{"id":340356,"date":"2025-12-12T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/on-mayors-and-the-counting-thereof-nyc-department-of-records-information-services\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:45:44","slug":"on-mayors-and-the-counting-thereof-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=340356","title":{"rendered":"On Mayors and the Counting Thereof \u2014 NYC Department of Records &#038; Information Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"><a href=\"#_ednref1\" title=\"\">[i]<\/a> Valentine complained, in an 1867 letter, that the Dutch records \u201cwere not very attentively cared for, having been without readers for probably a century and more. No attempt had been made to translate them; and&#8230; the history of New Amsterdam&#8230; was not supposed to lie hidden in these dusty, unbound and forbidding volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"><a href=\"#_ednref2\" title=\"\">[ii]<\/a> It was not until the Dongan Charter of 1683 that City government more closely resembled our own, with a \u201ccommon council\u201d that consisted of a mayor, recorder, six aldermen, and six assistant aldermen. Most importantly, the Dongan Charter separated the legislative functions of the council from the two judicial courts that were established. However, the Mayor was still appointed by various governmental bodies until 1834 when Cornelius W. Lawrence was democratically elected Mayor. With the exception of Peter Delanoy who was democratically elected in 1689, during Leisler\u2019s rebellion, a short-lived colonial uprising against Catholic English rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px;white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"><a href=\"#_ednref3\" title=\"\">[iii]<\/a> The Burgomasters were the following: 1653: Arent van Hattem, Martin Cregier; 1654: Arent van Hattem (replaced by Allard Anthony), Martin Cregier; 1655-1656: Allard Anthony, Oloff Stevenson van Cortland; 1657: Allard Anthony, Paulus Leendertseen van der Grist; 1658: Paulus Leendertseen van der Grist, Oloff Stevenson van Cortland; 1659: Oloff Stevenson van Cortland, Martin Cregier; 1660: Martin Cregier, Allard Anthony, Oloff Stevenson van Cortland; 1661: Allard Anthony, Paulus Leendertseen van der Grist; 1662: Paulus Leendertseen van der Grist, Oloff Stevenson van Cortland; 1663: Oloff Stevenson van Cortland, Martin Cregier, Paulus Leendertseen van der Grist; 1664: Paulus Leendertseen van der Grist, Cornelis Steenwyck; 1673: Johannes van Brugh, Johannes de Peyster, \u00c6gidius Luyck; 1674: Johannes van Brugh, William Beeckman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[i] Valentine complained, in an 1867 letter, that the Dutch records \u201cwere not very attentively cared for, having been without readers for probably a century and more. No attempt had been made to translate them; and&#8230; the history of New Amsterdam&#8230; was not supposed to lie hidden in these dusty, unbound and forbidding volumes.\u201d [ii] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[10045,15936,6594,62825,15935,13235,4834,42569],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-340356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","tag-counting","tag-department","tag-information","tag-mayors","tag-nyc","tag-records","tag-services","tag-thereof"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On Mayors and the Counting Thereof \u2014 NYC Department of Records &amp; Information Services - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=340356\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On Mayors and the Counting Thereof \u2014 NYC Department of Records &amp; Information Services - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[i] Valentine complained, in an 1867 letter, that the Dutch records \u201cwere not very attentively cared for, having been without readers for probably a century and more. 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