o*^ s « c ; WEALTH AND PEDIGREE OF THE F 128 .25 .B355 Copy 1 ■!^S^ WH JilL ¥. © E 1= S k OF NEW YORK CITY. COMPRISING AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF PERSONS ESTIMATED TO BE WORTH f lOO.GOO, AND UPWARDS. WITH THE SUMS APPENDED TO EACH NAME. « BEING USEFUL TO r BANKS, MERcllANTS, AND t)THERS. FOURTH EDITION. ENLARGED TO TEN TLMES THE ORIGINAL MATTER, AND NOW CONTAINING BRIEF HISTORICAL AND GBNEALOGI|Al NOTICES OF THB t . PRINCIPAL PERSONS IN THIS CATALOGUE. TSTEW-YORK: COMPILED VriTH MUCiT CARE AND PUBLISHED AT THE 'SUN OFFICE. *. 1842. ••• ^ .=:^=5|^-:< WEALTH AND PEDIGREE OF THE WISJilL^iFMW (SETS 09 ]\E1V YORK CITY, COMPRISING AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF PERSONS ESTIMATED TO BE WORTH $100,000 AND UPWARDS. WITH THE SUMS APPENDED TO EACH NAME, BEING USEFUL TO BANKS, MERCHANTS AND OTHERS. FOURTH EDnriOi\, 3NLA11GED TO TEN TIMES THE ORIGINAL MATTER, AND NOW CONTAINING BRIEF HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTICES or THE PRINCIPAL PERSONS IN THIS CATALOGUE- >A r. c.. p -^ ^'\ NEW YORK: .COMPILED WITH MUCH CARE AND JPUBLISIIED AT THE SUN OFFICE. 1842. PREFATORY NOTICE. To render this publication more interesting tothe general reader, we have procured from various au- thentic sources,brief genealogical and historical or biographical notices of some of the more remarkable menan^ familiea in this community,into whose hands wealth has concentrated. We have endeavored to do equal and exact justice to the parties, and h^ve deemed that we have been rendering an espe- cial service to those, more particularly, who by honest and laborious industry have raised themselves from the obscure and humble walks of life, to great wealth and consideration. The public will be equally desirous to know those whose fortune* have been acquired in a more equivocal manner. If there be, by any possibility, any erroneous statements, we pledge ourselves to correct them in our next edition. Our aim has been to wound the feelings of no one, but to define the true position of sundry individuals who are flourishing under false colors, and to do strict justice 10 all, and to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In a country where money, and not title, is the standard by which merit is appreciated, it is desirable to adjust the standard with as much exactitude as possible in reference to the honest means by which wealth has been acquired. New York, May, 1842. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, by Moses Y. Beach, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. ^ WEALTH AND WEALTHY CITIZENS OF NEW-YORK CITY. Abrams Samuel 150,000 This oddity is of an ancient and respectable Jew family, and witli his brother acquired a large fortune in the tobacco business, being one of the oldest firms in that line in our city. AbeelJno. H. 100,000 A very old and rich house in the iron line, and if not now, were once worth double the sum. Adams John 300.000 As the name imports, one of our numerous New Eng- land " immigrations." New York being in fact as much the metropolis of New England and the emporium of her commerce and of her enterprizing, adventurous and mo- ney-hunting population, as it is of the " Empire State" and of the American Continent. Our city has been noae the worse, perhaps, for this influx from " down east," which, like the fresher, deposits always " en mouvement" upon their own sterile soil, and driven by ocean currents, (favorite element lo your Yankee race) have quite over- laid the original and primitive aggregations of early Dutch settlers of this once city of New Amsterdam. Mr. John Adams flourished in the dry goods line, when great wealth was easily and rapidly acquired thereby. Adee William 150 000 Agnew Cornelius .... 100,000 An ancient New York family of great respectability, and a wealthy house. Allen Stephen 150,000 Of a Long Island, New England, family, we believe, and for a long time kept one of the best sail lofts in the city; a man of austere temper, but reputed of stern honesty, strict probity, and great good sense, judg- Inent and energy, which, in despite of slight opportunitips of education in early life, when he had " to rough it" witli tarpaulin, elevated him to the Mayoralty and va- rious other high and responsible trusts in the democratic party. Alley Saul 100,000 Originally a chair or cabinet maker, and resided, we be- lieve, at Charleston, S. C.;has since become in some sort a cabinet-ma.keT in politics, in which some years back he took rather an ultra and prominent position. His fortune was acquired in the dry goods and importation and ship- ping business; being one of the numerous instances of an uneducated, unaided youth, among the mechanic class, who have, by their own indomitable energies and strong intellect, advanced themselves to affluence. Allaire James P. ... - 100,000 Misfortune and temporary depression in the affairs of this enterprising citizen, whose foundry for steam machi- nery and other castings are familiar by the excellent work turned out to all parts of the country, ought not to dis- place him from his true position, which, doubtless, his good sense and tact will soon enable him to resume, and to be what he is nobly entitled to be, and what he once was, a demi-millionaire, to ■whom the mechanic classes irl all the upper wards along the east river could point with conscious pride. His sister married the rich Mr. Hag- gerty. The Allaires, it would seem, are French, by the name. Alstyne John 100,000 Ames Barret 100,000 Amos Estate of Mr. . - - - 200,000 Amory Jonathan .... 100,000 After a fiery ordeal,worse than that which his pipe-lay- ing political associates are yet to pass through, this iner-' chant comes out unscathed from the savage assault, as it appeared to be, made upon his integrity by those who, when he was up in the world, flourishing as " aide de camp" of his Seiene Highness, our small potatoe Gover- nor Seward, were in ecstacies to have a smiling nod from him, to ruralize with him at their country villa, to press him 10 a se.at in their carriage, or a spare queue in the " salon de billiards." Verbum sap. Mr. Amory's Ap- pleton, cousins at Boston, will no doubt rejoice to have it in their power to aid in reinstating, to the extent of their power, this persecuted man to his former wealth. Anderson Henry J. - . - - 100,000 Tlie respected Professor of Mathematics in Columbia College, a self-made man, who, while yet a boy, gave such promise of scientific precocity, that the chair of mathematics in the venerable institution named, and which was his own ahna mater, fell to him as by inheri- tance, before he had scarce attained manhood. His fa- ther, Elbert, was a fashionable and most capital cabinet- maker, and afterwards, as an army contr.actor in the war, exhibited proof of great energy and scope of mind, and these he bequeathed to his children as a richer legacy than the gold he had accumulated. Elbert Anderson was truly an honor to the mechanic class. One of his sons married into the ancient family of EUeiy of Rhode Island, another, who was in one of the legations abroad, married Miss Phelps, daughter of Thaddeus P. Andariese Barnet .... 100,000 Avery excellent tailor and a very amiable man was Mr. Andariese. This worthy citizen was a pattern of propriety and industry for many a purse-proud aristo- crat of the new-made gentry that turned their nose up at him and his calling. Anderson Abel 200,000 Truly able, both in gold and in law knowledge. Hia father was an admirable shoemaker, and we believe hon- est man, who deserved all that wax and leallier made for him. AnthonJohn 150,000 His father was a highly respectable and learned physi- cian, native of Germany, or son of a German. The sons of i)r. Anthon have nearly all distinguished themselves by their great ability. John, as a lawyer; Henry, as a divine, and Charles, the truly illiistrinus professor of an- cient languages in Columbia Collage in this city. John added a large aiuouut to his fortune by his marriage with c^ ♦heail tKe management of the late New York and Erie Rail Road, under which he was crushed in his political aspirations, if he had any, but saved his bacon, we hope. It was a losing day when he got into the company of scurvy politicians— and to be the bosom friend of William H. Seward . Boyd James 100,000 A better sample of a rigidly honest and scrupulously exact mercantile man, and unobtrusive gentleman, no where exists, and we sincerely tiust no commercial blast may ever seriously hann him in his honorable career. Bradhurst J. M. 150,000 Bradhurst Samuel - <. . . 100,000 The Bradlnirsts are an old New York family, who have acquired their fortune in the drug liae, to which " Alderman Sam" has appended a very comfoitable bo- nus through his m irriage with a daughter of the rich Tho- mas Pearsall, deceased. Brandreth Benj'n 150,000 The celebreted vender of " Brandreth's Pills," whose Virtues are said to consist in aloes, &c., compounded with the greatest care and selected of the finest qualities. Em- piric then though he be, he is not of the murderous tribe. Brevoort H. Jr. 300,000 A worthy man and good citizen, but that he would ap- pear to be what he is not and strive to cast behind him the foreshadowing of by gone events. To his kind hearted and venerable mother, whose weather-beaten features bore the brunt and pitiless peltings of many a piercing wintry northeaster of sleet and rain, as she sat vend- ing her vegetables, and carrots and York salad, undpr the unsheltered eaves of the market-hoUse in the Bowery, is Henry indebted for the brilliant fortune and more brilliant education he received, all literally the fruits of her hard earnings. Furtlier at present we know no- thing of Henry's lineage. He himself is distinctly and po- sitively of the order of " literateurs," though not "dis- tmgue " He is of the "novushoiiio," hiving, witli his wife, a rich Southern widow, a very keen relish for all sorts of fashionable display, and like others of our would be no- billity a most abhorrent repugnance to any communica- tion witli whatsuch are pleased to call the "profanun val- gus," and " basse classe," or "canaille." Bronson Arthur 100,000 The Bronsons date from the father. Doctor B., of Con- necticut, the great financier, a maivellous quality in one of the faculty. Bronson Silas 250,000 Brooks James - . ^ . . 100,000 Brooks Thomas 100,000 Brooks Sydney 100,000 Son of that John Jacob Astor of Boston Peter C. Brooks, brother of the late Governor B. Brown Geo. W. (See Oscar Coles.) - 100,000 Brown James - - . - . 300,000 English firm of great repute. Brown Silas 100,000 Brown Stewart - - - - . 300,000 Bruce George 100,000 A worthy mechanic, who, in company with his bro- ther, from a printer, some years ago, became a type founder. By great industry and care, the possession of much natural shiewdness,and judicious operations in real estate, he has rendered himself wealthy, and is now mas- ter of a handsome fortune. Bruce J. M. 100,000 Bruen Matthias . • . . . 700,000 When the great China merchant, Thos. H. Smith, of this city, failed, Bruen, through his son, Geo. W. B., who had married to Smith's daughter, became possessed of all Smith's ships, teas, &c., as Smith's bondsman. Govern- ment unwisely relinquished the greater part of what was due to the revenues, say $600,000, and this has made through rise of Smith's assets, houses, &c. a vast proper- ty for the Bruens, a NewJereeyfamUy, and originally dry goods merchants. Geo. W. lived in Ital? and wa* in the Leghorn line. Bryson David 100,00© An honest upright Irishman, one of the nabobs of the tanners and curriers of the "Swamp," with the Blood- goods, &c. Hasbeen an Alderman. Buchanan Miss 150,000 Daughter of Thomas Buchanan, (deceased.) Buckley Thomas 100,000 English Quaker, merchant, who made a good adven- ture, the first impulse to his fortune, when he married a daughter of the licH John Lawrence, deceased. Buckley Henry - - • . . 100,000 Son of Thos. (vide); and inherited a large estate by mar- riage with the daughter of Townsend Macoun, deceased, late Mayor of Troy. Buloid Robert 150,000 A most worthy, upright merchant, and made his fortune by a retail grocery establishment in Broadway, celebrated for its choice assortments of rarest delicacies that cart pamper the a-ppetite of epicures, in delicious wines, li- queurs and confitures. Bunker Wm. J. 100,000 Of the Nantucket Bunkers, of whom is the famous Commodore or "Admiral" Elihu S. Bunker, the first that drove a steamer on the wave of the ocean, having been the man who first navigated Long Island Sound in a steamboat — many, many years since. Buri.ham (Estate of) Michael - - 200,000 A good man, and one that every printer should point to the memory of with a just pride — for it was as much through his exactitude as the financier and practical head and proprietor in the Evening Post as to William Cole- man's master talent with the plume, that such wealth ac- crued to both out of that ancient and able political jour- nal. Burnham was a man, too, of good instruction and pleasing mariners — and has left a proud name for his family. Burke Mrs. (widow of M. R.) - - 150,000 Butler Benjamin F. - - - 300,000 With native powers of mind, and most unpretending de- portment in the profession which he adorns, and respected every where for his sincere piety and pure life, Mr. Van Buren saw in him one whose sterling name would bring much capital to the democratic ranks. An early alliance of friendship, and the yielding temper of Mr. Butler, met with their full re wards in the very lucrative post to which his friend Mr. Van Buren finally assigned him as U. S< District Attorney for New York City. No one envies such a man's wealth, " Old Poins" and his " Report" tO' the contrary notwithstanding. Campbell Jno. - - - - 200,000 Mr. Campbell, like his father, the late deceased and mui-h respecttd pruprieior of a la-ge paper esiablishraeat, made ihe greater pan of his fjriim" in that line, and has besides acquired much by inheritance. Tht-y are Scotch. Campbell Geo. W. .... 