New York City directories

For directories pertaining to Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, see Brooklyn directories. For Queens, see Queens directories.

The New-York Directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for New York City and the third published in the United States. It listed 846 names. A year earlier, the first two in the country were published in Philadelphia – the first, compiled by Francis White, was initially printed October 27, 1785,[1][2][3] and the second, compiled by John Macpherson (1726–1792), was initially printed November 22, 1785.[4][5][6]

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