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1643 - Father (Saint) Isaac Jogues, Jesuit missionary, visited Manhattan. He was the first priest in the New York Colony. Father Jogues traveled through Northern New York and Canada. He was martyred in 1646 by Indians in Northern New York.
1682 - James, Duke of York (a Catholic and later King James II of England), appointed Thomas Dongan (also a Catholic) governor of the New York Colony.
1683 - Governor Dongan arrived in New York with Father Thomas Haney, a Jesuit. Two more priests and two lay brothers (all Jesuits) arrived. The first Mass was celebrated in the New York Colony in a chapel near the Customs House.
1688 - King James II was overthrown in a revolution, sparking the persecution of Catholics in the New York Colony.
1689 - Governor Dongan was overthrown and hunted as a criminal; Jesuits fled.
1690 - Religious freedom laws nullified in the New York colony.
1693 - Church of England (Anglican) was named the official church of the New York Colony. Legislation was enacted against Catholics in New York
1696 - Only six Catholics were living in New York, and they lived secretly.
1700 - Legislation was enacted forbidding Jesuits and other Catholic clerics to live in the New York Colony.
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1741 - Rumors of a "Catholic Plot" in New York raised hysteria among the populace. Negros were called "tools" of the Catholic Spanish who were at war with England. Negros were persecuted in New York more than anywhere else in America during the colonial period due to these rumors.
1750s - 1781 - Reverend Ferdinand Farmer, stationed secretly in the New York Colony was the first priest to regularly minister to Catholics.
1774 - 1803 - Elizabeth Ann Seton (Saint) lived in New York.
1781 - 1782 - With the Revolutionary War ending, Mass was again celebrated in New York in a loft over a carpenter's shop on Barclay Street, then considered the "suburbs" of New York. (Was it a coincidence or design that it was over a 'carpenter's shop? med)
1784 - Eighteen communicants in the New York Catholic community.
1785 - Land on Barclay Street purchased from Trinity Church (Episcopal, formerly Anglican) for the first Catholic church in New York. 200 communicants in the New York community. Catholic Church in New York legally incorporated with several laymen as trustees, including the Consul General of France. Reverend Charles Whelan, an Irish Capuchin, named first pastor of newly incorporated Catholic Church. Thus, he became the first resident priest in New York. Services are held in private homes and in the home of the Spanish ambassador.
1786 - Saint Peter's Church dedicated and opened with Father Whelan as first pastor. Reverend Andrew Nugent named assistant to Father Whelan and later in the year named pastor.
1787 - Four hundred Catholics in New York.
(Three additional pages of great historical data will be input soon.)
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