100,000 Brother of John. Carman Rich'd r, - - . - 200,000 A respectable New England name — carpenter by pro- fession, and by tills gained his wealth ; he himself wisely building his own houses for fools to buy or live in, the old adage being in this case reversed. Carroll Isaac 150,000 Carow Isaac - 200,000 One of our most reputable New York merchants. Cary Henry 300,000 Respectable, worthy merchants, he and his brother — and trouble no one by any haughty display of theii wealth— being gentlemen throughout, in mode and is manner. [7] Games Francis (Estate of his daughters) 200,000 A gentleman, every inch of him — and but few such specimens of a highly educated merchant. Resided a )ong while in Paris, where he was held in great consider- ation both among his countrymen and the elite of French society, for his fine taste, classical acquirements, polished manners, and ready wit. He is yankee born, of great re- spectability, and after many ups and downs of life and lo- cating himself with his accomplished second wife at New York, his two beautiful daughters, just grown and by a former wife, have come into the above inheritance through death of a maternal great uncle. Catlin Geo. (Estate of his father Lynde C.) 100,000 Time was, when in the healthy condition of banking institutions, to be a cashier of a bank like that venerable institution of which Lynde was the master spirit, was quite equivalent in consideration to a baronial title. Then, too exaggerated an importance was given in this money-making land to all who had the fingering of rag currency, while mere intellectual qualifications were in that '• bank-note age" of Halleck, depreciated to below zero. Now the poverty and general depression of the times has drawn forth genius from its hiding-places and garrets, and given it a passable distinction, while every name almost that flourishes on the illuminated dovices of a bank bill is looked at with scrutinizing suspicion. So wags the world as the equilibrium of those influences that govern society changes upon its axis. Of all these New England Catlins, George, the Indian Traveller and Painter, is indubitably the most distingue. Cavanna Augustus . - - - 100,000 The only example, probably, of a hair dresser, and he an Italian, who, after steady application for many long years, has shaved his customers to the tune of some thirty thousand dollars, and invested it successfully in real estate so as to treble that sum. He has not lived in the atmosphere of W all Street for nothing. CebraJohnY. 100,000 The ei-alderman of the first ward, and an old and esti- mable citizen of New York, and though in years not ad- vanced, may be deemed, from his useful public services, apart from his standing as a merchant, one of l^e fatheis of the city. Center Robert 200,000 Long a distinguished shipping merchant, of a numerous New York family of great respectability. Chabertl.X. - - - - - 100,00 The French " Fire Eater," apothecary, &c., who by some "mandragora or other potent drug," burnt a hole in the heart of the rich old dowager, Mrs. Rapalye, of the ancient Dutch noblesse of Gotham— but the consuming passion removed the widow too soon for him from this earthly scene. The rent roll falling due, however, simul- taneously with the arrival of the undertaker, yielded to the "devourer of moulten metal" only a modicum of the tons of silver and gold wliich he had hoped to have sub- jected to the fiery process of his crucibles. The black art of alchemy did not this time furnish him with the pliilo- lopher's stone or " elixir vitse," and with the revulsion of the widow's large estate to its legitimate heirs, the sala- mander returned to his vocation of swallowing the coals of fire that her premature death had heaped upon his head. Chauncey Henry .... 150,000 Cheeseman Dr. 100,000 His father, an eminent quaker ship builder, gave the Dr. a good education, and by dint of Quaker iiiflu«nce in the government of the New York Hospital, got him there, and then through the same and a dasliing horse and gig, into a rich quaker practice, for which the Doctor's personal elegance and bold ability as a cutter (surgeon) did much. If his celebrated uncle, Capt. Cheesman,who died so nobly under Montgomery at X^uebec, waa, as his comrades said; one of the finest look- ing men of his time, and took as much pains, as is is recorded, to make his toilette and beautify his person on the morning of that fatal day, as the Doctor does when visiting the saloons of the quaker noblesse, (who are rea- dy to pay him $2&yer visit) he must have been a secoud Beau Brummel. If the patronage of the quaker order of christians first brought note and wealth to the Doctor, his golden wings soon became fully fledged and strengthened, for he now doffed the shad bellied olive coat so velvety and neat, and the yellow breeches and white tops so po- lished, that had all in the matter of costume done him such faithful and essential service, and launched fortli in to the gay world of frolick, fun and dance, of balls and banquets, and tableaux vivants. From being an exquisite of the first water in tlie quaker circle, he is now aspiring apparently to figure as the Henry Pelham of our new made nobility of the ultra fashionable society in the piu"- lieus of upper Broadway. Ejection from communion with the quaker church, to which his wife, the daughter herself of a quaker preacher, was also subjected, widen- ed the breach, and the Doctor is now virtually " hors de combat" for tlie little of the pure broad brim that will hiu^t him. Chesebrough R. 200,000 A highly respectable and wortliy merchant, who ac- quired his property in the dry goods line. Chesebrough Mrs. (vpidowof Andronicus) 500,000 Chesterman James ----- 200,000 A worthy man and most capital tailor he was till an overgrown fortune honestly acquired in that unpretend- ing vocation, obliged him to seek repose in a "hacienda" or "chateau," "a I'Anglois" in the environs of this impe- rial city. Childs Samuel R. (Estate of his wife) - 100,000 A clever, shrewd New England physician, and dipped too deep in politics and real estate, but has been saved from shipwreck by marriage with the fashionable milliner Mrs. Thompson, with whom he is now on a tour through Europe. Clapp John 100,000 Clark Aaron - - - 100,000 Of this state — long the valuable clerk of tlie legislative Assembly through all changes and revolutions of politics, which, however, one day at last landed him by one sud- den and violent gyration of the wheel of fortune into a lottery office, where after multifarious dealing with the Sybelline leaves of fate, and the blanks and prizes of life's cheqner board, another equally sudden wrench of the wheel placed him in the marble house or capitol of tlie city, firmly seated in diplomatic black silk breeches and formidable wig, in the "fauteuil" of the mayoral- ty — dispensing justice and law, and cartmen's licenses and passengers permits, instead of lottery tickets and un- ciurent money. "Viva la Bagatella! Leather and Prunella!" But whatever "gyrations" Aaron may have made, and to whatever changing points of the compass the vane of his friendship or hostility has turned, we rank lum a notable example of the facility with which persevering active, sleepless industry and ambition, with native bom shrewdness of mind, and pleasant social manners may, like the upheaving volcano, work their way to the sur- face of notoriety, through every superincumbent stratum of obstruction and adversity. Clark Edwin 100,000 Clark Richard S. 100,000 Clark Mrs. (widow of Benj'n) - - 100,000 Mr.' Clark, from "downcast," was famed as the Quaker lawyer, and friend of Daniel Webster; and a most worthy man and excellent jurist it is said he was. Clason Augustus W. - - - - 100,000 Isaac Clason, first in the honorable vocation of a school master of a finished New England collegiate education, became one of the most prominent and enterprising ship- ping merchants of New York, and acquired and left a large estate. The lady of tlie present Postmaster, Colo- nel Jno. L. Graham is one of the daughters of Isaac Cla- son. Clufiton Mrs. H. (widow of Geo.) - 100,000 Mrs. Hannah Clinton, daughter of Walt«r Franklip, m Esq.. an eminent Quaker merchant of tliis city, from L. Island. Her husband was nephew to Vice President Geo. Clinton, and brotlier of the great Governor, Dewitt Clin- ton— "Satis est" for Clinton, a household name— but the rich Franklin brothers, merchants of New York, de- serve a memento for the many noble ways in which they through intercession with the Tory authority and Hes- sian troops, were enabled generously to dispense their wealth to their poor, miserable, sutfering countrymen, the American prisoners confined in the Sugar House, Provo, &c. during the American Revolution. Mrs. Han- nah C. is a sister also of Gov. Dewitt Clinton's first wife, bv whom alone Gov. D. C. had issue. Clinton Charles A. (Estate of his wife) 100,000 This oldest son of the ever to be lamented and never to be forgotten Governor Dewitt Clinton, every way worr thy of that illustrious man, is happily placed beyond the reach of the pecuniary distress which that father he- roically succumbed to for the sake of enriching ungrateful millions with the benefits of those magnificent works of internal improvement which immortalize his name The estate of Mr. Charles A. Clinton comes through his mar- riage with a grand-daughter of Jno. Hone. Cobb Oliver 100,000 A most excellent citizen and practical haj-d working man, beloved by all his brother merchants for his amiable disposition and plain republican manners and sterling virtues. Mr. Cobb has been long deemed one of the most respectable inhabitants of the first ward, where, though of whig politics, he has fulfilled the important trusts coa- fided to him with equal satisfacti;on to all parties. Coddington Jonathan I. - - - - 100,000 A merchant, arid late the worthy Postmaster, a gen- tleman every inch of him— through life, and from the first jump of his parentage on this continent, two centu- ries since, in the person of the famous Wm. Coddington, Esq., of England, first of Boston, then the foimder and first Governor of Rhode Island, (1638. ) He was the first merchant of New England, built the first brick house in Boston, and at his liouse at Newport was held the first auaker meeting. Jonathan is a lineal descendant of Gov. C, and was long a distmguished merchant of our city, and like his great progenitor, an unswerving demo- crat. Coe William S. - - - " ■ 100,00 Of an old and respectable English stock, that were among the eaily patentees of Newtown and Jamaica, L. J., about two centuries past. For many years William S. Coe has been one of tUe hard working and most promi- nent and effici. nt gentlemen of the democraiic party, and at last has reaped a comfortable indemnity for his ser»ices out of the varioua high trusM he has held, Surveyor, &c. Coit Henry ... - 100,000 Of New England, and by a steady, faithful attention .to a Sdfe mercantile busmess, has happily escaped the tornados that have overwhelmed the large operators, and ,come3 out unscathed with a fortune of which every dol- lar counts two on the rag-standard eatimate of tormer years of bloated paper bubbles. Coit Henry A. .... 