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coffeehouses for, 124

and Golden administration, 196

and collapse of government, 224

in colonial New York, 116-17, 141, 142, 144, 147, 151, 168-69, 181, 183, 187, 191-92, 104, 196, 199, 202

and Committee of Inspection, 210

complaint about cartmen of, 93

complaints about, 269

confiscation of property of, 83

and Consolidation, 1222-23, 1124

correspondents for, 121

and Crash of 1873, 1021, 1035

debts of, 191-92

and Democrats, 515

and devaluation of copper pennies, 181

and draft riot, 894, 895, 896

Dutch as, 135

in early nineteenth century, 314, 316, 320, 325, 330, 332, 335, 337-38, 339, 434, 437-39, 451, 515, 516, 526, 530

and economy, 122, 183, 213, 280, 310, 833

in 1830s, 553, 611-12, 613, 614, 615, 616-17

and election of 1860, 865

and evangelical religion, 530

and events leading to Civil War, 859, 860, 861, 863

as financiers, 657

and France, 325

and French Revolution, 314, 318

from New England, 272

and Hamilton’s funeral, 332

housing for, 371-72, 373-74

and immigrants, 130, 132, 194

insurance for, 124

Jews as, 134, 168, 1115

as Knickerbockers, 434

and land prices, 187

in late nineteenth century, 944-45, 948, 950, 951-52, 954, 969, 1009-10, 1021, 1035, 1041, 1044, 1046, 1050, 1065, 1088

and Leisler, 99, 100

and Lincoln’s visit, 867

mechanics alliance with, 320

in mid-nineteenth century, 621, 657, 822, 823, 828, 833, 835, 842, 845, 846, 848, 850, 859, 860, 861, 863

and money, 282

neighborhoods for, 388, 389

and neutrality, 314, 318

in New Orange, 83

and newspapers, 526

and nonimportation, 199, 202, 210, 212

office space for, 1050

as opposed to radicals, 278

and Panic of 1857, 842, 845, 846, 848, 850

and Panic of 1861, 866

and party politics, 822

petitions of, 196, 205

and politics, 151, 179-81, 280, 515, 621

in post-revolutionary New York, 265, 269, 277, 278, 280, 282, 286-87, 307, 310

power and influence of, 62, 84-85, 141

in proprietary New York, 79, 84-85, 87-88, 90, 91, 93-94

protection of British, 170–71

and provisioning of British troops, 168

and Queen Anne’s War, 116

and railroads, 1035, 1044

and ratification of Constitution, 290

and recession in colonial New York, 150-51

and republicanism, 320

and resistance to British policies, 205

in revolutionary New York, 205, 210, 224, 230

in 1790s and early 1800s, 371-72, 373-74, 388, 389

and slave trade, 126, 127, 147, 861

and slavery, 286-87, 553

social life of, 951-52

and Sons of Liberty, 202

specialization by, 339

and Stamp Act, 199

in Stuyvesant’s administration, 46-47, 50-51, 62

and Tammany, 823, 828

and toppling of Tweed, 1009-10

as Tories, 220, 247, 250, 274

and trading with enemy, 168-69, 230

and transportation, 944-45

and urban-rural relationship, 944-45

and utilities, 1065

voting by, 330

wealth of, 87-88, 144

wholesale, 611, 612, 944-45, 969, 1046

women as, 79-80, 183

and Wood, 835

and working class, 516

workplace of, 142. See also Navigations Acts

Trade

West Indies trade; specific person

Merchants’ Bank, 613

Merchants, Bankers and General Volunteer Association, 888

Merchants’ Coffee House, 124, 199, 200

in early nineteenth century, 339

Long Room of, 310

Merchants’ Committee for the Relief of the Colored People, 897

Merchants’ Exchange, 316, 439, 446, 467, 574, 575, 591, 596, 598, 599, 600, 658, 659, 830, 849-50, 860, 873, 1050

Merchants’ Exchange Company, 599-600

Merrick Indians, 5

Merrimac, 874

Mespat Kill, 67

Mespat. See Newtown

Metacom’s War, 86

Metal workers, 893, 988, 1013. See also Iron industry

Methodist Episcopal Church, 398, 775

Methodists: blacks as, 483, 855

and British occupation of New York, 250

in colonial New York, 157, 208, 209

in early nineteenth century, 398-39, 400, 481, 482-83, 522, 524, 529, 590

in late nineteenth century, 976, 1048, 1170

in mid-nineteenth century, 628, 632, 703

Metropolitan Hotel, 903

Metropolitan dub, 1214

Metropolitan Elevated