THE

NEW YORK

CITY DIRECTORY

FOR

1842 AND 1843

CONTAINING FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND NAMES

TOGETHER WITH

OTHER VALUABLE INFORMATION.

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NEW YORK:
JOHN  DOGGETT, JR., PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR
NO.89 NASSAU, CORNER OF FULTON STREET.
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PRICE EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS.

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Gilland Anthony, 91 Orange
Gilland Garret P., shoemaker, 128 Avenue 6th
Gillelan John, 230 Varick
Gilliland Elizabeth, widow of John, 211 Sixteenth
Gilliland Hartshorn W., blacksmith, 179 Rivington
Gilliland Matthew, mason, 211 Sixteenth
Gilliland, William, weaver, r. 514 Hudson
Guillan Thomas, tailor, 179 Hudson
Guillen James, weaver, rear 36 Willet
Guillen Patrick, laborer, rear 56 Beach
Gullieline Bernard, silkdyer, rear 57 Vesey

Kate’s notes: There are a number of other entries in this directory for names such as Gillan, Gillen, Gillender, etc but I have included here only those names more likely to be associated with Gilliland or to be phonetic variations.
    A notable absence in this directory is the name of John L. Gilliland. In 1819 Gilliland (1787-d. 1868?) and his business partner, John Fisher, had moved to New York City from East Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they established the first successful glass factory in early NYC. By 1822 Gilliland, an immigrant from Ireland, transferred his interest in the Bloomingdale Flint Glass Works to found the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. This factory later relocated to its original home in Massachusetts to become the Corning Glass Works.
    One has to wonder about a connection, if any to an even earlier dealer in imported glass and earthenware in NYC,  James Gilliland, who by 1763 was offering his goods for sale from his warehouse on Wall Street. James was the brother of Champlain Valley pioneer William Gilliland.
    I am curious about the widow Gilliland and who her husband may have been. The Matthew Gilliland living at that same address is undoubtedly a relative but I have not investigated the genealogy of this family.
   The fact that so many of these listings are associated with the weaving trade tells me these were probably immigrants from Northern Ireland or the Scottish lowlands.

Bibliography: There are many references, particularly those related to American art glass, that provide information on John Gilliland; the books below are two of the most informative for genealogical purposes.
The Generations of Corning : The Life and Times of a Global Corporation: Davis Dyer, Daniel Gross, Oxford University Press, Apr 25, 2001
Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861, edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, John K. Howat, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jan 1, 2000