100,000 After roaming far and wide in commercial adventures, and passing through all the vicissitudes of clime and for- tune, this much eMtemed and popul ar merchant finds him- self at last yet iu the Dioom o(maQhood,and wiiti irrepres- sible energy of mind filed in hi« native soil, and blessed here on his return with the luckiest, though the latest speculation he has made— to wit, a charming yankee wife and rich heiress — tUe harrassmg cares of the comp- ioir being ill menu verted imo a ''far aolce nienie." He is the son of L>5>i Coit, long known as one of our most re- spectable merchants of an old New England family in the land of steady habits. Coles Oscar - . . , 200,000 Of the Long Island branch of Coles, and inherits a large estate tram his father, and another in expectancy through his'beauiiful wife, the daughter of a worthy citizen, Mr. George Brown, which latter, when mercantile leferses ruined him, had the noble energy of chaLracter to apply himself to the vocation of a hotel keeper, which, though perhaps less exalted, in common piulunee, than the rantt to which he was educated, proved infinitely more luefa- tive, and not only extricated him from the embarrassmf nU ihat oppressed him, but yielded him splendid opulence, la this coutitry, " Dieu merci !" such independence of spirit receives the approvirjg reward of every virtuous mind whose good opinion is worth possessing, however swindling bankrupts, that have carried havoe in their pathway, may for a time brave publis stniiment witti their braa'cD effrontery, and dash jehu-like through the streets with their lil-goitf n wealth, trampling under their horses' hoofs those even their belters, whom thar vUla- noits frauds have reduced to squalid beggary. Coles Benj. U. (Estate ol) - - - 150,00Q Tne Coles of Long Island and of New York, and pro- bably those of Virginia are descendants of Mr. Robert Coles and others of that name, (doubtless all brothers,) who settled at Boston, Lynn, &c. about two centuries suice, and are among the most ancient and respectable of American names. The ancient earldom of Enniskillen in Ireland belongs to the family of Coles, but their Irish descendants who came over, brpught, we opine, precious little of tlie moveables thereof with them. Coles Wm. J. 100,000 Coleman (widow of William) - - 100,000 This estate was brav* ly acquired by her deceased hus- band, the celebrated Wm Coleman, former eaiior of ihe Eveni;ig Post. Through the most perilous storms of party strife, it must be conceded that this admirable man, even at the hazard of hfe and to the ultimate destiuction of that life, gallantly maintained the old and impracticable docirmes of high-toned federalism in which he had been nurtured— but which, when war's alarms" brought us into collision with a foreign foe, he never pushed to ihat point of black-cockade ultraism which made him forget a* some othtr*of hi* party unfortunaieiy did, the obligations of patriotism and devotion to his coimtr/. Colgate William 200,00<> A rich tallow chandler. Collins E.K: ..... 200,00p One of our most distinguished shipping merchants and owners of packet lines. A sou of New England, and de- Bcended from a family that occupy an iiluatrioua page la the annals of thoje heroic men who resolutely resisted puritan persecution. Conch William ... - - 200,000 Conger Abrm. B. - . - 200,000 Conklin Jonas 100,000 From Sufifolk county, and a merchant. Conover Stephen - - . . 100,000 In ihe war he was at bis post, ready to defend our city from foreign invasion, and on the return of peace reeimied his mercantile pursuits as a hardware merchant, »nd by a close and prudential attention thereto has met with the reward he so eminently deserved. He is a most worthy ana unpretending citizen, and of an old New York Knicki erbocker family. Contoit John H. . - - - r 250,000 Ice cream of the purest quality for near half a century may have melted away by the ton in the mouths of hun- dreds of generations who have frequented his well knowa fashionable garden. But Contoit's father, a busy old Frenchman, knew, it seems, how to solidify that perisha- ble luxury into heaps of massive and endurmg gold, that will enrich all his posterity. Corlies Joseph W. .... 250^6m A worthy, intelligent, honest, industrious, enterprising quaker merchant, who acquired his fortune in the auc- foiieer business. The name is probably Huguenot. Corlies Benj'n ... - - 200,000 Cornell Robt. C. . • - - 150,000 Of the ancient Cornell family, (originally Comhill or Cornwall,) of Cornwall Hall, Combury, L. Island. Their progenitor escaped from the horrid massacre at Throg'a Neck, 1643, in which the immortal Anne Hutchinson, the liead of the colony, and most of the others perished. [9] Cornell Whitehead J, resides at Brooklyn 100,000 Cornell Peter C, resides at Brooklyn 100,000 Corse Israel 250,000 .Q,uaker, leather merchant, deceased, descendant, how- ever, of a man of mucli military note. Colonel Israel Corse, of the American revolution — native, we believe, of Long Island. Corson .... times. His son Willi iin married a Livingston, and by tltisf and that liourly source of accumulating wealth, tlie Ful- ton steuni ferry boats established by hiiu — they have be- come extrtmely ricli. Culling aixs. (widow of William) - - 200,000 D 200,000 200,000 250,000 deceased, of a respectable Coursen Abrm. - Coster John G. - And his brother, Henry A family in Amsterdam, and began liere as merchants soon after the revolution, and by honest industry amassed a great fortune. Wliile Napoleon held Holland, they, through confidential correspondence were enabled to know how far to push tJie trade thither, and tlms in re turn importations of Gil foimd so rich a liaivest that their wealth rapidly accumulated from that hour. They were gentlemen born, and of irreproachable integrity. — The three millions fortune the two brotliers amassed id neirly all melted away before it has iiarcly got into the hands of their children. Dr. Hosack, deceased, made a deep gouge into that of Henry's widow, but where isit^ Cottinet Francis .... 100,000 Now one of the oldest and always has been one of the most respectable and prominent of our Froncli importers of silks, &c. He married the accomplished daughter of General Edward Laight, bein^ one of the few instances of the allianc.e of respectable French and American fami- lies. Cotheal David 100,000 CozzensW B. - - ? - 100,000 One of the most ancient and honored names in the early armals of New York, whenitj became an English province. Cram Jacob - - - - - 250,000 It is well this worthy citizen had accumulated his large fortune by (he worm of the distilleiy before Tom Marshall, that maw-worm from Kentucky carae on the scene to get up by his spirit-stirring and imspiring eloquence a tee- totaling crusade against the consumers of every denomina- tion of ardent liquor. For it is ten to one in another 20 ye ars it will he held as a capital crime to taste even a drop of Chateau Margot wine. That promising young comedian, Mason, the nephew of the immortal Kemble, made a good day's work o it when his fine personation of master Clifford obtained for him the hand of the fair daugh- ter of this almost deiui-millionaire. Crane Jacob 200 000 Crosby Wm. B. 1.000,000 As the great nephew of the rich Col. Henry Rutgers, of tlie ancient Rubers family of thisciiy, he inherited an immense estate. His wife, through her inoth(-r, U grand daughter of Gen. Wm. Floyd, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Cruger Mrs. Douglas .... 400,000 Her father was Geo. Douglass, a Sco'ch merchant, who hoarded closely. His vinne cellar was more extensive than his library. When Georce used to see p-ople specu- lating and idle, it distressed him. He would tay "Peo pie get too many t'fiees in their heads. Wby don't they work?" What a blessing he is not alive in this moon- shine age of dreamy schemings. TheCrugers were of Bristol, Eng , of which the one that first came out here, "Old Harry," father-in law of the present judge Thos. Oakley, of tlie Superior Court, had been Mayor. CryderJohn 100,000 Cushman Don Alonzo . - - - 100,000 Cutting F. R. - 100.000 The Rev. Mr. Cutting, his grandfather, was the princi- pal of a famous grammar school at Hempstead hefor the Acierican revolution, and from him the illustrious Dr. Sa- muel L. Mitcljill received his first lessons, as did a^so ma- ny of the sons of the gentlemen of Long Island of tliose 100,000 150,000 200,000 Dart Russell .... Dash John B. . - . . Uesptctai'le hardware merchant. Dater Philip .... Uutili, of New Jersey, and probably soa or nephew of Abraham D., an iron master, wiio owned a considerable forge on the Rainapo, in Rockland county, N. Y. Davis Chas. A. 100,000 Originally, on his father's side, it is said, of aPortuguesa faniily, through a Portuguese lady saved miraculously friiin the earthquake of Lisbon to become the betrothed wife of the grandfather of Charles A., who was then British Coii'-ul at th;it capital. So far for Major Jack Dotoninir J^'o. 2, who did not altogether play fair to Zeba Smith, the real Simtm Pure Jack, whoje plumes he bor- ' rowed and made to fit with such coimterfeit resemblance to those of the original owner. Dawson William .... 100,000 Is an English gentleman in the broker line and if not worth this sum himself, will inherit it through his wife, the daughter of Peter A. Jay. De Forest Alfred . - - - . 150,000 De Forest Benjamin .... 350,000 A most successful shipping merchant in the West In- dia trade. De Forest William W, . - - - 150,000 Dekay George 250,000 Of an ancient New York family, and while yet a youth was in high command as a commodore in the naval ser- vice of Buenos Ayies, where he gained Inurels and libe- ral pay and prize money by his courage and nautical skill. On his return home be married the only daughter and child of the lamented Dr. Drake, the poet. The wife of Dr. Drake was the daughter of Mr. Eckford. Ano. ther daughter of Mr. E. married Dr. James E. Dekay, brother of the commodore. Dennison Lyman ..... 100,OOQ Delafield Dr. Edward . - - 100,000 H.is .-e-estah ished, hy patient industry and slef'plessi per.-ever'ince, mire ihan by any brilliant tali n^s he pos- sess, s in his professi'T, the fallea foriuties of hi ■ hou-e, a great name some forty years since, I e fore his father's b:uikriiptcy. An eye inflrm.ary, with the usual quantum sufncit of pufRtig that heralds these very charitable insti- tution.-', and which tkry now, enri hed by such " appli- anc"f,'' w.iiild call chalatanerie, paved the way for ihat p itronage which the arisocracy have since bestowed upon hun Now, t-rm in his saddle, he says, Viva la Humbug! Let lho^e laugh who win for he h.is doubled his f'/itiine b" niariying h 1 g and-daught r of thw late (irn. Wm. FIcyd His brotu r John lias been an im- men>eop latir m stocits, aul Majo r Joseph, another bto- III. r, IS a man of mucliscie title acrjuinmBUts. D-^laplaine John F. .... 200,000 His father was a rich old New Yorker, and John F. married silso a daughter of the rich Isaac Clason. DelmonirioJohn .... 200,000^ Who has not heard of the Frenrh-ltalian Restaurant of Dclmomco and his brother Peter. No parallel case of anltaliaureaping such a fortune has ever occurred in the history of this city. But if the best of fare and choice wines -and unceasing politeness to their guests merit tor- tune, they eminently desei-ve what they have earned. The Delmonicos are natives of that part of Switzerland which borders on Italy. They may be .-iaid to have first in- troduced into our city a taste for those fashionable com- forts which can no where else be I'.nmd but in the nnsine ofa French Restaurateur, and since then others have 2 [10] tried the experiment, but no one with the complete suc- cess which has attended their more perfect arriingemenls. Tact, ditpatch, cleanliness, courteous attention, and the chc>icest dishes and liquors served at a reasonable charge with pre-eminent skill are the elements of their populari- ty. John, besides the splendid hotel he lias built on the French plan in the very business heart of the city, owns also a larg'e country seat at Newtown, L. I. They are now among our most monied men, c;.sh in hand, and withal of <{reat prudence. The eudorseiueut '■Delmom- co" would go as far as almost any name. Deluze LP. 100,000 Forei;^ner — dry goods — respectable. Demilt Samuel 100,000 Old New Yorkers, jinii have made clocks and watches to some purpo=e. Thtir cluoiiometeis don't go upon tick. DemingF. Dennison Chas. - . . . . Depeyster J. W (Estate of John W atts) One of our oldest Dutch families, that like 250 ceo 200,000 400.000 yoorl Old Look at the list of Bur- wine or cheese need no eulogy, gomasters. DeRhamH.C. 150,OCO A foreign house, iriterm Jiied with om" Muores. Def-brosses (Esraie (>f James) - - 600,000 Tliis is one of the old New York estates and families, which have accumiilaiid like many otiieis from large real possessions, Irom long before ihe American revdii- tioa, and passed by intermarriage inio other names The Desbmssps family, long deemed by the false standard in this country, for being in possession of considerthle real estate for half a century or upw.iuN, as among the "pa- tres conicrlpii, are any thing t)Ut .patrician in ihtir ex- traction. OUIEli-s Drsbrosses and his Droiher, (.t'le latter grandfather of James above,) came out to ihis country as among the very pooresi; of the Houguenot emigrations, near two centuries smce. They settled here, and carried on their vocation as Frenth confectioners in a very hum- ble way, very probably the fashionable catert^rs for the few fetes and festivals that took place among the elite of society in those pi imiiive days. Their t«vo niaiiien sis ters being at the same lime ihe most esteemed milliners of th U day, and furnishing the latest Parisian fashions, to our then belles of Hioadway, exciting thus at that ear- ly period a taste lor French costumes which is now all tiie rag.-, and not extraordinary when we reflect how Well the classical taste of the French in matters of fe- male atiire is adapted to the beauiiful and s\!phrlike tt t forms of American ladies. Through the aid of con'ec- H-ogar H. h lionery and mill in^iry the grandson, J^mies Desbrosses, Edaar Wra above, became exceedii gly wealthy and left his properly to two dauThtcrs, one ot whom married John Hunter, at present a senator in our legislature, and tlie oiher a Mr. Over ng, of Rhode Island. Ttiefale of the Chadeayce (sometimes spelt ancienily and improperly Shadden, as pronounced.) fahiiiy, is .singularly contrasted with that of the lJ*!sb(Osses. The Chadeaynes were also Huguenos, and came hither at the same tune with thy Desbrosses. — In their own country of France the Chadeaynes (asthe Desbrosses tli>-in-elves hav.'