POST MARK COLLECTORS CLUB - POST OFFICE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Post Office: New York, NY 10199 (New York County)
Date of Photo: circa 1905
Contributor: Paul E. Petosky, Postmarks from the Past
Comments: A post office may have operated at New York as early as 1687. No information is available on New York's earliest postmasters. The New York Post Office is first mentioned in postal records in Hugh Finlay's Journal of 1773, with Alexander Colden as postmaster. Secondary sources indicate that Colden served as postmaster as early as 1753. John Holt is listed as postmaster on Goddard's May 1775 list of Revolution-era postmasters. Ebenezer Hazard was appointed postmaster on October 5, 1775 according to his letter to Congress dated November 14, 1776. Hazard apparently served as postmaster until the end of the Revolutionary War, when secondary sources note that William Bedlow was appointed. William Bedlow's appointment date is unavailable. Ledger A of the General Post Office shows that he submitted financial accounts for the post office from April 5, 1784, through October 1789.