People and Events.
| Year | State | Location | Description | Source | Persons Named as Rioters | Persons Named as Targets | Note | ||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | August: A deputy sheriff levying an execution was resisted by a number of people who mobbed him. No "personal violence was used" but it was necessary for the high sheriff to come to disperse the crowd. This probably occurred in Chatham street. Those inolved, and 2 or 3 were apprehended and posted $1,000 and 500 bonds, were also ivolved with charging someone with swindling and they opposed the officer because they thought he was acting illegally. | Common Advertiser, August 20, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Massachusetts | New Bedford | August: A riot occurred as a crowd dismantled a renowned disorderly house, the Ark, after the occupants were legally forced to vacate. While doing so the building caught fire. Whether this was intentional or not is unclear. | NYCommon Advertiser, August 26, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Ohio | Cincinnatti | August: In an attempt to enforce an ordinance driving all black people out of town, a mob attacked the dwelling houses of black people, breaking windows and on Thursday and Friday night. On Saturday night a group of black residents armed themselves. When the white crowd attacked, a gun was fired, killing Ely Herricks, a young man. Ten black and seven white people were arrested that night and the mayor, on Sunday morning, issued a proclamation calling all good citizens to assist the constituted authorities in preserving the public peace. | NYCommon Advertiser, August 26, 1829 | Ely Herricks | ||||||||
| 1829 | New Jersey | Perth Amboy, NJ | September: Between 400 and 500 New Yorkers and Staten Islanders raided the oyster beds off Perth Amboy. To defend their crop a posse Comitats and the militia were ordered out in Perth Amboy. Shots were exchanged, but no one was killed. | NYEP, Septebember 14, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Pennsylvania | Marrieta, Penn | September: Riots at the Banbridge Races between canal workers and the visitors to the races. A black person was killed, another man had his leg so battered by a musket shot that it had to be amputated. Others were wounded. A court case is to follow. Those workmen involved are to be dismissed from further employment on the line. | NYEP, September 15, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | September: The Ebenezer church in Elizabeth street, probably for black people, was disrupted during divine services. Some scuffle ensued. Two white men were in the church while more were outside. | NYC General Sessions, October 13, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | October: Riotous meeting held at Park. Russel Clark, Cidorest (he sells porter tail) had called it and was the speaker. He favored national schools where black and white people would be taught together, a law for putting the wife on par with her husband, and a law for abolishing all debts. The crowd appeared to enjoy all this entertainment, but the police magistrate summoned Comstock, told him the meeting was riotous. It took some persuading but Comstock finally agreed to desist. | NYEP, October 3, 1829 | Russel Clark | ||||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | October: 20 "grown up boys" came to Rebecca Hilton's house on PH street, made a great noise, threatened her, and threw stones at her windows. Probably occurred during the day. Result, 4 persons indicted were convicted. | NYC General Sessions, November 12, 1829 | Rebecca Hilton | ||||||||
| 1829 | New York | Troy, NY | October: In the lower part of the city riot erupted when some Irish attempted to have a dance at a house. Neighbors through that this was not right and threw some stones at the windows. Duley insulted, the Irish counter-attacked with fist, clubs, and the like. Nearly 200 were engaged in the tumult. The police arrived, and with difficulty arrested 3 or 4 ringleaders and quelled the riot. | NYEP, October 30, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Pennsylvania | Swartara, Lebanon Co., PA | November: Canal men at the great dam rioted. Shots were fired and shilelahs used. The riot is blamed on foreigners. | Mniles'Wkly Register, November 28, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Pennsylvania | Lancaster, Pa | November: Two rival groups of democrats, Wolfites and Buchananites each decided to hold a victory declaration at the court house as soon as the court was adjourned. The Wolfites with the Sheriff at the lead, determined to break up the Buchanan celebration. As soon as the court was out they rushed in, had the sheriff elected chairman by a general howl. He was dragged from the bench, the mayor then being nominated. The discord was generating the orators of the day, GB Porter, James Buchanan and Benjamin Chonpaney making a general dirve for the tops of the Judges' desks. There was a general scramble for the high places, windows sills, pillars, tables, benches, and a general fisticuff ensued. The would-be speakers were shouted down and the target for flying inkstands, glasses and pitchers. This lasted for two hours. | Klein.Penn. Politics, p.327-328 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Virginia | Hourisonburg, VA | November: The effigy of BW Leigh, esq., was burnt in the public square for comments made disparaging west-Virginians and their militia at the state Conventions. The effigy was burnt with a piece of paper in hand, supposedly the comments. | Niles'Weekly Register, December 5, 1829 | BW Leigh | ||||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | November: The Masonic hall broken up by a number of rioters, attacked some of the persons there and beat Thomas Simmons, keeper of the Hall and the bartender. The watch was called and the group (??) those secured by the watch. This is the 3rd time this kind of disturbance has occurred. | SC PC cases 7441 7 | |||||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | November: Eliah Archer, with others disturbed the methodist meeting house near 3rd avenue during public worship. Archer has done this before. Result: convicted. | NYC General Sessions, December 14, 1829 | Eliah Archer | ||||||||