^ often admitted.) were of the ancient a^ i=tocracy, into whose society the Desbrossts could not Jiave obttined admission, ilere the picture, under the oji.iration of the rotatory topsv-'iirvy machine- ry of our whoiesome system of polity, has been sadly leversed, and the Chadeaynes have beea lor generations down amoiig the "hewers of wood asid dr-iwers of wa- ter," ana " none so poor to speak to them." De Rtiyter John - . - - 100,000 Dey Anthony 200,000 But few of our eminent lawyers have struck out ivito such successful Speculations in real estate as this gentle- man who, however, possesses far more shrewdness and long-reac.luug sagacity than most men, either in or out of the legal or any other in'ofessiou. His operations in latter years seem to have been much comrued to the mauagemeut of his property. Dickinson C. - - - - - 300,000 Ui on tucicu', honoied hiiXiau in the early annals, and this one a ship chatd'er -ni .'•hipping merchant, who thtJB acquire.'*, nenr hal( a century s-ince, a splendid foriune. The laie Edgar Ev.rt{^ Hale David 100,000 This is the " Vicar of Bray," editor of the Journal o? Commerce, a yankee by birth, but a Jesuit at heart, and as true a disciple of Ignatius Loyola as though he had' been educated at the Sorbonne. As an editor unsparing, vindictive, filled with sanctity and duplicity to the crown of his head — being all things to all ineu, both in religion and politics, and hiring out his Tabernacle to whoever pays the best. Hall J. Prescott 100,000- Hall Valentine G. I - - - 100,000 Hal stead Caleb O. ^ - - - 100,000 Halstead Win. M. 150 000 Hamilton J. C. 200,000 Son ot the renowned statesman Hamilton, and also his biogr ipher. Married a daughter of the rich Dutch mer- chant Vandenheuvel, deceased, and owns thereby the American Hotel. Hammersley Lewis C. - - - 200,000 Of an old and respectable New York family. His father, Thomas, acquired a large fortune in the dry good line. Harper Brothers . „ . - 200,000 These are the /our remarkable men, who of a highly re- spectable English family that anciently settled upon Long" Island, have risen by their enterprise and industry from journeyincn printers to become the most celebrated pub- lishers in America, and among the names that will go down to posterity with the Galignanis and Murrays, and Conihihhs of Europe. The Harpers have done more practically for the encouragement not only of domestic authors but for the diffusion ofthe literature and science of other countries than all the universities, colleges, academies and schools of the Union put together. Nor have their profits, though large, been proportionate to their tiuly pattiolic and noble exertions. New York may be proud of the birth-right of these men, an-d that she has produced those great operators, these high-priests of Minerva, who have erected here a holy temple, as it were, in the midst of money-changers and shopkeepers, to keep alive the undying fires of intellect, to guard and trim tlie lamp where genius may kindle its illuminating torch and learning diffuse abroad its milder beams. With- out them or some such as shall follovv in their foot- steps, darkness would come over the land. But for these humble printers who have appreciated ,the spirit of the times, and saw and felt the necessity of acting in keeping witlr the accelerated movement of thought and of indus- try which steam-power has given to this age, ourpeople in the dissemination of that most useful and potent of all influences, mental power and the knowledge which it produces, would have been a century behind the rapid and advanced progress they have made. It was to com- pete with them that the free press of our country was stimulated to endeavors and prodigious results, which have astonished the world. The lightning-like rapidity with which the choicest coinings of the brain in foreign lands, are almost immediately made the common proper- perty and universally circulating cheap commodity of our own people, threaten in time to make thebook-busmesSj if not periodical literature also, a dead letter and destructive pursuit to those who embark in it. For it would seem that every production that hereafter emanates from the closet of the author must seek this e very-day channel of the penny press, to reach the public market. To the universal taste for reading whatever is worthy to be perused, and which the Harper cheap press gave the first great impulse to, are we then to ascribe indirectly the immense diffusion which is now immediatelygivenby the penny press in our country, to whatever reaches us from abroad, fresh almost and at themomeni, that it is wrought from the mind of its author. Once thus gratified with what, from the extreme cheapness of penny publica- tions may he deemed the almost gartuitous offerings to our countrymen, ofthe cream and marrow of foreign litera- ture, it is not to be imagined after the practical workingi of this operation as exemplified recently in the national reception of Boz, and the familiarity of every one that [13J P^nread, with all t"he writings of such shining luminaries as he and Bulwer, and others, that our people will ever surrenderso dear a privilege, however wrong it may be f^ct, when the subjer-t of international copy-right is fairly <{anvassed. The Harpers, be it added to this peroration, are exemplars also in private life and as moral and reli- gious men, being all of them, we believe, members of the Methodist Church and of many Temperance and charita- ble societies. So much for a brotherhood of New York born printers, to show what mechanic industry can ac- fcomplish. Harmon Philip ----- 100,000 liarmony Peter - - - - - 500,0()0 A Spanish cabin boy was his beginning, and he after- wards became familiar with the West India seas. V/e are in the dark as to liis career afterwards, except that he is now one of our most opulent merchants. Hart Eli 100,000 The Flour Merchant, whose store was sacked by riot- ers. Hatch George W. .... 100,000 Rawdon, Wright and Hatch are the celebrated bank engravers, and another sample of intelligent, spirited mechanics, making for themselves a name and a fortune incomparably more to be prized than the wealth which has 1 een acquired too often by mere rnercahtile gambling. There is substance, and truth, and reality — something tangible, and definitive, and susceptible of ocular de- monstration and utility in the fruits of mechanic labors, but whS,t visiljle means of livelihood, and what direct and practicle utility do we see in many other professions, to wit: swindling stock operations, but which arc yet deemed more renutable than the walks of mechanic life. The time is gone by, however, when dreaming speculators and fancy operators can any longer sneer superciliously at the " brawny arms" and " russet palms" of the honest laborer. Thus much has been done by breaking up a false system of credit, and by consequence, breaking up the nests of lounging, idle upstarts, that like muslirooms on a dung-hill, sprouted up out of the corrupt masses of rag-paper and spurious capital. May Rawdon and Hatch never lend their barin and mezzotinto to any paper that does not command yellow mint drops instanter at the counter on the very face of it. Mr. Hatch is half brother of Ex-Govarnor Throop, and to judge by his early pros- perous career cannot be said to have counted his chickens before they were hatched. Mr. Rawdon is a branch of the Irish family of Rawdon, Eail of Moira, who was so dis- tinguished as a British partizan or cavalry officer during the revolutionary war. Havermeyer Wm. F. ... - 100,000 Old German emigrant family. Haxtun A. B. 150,000 Heard James - - - - - 300,000 Of an ancient family of New Jersey are he and his brother Nicholas T. H. Heard Nicholas T. ... - 100,000 Hearn Geo. A. - - - - 100,000 Hedges Catharine . - . . 200,000 . A tall, slendtr yankee, straight as a poplar tree, tame hither lo thi? Basel to seek his fortune. It was for a long time a desperate struggle betweea liim and the grim- ■vi^aged fttnd, poverty ; nordil he better his cindiiion by the active pan he took in the poliiicil turmoils of the Buckta'Is and Clntonians, till meeting one day will a venerable maiden spinster, who was lux'irivin? on the fat estates left hwrfrom h rRu'gers' relative", he stepped into her good graces and fcrtune, and now dashes by " Crosby Uastle" as proudly as any of th9 baneflciaries of that ancient property in the eastern suburbs of our city. Hendricks Hendricks - Hendricks Hendricks Uriah - Hendricks Widow - Rich Jews. 200,000 200,000 200,000 300,000 300,000 Heyer Corneliua 100,-000 Verv old New Yorkers. Hicks RpnryW. 250,00(5 Robert Hicks, Plymouth 1621, became a rich merchant. This was the progenitor of tlie family in Rhode Island, Long Island and New York. They have always " cot- toned" to merchandise and been distinguished in Uie com- mercial annals of this country as shipping merchants at Plymouth, Newport and New York for 200 yea^s past. Hicks Silas 150,000 Rose to fortune with the late Mayor, C. W. Lawrence, in the auction business, and retired early to the precincts of Flushing, to enjoy his " otium cum dignitate." Of the family of Hicks, of Plymouth, (Mass.) Hicks John G. 200,000 Hicks John H. 250,000 Hicks Samuel 250,000 Hicks Mrs. 150,000 Hoffman L M. (A German family) . 100,000 His brother is As. V. Chancellor. The first Hoffman here was Anthony, a venerable and highly esteemed mer- chant, grandfather of L. M. H. Few families, for so few a number of persons as compose it have cut a 'larger swath' or "bigger figure" in the way of posts of preferment. Ta- lent and also public services rendered, martial gallantry, poetry, judicial acumen, oratory, all have had their lustre mingled with this name. Beekman Verplanck Hoffman, a post captain; JuJgH Josiah O. Hoffman, and his sons Ogden and Charles, &c., all foremost men In our com- munity. Holbrook Ephraim . • - - 200,000 Connecticut, and rich by dry goods. &c. Holmes Eldad 150,000 Old New Yorker, or very long here as a respectable perchant, of the old democratic school. Silas Holmea is a horse of a different color, and celebrated as the most milucky dog in running vessels on reeft and rocks that ever commanded a ship. Holmes Silas ... . 150,000 Hone Philip ...... 100,000 A worthy man, and with his brother John, famous auc- tioneers in their day and made great gains by it. They were sons of a German, a respectable baker by profession, whose hard earnings the boys turned to good account, so that Philip became for one year Mayor of the city, and a gay, jovial, capital Mayor he was, and a most enterpri- sing, liberal citizen has he always been. Honesdale will tell a tale, to the future, how honorably his name associ- ates with the Delaware & Hudson Canal. [See An- thon.] Ilosack (Estate of David) - - 100,000 Biit few names will shine long in the annals of meaical histf ry brighter than tills. Whatever may be said of hia foibles as a man, his superior practical talent, sagacity, boldness and decision as a bedside practitioner, and the invaluable lessons in medicine he has left w ill live forever while truth and common sense prevail. He was a man reckless and extravagant in money matters, and as he often said, his embarrassments were perpetually bringing him to the verge of bankruptcy. In latter years, happily or unhappily for him, a sudden tide of wealth poured profusely into his lap by his iii-^rriage with the rich widow of Henry A. Coster, (see Coster,) by which he realized the immediate possession of over half a million of person- al property alone, that nearly turned and intoxicated his exchable brain and impetuous temperament. Converting that and portions of the large real estate income of Mrs. Coster into new purchases in liis own mine, he hoped to gvie a solid and permanent basis to the opulence with which he naturally and modestly designed to enrich his 0!cn chidren by a former wife. At Hyde Park he laid out his lawns and grounds with a luxuriou-sness that sur- pissed the English gentry, and spared no expense, trans- planting often full grown trees from the sides of moun- tains to form readyraade forest scenery upon his own plan tation ; togetlier with this property he made large invest- ments in insurance stocks, but m ius avidity to become *, [141 Vrtems it seemed as If an evil star would indisnsntlv rob liim of all. TJie dreadful onflagralion iJiat laid 600 houses in ashes in one ni/i;Ii% swallowed up nearly every insurance company in tlie city. Th^; shock caused an apoplexy, and he perished; and since his death the terri- ble depression in real estate has in tine left his own chil- dren wiih butafew thousands— barely enough to support them, and even much of ihat has been nielteit away. So much for a selfmr.de man, whose father was a humble redemptioner that worki d his appreniiceship out in the i?oo6rcwt/« family, and became ri.