William Ketteltas
- Joseph Alfred Scoville, 1815-1864, [Walter Barrett, clerk pseud.] The Old Merchants of New York City, New York, 1870. p. 104
...river. William Walton was a merchant descendant from the ship-builder. He was one of the Council, and made his wealth by trading among the Spaniards of South America and Cuba.
William Walton was one of the first trustees of the New York Society Library, in 1754, and was associated with John Watts, Hon. Joseph Murray, Peter Van Brugh Livingston and Peter Ketteltas, merchants. He was then one of His Majesty's council. His famous "Walton House" is even yet the pride of old New York. The entrance hall is in the centre of the building, and has large, old fashioned parlors. The portico is supported by two fluted columns, and surmounted with the armorial bearings of the Walton family. It is fifty feet in front, three stories high, the brick relieved by brown stone water tables, lintels and jams. The old man was a bachelor. He left it to his nephew, the late Hon. William Walton, in 1846.
- Martha Lamb, History of New York.
LOCATION OF DWELLINGS. 759 Interior of the great Historic Room in Fraunce's Tavern. Charlotte." It had various names and keepers. Societies met here; and in one of the great rooms of the second story the Chamber of Commerce held its monthly meetings for many years. Here occurred the immortal farewell of Washington to his officers in 1783. Two stories have since been added to the edifice, as may be seen in the sketch.1 Hanover Square was the great business center of the city. A few private dwellings of the better class were there, but the buildings were chiefly stores and warehouses. On the corner of Hanover Square and Sloat Lane was the mansion of Ge- rardW. Beekman, whose wife was Mary Duyckinck. He and his brother, James Beekman, sons of Dr. William Beekman and Catharine Peters de la Noy, and great-grandsons of Hon. William Beekman, with whom the reader is acquainted, were importers and held a prominent position among the merchants. Their sister Cornelia was the wife of the elder William Walton.2 James Beekman had recently built the Beekman mansion on the East River.8 His wife was Jane Keteltas, a lady of New York birth, so clever and accomplished that she was able to superintend the education of her children during the seven years' exile of the family in the Revolution, and fitted her sons for college. Queen Street (now Pearl) was dotted with fine residences. One owned and occupied by Henry White, the counselor, was formerly the Oe Peyster mansion, with its wealth of balconies and grounds.4 After the war it was 1 8ee page 656. Among the public houses in New York at that time was one on Brown- joint's Wharf, at the Fly Market, largely patronized by British officers; another, near by, was known as "Smith's Tavern." "Bull's Head," in the Bowery Lane, was a two-story and attic coontry tavern, surrounded by pens for droves of cattle. It was near the public slaughter-house. Meed-houses and tea-gardens were numerous. The celebrated garden and tavern of La Mon- *»p* was opposite the present park. "Vauxhall" was a garden at the foot of Warren Street, reaching to Chambers Street, the residence formerly of Major James of Stamp-Act Riot mem- °T. Coffee-houses were much in vogue. The " Merchants' Coffee-House " stood on the south- •»*t comer of Wall and Water Streets, the site later occupied by the Journal of Commerce. * See sketch of Walton mansion, page 684. See sketch of Beekman mansion, page 569. 'See sketch, page 656.
- Mary L. Booth (Mary Louise), 1831-1889, History of the city of New York, p. 659
The markets of the city were four in number-the Exchange Market at the foot of Broad street; the Oswego Market in Broadway at the head of Maiden Lane; the Old Fly Market, which in 1822 gave place to the present Fulton Market; and the Hudson or Bare, now Washington Market, between Fulton and Vesey streets. This curious appellation is thus accounted for by a contemporary of the times. After the great fire of 1776 had destroyed the greater part of the houses in that part of the city, it was thought advisable to establish a market there for the accommodation of the workmen who were building up the burned district. But the market-house was finished long before the streets about it were rebuilt and settled; as there were few purchasers, the venders fell off, and thus. in a very little time the strange anomaly was presented of a fine market-house bare of provisions. The present Washington Market-house was erected and opened in 1813. There were two ferries to Brooklyn, one from Fly Market Slip near the foot of Maiden Lane, and the other from Catherine Slip; one to Paulus Hook, now Jersey City; one to Elizabethtown Point; and another to Staten Island. The ship-yards were between Catherine street and Corlaer's Hook and between Corlear's Hook and Stanton street, in the part of the town then called Manhattan Island, and regarded as quite beyond the limits of the city.