| 1829 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | November: White and black people fought in Cedar Ward following a loud and emotional religious service. | Nash.Forging Freedom, p.275 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | November: "A riot between blacks and whites arising out of some personal quarrel in which others than the original disputants became involved…; some persons were injured on both sides and some were arrested. This was the beginning of a series of riots in which white people generally the assailants upon the blacks. They were inflamed by prejudice and strong opposition to the doctrines of the friends of the abolition of slavery, which about this time were beginning to be boldly proclaimed. | Scharf and Wescott.History of Philadelphia, p.624 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Pennsylvania | Franklin Co., Penn | December: Journeymen shoemakers tried for conspiring to set prices and wages and compell owners to hire only members of their society. They also corresponded with like societies in Pittsburgh and elsewhere and drove an ex-member out of town. Two men convicted. | Niles'Weekly Register, January 2, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | December: George Messerve and others harassed and rioted at Letitia Treadwell's in the morning. | SC PC cases 7441 10 | George Messerve | Letitia Treadwell | |||||||
| 1829 | New York | NYC | December: Bedford St. church was often harassed by groups of young boys who come there, run in and out and laugh, hallow and use indecent language. This occurred on Sunday, the 12th towards the end of the services. | SC PC cases 7441 9 | |||||||||
| 1829 | Maryland | Washington Turnpike, Maryland | December: Keeper of a turngate was assaulted after he refused passage to two travellers on horseback. The attack was made by the two men and a whole wagon load of men. The lock was broken and the house wrecked and the turnkeeper and his assistant badly beaten. A posse later did not attack the rioters for fear of their numbers. This occurred at 8:00am. | NYEP, December 29, 1829 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Ohio | Portsmouth, Ohio | January: "Black Friday" whites compell eighty black residents to leave town. | Werner, p.230 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | February: Theater riot following a masquerade. | Weinbaum,M+D, p.37 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | February: Butcher Boys of center market frequently set their dogs on the students of the African free school in Mulberry street. On one occasion they had them attack the instructors son. On another occasion they seized a black girl and held her fast until the dogs had almost torn her clothes off. | Common Advertiser, February 27, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Virginia | Williamsburg | March: Ritos at Wm. And Mary. A student had been suspended. Windows and papers were destroyed. | Common Advertiser, March 16, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | Rochester | March: Riot a 9 o'clock at Washington House. 15 men came in and demanded drnks without wanting to pay for them. They destroyed the bar and furniture. Some persons who tried to stop the riot were wounded. Four or five of them were arrested. | Common Advertiser, March 11, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Louisiana | New Orleans | March: At least 80 sailors in a boarding on Jefferson street met and planned to attack the young man who shot Thomas Martin who was out on bail. A spy for the magistrates was found among them and severely ill-treated. The mayor then arrested the sailors releasing them wth a lecture the next morning. | NYEP, March 26, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New Jersey | Newark, NJ | April: A mob attacked a masonic lodge at night, doing considerable damage. | Vaughn.Anti-Masonic Party, p.167 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Pennsylvania | Easton, PA | April: Saturday evening riot at Snufftown, opposite Easton between canal workers and raftsmen. Three raftsmen were injured. Unsure how many canal workers were injured. | NYEP, April 16, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | April: Riot opposite the Franklin Institute. An escaped slave was to be returned to his master and a group of black people attempted to rescue him. They were not successful. A rioter was shot by a deputy. | Common Advertiser, April 20, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Georgia | Milledgeville, GA | May: Riot among diggers. 50 or 60 Carolinians attempted to drive off 20 or 30 Georgians from the area they were digging. The Carolinians were unsuccessful. | Common Advertiser, May 12, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Pennsylvania | Turkeyfoot, PA | June: Riot of sorts as 3 brothers and 2 cousins attack commanding Major A. Hanna at a training camp for a volunteer brigade. Near Somerset. | Common Advertiser, June 14, 1830 | A. Hanna | ||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | June: Meeting houe for religious services disrupted by several young men. Address - 245 Spring. | NYC General Sessions, June 11, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | June: There was fighting corner 86th street and 4th ave. The fighters threatened the spectators and John Daddy's, who lived nearby, house was stoned. | NYC General Sessions, June 14, 1830 | John Daddy | ||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | June: Stonecutters objected to the use of granite pillars made in Sing Sing. In the forenoon they assembled in a large body in Broadway opposite construction site of the American Museum on the corner of Ann street. "They ordered the