Jacob Abrahams
John Adams
Samuel Adams
Thomas Adams
Scipio Africanus
Edward Albee
Peter Caesar Alberti
Jean Allefonsce
John Allen
Stephen Allen (1821 & 1824)
Theodosia Burr Alston
Isaac Van Amburgh
Othmar Ammann
Governor Edmund Andros
Albert Anselmi
George Appo
Benedict Arnold
Herbert Asbury
John Jacob Astor- Born in 1763
John Jacob Astor IV-died on Titanic on April 15, 1912
Leo Astor and Leo Lenox (stone lions)
William Waldorf Astor
Louis Auster
Benjamin Aymar
Orville E. Babcock
Irving Bacheller
Roger Baker
Barberrie
Djuna Barnes
Phineas Taylor Barnum
Isaac Barre
Jacob Barsimson
Lt. Col. Charles Baxter
Ann Bayard
Elizabeth Bayard
Judith Bayard
Hester Bayard
Nicholas Byardt (Bayard)
William Bayard
Alfred Beach
Abraham D. Beame
Andrew Beekman
Gerardus Beekman
Jochem Beekman
Wilhelmus Beekman aka William Beekman (1623-1707)
August Belmont, Sr.
Park Benjamin
Henry Bicker
Edwin Binney
Jack Binns
Anthony Bleecker
Leonard Bleecker
Adrian Block
Orison Blunt
Herman Mynderts van den Bogaert
Dominie Everardus Bogardus
James Bogardus
Jerry Bohan
Hector Boiardi
Solon Borglum
George S. Boutwell
Martin Bowe
John Bowne
Walter Bowne
Captain Paul Boyton
Brannan
Jean de Brebeuf
Francesco Giuseppe Bressani
Edward Breuwen
Henry Brevoort
Benjamin H. Bristow
Henry Sands Brooks
Abraham Brower
Jacob Brown
Nathan Brown
Saul Brown
William Brown
William Cullen Bryant
Daniel Buckley
Dr. W. P. Buel
George Burns
Kit Burns
Alfred Mosher Butts
Matthew Buys
Byram
Thomas F Byrnes
John Cabot
Caesar (Vaarck's)
Franklin V. Canning
Eddie Cantor
Nathan Caplin- aka Kid Dropper - aka Kaplan aka Jack the Dropper
Al Capone
Frank Capone
Ralph Capone
Vincenzo Capone
Sir Guy Carleton
Andrew Carnegie
John Chambers
Samuel de Champlain
Pierre-Joseph Chaumonot
Hendrick Christiaenzen
Sybout Claesen
Henry Clapp
Dewitt Clinton
George Clinton
Tryntje Clock
Jacob Cohen
Lillie Hitchcock Coit
Edward Coleman
John Coleman - died Sept. 6, 1609
John Colt
Samuel Colt
Gerardus Comfort
Betty Compton
Richard Connolly
Femimore Cooper
Myles Cooper
Mrs Corlear's
Lord Cornbury
John G Coster
Samuel Cox
Martin Crigier
Davy Crockett
Cuffee - Cuffee was executed in the 1741 New York Conspiracy
Andrew Culver
e.e. cummings
Provost Marshal William Cunningham
Arendt van Curler
Peter T Curtenius
William Dampier
Thomas Davenport
John Davis
Mrs Day
Oliver De Lancey
Abraham De Peyster
David De Vries
William E. Dean
Deganawidah Delacroix
Edward Delafield (May 17, 1794 - Feb. 13 1875)
James Delancy
Thomas Delavall
John Delmonico
Admiral Dewey
Governor Thomas A. Dewey
William Dewitt
Abraham De Peyster
Johannes de Peyster
Legs Diamond
Walter Diemer
George Dieterich
Cornelius Dircksen
Governor Dongan
Colen Donck
Thomas Downing
Sir Francis Drake
Gertrude Drick
Samuel Drisius- came to NYC in 1652
James Duane
William Duer
David Duffore (also spelled Deffore, Devore, Devoor and De Voor)
Thomas Edison
Hamilton Fish
Arthur Flegenheimer aka Dutch Schultz
Hannah Franklin
Maria Franklin
Walter Franklin
Martin Frobisher
Abraham Gallatin
Gallus Mag
Goo-goo Knox
Alexander Hamilton
Andrew Hammersly
Henry Janeway Hardenbergh
John Hawkins
Robert Herring
Cornelia Herring
Hell-Cat Maggie
Christian Hendricksen
Robert Hodgson
Henry Hudson
Jan Huych
Washington Irving
Thomas Jefferson, and helped charter NYU in 1831.
