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Salome Sellers – (1800–1909) last surviving person from the 18th century; Nabi Tajima (1900–2018), the last known surviving person born in the 19th century. Colm de Bhailís (1796–1906), Irish poet who also lived from the 18th to 20th centuries. Gallery of supercentenarians born before 1850 Gerontology Research Group (GRG), published 5 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017) Emma Morano Dame Grand Cross OMRI Morano in 1943 Born Emma Martina Luigia Morano (1899-11-29) 29 November 1899 Civiasco, Vercelli, Kingdom of Italy Died (2017-04-15) 15 April 2017 (aged 117 years, 137 days) Verbania, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy ...
Stephanus Van Cortlandt (1643–1700), 17th, and first native-born, mayor of New York City (1677–1678 and 1686–1688) Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1849–1918), 91st Mayor of New York City (1898–1901), first Mayor post-consolidation
Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...
The Almanac of New York City (2008) Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012) Excerpt and text search; Kessner, Thomas. Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York (1989) the most detailed standard scholarly biography online; Lankevich, George J. New York City: A Short History (2002)
On January 23, 1700, Delancey married Anne van Cortlandt (1676–1724), third child of Gertrude Schuyler (born 1654) and Stephanus van Cortlandt (1643–1700), the Chief Justice of the Province of New York. They had ten children, only five of whom survived infancy, all of whom married and had issue. They were:
Peter Faneuil was born on June 20, 1700, in New Rochelle, New York, to Benjamin Faneuil and Anne Bureau, the eldest child of one of three Huguenot brothers who fled France with considerable wealth after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Portrait of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, attributed to Hendrick Couturier, c. 1660 Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1793 –1795. Gov. Stuyvesant's house, erected 1658, afterwards called The Whitehall Augustus and Anne Van Horne Stuyvesant's home at 2 East 79th Street Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's statue of Peter Stuyvesant in the western half of Stuyvesant Square ...