workers to desist from going on with their work, and used threat to compel them to break off." The police office was notified and several of the most active were arrested. | NYEP, June 22, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | July: Hog cart riot in the afternoon at 1st avenue and North street. "Several hundred" included, one hog officer severely injured, the other was dragged through the mud. After this, the mob dispersed. Ringleaders recognized and arrests expected. | NYEP, July 2, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | July: After a dance at 17th street and 6th ave, early in the morning, a group of men broke into Patrick Lenor and James Scanlow's house, broke windows, etc. and did a lot of damage. | NYC SC PC 7442 9, July 6 1830 | Patrick Lenor; James Scanlow | ||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | August: About 3 o'clock at least 12 men came to Thomas Edgar's store and "behaved in a riotous and disorderly manner." They assaulted and threatened Edgar. | SC PC - cases 7442, 7, August 29, 1830 | Thomas Edgar | ||||||||
| 1830 | Pennsylvania | Dunnstown, Pa | September: Canal workers riot in dispute with local Germans over apple picking. One killed. | Way.Common Labour, p.288 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | September: 12 men arrested for rioting about 2 or 3 am in Water street near Moore street. They attacked a watchman with a club. | NYC General Sessions, September 9, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | September: Renewal of oyster war between Staten Islanders and Jersyites over oyster beds. | Com. Adv., September 15, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Massachusetts | Boston | September: Affray between white and black persons on Belkap street. Black people had frequently sassed white people there and this led to the riot. George Stearns suffered a broken leg and one black person was severely wounded. Reportedly "Walker's Appeal" had instilled in the African Americans a sense that they had extraordinary privileges. | NYEP, September 24, 1830 | George Stearns | ||||||||
| 1830 | Pennsylvania | Carbondale, Pa | October: Irish workers fight with native born workers. | Grimsted, "Antebellum Labor" | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | October: Disturbance at the Mosimer's Church in Roosevelt street. Some stone throwing. | NYC General Sessions, October 12, 1830 | Mosimer | ||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | October: Great mob and riot in Walnut street between 11 and 12 o'clock at night. They refused to disperse when ordered. | NYC General Sessions, November 11, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Alabama | North Alabama | October: Band of slicks come to Woody Martin's house, dragged him out of bed, took him into the woods and beat him severely. | Bragg. "Capt. Slick," p.125-126 | Woody Martin | ||||||||
| 1830 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | October: Kennsington election riots. Rocks and brickbats involved. Women carried stones to the combatants in their aprons. The sheriff and a posse were driven off. Polls closed. | Common Advertiser, October 14, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Massachusetts | New Bedford | October: As militiamen were coming home from muster there was a quarrel with black people in their settlement at Portmouth, one mile east of NB. That was the 15th. On the night of the 16th a mob assembled and burnt two of the black houses on Saturday night. | Com. Adv., October 26, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | October: African Methodist Union Church harassed by a large mob. Stones were thrown and the door was broken open. The church is located 7th avenue between 16 and 17th streets and the disturbance occurred during the services at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. | SC PC cases 7442 8, October 18, 1830 | |||||||||
| 1830 | Alabama | Northern Alabama | October: James Martin shot William Barton in dispute over slicks who had beaten James' father, Woody. This led to a riot at the market house. | Bragg. "Capt. Slick," p.26 | William Barton | ||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | December: Disturbance at the Chatham theater. In attempting to control the unruly crowd, Marshall Joseph Thomas was assaulted. In the evening. The performance was disrupted. | SC PC cases 11, December 21, 1830 | Joseph Thomas | ||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | December: Disturbance at Porterhouse of John P. Signer, 14 Laurens involving at least 12 men. | NYC General Sessions, Jan. 11, 1830 | John P. Signer | ||||||||
| 1830 | New York | NYC | December: Methodist church in Forsythe street disrupted during evening services. | NYC General Sessions, January 6, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | January: A gang of men attacked 157 Anthony street, residence of John Rollison. Stoop destroyed, windows broken, and everyone inside chased out. In the afternoon. | NYC General Sessions, January 7, 1831 | John Rollison | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | February: Disturbance concerning sculptured busts. Aaron Leggett went to pick up sone he ordered from John Brower. Brower didn't want to let him have it and ultimately appealed to the crowd in the street by calling Leggett "a seducer, and a scoundrel; an oppressor of the poor and a damned rarkel!" | NYC General Sessions, February 17, 1831 | John Brower | Aaron Leggett | |||||||