John the Turk
William Samuel Johnson
Burgher Jorisen
Robert Juet
Paul Kelly
Captain William Kidd
Willem Kieft
Hans Kiersted
Jacob Kip
Sebastian Jansen Krol
Johannes La Montagne
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
John Lamb
Napoleon LeBrun
Thomas Leggett
Jacob Leisler
Robert Lenox
Asser Levy
Leonard Lispenard
Chancellor Livingston
Harry Longabaugh aka Sundance Kid
Thomas Lote
Joseph B Martin
Cornelius May
Henry McCarty aka William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid aka Kid Antrim was born in New York City in 1859
Alexander McDougall
Johannes Megapolensis
Dominie Jonas Michaelius
Stoffel Mighielsen
Frances Moelmacker
Jean Moreau
Thijis Volckenz Mossel
Happy Jack Mulraney
Christopher Newport
Matthias Nicholls
Lt. Gov. Francis Nicholson
Richard Nicolls
Mayor George Opdyke
Jacob L Orange
Samuel Osgood
Edward Osterman aka Monk Eastman
Robert Leroy Parker - aka Butch Cassidy
Etta Place
Bill Poole (Bill the Butcher)
Nat Prime
Robert Randall
Cornelis Rijser
Tom Riley
John Davison Rockefeller
Juan (Jan) Rodrigues
Adam Roelanstsen
Jacobus Roosevelt
John Roosevelt
Benjamin Rush
Peter Rutgers
Jean Rutgers
Anthony Rutgers
Alice Rutgers
Sadie the Goat
Catherine Schuyler - born in 1734
Elizabeth Schuyler
Major General Phillip Schuyler
Isaac Sears
Samuel Staats
Ferdinand Steinmeyer
John Stevens
Alexander T. Stewart
Dylan Thomas-November 1953
Samuel J. Tilden
Boss William Marcy Tweed
Lambert van Tweenhuysen
Johannes Van Brugh
John Van Cortlandt
Adriaen Van Der Donck
Hendrick Van Dyck
Colonel John Van Rensselaer
Cornelius Van Steenwyck
Cornelis Van Tienhoven
Adrian Vanderdonck
Jacob Hendricksen Varravanger
Judith Verlett
Abraham Verplanck - born 1606 died 1690
Giovanna Di Verrazzano aka Giovanni de Verrazano (Da Verrazzano)
Arnout Vogels
Daniel Webster
Mary Jane West
Ann White
Capt. Thomas White
Stephen Whitney
Molly Williams
Thomas Willett
Fernando Wood
Peter Zenger
start here to add to alphabetical list Edgar Allen Poe
Jack Kerouac
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
William Sydney Porter aka O. Henry
Dylan Thomas
John Sloan
Betty Turner
William Glackens
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green
Victoria Woodhull
Ann Lohman
Sylvia Green
Peter B Sweeny
Mayor Abraham Oakey Hall
James H. Ingersoll
Samuel J. Tilden
Thomas Nast
Matthew J. O'Rourke
John Kellum
Leopold Eidlitz
Richard Varick
Albert Gallatin
Robert Fulton
Alexander Hamilton
William Seward
Hamilton Fish
Abraham Gouverneur
Peter Minuit
Bastiaen Jansz Krol
Willem Kieft
Jacob Sharp
John Mason
Rufus Porter
Elijah McCoy
Henry T. Gratacap
Arthur Wynne
Francis Lovelace
Esteban Gomez- born 1478 died spring 1538
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Leggett
George Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
Theodore Roosevelt - born October 27, 1858 in New York City
Franklin D. Roosevelt - born in 1882
Goovert Loockerman
Alfred E. Smith
Fiorello LaGuardia
James J. Walker
Robert F. Wagner Jr.