-h, and richly endowed his favorite son David, and then set him up in practice by purchasing out Dr. Samuel Bard. But for Davids mar- riage with a widow of extreme wealth, he would have been now and for years hence at the head of his profes- sion, and of eminent usefulness— all of which and his life were suddenly arrested by the potent influence of gold. Howard William W. - - - - 600,000 Howell Mrs. Wm 100,000 Was a daughter of the rich olcl Blackwell, an old New York family, nnd owner of Blachwell's Island at Hell Gate. Her husband a Howell or Hoel, old Long Isbnd Suftjlk name, and his niece and heir is Julia Dekay, of a very ancient New York family, and wife of Major Jack Downing No. 2, i. e. C. A. Davis, vide. Howland G. G. 350,000 One of the specinl partners to the tune of $150,00ilm the House of Howland & AspinwaH. He and his brother Sam obtained some notoriety by building vessels for the Greeks in their struggle for independence. Howland Jno. H. - - - . 300,000 Howland S. S. 250,000 Howland Wm. Howard ... 500,000 Hoyt Gould 200,000 Of a respectable Connecticut family, and long known as one of our oldest merchants, under the distinguished firm of Hoyt & Tom. A son of this retired "Pentier" married a daughter of President Duer, of Columbia Col- lege. Hubbard N. T. - - - . 100,000 Ancient and honored name of New England. Hudson Joseph - - - - 150,000 , Respectable English importer for some years here, and has douljled bis fortune by marrying a daugliter of the rich Henry Laverty. He has no reason to regret bavim^ adopted for his home the capital which graces the noble river tliat bears his name in honor of its discoverer, and peradventure his ancestor, " Hendrick Hudson."' Hunt Jonathan 1,000,000 Reputed a millionaire and a protege of our parvenu, cliques, who are by no means reluctant to give him the hand of fellowship, because Jonathan, like them, came from nothing. But it is a mystery how a person yet un- der forty, and who a veiy few yeirs since was in ihe line of small groceries at Troy hecame suddenly at Mobile, as if by the magic of open scssamc ! into such surprising wealth as ia imputed to hiin. The good old dames who hunt up fortunes for matches to Iheir scare crow daugh- ters, are as mad after our worthy apple merchant since he became repu.ed so rich as they have been for some time back to get hold of Chmese Whetmore. (See Whet- more.) Hunt Thomas 150,000 Hyslop Robert 100,000 Aa old New York family. Ireland Andrew L. Ireland Wm. IT, Ireland George - 100,000 100,000 100,000 Irving Mrs. Jno. T. (husband's estate,) S0O,00(J Judge John T., deceased, and Washington Irving, soi renowned, and William, Ebenezer, Peter, &c., are the sons of a respectiblc shoemaker (deceased) in William street, in this bleesed city of New York. Jackson Hamilton - - - - . 200,000 Inherits the large estate of Jno. Jackson, one of two brotliers (John and Samuel) who early located at Broolt- l3'n, and became rich by the rise of real property. These two brothers Jackson were lineal descendants of Colonel Jno. Jackson, High SherifTof Queen's County, Judge, &c. eldest son and heir of Robert and Agnes Jackson, among the first English settlers of Hempstead, L. I.— about 1654. Jaffrey Robert 100,000 James Henry 100,000 Son of the rich Wm. James, of Albany, (deceased ) and a gentleman celebrated, we believe, for liis extensive scholarsliip and literary attainments. Jan eway (Estate) 400,000 The Janeway property comes chiefly by intermarriage through that most ancient and wealthy and respectable Dutch family Van Zandt, descendants maternally of Lord Peter Prauw. Janeway Jacob I. ... - 100,000 JayWm. 150,000 Son of Gov. John Jay. See Jay. Jay Peter A. 150,000 The first Jay on the Records appears to have been John Jay (probably a Hougenot), a quaker in the suile of Geo. Fox, in his journey through America 1671-2, and who meeting with a dislocation of his neck, was marvellously cured by the aforesaid George, somewhere in New Jer- sej', and thus by this miracle lived with his head on to be- come the head of an illustrious house. Jennings Chester .... 100,000 Came a poor boy, a stage driver, from New England, and entering tlie door of the City Hotel with whip in hand, asked for work, was hired as a waiter, and by good conduct rose successively to the rank of head waiter, and afterwards, with his equally enterprising and famous fel- low-waiter, Willard, to copartner in that ancient establish- ment, where his fortune was thus honestly and honorably acquired— but badly singed by dipping in Biddle banking. JewittJohn 100,000 Johnson WHliam Samuel - - - 200,000 A higlil}' respectable lawyer, prominent whig politi- cian, and late Alderman, and grand sou of the former President Johnson, of Columbia College, a Connecticut family, and Wm. S. gets the mass of his fortune by mar- riage'with the daughter " Cardinal Woolsey," as this eminent merchant used facetiously to be called " on change." The " Cardinal" was an extensive operator ia Coanecliout batiks, and became very rich. Johnston John 500,000 Jones Edwd.R. 300,000 His father was Joshua, an eminent cooper, and thus ac- quired a large fortune, in connexion wiih Jas. Lennox (brother of Robert,) m the same business, immediately a^- ter tlie revolution. Jones Isaac 250,000 Jones James J. 300,000 Jones James L. 300,000 Jones John Q. (deceased) - - 150,000 Jones Walter R. 250,000 Judd Samuel 200,000 From " down east," and educated m the oil line, pro- bably among Cape Codders and Nantucketers, and thus having become familiar with blubber, sat up here a very small shop in ihe upper part of the city, and in which, [15] though not big enough to swing a cat in, he sold lamp wicks till he could build his own palaces and ships, and drive his own splendid carriage. The dHzzling light of the purest sperm that makes a fairy land of his saloons and greenhouses on somfi gala light, must shine beautifully ana soothingly on the vision of one who can truly say he is indebted to none but his own genius and hard toil for the gold which whale oil has brought to his house. K Kane Oliver 200,000 For many years a distinguished family in New York that has seen both much prosperity as well ss the dark side of life's pictiu-e. One of the ditshicg young men of this family a few years since speculated largely in stocks and blew out his brains. But few retain the wealth Ihey once had ; most, however, are well intermarried with re- spectablH families, being the msclves a race decidedly of strong and prominent traits of intellect. KeeseJohnD. 200,000 Of the old established firm of Lawrence & Keese, who have during- Ihe last 50 yeaas sold dnigs enough to sup- ply half the human race. Mr. K. is a sou of Major Keese. (deceased) of the continental line of the revolu- tion, afterwards a distinguished lawyer in this city. Kearney J. D. Jr (Estate of J. Watts) 300,000 Young grandson of Jno. Watts, deceased, and wliich is the source of his wealth. The Watts family are co- temporary with the most di^tinguislied names of oui- ear- ly English gentry, Jolm Watts being grandson of Robert and Mary Watts — and this Mary the daughter of the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly, Wni. NicoU, the patentee of the Islip Manor, L. I. Jno. Watts' sister was mother of the present Mr. Keimedy, Earl of Cas- Bilis. Kelly William 150,000 Kelly Robert 150,000 Kennedy D^vid ' 200,000 A highly respectable Scotch nierchimt, who olitained some addition to his fortune through his wife, the daugh- ter of Robert Lennox. Kent James 100,000 One of the most marked mea of the times, the pro- found jurist, and long the celebrated Chancellor of this State, and whose opinions and commentaries, nay, mere wolds, on all legal matters are themselves like pure gold and law for all who wish to know what law is. What a gratifying picture of a well-spent life is that of this uni- versally beloved man in a green old age, enjoying the re- spect of friends, the delights of domestic society, and all the glorious vigor and sparkling brightness of that man- hood wliich ouce adorned and could still adorn if not purify that bench, which would more deplore his loss but for the elevation to a most important judicial station of that able son for whose shoulders it would seem the father designed his own spotless mantle. Kermit Robert 100,000 Of a very old and most respectable New York family. Kernochan Joseph - - - . 400,000 Of a poor Irish family, who were employed as colliers, teamsters, &c, ct some of the largo iron w-orks in the Highland Mountains, on the west side of the Hudson. Joseph went to the West Indies, and came back rich. KerrigEin James 130,000 Ketchum Morris 100.000 Brother, we believe, of Hham the lawyer, a New Yorkelr. Keitletas Eugene .... 200,000 J Of a very ancient New York family. The present worthy buftbtr^igedian, James H., (now since the death of his cousin) Baron or Lord IlacKett, of Hackeitstown, is maternally of the Kettletas line. King James G. 100,000 BouofRufusK. RufusK. byhis powerful mind rose great eminence m ; he councils of the nation. His par- ^ steam ferry between Havana and Iu« snpposprl that he has lost largely by the failure of the extensive house of Geo. Knight & Co., of Havana. Maxwell Hugh - . - - - 100,000 One of the ablest lawyers and first of orators at the bar; his father was a respectable Scotchman, and a brewer at Baltimore, and Hugh married the beautiful daughter of an eminent blacksmith of this ciiy. Now their son is Secretary of Legation at Petersburg! Such is tlie reward of merit. MesierP. A. Jr. 100,000 Of the old Knickerbocker stamp, and a worthy flour merchant or bookseller his fatlier was, we forget which. Meyer George 100,000 Milderberger Christian - - - 300,000 Of the German emigrant colonization that got a good fpothold here anout a century since, when property could he bought for a mere song. Mildeberger John - - - - 150,000 Miller John G. 200,000 Rich and rides iu his equipage, but, it is said, sprang from a very obscure origin, we believe that of a "candle- snutfer" in the Park Theatre. So much the more honor to him, to have made such a leap as he has. He need not shim investigation into his pedigree, nor cry with Oihello, "Put out the light!" for it was truly the light and life of his vocation, and the source of his fortune. Mills Drake ....'. 100,000 Mills James ----- 100,000 MinturnR. B. .... - 100,000 There are those who have seen pass before them in the panorama of the last half century, a succession of reigning houses of wide spread fame as India merchants, all now toppled down one after the Other, and gone to perdition! This Minturn is one of the sons of that Min- turn who, with the Franklins and Robinsons, were among the very earliest to launch out their 700 ton ships for the (I'hina seas, these ships then being deemed Mam- moths in naval archilei-ture. How have things changed, when ICOO tons is scarcely looked at for an ordinary packet! MoffattWm. B. 100,000 Monroe Mrs. James (Douglass Estate) 300,000 Wife of Gapt. or Col Jas. Monroe,formerly of the army, and nephew of the late James Monroe, President of the United States, whose ancestor, he boasted in telling, was a tanner. Moore Clement C. 2.50,000 .Of the hit;lily respectable family of the late Bishop. Moore,wlH)se aricestors located first at Newtown, L. I., as plain farmers or mechanics, as mott of the first colonists Irom England were. L'l. meni is son ol ihe "enerable and revered Bishop Moor<, deceased, of the Epicopal G' 11 ch a' d n> p ew of ihe much beloved ana distin- guished pi ysickin, Dr Wui. Moore, deceased. Moorewood Edmund . - - - 10O,roO Morgan Matthew (late N. Orleans) - 150,000 3 [18] Morgan John I. 100,000 Ricli and of no calling, as we know, hut has been a po- litical man, and in high trusts, anit in the midst of party strife — always courteous and amiable. A worthy man. Morrell Thomas 100,000 Morris Gouvemeur .... 500,000 His father, the venerable and famous Gouverneur M., late in life married a Randolph, (if Virginia, and left thts the only inheritor; richly, as Martin VVilkiris and other expectants said, meriting the name of Kiit.us ofl— at that jime a great Russian warrior. The Morris family of New yoik and New Jersey began on a large figure, and have so continued to prosper for 1130 years. Col. Lewis Mor- ris, a celebrated Enstiish quaker merchant of B^rbadoes, and friend of Wm. Pinn, coming here to New York with his own ships and goods, and with his brother, Oaptiin Richacd M., making immediately purchases of large tracts on Long Island, at Harlem river, at Shrewsbury, &c., N. J. (hence Morristown and Morrisana estate, (he last the es- tate of the your.gstt-r above,) &c. And from this truly illustrious stock came all the Morrises hereabout and in New Jersey; and in tlieir hands the p itiimonial estates still rest, together witb the household jewelry and plate for many genoi'ations back, wllich few families can say. Morrison John - - - - - 300,000 Morae Sidney E. 100,000 An editor, and son we believe, of the famous geogra- pher, the Rev. Jedediam Morse. Mortimer Richard .... 200,000 An honest upright tailor, now retired on a large estate. His lovely daughter was deemed, beyond all question, the reigning belle at Saratoga — not even eclipsed by Miss Jone^j; whose grandpa was alike a self made man from the shopboard. [Vide Mason] Moss John 200,000 Mott Samuel F. 150,000 Mott Valentine Dr. .... 