Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OFFICERS OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Instituted November 20, 1804. Organized January 14, 1805. PRESIDENTS. Egbert Benson, LL.D 1805-1815 Gouverneur Morris 1816 Devitt Clinton, LL.D 1817-1819 David Hosack, M.D., LL.D 1820-1827 James Kent, LL.D : 1828-1831 Morgan Lewis 1832-1835 Peter Gerard Stuyvesant 1836-1839 Peter Augustus Jay, LL.D 1840-1842 Albert Gallatin, LL.D 1843-1849 Luther Bradish, LL.D 1850-1863 Frederic De Peyster, LL.D 1864-1866 Hamilton Fish, LL.D 1867-1869 Thomas DEWirr, D.D 1869-1871 Augustus Schell 1872 Frederic De Peyster, LL.D 1873-1882 Augustus Schell 1883-1884 Benjamin Hazard Field 1885-1886 John Alsop King 1887-1900 Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D., LL.D 1901-1902 Samuel Verplanck Hoffman 1903- FIRST VICE-PRESIDENTS. Benjamin Moore, D.D 1805-1809 Gouverneur Morris 1810-1815 Devitt Clinton, LL.D 1816 William Johnson 1817 David Hosack, M.D 1818 Samuel L. Mitchtll, M.D 1819 John Trumbull 1820 Cadwallader D. Golden 1821 Peter Augustus Jay 1824-1827 Philip Hone 1828-1839 William Beach Lawrence 1840-1844 Luther Bradish 1845-1849 Thomas Dewitt, D.D 1850-1869 Gulian C. Verplanck 1870 Augustus Schell 1871 Erastus C. Benedict 1872 William Cullen Bbyant 1873-1878 Charles O'Co.NOR 1879-1880 Hamilton Fish 1881-1888 John A. Weekes 1889-1895 J. Pierpont Morgan 1896-1902 Frederic Wendell Jackson .. 1903- SECOND VICE-PRESIDENTS. Brockholst Livingston 1805-1809 Dewitt Clinton, LL.D 1810-1815 William Johnson 1816 David Hosack, M.D 1817 John Trumbull . 1818-1819 Anthony Bleecker 1820 John Trumbull 1821-1822 Peter Augustus Jay 1823 John Trumbull 1824-1827 Charles King 1828-1831 Samuel Ward, Jr 1832-1835 ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.