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- Please do not add anyone born after 1850
Add people who lived or worked here in its early years, from DWIC rule through the 19th century.
timeline
- Native American hunting and fishing area
- early years of European settlement
- "The land under much of Greenwich Village was developed as a tobacco farm by Wouter van Twiller , who served as the fifth of seven Director-Generals of New Netherland from 1633 to 1638. Following Van Twiller’s death in 1654, his land was divided into three farms. The Trinity Church and Elbert Herring farms to the south and Admiral Sir Peter Warren’s farm to the north were divided by Skinner Road. Skinner Road was named for one of Warren’s sons in law, British Colonel William Skinner."
- The earliest known reference to the village's name as "Greenwich" dates back to 1696, in the will of Yellis Mandeville of Greenwich; however, the village was not mentioned in the city records until 1713.
- 1767 Ratzer map https://media.geni.com/p13/b5/6a/14/31/5344483f216badfc/epson027_original.jpg?hash=b8a6c1c3b8a42fe083b562ccf3568100d73bdddbbcf3e4bdbdad431dc07eeacb.1745132399
- note "the Road to Greenwich" that was then on the shore of the Hudson, then known as the North River
- 1767 surveyor: Montrésor, John (1736-1799 )
- nothing but farm fields surrounded what looks to be the Warren Estate
- c. 1807 = The 'Grid', as envisioned before the advent of the Commissioner's Plan
- 1811 : John Randel (surveyor)
- Seventh Avenue was originally laid out in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Avenue_(Manhattan)
- 1815 Peter Hercules Wendover of Christopher St. elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1821)
- 1816 John McFarlane ran the Orphan's Asylum on Bank St. which included ninety-two orphans. Such charitable institutions were the projects of families including the Schuylers read: Eliza Hamilton, widow of Alexander and the Bethunes
- 1821 : Map = The City of New York as laid out by the Commissioners with the surrounding country by Randel, John
- 1844: Edgar Allan Poe and his ailing wife Virginia rented at 85 West Third St. shortly before her death.
sources
- Greenwich Village on wikipedia
- Ninety Years of the Greenwich Savings Bank, the Third Trustee Savings Bank, Founded in New York City, July 1st, 1833
- Valentine's Manual
- Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (until 1860) eyewitness account of Charles Haynes Haswell
- https://www.villagepreservation.org/2019/07/30/the-origins-of-green...
- COLLECTION NAME: New York County Jury Census; Record Identifier: REC0055_01_08_14 Title: Ward 9 Box Number: 8 Volume Number: 14 Date: 1819
- https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~10~10~14~12...
- streets (in order in text) Christopher, Washington, Hammon (sic), Perry, Charles, Amos, Greenwich, Hudson, Herring, Hammon, Greenwich Lane, Bank, Greenwich, Fort Gansworth, Greenwich Lane, Gas't Bank, Greenwich Lane, 9th Ave, 8th Ave.
- https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~10~10~14~12...
- same collection (Ward 9) but in 1821
- street names in order: Christopher, Amos, Charles, Perry, Hammond, Bank, Washington, Greenwich, Hudson, Herring, Asylum, Art, Greenwich Lane, (fewer than 300 eligible males in total!)
- forgotten street names of NYC
- an account of the Greenwich Prison Friday 28th March 1800 by William Osborn Payne
- An Unconscious Autobiography • William Osborn Payne's Diary and Letters • 1796-1804 (1939) Privately Printed (New York) by Thatcher T.P. Luquer; page 51
Famous and Fun Memorabilia
- US Vice Presisent George Clinton Estate, a large parcel stretching from the Hudson east past 8th avenue
- Ann Eliza Bleecker , Rev. War era author, poet
- Virginia Eliza Poe muse of her famous husband Edgar Allan Poe
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers)
- see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpVC5pgS-IA for background of "Llewyn" actor..