200,000 A famous surgeon — of an eld respectable qtiaker fami- V of JEnglish descent — the progenitor locating about two centuries since at Mespath Kills, Newtown, afterwards at Hempstead. Valentine is the architectof his own for- tunes, and has literally cut his way up to a very hand- some estate. Viva la scalpel ! The other Motts here are of the same stem. MottWm. F. 150,000 Moiilton Charles .... 200,000 Cliarles was an active shrewd little broker some 15 yefrs since in Wall street, and by some fortunate pur- chase of real estate became wealthy. He married for love a pretty little poor girl, the mocli accomplished only daughter of a respectable German piano teacher by a French wife. Mademoiselle M-'tz— now Mad. Moulton — was in early life deemed almost a musical prodigy by her voice and performances on the piano, and brought money to her parents by singing at public coijcerts. Moulton is of a high New England family, and has resi- ded some years since in Paris, where Madame Moulton has made great e.xeriions io be received into "haute so- ciete," and finally suct;eeded in being permitied to play the part of a "Pompadour Sheperdess" in one of the tableaux recently given at a bail of the Duke of Orleans. We do not think it possible that any American lady with dmcrican blood in her veins, would ever demean lierstlf and expose herself to the sneers and sarcasms of ttie "Faiixbourg St. Germaine," fot ihe saiie of being occa- sioniilly favored with a haughty nod of recognition from any of tbe ancient noblesse or new made peers of the French kingdom. JVoiis verrons. Munn Stephen B. 200,000 One of the old -st dry goods merchants of New York — longalamous house in Pearl streei. We believe Mm a worthy man, ibUi. c,ose-fisn.d and grasping. MunsonM. 100,000 Murray John R. .... 150000 The Murrays were about half a century since among the most wealthy and inllusnual, and hail from njble Scotch extraction, though the most eminent here have been of the Society of Friends. One of these latter, on tlie high seat, set up his carriage, which, being deemed a little too luxurious, he palliated the censure by calling it a 'lleathern vehicle" for convenience! Col. Jas. B.M. in later times, was a conspicuous merchant, and married a daughter of Dr. Bronson. fVideBronson.J Murray Miss 150,000 Murray Robt. I. 100,000 N Neil son (Estate of) Wm. . - - 200,000 An ancient merchant of very great repute and wealth, and long defeased, married "Lady Kitty Duer," widow of the former John Duer, and daughter of Lord Starling, of the <;ontinental army. By " Lady Kitty" or Catharine, old Mr. Neilson left a numerous family, one of whom, William, a respectable merchant and much esteemed gentleman, married a daughter of John B, Coles, de- ceased, and thus added to his fortune. NevinsR.H. 200,000 NevinsP.L 200,000 Of an au'icnt and highly respectable Dutch family of our olden time, and acquired his fortune in the flour line. NewbolH George .... 100,000 A merchant. The Nfwbolds are of a very ancient and highly distinguished family of New Jersey. Niblo Wm. 100,00; Tlie matchless and incomparable Niblo, proprietor ot of the Niblo Gardens, director of operas, vaudevilles, &c. &c. ad infinitum. An English boy, and began friendless, as a waiter, then became lord and master of a famous game hotel corner of Cedar street — finally expanded his wings to a higher flight, and branching into every species of elegant refinement that could pamper tbe public taste and palate to boot, has become decidedly the most promi- nent man that ever flourished in this good city, in the way of getting up agreeable and entertaining amusements of every variety, anu splendid festivals, banqueiings, fee. &c. In his line he is decidedly one of the "Heads of the People." Nnrris Thomas P - - 200,000 Of a very old and respectable Dutch family. o Oakey Daniel 100,000 Ogden J. D. 100,000 Jno. Ogden. farmer, 1644, appears as one of the four patentees of Heiniistead, L. I., and came from England. This appears tn be ilie root of the highly respectable Og- densof New York tjndNevv Jersey. Oliphant D. W. 100,000 Olmstead Francis 200,000 A worthy fellow and one of the few instances of a prosperous merchant retiring at the right time. He is of the land of "steady habits'" and cousin of the very dis- tinguished Prof. O., of Yale. Oothout John 200,000 Packard Isaac - ... 250,000 Sundry " haciendas" and negro plantations in Cuba point darkly to the rather dubious track in which this adventurous New Englander to the tropics soon became by the characteristic cupidity of his countrymen, warmed into a West Indian temperament and a ready prosolyte to the ways of getting money in the Spanish colonies. Packer Wm. S., Brooklyn - - - 250,000 Paine John 100,000 A youth well eiteemed, and only child of a rich father [19] Vvho got his money by liird knocks. But no family of Vermont nobility can hold up their heads higher than this. Parmelee Dr. - - - - - 200,000 The accomplished dentist and ademi-millionaire by his success in this art backed by a keen relish for, and "cute" Yankee tact in turning a penny. He is the richest of all this numerous profession and lives in princely style. The best patrons of dentists in this couniry ure our mercurial teeth-destroying doctors. Payne Thatcher T. - - - - 100,000 Served a severe apprenticeship to struggling uphill la- bor, as a school teacher, and beCtinie of great eminence as a linguist and correct scholar — being of a finjily part Jew, from the east end of Long Isianil, not fir from Montauk. Is brother of the justly celebrate.l Jno. H.)W- ard Payne. Thatcher, however, in fortune has taken the wind out of the sails of the wandering poet, who has as much to do as ever to get Ins crust — for Tlintcher now has his liveries and his valet-s, and drives his carriage, and lives in snuff "'per force" of a most capital specula- tion he made in marrying tlie rich young blooming widow of Mr Baily, a rich merchant, dec'd, that left a, plumb nearly to her, and we hope Thatcher, who is a lucky rogue, don't forget his poor relations, if he has any Fearsall Thomas .... 250,000 Merchant, distant relative of Thomas, deceased. PellD. C. 100,000 PenfieldJohn 100,000 Post Allison - 300,000 The progenitor of the Posts was an humble mechanic, among the early English settlers of Sutl'ulk co., L 1, and thence the family soon alter located at Hempstead, Queens co. Joel and Jotham Post (both deceased), bro- thers of Allison, were, together with tlie late distinguish- ed Dr. Wright Post, (another brother) sons of a highly re- spectable butcher. \Vright's early lessons in tlie shambles gave hfm, probably, his strong taste for and afterwards eminence in, anatomy. Joel and Jotham, about 30 years since, carried on a great stroke in the drug line ; then smashed ; but a few years after built a magnificent store and warehouse, &c ; launched larger tlian ever into tlie vending of apothecaiy stutis, and, together with VVal- dron B., (son of one of the parties) accumulated a very large estate, on which theh families are now luxuriating in the fauxbourgs of our new made quality in the >i>;iiiity of Upper Broadway. Post Waldron B. - - - - 150,000 To his fortune as above acquired Waldron added a con- sideiable amount by marriage with a Miss De Wolfe, of Rhode Island. The De Wolfs are several of tlieni Cuba planters, and one made a vast estate by trafficking in the slave trade. Prall David M. - - - - - 100,000 • An ancient and respectable New York family in the the mercantile line. Prime Edward 150,000 Son of the "doctor," as his rich deceased father, Na- thaniel, the Wall St. broker so famous, was called. What the soubriquet of doctor had reference to,except to certain veterinary remmiscences connected with Nathaniel's early reputed occupations, we know not. Bovvever, he seems to have become an adept in something more than horse-flesh, and learned how to crack a good bargain in the way of money changes and brokerages, in which line, at New York, he rose by persevering industry to be the head and founder of the celebrated bankijig house of Prime, Ward & King, &c. Palmer John 1. 100,000 One of New England's numerous enterprising sons who have found New York the most successiul field tor their monetary operations. Parish Daniel 100,000 Parish Henry (His brother) - - 250,000 This family spiang from a*" honorable root, a surgeon of the Britisn Navy, who about two centuries ago located in this province. A romnntic incident cfinn«ets with Dr. Pa rish:— In one ofthe earliest commercial adventures from a neiubboring village lo ihe south, and in which a vf ner- ,able lady, the proprietor of the vessel and her cargo of ci- der and aiiplfs, went pastengpr, accompanied by a beauti- ful daughter. Dr. Parish also was invited to act as naviga- tor. At Ocracoke Inlet they saw the head of a celebrated pirate nailed to the bowsprit of a vessel of war; smd, on their return. were overiak>'n hy a storm which, but for the doctor's seamanship, would have consigned them all to the deep. For this he received the hnnd of the fair young damsel on board, and thus became a denizen of this pro- vince But from that day to this, the generations have never been ble-si-d with worldly prosperity until in the persons of Henry and his brothers. Paulding William 500,000 Former mayor, &c , of the democratic school, and al- leged descendant of Pauldine, one of the captors of ihe British spy Major Andre. That sterling continental sol- dier little imagined that one of his descendants would be- come enriched by interinarnasre with one of the rankest Tory frmiliesof the i evolution — to wit, a Rhinel under. — [See below.] Pearsall Mrs.Thos. - - . . 200,000 Her husband, of an old Lons Island family of Hemp- stead, inherited a large estate from his father, a quaker merchant, and this was doubled by his alliance with this la )y, daughter of the rich Scoth merchant, Thomas Bu- chanan. Per-k Eli*ha 200.000 The Pecks are from a highly respectable and very an- cient English family, who tiral came to Boston, then loca- ted at Saybrook, Conn. Perit Peletiah .... - 250,000 PerryJ. A. (Broker) .... 150,000 Peters .John R. 300,000 Of an an'-ient and respectable N. Y. family. Alder- man Jno. R., iieeiM'-d one of the " cutest" politicians of his time in the democratic ranks. Phelps Anson G. - - • - 100,000 Phelps Thaddeus 100,000 The Phelpses come from Connecticut and are highly respectable. Phiiipson Francis .... 200,000 PhcEnix J. P. 150,000 Formerly a groc-'r. the standiig whig candidate fot M'yor ; h ^ is a son in-law of Stephen Wluinry. P.iarsailThos.W. .... 100,000 Phjfe Dur.can 300,000 Pierson Henry L. - - - - 100,000 lion merchant, and snn nf Jeremiah, who with Isaac P , estii Wished m tne very infancy of our manufactures, anail, and afterwards ill addditiou a co(fon factory, on the Rama- po river, and there acquired great wealth. Isaac, until of late years, resided in tlie city, and held places of public trust, which he filled with great credit as a prominent leader in the " old guard" of the democracy of the Jeffer- son school. The progenitor of the Piersous was a cler- g5'man and pastor of the English Colony that founded Southampton, Suffolk Co. two ceuturies ago. PimieJohn 150,000 Porter D.C. 100,000 R $ Rankin (estate of Henry) - - - 250,000 The Ran Kins are among the old KLickerbockers. Raiikiu John 200,000 RathboneJohn 600,000 Rathbone .John Jr. 200,000 TheRathbones aie Yankees fiomConLCtic at, we be- lieve. Ray Robert 300,000 Son of Cornelius R., an ancient merchant aiid old [20] putch New York family. 'Robert added some to his vvealth by marrutm a daughter of N. Prime, the brolcar, Jno. A. K'ln^ pe7- contra, got a very larae sli be c infined to the goose and thimble, and therefore did they embark their awl in the privateering business.— Tlience Nehemiah's promotion to a red-coat in the British line, and hence the wealth of many tories is much of Jt legitimately belonging to ruined whig famUies. Yet how thetide of foriunij capriciously sets— two of the grand- daugiit- rs of Moses have successively married to Willi -"ra, the seconii son of the lich patroon of Albany, Stepheji Van Ken.:ellaer, deceased, and the inheritance of their children is a princely estate. Rogers John 150,000 Rogers Mrs. John .... 200,000 Was a Smith, widow af a rich merchant—she is now the widow of Dr. Rodgers, dec'd. Roosevelt C. V. S. - - 250/)00 Roneevelt Jas. I.- - ^ . - 150,000 No family s-hine rriore honorably in the ancient Du'ch snnilsof this province than the Roost veils — the vene- rated Burgomasters of iheif day. Reggies Sam'l B. 100,000 A lawyer, of a respectable family of this state Samuel has dipped largely in real estate speculations, to his great regret no doubt, and has figured as an eminent financier amotfg whig politicians — making a vet y narrow escape from toe fraternal embraces of the " pipe layers." Russell Chas. H. - - - - 150,000 A dashing New England merchant, one of the "Haute classe"of the would be rulers of fashion and polite cir- cles. Russell Wra. H. 100,060 S $ West Indies. Robins John Rogers George P. Bomaine Beuj'n - 500,000 250,000 100,000 Saltus Francis - . - . . 