainable.
Under an
act passed in 1782, two lots of 200 acres each was to be set aside for schools
in each township.
In 1857
there were 2016 prisoners in Sing Sing (named after a nearby village). There
were both male and female cells and also an asylum for Insane Convicts.
(I
gleaned these bits from the book, Historical
and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State, 1866.)
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