| 1831 | South Carolina | Charleston, SC | February: Riot between American and British sailors. Started as a challenge to a fist fight. Americans drove the British off of the (??) at Kidlel's Wharf. Some damage to property aboard the ship. | Spectator, March 8, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | February: A man disturbed the services at the Methodist Chruch in Allen street by walking up the aisle staring at the young women in the ladies section during the services. The officer in attendance asked him to leave and finally had to force him out. In the street a "gang rushed forward" and a cry for rescue was raised. The officer was knocked down and several dealt with. Watchmen came to his aid and the disturber was secured. None of his would-be rescuers, however, were taken. | Common Advertiser, February 24, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | March: The Sullivan street Methodist church was disturbed during services. When one of the disturbers was arrested he was rescued by others. | NYC SC PC cases 7443 2, March 16, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | Albany | March: At night a group of "blackguards" attacked several people in the street. When a gentleman attempted to interfere he was assaulted. Some arrests weremade. | Spectator, March 29, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | March: Geo Johnson and his house was attacked by 6 men and others. Stones were thrown and Johnson was knocked down. | SC PC 7443, March 30 1831 | George Johnson | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | April: Disturbance at Chatham Theater, preventing the enjoyment of the show. Edward Ball, keeper of a public house, one of the principal disturbers. | SC PC 7443, 7, April 13 1831 | Edward Ball | ||||||||
| 1831 | Massachusetts | Williamston College | April: Students disrupted Methodist meeting at Daniel Ebon's house. They made noise inside and when they left they threw a barrel and brass kettle full of water through the window. The faculty were notified and promised to do something. | NYEP, May 9, 1831 | Daniel Ebon | ||||||||
| 1831 | Conneticut | Hartford, CT | April: race Riot. African Americans attacked a group of white people bothering several black girls. White people driven off, seven or eight injured. | Werner, p.273 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Alabama | Jackson Co,. Alabama | April: About 20 slicks rode up to William Hall's house, took him to a swamp, held a mock trial for counterfeiting and sentenced him to 50 lashes on his back. Hall claimed personal emnity of his brother-in-law involved. | Bragg. "Capt. Slick," p.128-131 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Conneticut | Hartford, CT | April: Mob of white people invade black district inflicting minor damage. | Werner, p.230 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | April: A large crowd gather tumultuously outside John Heart's shop at Chatham street in the late afternoon. Brown challenged him to a fight. | NYC General Sessions, May 7, 1831 | Brown | John Heart | |||||||
| 1831 | Massachusetts | Lowell, MA | May: Riot among canal workers. | Way.Common Labour, p.288 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | May: J. cabinetmakers and/or coachmakers strike lasts for over a month. Intimidate non-strikers. Beat one man up after he had gone to the police office. | Weinbaum,Mobs, p.64 | Joseph M. Burger | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | May: Journeymen cabinetmakers strike lasted over a month. The strikers attmpted to persuade and intimidate journeymen working for less wages for about a month. In the evening of May 3, they beat up Joseph M. Burger after he returned from the police office to notify the police. A dozen journeymen named in court records, four were arrested. The issue was later dropped. | Weinbaum, p.64 | Joseph M. Burger | ||||||||
| 1831 | Massachusetts | Lowell, MA | May: Riot between Irish and Americans. Irish went from shop to shop collecting wood and metal chips. Occassionally, words were exchanged between the native American laborers and Irish. When an American decided to chastise an Irishman on the 17th and probably beat him, the conflict escalated into a general melee on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, the Americans attacked the Irish huts. Several Irishmen were injured. One infant accidently killed. Magistrates interfered but refused to prosecute because no serious damage done. | NYEP, May 24, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | May: Turnout by journeymen carpenters on Thursday morning they formed a procession and invited other carpenters to join them. They wanted a raise from 11 shillings to 12 shillings a day. No violence. | Spectator, May 31, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Maryland | Baltimore | June: Strikers riot over cut in wages and probably contractor absconding or taking wages. | Grimsted, p.10-11 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | June: Printers demanding higher wages. | Common Advertiser, June 24, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Conneticut | Walingford, ct | June: a group of men enter a man named Wheeler's house with the purpose of "mobbing" him. He and his family were in bed, but he pulled a knife and stabbed three of the men. One died instantly, another a little later. The rest ran. | Spectator, June 10, 1831 | Wheeler | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | June: Peter Braisted's place, 118 North, was frequently harassed by Jacob Somerindyke and his gang of followers. They did this on the night of the 7th, when the watch was called the men battled the watch and escaped. | SC PC 7443 4m June 8 1831 | Peter Braisted | ||||||||
| 1831 | Maryland | Maryland | June: Railroad riot - A contractor cheated the laborers out of their pay. The company wanted to settle by dividing up the remaining money due the contractors. This was less than the money owed to the workers. Some laborers agreed to this, others did not. When the company tried to pay off the laborers objections were made and the agent was prevented from dispersing money. The workers started to tear up the line, 26 mile below Baltimore. No rioters arrested. | NYEP, July 5, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Alabama | Jackson Co., Alabama | July: Slicks seize Alanson Huff, tied him to a tree and flogged him. Huff reported that 500 or 600 men belonged to the Slick company. | Bragg. "Capt. Slick," p.128-129 | Alanson Huff | ||||||||
