Martin Cregier

Captain Martin Cregier
Burgomaster of New Amsterdam[1]
In office 1653–1655
In office 1659–1660
In office 1663–1664
Alternate Burgomaster
In office 1660–1661
Personal details
Born	1617
Died	1713
Nationality	French
Spouse(s)	Lysbeth Jans
Occupation	Tavern keeper, Fur trader, Military officer

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met in the same building in 1765 and signed resolutions to import no more goods from England until the Stamp Act was repealed.^[7]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]

Cregier finally settled in Niskayuna, New York on the banks of the Mohawk, "where the Indians carry their canoes across the stones." In this retired and romantic spot, this brave soldier and just magistrate died in the year 1712.^[9]

Publications

• Krieger, Martin (1663). Journal of the Second Esopus War. Hudson River Valley Institute. http://www.hudsonrivervalley.net/colonialAmericaLesson/esopusjournal1863.php. ^[10]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Chester, Alden; Williams, Edwin Melvin (2005). Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History, 1609-1925. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. pp. 259. ISBN 158477424X. 
2. ^ New York Historical Society. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1893. New York. pp. 424. ISBN 1050-608X. OCLC 1605190. 
3. ^ Otto, Paul (2006). The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley. Berghahn Books. pp. 152. ISBN 1571816720. 
4. ^ Van der Zee, Henri; Van der Zee, Barbara (1978). A Sweet and Alien Land: The Story of Dutch New York. Viking Press. pp. 23. ISBN 067068628X. 
5. ^ "First Deals In Golden Earth". http://www.oldandsold.com/articles14/new-york-4.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-22. 
6. ^ Lathrop, Elise (2007). Early American Inns and Taverns. Read Books. pp. 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. Macmillan. pp. 19. ISBN 0765306034. 
9. ^ Austin A. Yates (1902). "Towns of the County". Schenectady County, New York: Its History to the Close of the Nineteenth Century. New York History Company. http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/resources/yates/27.html#nis.
10. ^ O'Callaghan, E B (1865). Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY. Albany, New York: Weed, Parsons and Company. pp. 305. OCLC 3783293. 

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Name	Cregier, Martin
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Date of birth	1617
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Date of death	1713
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