John V. Lindsay
John Fitch
Stephen Foster
Edgar Allan Poe
Governor Wouter Van Twiller
Governor Richard Nicolls
Governor Peter Minuit
John Underwood
Cornelius Melyn
Francesco Vigo
Philip Mazzei
Richard Talliaferro
Jeremiah Thompson
Henry Highland Garnett
John Simmons
John Jay
James Madison
James Wilson
Oscar Tschirky
Benjamin Franklin
Nikola Tesla
Virginia Woolf
Jack London
John Hertz
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Lindbergh
Edna St Vincent Millay
J. Scott Hartley
John Reed
T.S. Elliot
John Masefield
Emma Lazarus
Herman Melville
Mickey Spillane
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Herbert Levi Osgood
Lawrence Henry Gipson
Joseph D. Pistone
John Wojtowicz
Joe Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Peter Koch
Signor Martini di Arma di Taggia
Jacob Leisler
Stephanus Van Cortlandt
Jean Vigne
Harmanus Rutgers
Jean Rutgers
Ann White
John Heperding
Peter Schermerhorn
Governor Colonel Benjamin Fletcher
William Vesey
Benjamin Moore
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
Samuel Provoost
Oceanus Hopkins
Isaac Low
William A. Richardson
Leonardo Nole
Walter Winchell
Fernand Petiot
Commodore Nutt
Robert Moses
Edward Ridley
Mayor C Godfey Gunther
Mayor Jimmy Walker
Hendrick Van Dyck
Hendrick Rycken
Johannes La Montagne
Hans Kierstede
Peter van der Linde
Prince Henry
Coenrat Ten Eyck
Ben Johnson
Adam Roelantsen
Anthony Van Fees
Harry Venn
David Provost
Sandy Welsh
Isaiah Rynders
Evertsen
Adrian Van Laar
Arent Isaacksen
Pieter Winster
Coenraet Ten Eyck
Abel Hardenbrook
Carsten Luerse
Dirck Van der Clyff
Joris Marschalk
Adrian Hoighlandt
Governor Robert Hunter
Cryn Frederickz van Lobbrecht (Cryn Fredericks)
Willem Kieft
Groot Manuel de Gerrit
Captain Isaiah Rynders
John Kelly
W. T. Havemeyer
Daniel Ludlow
Andrew Mortier
Thomas Hickey
General James Wolfe
Governor Francis Lovelace
Captain John Van Arsdale
Henry Clay Frick
John Morton
Jay Gould
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Hendrick Hendriksen Kip
Arthur James Weise
Casimir Goerck
Resolve Waldron
Jacob bar Simson
Abraham de Lucena
Aarom Sinsheimer
Samuel Lord
Rowland Hussey Macy
John Wanamaker
Frank Winfield Woolworth
Marshall Field
Jonas Michaelius
Jean Mousnier de la Montagne
Henry Goldfoggle
Hendricksen Varravanger
Samuel Staats
Annetje Jans
Dirck Van Clift
Isaiah Rogers
John Ericsson
Chaplain John Sharpe
Bishop Charles Inglis
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Captain Manning
Prince - Prince was executed in the 1741 New York Conspiracy
Quack - Prince was executed in the 1741 New York Conspiracy
Frank Henry Fleer
John Taylor Johnston
Jacob Steendam
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
Jan Gillisen
Benjamin Moore
Asser Levy van Swellem
Gouverneur Morris
Joshua Forman
James Geddes
General Philip Schuyler
Captain Peter Warren
James Jauncey
John Stevens, III
General James Wolfe
Gerritsen
Jacob Sperry
John Jones
Lorenzo Da Ponte
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Philip Embury (1728-1773)
William Hamilton
John Scudder
Francis W. Olmsted
Sandy Welsh
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
John Kearney Rodgers (1793-1851)
Monroe Rosenfeld
Burger Jorrison
Albert De Groot (1813 - 1884)
Walt Whitman
Horace Greeley
Gennaro Lombardi
Antonio Totonno Pero
Richard Sackett
Isaac de Rasiere
Adriaen Jorise Theinpont
Theyebdabegea aka Joseph Brant
Hiawatha
Gerrit Jansen
Jan Gybertsen
Bowdoin Hendrick (Boudewijn Hendricksz)
Francois Molemacker
Alonso de Ojeda
Amerigo Vespucci
Martin Waldseemuller
O'Keefe
Jan de Wit
John Sebring
Richard Ingoldsby
Henry Sloughter
Nathaniel Pitcher
Cornelis Melyn
Adriaen van der Donck
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer
Isaac Jogues
Simon Le Moyne
Claes Groen
Pieter Lieresen
Dirck Storm
Abraham Oakey Hall
Richard Nicolls
William Havemeyer
William F. Havemeyer
Fernando Wood
John McComb Jr.