300,000 He and "Old Nick," or the General, as they call hts brolher, who has been a fixture at the City Hotel coteries of old bichelors for half a century gone, are sons of a respectable sea-captain, dec'd, of old Dutch Knicker. bocker extraction. Nicholas and Francis are fron mer- chants. "Gin'ral'' Nicholas lias survived several gener- ations of the old boys of the olden time, and is still as bright as a morning lark, and a most mveterate and im- passioned admirer of "vimmen and vine." Who hasnot heard him recount his exploits in Russia, his intimacy with the Emperor Nicholas, his namesake, and above all, listened to his enchanting warblingof " Sweet Lulla- by !" Salles (Estate, of) L. - - - 1,000,000 A native of France, and upright merchant, who by cau- tious loans during- great pressures, amassed rapidly ovei^- grown opulence, stinting himself in his perepatetic peri- grinations on "Change" to pockets of bread and cheesei, [21] pni hoarding the dcubloona lor those wlio, by intermar- riage with his children, will soon find ways and means to scatter much of it into useful circulation. The orphan children of Mr. Vail, late American Consul at Nantes or L'Oiient, were consigned by the late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Crawford, to the protection of Mr. Van Bu- ren, and through the lutter's very prodigal patronage, they were thrown into positions to command eligible in- termarriages, and thus their fortunate connection With the familyof Mr. Salles. Saltus Nicholas (Vide preceding) - 250^000 Sambler's Estate Casper • - - 250,000 Sampson Joseph ----- 500,000 A young man an4 a widower ; the purchaser of S. Ward's house for the sum of $60,000. Has made his mo- ney in the auction business. Sanderson E. F. ... - 100,000 Sands Joseph . - - . - 100,000 Highly respectable proprietor, who early settled on Long Island, and hence Sands' Point oil the entrance of the Sound. Sands Thomas 100,000 Scheifflin Effingham .... 100,000 Schiefflln H'y C. - - - - 100,000 There is but tliia one family of the name, being descen- ded from a German officer of the British army in the re- volution, who while quartered here became enamoured ^"ith and married to a rich and beautiful heiress of an American family. Schiefflln R. H. Schermerhorn Abrah&m - Schermerhorn John - Schermerhorn Peter 150,000 . 500,000 500,000 400,000 The Schermerhorns are Dutch or German, and have risen to note within about a century past, as liiechanic?, small tradesmen, merchants, &c., keeping aloof from all entanglements of party strife or otherwise, and closely Ihusbanding the abundant fruits of their laborious toil, which they have doubled by frequent alliances with other opulent families, the Jones, &c., of their own grade. Schuchardt Frederick .... 200,000 Sharp Peter ----- 100,000 Sharpe & Sutphen made tlieir money honestly by vend- ing whips and cowhides of every denomination, when horse and ox flesh were in greater repute than they have been since they have been diiven otT the course by the fire horses of steam. Peter Sharpe was once a great man in the old Democratic ranks, and became Speaker of the Assembly. Sheldon Fredk. 150,000 Shotwell Joseph S. : - . . 200,000 Simers William L. . - - -, 200,000 About 30 years ago the inost famous nostirum vender and quack advertiser that Cherry street could boast of. lie was the "Salua populi" Dr. Home & Evans of that day, as many a poor Jack Tar along the sliip yards and quay could testify and say. Smith Edmund (deceased) - . - 250,000 An ancient merchant of the "Bull Smith" branch Of the legions of Smith. Edmund's ancestor was Patentee ofSmithtown, Suffolk county, and an illustrious name in oiu early annals. Smith John T. 100,000 Smith Peter 150,000 Smith Renel 100,000 Smith Cornelius . . - . - 100,000 SmithMicahJ. 100,000 SpoffordPaul- ..... 200,000 Springler's Estate Mr. . - - 200,000 Stacey James G. .... 100,000 StaggJohnP. . . . . » 100,OOB Of an old Knickerbocker race. StaggBenj. 100,000 Stephens Benjamin - ^ - . 400,000 A wealthy New York mercliqnt in ihe grocer lin , and fathftr of the piesent ren'vwned traveller, who was broughiupin the midst of muscovados andmolassfs, but hisroamirg spiiit could not loi g endure suctinprson, and Palestme and P«lenque are carved on hia sliield. Stevens Horatio G. - - - - 150,000 Brother of " Alderman Sam," William, John, &c.— Their father Maj. Gen. Ebeneier Stevens, was a merito- rious and gallant officer of the old continental line of the army of the revolution, and as Major commahded the ar- tillery v/ith deadly effect in several bloody encounters. — How honorable to Major Stevens to rise to that point from out of the ranks where it is said he enlisted as a private aoldierj leaving his tools as a journeyman carpenter to take up the sword and battle a.\e for liberty. His sons have many of ihem inherited much of his inborn energy and power of mind. The Stevenses so celebrated in en- gineering, and sons of Col. Stevens, of Hoboken, are a totally different family. Stevens Alex. H. - - - . 150,000 A surgpon of some repute, and son of General Eb^ntt- zerS. '1 he Doctor's three successive marriages to rich heiresses has, we iniasine, put more money in hii purse than amptitaiiug tumors ot tying up arteries. Stevens John H. 100,000 Stevens Robt. L. .... 350,000 Stevens Jna. C. 300,000 Robert L. and John C. are sons of Col. Stevens, de- ceased, of Hoboken. The eminent ability of Robert, as one who alone has inhented the mantle of his fiieiid Ful- ton, is too Well inown to need remark. Steward John 300,000 But 30 years a resident here, and by the force of his own straight-forward, clear headed sagacity in the dry goods line, &c., has acquired near half a million. Stewart A. T. 200,000 Steward John Jr 100,000 Stewart Robert 200,000 One of two Scotch brothers, who, by marriage inherit the great old Diiich estate of the Lispenards, near Canal street. Stuart R.L. 200,000 Noble as the " royal house of Stuart,"— is none we helieve but this sweet gentleman whose steam candy trade has blown him and his up into bloated affluence, adopts the true version — being a true born Scot that can now support his title. Stewart Lispenard - . . . 100,000 Storm Stephen - ... - 100,000 Storm Garret 200,000 Of an old Knickerbocker race. Stout AguiUa G. 200,000 Strong George W. - - . - 150,000 Of a Long Island family, of great respectability. The brother Benjamin, a very demure and over pious man in religious professions, but a bitter old Federalist was he m the politics of the olden time. Strong Mrs. James - - . - 250,0(^0 She was a Remsen, we think, and from hence her great estate. Sturges Jonathan 150,000 Stuyvesant Peter G. - - - - 2,500,000 His ancestor, Governor-General and Admiral Von Pe- ter Stuyvesant, that redoubtable little fiery gentleman, whose portraiture is so graphically touched by Diedrich Knickerbocker, and who, as the last of the Dutch dynas- ty, went out uproariously, a true martinet, subjecting all Ws vassals to courts martial, military flogging, &c., if th';y but dared to look at his surline^e, is eo familiarly known [22] ih the history of New York, that this line suffices. Gov. Nicoll,from England, who brought the little gentleman to his bearings, omitted one thing, viz; to make him disgorge some of his cruel exactions, but Pt-ter took the oath to the Gorgon banner of St. George, and doffed the beaver- tail and windmill escutcheon of Dulch authority, and thus retaining his rich cabbage gardens at Corlier's Hook and Bowery, hid himself away as snug aa a mouse in a cheese. The generations from him are all baptised in the lace shirt in which he was cliristened. They inherit and keep too, the silver spoon. Suckley George - ... - 300,000 SuffernThos. .... - 250,000 A respectable Irish gent — nephew of the venerable Judge S., of Rockland Co., N. Y., deceased. The pres- ent Judge Edward Suffern, 1st Judge of Rockland Co., is Bon of the deceased Judge. Thomas owes his gold to o- bacco — that precious weed. Suydam Fer'd S. - - - - - 200,000 A worthy and highly respectable old New York fami- ly, of Dutch extract, we believe, and have plodded along, minding iheir own business and heaping up wealth, and meddling with no one. Suydam James 150,000 Suydam (Estate of) John - - - 700,000 Suydam Lambert ... - 200,000 Suydam Rich'd 100,000 Swan Benj'n L. - - - - - 300,000 The firm of Otis & Swan were peculiarly lucky in their commercial arrangements during the last war. Swords James 100,000 Eminent booksellers many years past. The best lite- rary speculation one of them made was his intermarriage witn aLjrillard. T S Talbot C.N. ... i - - 100,000 The most distinguished Talbots were of the same fa- mily as Com. Talbot, an honored naval hero of our coun- try. Tallmadge James .... 100,000 The "General," and once Lieut. Gov., and eminent as a jurist, senator, patron of American industry, &c. &c. "Good wine needs no bush. TargeeJohn 100,000 A young Frpnch adventurer, silversmith by trade, emi- grated, s^me tifty years ago, to this country, and by go' d conduct and industry, and greai shrewdness as a politi- cian in the democratic ranKs, to wnicli he, as it turned out, wisely attached hiinsfclf, rendered himself euiiiienuy conspic loui in that party, and for Lis uniiring dtvoiitm t j Iheir interest-, was lichiy rewarded with sundry piotita- ble posts of honor. So cUstingui^heJhidhe become trom the Jeflers' nian triumph of j 800 upward, that Vice Presi- dent Tompkins made him his conhoeitial friend, and he waa every where looked upon for a tim-; as the most in- fluential leader, if noi caiei of ihti pari> in itiis quarter of me state. Hence during ilie struggles to supplant Clin- ton, the poet Croaker wrote thus— "I'm sick of General Jackson'* toast, Canals aje nought lo me ; Nordo Ica'e who rues the roast, Clinton or Jolui Targee." Taylor Edward N. - .... 200,000 Taylor Jacob B. 100,000 Taylor Moses 300,000 A very worthy man and grocer. His connection in bu siness with the Astors has brought gold to his coffers. Thompson Ab'm G. - - - - 350,000 Thompson Samuel .... 300,000 Thompson David 100,000 Thompson Jonathan .... 250,000 An apostle of the "«ld guard" of democracy, and comes froift that vigorous nursery of sucli materiaf, "01^ Suffolk." He was a long time our respected Collector. Thorne Herman .... 1.000,000 _ This is the "Colonel," the very pink and glass of fasl^ 'on m the Parisian circles. His old quaker ancestors of Flushing and Cow Neck would open their eyes to enter his gorgeous private chapel at his imperial mantion in the French capital. What changes in the wheel of fortune, from an humble purser in the navy 1 But Herman can fall back to eariiest English history for the high rank of his ancestry, whatever the worid may think of his fashiona- ble follies. He beeins, we hear, to sicken of the heart lessness of the life he is leaduig. Tileston Thos. 100 000* Tillou F. R. ^ . . . . 150^000 A selfraade man in the law; his father being a long time in the humble capacity of one of the Mayor's police marshals. This son married a sister of that remarkable genius and first of American poets, Dr. Joseph Rodman Drake—" Croaker senior." Tisdale Samuel T. 100,000 'lltus Wm. M. .= . . . . 100,000 Of an old quaker family of Long Island. Todd Wm. W. 100,000 Of a New York family we believe ; long distinguished democratic merchants. Tonne I lee John 200,000 French— kept a large glove store in Pearl street. Towning 100,000 Town send Thomas J. ... 150,000 Of the firm ofT. J. and E. Townsend, dry good mer- chants, and sfilf-made men. They are from Queen's Co., L. I., originally. Town send John R. - - - - 200,000 A highly respected member of the bar, and only son of Aid. Thorns S. T., deceased, Townsend Elihu 250,000 Broker; of a New Haven family. He and his brother- jn-law,Nevins, have amassed a large property. Treadwell Adam .... 200,000 The Treadvvells are an English family of great respec- tability who settled first at Ipswich, Mass., about two centuries ago. Trimble Daniel ..... 100,000 Trimble George T. .... 100,000 Tucker F. C. - - ■» - - - 200,000 Tucker Gideon 400,000 Self-made man. A mechanic and arcliitect. Tucker Fanning C. - - - - 300,000 This IS truly a " tall" good fellow in every sense, being near seven feet in his shoes, as is plain to all men's views, sings an admirable song, and patronizes music and the opera; drives a fine team, and in short, is a first rate gentleman, living as a gentleman should, and showing that one-can be such without neglecting even the severer enjagements of business and the counting room. For, where is the better and richer merchant than he among the whole catalogue of shippers 1 Prot. John B. Beck married a daughter of Mr. Tucker. V Van Allen James I. - ' - - 400,000 A shrewd old Knickerbocker, formerly from Kmder- hook; made his large property in the dry goods trade in times when great profits and small risks were the order of the day. Van Buren John - .... 