| 1831 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | July: Battle of the Bogue celebration riot. Protestant Irish Gideon society held a procession in the southern part of the city, going to a large hall in 5th street. Near Walnut. Irish catholics resented shi and attacked the procession. The mayor and the police broke it up. When the Protestants left the hall the violence renewed. Some prominent people, including a (??) magistrate involved. One man stabbed. | Spectator, July 19, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | July: Riot at the wharf where the steamboat President lies. Four men and others were extremely hostile to the crew of the President. | SC PC cases 7443 6, July 23, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | July: Samuel Adams' door broken by Verry and others in the morning. | NYC General Sessions, August 8 1831 | Samuel Adams | ||||||||
| 1831 | Maryland | New Market, Maryland | August: White (Irish) and black railroad workers began fighting Sunday evening. The disturbance was easily quelled. At 3:00pm rioting broke out again. Local citizens interfered, dispersing the Irish, capturing 20. About 400 Irish regrouped and marched into town to rescue the prisoners. Further violence prevented by intercession of Rev. M. Elroy and CW Weaver, Esq. M Elroy bailed the imprisoned rioters, talked the Irish mob down and led them out of town. Several persons injured. | NYEP, August 22, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | August: Threats (maybe violence) following NY Magdaline Society's charge that the city was the home of 10,000 prostitutes. Aimed against the society. | Weinbaum.M+D, p.35 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | August: Great Row at 8 Albany street, 5 persons arrested but others were also involved in the fighting and quarrelling. At 4:00pm. | SC PC cases 7443 8, August 15, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | August: Great noise and disturbance between 8+9 at night at corner of 8th ave and 20th st. There was fighting, quarrelling, and disorderly conduct by a gang of weavers and others who wanted to "flog the damn yankee watchmen." Four men arrested. | SC PC cases 7443 9, August 28, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Massachusetts | Charleston, MA | August: Riot started by "drunken truckmen and handcartmen from Boston." Few details. While attempting to quell the disturbance, Dr. Hard and Mr. Audstin, Paseaster, were injured. Sunday evening. | NYEP, September 2, 1831 | Hard; Audstin | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | August: Disturbance in Broadway as three defendants and others were in the street at 1:00am making a great noise "beating and hallowing in the most vociferous manner." In Broadway. | SC PC cases 7443 7, August 28, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Rhode Island | Providence, RI | September: Olney street riot - Began as a fight in a dance hall in which one black person beat 5 white people. Spilled out into street as black and white sailors fought one another with the African Americans driving the white people out of the neighborhood on the 21st. Next night white crowd returned, destroying two houses. A black person fired on the white people, killing one. The rioting continued. On the 23rd, 25 militiamen were routed by rioters. On the 24th, two militia companies fired on rioters, killing 4. | Coftrol.Afro-Yankees, p.56-57 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | October: At least 2 rioters and others harassed Elizah Smith. They did so in the evening, breaking a lamp and spilling oil on a carpet. One, at least, was a butcher. | SC PC cases 7443 16, October 6, 1831 | Elizah Smith | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | October: Pheoebe Doty, says her house was attacked by a gang of men, led by Butcher Harry Hartwell. In the evening. They do this often. | SC PC cases 7443 12, October 7, 1831 | Harry Hartwell | Phoebe Dotty | |||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | October: Riot started in afternoon and lasted until evening. A dispute between cartmen moving paving stones blew up into a fight. Spectarors gathered and some joined the fray. About 40 persons involved in the fighting. No police ever broke it up. | NYEP, October 4, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | October: A mob pulled down James Kinseng's new house. They removed the building materials. He was hurt trying to stop them. | NYC General Sessions, October 16, 1831 | James Kinseng | ||||||||
| 1831 | Conneticut | New Haven | October: Mob stoned Arthur Tuppon's house on Temple street. | Richards, p.38 | Arthur Tappan | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | October: Theater riot- against English actor Joshua Anderson for having allegedly spoken against US in an argument with an American citizen. On the night of the 13th the audience shouted so loudly as to prevent Anderson from acting. Oranges, etc., were thrown too. On the 15th the audience refused to allow Anderson to act. He didn't still the second half of the performance was marred by the throwing of oranges, apples, etc. The crowd remained for 2hours. When 100 watchmen appeared, (??) and other property were destroyed. The watch ws withdrawn. The next night 1000 people gathered outside. At 9:00pm, stones were thrown and windows broken. The mayor and high constable arrived the but mob dispersed only when the theater displayed an American flag, American Eagle and tricolor. | Weinbaum,M+D, p.38-39 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Conneticut | New Haven | October: A mob tore down a black individual's shanty on "Sodom Hill." | Richards, p.38 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | Hudson, NY | October: Mob harassment of revivalist Rev. John Moffat, Methodist. Mob surrounded church on two evenings. But no real violence reported. Later story minimalized disturbance. | NYEP, October 28, November 17, 1831 | John Moffat | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | November: Two shoemakers were assaulted on their way home from work by 4 men and others. Bleeker and Minetta. | SC PC cases 7443 11, November 5, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Massachusetts | Boston | November: Theater riot in Tremont Theater. 