1From Alexander Hamilton to the Mayor and Corporation of the City of New York, 28 March 1786 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 28, 1786. Signs, with 136 other petitioners, a memorial asking that the “Mayor and Corporation of the City of New York” improve the street in front of the Coffee House, “the usual place of resort for your Memorialists and the merchants of this City.” The memorialists complained that the street “for want of proper regulation and the great concourse of Carts is coverd with filth...
To the Honble. Mayor & Corporation of the City of New York Humbly sheweth That we the Subscribers, your Petitioners & the Public in general, suffer great Inconvenience, and Danger, from the public Road as it now runs between the nine and ten Mile Stones, through the Land of Doct. Samuel Bradhurst, ascending that very difficult & dangerous Hill, being the only direct Way of Communication for...