100,000 Van Arsdale Peter, Dr. - - - 100,000 A hiirhly respected physician, who has by dint of se- vere and continued hard labor in his profession, ac- quiredj in the upper part of our city, where the pay is [23] ■emaTI, 'but sure, a comfortable fortune. He is of the old Dutch families. Van Ransellaer (Estate of) Stephen - 1,000,000 The late Patioon Van Rensellaer, of Albany, the lord of the manor Rensellaerwyck, the most ancient and dis- tinguished name of the old Dutch gentry who came hither shortly after the discovery of the Hudson river 1609. The first Patrooii or Lord Van Ransellaer, owned near thirty miles square, both sides the river, at, and above, and below Albany ; the estate then comprehending that city, then a fortress, now a free town and capital of the State ■while the manor and all its feudal privileges, and the Helderberg mountains aad its hardy tenants still do homage to the " noble house of Van Ransellaer. No family in America has so long kept together an estate to be compared with this in value, extent and princely here- ditaments. Next to John Jacob Aster's it is the wealthi- est in the country. Besides the " lordship' ' the late Pa- troon owned hundreds of lots in New York city ; among others the block where Niblo has his garden. This fami- ly, generation after generation, have almost always lean- ed to the cause of popular rights, and in the revolution staked all. Fortune has ever smiled on them, and they in turn fully content with their most abundant allotment in the prizes of this world, have had no grasping desires for power and office ; and like the present joung Patroon, " young Steve," as his tenantry call him, let the world wag on in its own way, so they are let to hold fast to their own, however much the horn-blowers on the Helderberg may beleaguer the young Patroon and be- grudge him the ownership of these posssessions, and threaten him with a breakfast of cold slugs, if he insist on the rent-roll. Vandervoort Peter - - - - 150,000 No more respedfed merchant or citizen of exemplary purity of life thari' this head of the ancient and respecta- ble house of Vandervoort & Flandin, whose once gay, fancy sture, on the corner of Trinity church yard, is now replaced by the not less fashionable Restaurant which rejoiceth in the not unappropriate name, (for such a lo- cality) "The KremHn." Mr. Vandervoort owns the A'remttn house, and the family are one of the most an- cient of the Dutch of this city. Vanderbilt Cornelius .... 250,000 Of an old Dutch root. Cornelius has evinced more energy and "go aheadativeness" in building and diiving steamboats, and other projects, than ever one single Dutchman possessed. It takes our American hot suns to clear off the vapors and fogs of the " Zuyder Zee," and vv'ake up the phlegm of a descendant of old Holland. Van Nest Abraham ... - 300,000 An old Dutclunan and self-made man ; formerly a sad- dler, then engagfd in the saddlery hardvirare business, in whicti, and by the rise of real estate, he has made his money. Van Nottrand John .... 100,000 Respectable old Dutch family, from Jamaica, Long Island. VanSchaickM, 200 000 Of a respectable Dutch family of Albany, and mar- ried the daughter of the rich Jno. Hone, and moved here. Has been a Senator. Varian Isaac L. 200,000 Of the very oldest of the Dutch "Mynheers" who, some two centuries since, under, probably. Gov. Peter Minuit or Gov. Wm. Kiefl, located with the Dyckraaus, &c , as honest mechanics or farmers at Hailem, upon the outskirts of the island of Manhattan, Manahattas or Man- hatoes, as this great city was variously called. There this colony, charmed with the muddy marshes of Spi- tendevil creek, so much like old Holland, remained and burroughed, and there they are to-day, till party strife has dragged some of them out into places of high promi- nence, like our late Mayor, Isaac; their harmless, indus- trious life being better political capital to any party than collegiate learning, as Isaac's success has proved, and his good Judgment and plain democratic simplicity of manners weighing down all the disparagements of de- fective orthography and bad grammar. Varnura Jos. B. 150,000 One of the ancient "noblesse" of Vermont. Verplank GulianC .... 200,000 Son ofthe rich Judge V., of Fishlill, receased. "Gu leni Verph.nck," tae ancestor, is one of the numes found on Ihft earliest Dutch recori^s of New Amsterdam and ' though liimself of pUiin 'ligin, lose to con>ideri)tion in municipal Irims afc- r ihe Engisli Conquest, 16t6. Gulian C. v., late Senator, holds the most poiifhed and classical pen in Ameriean ii'eraiure, but wants the patlios snd feel- ing of Irviyg, and the strength ard energy of many other of our native writera. Elejant diction and philological and anliquarim studies were, liowever, the tiue field of hisgeniuti, and it w.is a fatal error when be aspired to po- litico! hcinors inrj senatori-i! digrii.ies. The bluer feuds of party strife, and the low intrigues arid associ uiotis of fcurvy poliiicidUs, was not ihe life for him. To be com- pelled to compromise his pride and fintr feelings, to favor those wh< in he Imagined might promote his political ad- vnncemeiit, led to treacherous combinations that forfeit- ed his clamis to the respect and confidetjce of both the great parties wiih wliom he alternately acted as his ca- price dictated, lo the reignirg and now prostrae idols of Biere party, he often lhU(< sacrificed the considi raiiona of privAte frif-ndthip and personal obligatii ns, and thus tarnish'd, in the declining years o( life, a name tliat should ne ar have had its lustre dimued. W s Wagataff (Estate of Uavid) - - - 200,000 Had a fortunate father in the dry goods Jine. Walker Joseph 100,000 English merchant. Walker R. G. - - - - . . 100,000 Wallace William .... 200,000 Ward John 150,000 Brother of Samuel, deceased, and of Richard. Of an ancient and honored name in the annals of Rhode Island. Ward Sam'l Jr. 100,000 Son of Samuel, deceased, (vide.) Married a daughter of the rich Wm. B. Astor, (vide;) and is of the bank- ing house his father Samuel belonged to. Whittemore Mrs. Samuel . - - 100,000 Waring Henry 100,000 Watt James ..... 200,000 Weed Nathaniel 200,000 Weed Harvey 200,000 Wells James N. 100,000 James N . Wells rose from the humble vocation of a carpenter to be a rich man and alderman. Wendell John D. 500,000 Wetmore William E. - . - - 800,000 A young man of Rhode Island of good birth, launched his bark with the true spirit of a New England boy on the wide waters of the ocean, and after buffeting the wave of every sea, from the Pacific and her summer galea to Asia's perfumed isles and the angry Atlantic, returns long before he has reached his prime, brbging home with him the huge forttme made by his own hands and by bold adventures, and reaching to near a million. Many is the lasso which wiley dowagers and old bel dames have thrown out to noose this Chinese Mandarui of the first water, but it won't do; he is not a Giraffe to be caught by such bait, for he sees the drift and measures the breadth of simpering twaddle driven to its last shuffle. He prefers to enjoy the luxury of his own palankin and punka solus "pour le present." Weyman Abner 200,000 One of the richest "tailors" of our city. A worthy fa- mily. White (Estate of) Charlotte and Amelia 300-000 Their father was of that high-toned circle of old English [24] g-«iitieiiien and merchants, who quondam dwelt in former titaes in that now much lampooned and mconsiderateey abused, Wall street, which, to believe certain infamous and obscene presses, is to day nothing better than a den of thieves and blacklegs, or robbers and murderers. TJie celebrated belles of this city in the revolution, when for 'seven years the martial trump and the plumed helmet of J;he red-coais flourished here, were decidedly ihese two charming sisters, the Miss Whites, but in the gay dance and the bewildering scenes of those spirit-stirring times, these fair damsels were too surrounded with England's noblest chivalry to know how to make up their minds, and thus lived on in the g-lorious independence of celiba- cy to these latter days— Miss Charlotte still surviving. They are some of the oldest of the English gentry of New York. White Eli - White Wm. A. White Robert Whitehead Wm. 200,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 Whiting James R. (N. England noblesse) 150,000 Whitloek W. 150,000 Whitney Stephen - - - - . 3,000,000 OftheWhitneys of New England. As one obtained a pricelesss and goldless immortality, but no bread or pro- vant for his family, by tile invention of the cotton gin, which in a few short years drove tlie culture to hunr dreds of millions of pounds, so is Stephen in truth indebted to this same cotton and to this illustrious relative for the great fortune which he realized hand in hand "argent comptant," by the sudden rise of the article, in which the aforesaid Stephen, habitually cautious as he is, was luck- ily at the time a very heavy operator. Whittemore Timothy - - - - 100,000 Another self-made man was his father, Samuel, by that curious and most ingenious of all ingeniousYapkee inven- tions, the wool card maker,which by its complicated move- ments almost imitates the human hand, and human in- telligence, self-propelling by steam. It is a rare instance of the inventions of genius giving return profits. Willinkl.A. 100,000 Wiirams Richard S. ... 150,000 By faithful, close application to the grocery business, in which he bears a most respectable name, has acquired a large property. He is of the family of one of the greatest landholders among the early purchasers and set- tlers who colonized the Enghsh villages on Long Island, viz : Robe) t -Williams, nephew it is believed, of Roger, the founder of Providence. Williams R.S. 150,000 Willis John R. 150,000 Hardware merchant, and of an ancient quaker family of Long Island. Wilmerding Wm. E. - - . - 150,000 Ofthe auction house of Austin & Wilmerding, and formerly with Haggerty. He is, we believe, German in extraction. Wmthrop Henry R. - - - . 100,000 In expectancy this descendant of the first Governor of IVIassachusetis, may count on inheriting this amount by his marriage with Miss Hicks, a grand-daughter of the late Thomas Buchanan. The Winthrops have their family portraits for eight generations, as far back as the fifteenth century, when they left their rich possessions in England to found the city of Boston. Winans Anthony V. - - - - 150,000 Woodruff Thos. T. - - - 250,000 An architect, and while an alderman had several fat contracts of the corporation. Wisner Gabriel 100,000 Grocer, and a worthy bachelor. His grandfather was a member of the Continental Congress from this state, and his father was killed at the Indian massacre at Minisink. VFithers Reuben 100,000 Wolfe Christopher 250 000 Hardware merchant, and ofthe old German families. Wolfe J. D. 300,000 A hardware merchant ; married one of the Lorillards by whom he has realized a very large property, with much more in expectation. Wood John 100,000 Wood John (Baker) .... 100,000 Wright (Estate of) Grove - - 150,000 This respected merchant, deceased, was probably a branch of the numerous family of Wrights of this city, who are of New England origin, having, it is believed, first setUed soon after the puritan forefathers at Ply- mouth. Wright Jno. D. 100,000 We imagine this the rich son of Grove Wright above. Wyckoff Henry 100,000 Old Dutch family. Wyckoff Widow .... 200,000 Yates HenrV 150,000 A lottery dealer &c. His brother was Gov. Joseph C Yates, one of the most ancient and respectable Dutch families tliat brought out their own goods and chattels, ships, household furniture, servants, blue jam tiles and olycoke and cruller irons, all from Old Amsterdam in Holland to Schenectady and those parts, long before the Livingstons and others of the "lesser empire" were dreamed of. Yates Mr*. Joseph C. - - - - 200,000 Her husband of the Schenectady Yates family, made liis wealth as a lottery dealer. Young Henry - - . ^ - 300,000. Of Long Island. WEALTH OF THE CITY. VALUATION OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE ITU 1841. 1st Ward, 2d " 3d " 4th " 5th " 6th " 7th " [8th " ! 9th " 10th " 11th " 12th " 13th " 14th " 15th " 16th » 17th " Value of Real Estate, 32,144,785 00 15,015,850 00 12,137,600 00 8,733,450 00 9,456,100 00 7,979,750 00 11,209,686 00 11,384,100 00 8,891,950 00 6,163,900 00 3,996,800 00 8,187,329 00 4,283,800 00 6,899,300 00 14,361,200 00 15,796,348 00 9,708,700 00 Totals, $186,350,948 00 Value Personal Estate. 26,834,120 00 1,932,583 00 5,871,610 00 1,880,037 00 2,856,106 00 1,824 900 00 4,766,295 00 2,093,50000 l,194,1000o4 736,40000 95,6000o 1,766,15 00 326,157 00 1,835,535 00 8,669,521 00 731,730 00 1,429,624 00 $64,843,972 00 REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CORPORATION. Real Estate not in use for Public Purposes, 5,002,100 00 Real Estate in use for Public Pur- poscB, 16,720,416 32 $21,722,516 32" w LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1? « 012 079 499 1 ^ m"'- v: I -M^. 4 nVERTISEMENT TO tHEFOURTH EDITION. . 1 jub '.^ . m; is now offered to the public in as complete a state as circumstances could poa- eibly admit. To the last or third edition a g#eat number of new names have be en added ; ^hat as deemed to be superfluous in that edition, have been retrenched or omitted ; and my .rrors have been corrected through the kind communications of friends interested. .i;any names on the list no family details of pedigree are appended, a defeat which wo be enabled to supply in subsequent editions, and for which, therefore,'we respect- ' aest of the parties concerned, the information required, that it may come to us in en auiii ntio shapi! 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