5 persons tried - all acquitted. | NYEP, November 16, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | November: William Mott was obstructed by a mob from doing his duty as a peace officer (unclear what). When Mott arrested one of the rioters, the man was arrested. | SC PC 7443 17, November 14, 1831 | William Mott | ||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | November: Disturbance at Richmond Hill Theater. Five persons arrested. Attempted rescue of prisoners. Interrupted performance. | SC PC 7443 16, November 28, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Florida | Key West, Florida | December: Riot among shipwrecked passengers who objected to a contractor illicitly taking money from them. | NYEP, December 29, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | December: Auction of furniture made outside of the city disrupted by journeymen cabinetmakers in the morning. They shouted down the auctioneer. Some defaced the furniture. They believed the competition would lower wages. | NYEP, December 21, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | Rhode Island | Providence, RI | December: Theater riot when stage manager refused to allow the afterpiece to proceed. Lamps broken, seats torn up and property destroyed. He promised to pay refunds later. | NYEP, December 31, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1831 | New York | NYC | December: In Green street, between Brown and Spring, there was a general fight with flats, sticks, shovels, etc. Five persons arrested. | SC PC cases 7443 17, December 26, 1831 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | Madison, NY | March: "A large collection of men and boys" attack a house. "The cause of the disturbance was the marriage of a female of more than exceptionable character." Shots were fired from the house and several were wounded. | Bruegel.Farm, Shop, Laundry, p.187-188 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | January: A gang of boys, headed by Peter Hardy (a black boy) come into the neighborhood of Washington and Cedar streets in the afternoon. They attacked James Moore, sone of James F Moore, giving the boy a black eye. They were trying to drive Moore's boys out of the neighborhood. | SC PC cases 7444, January 21, 1832 | James Moore | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | February: Theater disturbance in Chathtam Garden Theater. Stephen Hendricks and Charles Archer and others were fowdy, insluting, and threatening. | SC PC cases February 8, 1832 | Stephen Hendricks; Charles Archer | ||||||||
| 1832 | Ohio | Ohio | March: Mob of 30 to 40 instigated by (??), tarred and feathered Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon. | Winn.Exiles, p.63,70,83 | Joseph Smith; Sidney Rigdon | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | March: John Baker, Samuel Austin, and James Dueren and others were part of a gang prowling about the streets at 5am Hallowing, knocking over cusks, breaking crockery etc., in the Bowery. | Johnson and Baker et. Al., March 4 1832, SC PC 7444 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | March: A gang of boys came to John Wines Sheriff and Delaney and beat him and two others about 9 o'clock. The watch came up. Smith Henderson, Silvester Daniel, and Burkes Shaft were part of the gang and were arrested. | SC PC cases 7444, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | March: Theater riot against English actor (??) Anderson. The manager asked the audience if they would let him act. They agreed, but a crowd of 5,000 objected and broke in, overrunning the stage and doing enough damage to keep the theater closed the next day. | Weinbaum.M+D, p.38-39 | Anderson | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | April: 12-14 people, including Patrick Kelly, his wife, William McLaughlin and wife, beat Francis Dillan in the 12th ward. No reasons given. | SC PC 7444, April 19 1832 | Francis Dillan | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | May: Minor riot at New York Protestant association meeting as Catholics and Protestant debate religion. | Billingham, p.59 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | Albany, NY | May: residents living near a house on Lodge street, between Beaver and Howard became tired of the noise and disturbances there. Both black and white families resided in the house. The locals tore down the house. The mayor, the high constable, and several watchmen were at the scene, but were unable to stop the riot. | Curry.Free Black, p.98 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | June: Disturbance at Broadway house, Grand and Broadway. A gang of boys threw stones etc., at building. They attacked a cartman. When the watchmen attempted to interfere they attacked them too. | NYC General Sessions, June 11, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | July: Great disturbance on Greenwich street. Started with fighting between Thomas Magrath, John Folon, Dine Hays and many others. Probably near 362 Greenwich. John Warwick was also in the fray. | SC PC cases 7444, July 1 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | Louisiana | New Orleans | July: Affray between NY sailors and Spanish stevedores. The stevedores had knives, but the sailors won. | NYEP, August 4, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | July: On the previous Saturday night several men came to Hall's house, broke glasses, were rowdy etc. They left, came back, tore down a fence, broke glass in the windows and did other damage. This about 11 or 12 o'clock. | SC PC 7444, July 31, 1832 | Hall | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | August: John Arthur Stephenson, asst. Health