Martin Cregier

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Captain Martin Cregier
In office
1653 – 1655
In office
1659 – 1660
In office
1663 – 1664
Alternate Burgomaster
In office
1660 – 1661
Born 1617
Died 1713
Nationality French
Spouse Lysbeth Jans
Occupation Tavern keeper, Fur trader

Captain Martin Cregier or Krieger (1617 - 1713) was an early French Huguenot settler of New Amsterdam. He was a prominent citizen of the settlement[2] and served three terms as Burgomaster.[1] Cregier led several successful attacks against the Munsee[3] during the Esopus Wars. Cregier's house and lot stood on Broadway just north of Battery Park and his daughter married Christofeel Hoagland.[4]

In 1643 Cregier built the first public building on Broadway in New York City,[5] a tavern located at present-day 9-11 Broadway. It was later known as Atlantic Gardens and survived until 1860.[6] New York merchants met in the same building in 1765 and signed resolutions to import no more goods from England until the Stamp Act was repealed.[7]

In 1648, Cregier was one of four men appointed as the city's first fire wardens.[8]

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  1. ^ a b Chester, Alden; Williams, Edwin Melvin (2005). Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History, 1609-1925 (in English). The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 259. ISBN 158477424X. 
  2. ^ New York Historical Society. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1893 (in English), 424. ISBN 1050-608X. OCLC 1605190. 
  3. ^ Otto, Paul (2006). The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley (in English). Berghahn Books, 152. ISBN 1571816720. 
  4. ^ Van der Zee, Henri; Van der Zee, Barbara (1978). A Sweet and Alien Land: The Story of Dutch New York (in English). Viking Press, 23. ISBN 067068628X. 
  5. ^ First Deals In Golden Earth. Retrieved on 2008-02-22.
  6. ^ Lathrop, Elise (2007). Early American Inns and Taverns (in English). Read Books, 26. ISBN 1406763969. 
  7. ^ "New York in Other Days: When Battery Park Was the Fashionable Residence Quarter", New York Times, February 16, 1896. [1]. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  8. ^ Costello, A.E. (2003). Birth of the Bravest: A History of the New York Fire Department from 1609 to 1887 (in English). Macmillan, 19. ISBN 0765306034. 
  9. ^ O'Callaghan, E B (1865). Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY (in English). Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons and Company, 305. OCLC 3783293.