Jonathan Williams
King George
President Ronald Reagan
Ezra Fitch
Benjamin Guggenheim
Charles Joughin
Isidor Straus
Ida Straus
Frederic Kimber Seward
Frederic Kimber Seward
Dorothy Gibson
Maurice Levin
Jacob M. Kaplan
William Niblo
Alfred Ochs
Pat Matthews
General Sandford
Mose Humphries
Jacob Riis
Franchoys Fezard
Captain Edmund Fanning
Zophar Mills
Samuel Willets
William B Wood
Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence (1834 - 1837),
Isaac L Varian (1839 - 1841),
Daniel F Tiemann (1858 - 1860),
C Godfrey Gunther (1864 - 1866)
William H Wickman (1875 - 1876).
Elijah Purdy
Robert Morris
Lorenzo Sheppard
Rococo Levi
Sandy Welsh
Thomas Willett
Abraham DePeyster
David Provost
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
James J. Walker
George B. McClellan Jr.
Robert F. Wagner Jr.
Rosanna Peers
Mickey the Pilot.
Pete Williams
Harrington
Charles Dickens
Abraham Lincoln
Russian Grand Duke
General William Worth
Henry Petty
Lewis M. Pease
Frenchy
Jack Madill.
Tommy Hadden
Bill Slocum
Sadie the Goat
Nicholas Saul
William Howlett
Charley Monell
Kate Flannery
Slobbery Jim
Patsy the Barber
Frank Nitto
Frankie Yale (Ioele or Uale)
John Torri
Lena Galluccio
Frank & Galluch& Galluccio
Lucky Luciano
Arthur (Criss-Cross) Finnegan
Dinny Meehan
Wild Bill Lovett
Frankie Yale (Francesco Ioele)
Paolo Vaccarelli (Paul Kelly)
Arnold Rothstein
John Scalise
Joseph Giunta
Charles Lucky Luciano
James T Ellison aka Biff, and Pat Riley aka Razor
Jack McGurn
William S Pontin
Joseph G. Siegel
Stanford White (1853-1906)
Bessie White
William Rhinelander Stewart
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
J. Pierpont Morgan
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White.
George Shaw
Jacob Shaw
John Lysaight
John Sickles
John Orchard
Johann Lampo
Lamarcus Thompson
Walter Knott
Nathan Handwerker
Harry Stevens
Anton Ludwig Feuchtwanger
Fred C. Trump
LaMarcus Adna Thompson
Mike "Thunderbolt" Norton
Janton
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Daniel Webster
Washington Irving
Edgar Allan Poe.
Charles I. D. Looff
Weber
Vandeveer
Balmer
Benjamin Palmer
Minefer
Mikhail Gorbachev
President Reagan
Hutton
Verplanck
Gerard Kramer
Maugis Vumenot
Jimmy Durante
Ida Handwerker
Mesier
Pieter Jansen
Jan Vinge
Paul Sommer
Sam Francis
William Walton
Harmanus Rutgers II
Harmanus Rutgers Ill
Oloff Van Cortlandt
Etienne De Lancey
Robert Todd
Jacobus Kip
Andries Maerschalck
Dolley Payne (Dolley Madison)
James Madison
Captain Thomas Preston
Eliza Bowen Jumel
Silas Wood
John Elkin
Andrew Hopper
Thos. Scurlock
Eve Scurlock
Dugdale and Searles
Native American - Norumbegans
Explorer-Juan (Jan) Rodrigues was the 1st non native resident of NYC. This black (mulatto) crewman from the boat Jonge Tobias lived and traded among the natives in 1612 (w/o support of a harbor ship). A friend of the Indians and the keeper of the Norumbega secret.
Timeline - 1612 - 1664
Topics - Indian/ Dutch,
People - Adrian Block fire through Peter Stuyvesant fire proofing
Places
Slave - Caesar's friend
Timeline - 1712 - 1741
Topics - 1712 - 1741 Slave revolts, Dutch / British Slave/White
People - Gerardus Beekman to Molly Williams (1818)
Places - greenwich and rector (John Hughson tavern), Water & Wall (slave market), Hanover square-#11, Firemen's Hall-71 Fulton Street,
Inventor - Christopher Colles -1774 - NYC's first log pipeline
Timeline 1742-1776
Topics - Patriots / British, Water
People
Places
Patriot - Burr
Timeline - 1776- 1836.
Topics - Patriots / Tory Loyalists, 1776 Fire, Manhattan Company
Places
Ringleader - Tweed
Timeline - 1823 -1878
Topics - 1835 Fire, 1845 Fire, Tammany Hall, Gangs,
People - Mose Humphrey knocked senseless in 1838
Places -