Warden for 8th ward, was obstructed from doing his duty by several people. One put a pitchfork to his chest and threatened to stab him. | NYC General Sessions, November 16, 1832 | John Arthur Stephenson | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | August: About 50 persons attacked John Eldred and his workers in 12 ward, compelling them to leave off work on the Public Roads and threatening to break his cub if he did not quit. | NYC General Sessions, September 10, 1832 | John Eldred | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | August: Hog cart disturbance in the 8th ward. Dennis Dougherty and wife threatened John P. Hall, a Health Officer, becase the latter attempted to collect hog. | SC PC 7444, August 15, 1832 | Dennis Dougherty | John P. Hall | |||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | August: Disorderly house kept by Hannah Corvass. Lots of noise, fighting, etc., for which 12 persons were arrested the night of the 16th. | SC PC cases 7444, August 17, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | August: Hog car riot. Probably 8th ward. 16 hogs released from hog cart and threats uttered. | NYC General Sessions, November 16, 1832; SC PC 7444, August 21, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | August: Benjamin Robinson, constable, attempted to arrest James (??), resisted and collected a large number of persons who behaved riotously and threatened Robinson. | NYC General Sessions, November 16, 1832 | Benjamin Robinson | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | August: Azel Conklin, Marshall, went to arrest John Mewerring. However, when he tried to do this several people came and rescued him. | NYC General Sessions, September 5, 1832 | Azel Conklin | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | September: Fight in Walnut street involving unspecified numbers. When the watch interfered, Michael Lynch claimed that if the watch took one man they would have to take everyone. After Lynch was arrested, the crowd followed the watchmen and stoned them. | SC PC 7444, September 2, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | September: 12 men, at least, disturb widow Catherin Haviland. Not much on details except disorderly. | SC PC 7444, September 10, 1832 | Catherin Haviland | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | September: Herman Howlett ran a school in the basement of the church in Forsythe and Walker street. On the 11th and other days a gang of boys harrassed him and his school. They broke some windows. They do this sort of thing often. | SC PC 7444, September 11, 1832 | Herman Howlett | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | September: Watchman Longhorn had a prisoner, Robert Rerkill, encouraged a mob to attempt a rescue. No location given. | SC PC 7444, September 24, 1832 | Longhorn | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | September: Black Bob's Tavern uptown was disrupted by several men who had pissed on the floor, broke windows, etc. | NYC General Sessions, October 12, 1832 | Black Bob | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | September: Riot in the evening on the corner of 17th st and 6th ave. No numbers given. Marshall John P. Raymond attempted to arrest one rioter when another pulled out a knife and threatened him. | SC PC 7444, September 29, 1832 | John P. Raymond | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | October: Disturbance outside of the Park theater around Chatham street. People shouting and acting riotously. Four persons arrested for riot as a part of the mob. | SC PC 7444, October 7 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | Maryland | Maryland | October: Oyster Wars on the Eastern shore as local oystermen and officials fight off interlopers from PA and NJ. | NYEP, October 26, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | October: A crowd of men attack Eliza Granger's dwelling, between 8 and 9 o'clock at night. Entering the house they broke windows out. | SC PC 7444, October 22, 1832 | Eliza Granger | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | November: Election rioting. Brawls at the 7th and 14th ward. On the 1st day of the election a landlord evicted a member of the 5th ward Nat. Rep. Comm. With the help of bullies. During the disturbances at least 50 political toughs involved. The riots occurred at the polls. Several persons prevented from voting. | NYEP, November 8, 1832; SC PC 7445 3, November 10, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | November: A large number of persons rioted at Patrick McCafferty's, corner of Elizabeth and Grand. Not sure if connected to Election. Two persons named. Harrington was involved in election rioting. | SC PC 7445 4, November 8, 1832 | Harrington | Patrick McCafferty | |||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | November: A large body of men came to Peter Brower's home, he was an innkeeper, and acted in a riotous and disorderly manner. 5 persons named in deposition. | SC PC 7445 2, November 14, 1832 | Peter Brower | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | November: Two black people arrested as escaped slaves. While being taken between City Hall and Bridewell - their case still pending, there was an attempt to rescue them. The two officers escorting them were struck and pushed aside, but several officers came to their assistance and the mob was soon repulsed. Four ringleaders arrested. No white persons involved. | NYEP, November 14, 1832; SC PC 7445, November 15, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | November: In Chatham street, John Edwards set up the Spectaculum, which was some kind of transparency show. At about 8 o'clock in the evening there was a disturbance outside. Over 50 stones were thrown at the building, damaging transparencies, breaking windows, and injuring two persons. | SC PC 7445 1, November 29, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New Jersey | Camden, NJ | December: Nearby an attempt to