“Freemen of the City” ledger record of citizens eligible to vote. This right was granted exclusively to men who owned property. It did not include women, Indigenous, or enslaved persons, 1683-1775. Common Council records, NYC Municipal Archives.
- Page 1: Parchment cover of volume. The title reads Freemen of the City of New York written in black decorative text.
- Page 2: Page from a seventeenth-century handwritten volume listing names of freeholders and their certified dates.
Page 1– Transcribed Text: Freemen of the City of New York
Page 2–Transcription Note: The text below was transcribed using Handwriting OCR softwareand edited by staff from the NYC Department of Records & Information Services. Corrections and clarifications havebeen added in brackets.
Transcribed Text:
Names of several Persons
Free of the City of New York
1603 Septem er [September] 29th Phillip Jones
Phillip Richards
Andrew Bown
Richard Jones
October 1st Daniell Voonvos
Elyas Loyton
Jasper Nosopott
Edward Burling
Jacobus Vor Holst
William Loo
John Johnson Homsburgh
William Frampton
Francis Richardson
October 10th Francis Parsons
Thomas Dod
Robert White
Matthew Taylor
12th John White
Edward Anthill
22nd Cornelius Bulfonk
Paulus Yolurkson
Henry Batchelor
Thomas Hook
Thomas Robinson
1604 August 6th Isaac Lanson
Richard Ashfield
Daniell Piolor
Rowland Duboo
The Names aforesaid are a true Copy of a Paper left by Mr. John West Entitled A List of Several Persons made Freemen of the City of New York which Is the hand writing of the said Mr. West.
1606 July – 12th Stephen DeLancey Merchant N. Bayard
Names of Persons made freemen of the said City from the date of the Commission to John Knights to be Clerk of the said City.
1607 April 20th William Honloy
May – Joost Paldirk
June 6th Bartholomon Le Roux.
July – John Outman
25th Johannes Mortior
August 5th George Brown
Samuell Burt
Daniell Butts
Edward King
Samuell Holland
10th Lowis Bongrand
Robert Trolton.
October 10th Thomas Burrows
12th William Jackson