recapture 3 escaped slaves was opposed by a crowd of both blacks and whites. The slaveowner from Havre de Grace and a friend driven off. At Camden they got reinforcements and returned to arrest several of the assailants. Not sure what happened to the slave. | NYEP, December 11, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | December: At least 15 men came to Mary Brown's and demanded drinks etc., between 10 and 11 o'clock at night. They were armed with bludgeons and came with a pot of tar to threaten Brown with tar and feathering. The watch arrived and prevented the destruction of too much furniture. | SC PC 7445, December 18, 1832 | Mary Brown | ||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | December: Broad stret riot. No real details. | NYEP, December 31, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1832 | New York | NYC | December: Approximately 40 to 50 persons rioted between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon on Christmas day. Most seem to have been Irish. Several stones were thrown and some fighting. There may have been an attack against a black person. Occurred on 3rd avenue. | SC PC 7445 6, December 26, 1832 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | July: Riot in Harlem. Two men arreste for a Sunday afternoon frolic in Yorkville and Harlem. Several houses were attacked and a number of gentlemen were beaten. Along 2nd ave. | NYEP, August 1, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | August: Laborers and gentlemen mix it up in the evening at 3rd ave and 19th. Two carriages going downtown came a bit too close to a line of cart taking dirt to be dumped. The Irish laborers driving the cart and others drinking in a nearby grocer objected. A scuffle ensued which had to be broken up by the police. | NYC General Sessions, CC - 6 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | August: German canal worker, Charles Hickenbottom, murdered by about 20 other canal workers. One worker had been dismissed, 20 of his fellow workers quit in sympathy. They then went down to the canal about one mile and attacked Hickenbottom. 11 arrested and charged with murder. Five charged with A+B and riot. | NYEP, August 6, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | August: Peter Kusick convicted of an assault on a watchman in a riot in East Broadway. The police had to quell it. Kusick used an ax. Tried for assault. | The Court and NY Enquirer, Dec 10, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | August: Church on 2nd street harassed. Young men shouting "hot corn" and acting disorderly. A watchman arrested three persons, but the rest continued the disturbance. | NYCSCPCC 7445 13 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | August: Hog cart riot - supposedly a "gang of half naked, whooping and barbarous negroes." In evening the hog collectors were surrounded by an indignant mob, pelted with stones, and escaped only with great difficulty. | NYEP, August 23, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | August: The collectors of fines for a militia regiment was assaulted with rotten eggs while collecting fines. He had to save himself by jumping several fences. | NYEP, August 23, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | August: Two or three rows occurred when the books for subscription were opened for certain banks | NYEP, August 23, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Pennsylvania | Dunnsburg, PA | August: Riot between laborers working on the Great Island Dam and a number of boatmen. On Saturday morning a dispute over a boatload of stone, the laborers wanted it placed on the dam, led to a riot which continued until Sunday evening. One Irish laborer was killed. Several people were wounded. The militia was called out Sunday to quell the disturbance. | Common Advertiser, August 30, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | Manchester, NY | September: A peace officer was killed while attempting to quell a disturbance among some drunken rioters. | Com. Adv., Sep. 17, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New Jersey | New Brunswick, NJ | September: Riot at the race course between workers on the Delaware and Rariton cancal and local citizens. 8 or 10 rioters injured. One, a physician from New Brunswick, was so seriously injured his life was in danger. | NYEP, Sep. 23, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Conneticut | CT | September: Assault made on Miss Crandall's house while a clergyman held a meeting there. Rotten eggs and other missiles thrown at windows. Offal dumped into well on another occasion. | 31 Cong., 1 sess., App. 1059 | Crandall | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | October: Anti-abolitionists gather outisde Clinton Hall where an abolitionist meeting had been scheduled. Garrison was supposed to attend. The meeting had been shifted to the Chatton street chapel. The antis went to Tammary hall and then marched to the chapel, arriving after the abolitionists left. The antis broke in, dressed a black "Arthur Tappon" and mockingly passed resolutions for immediate emancipation. | Richards, p.27-30 | Arthur Tappan | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | October: Disturbance at Jewish synagogue. Internal problem over the correct rituals. Ordinarily two leaders from the congregation read passages from the Penta (??). But they usually were not from the same family. When a father attempted to read after his son, the congregation objected and had to physically throw him out. | Com. Adv., October 9, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Missouri | Jackson Co., Missouri | Oct-Nov: Missourian expell Mormons, burning houses, demolishing furniture, cornfields, horsewhipping men. | Baily, p.8 | |||||||||
| 1833 | South Carolina | Charleston | December: A group of drunken Irish beat a native American (WASP?) to death. Next night 500 activists marched on Irish. Troops called, but stood helplessly as several houses were destroyed. | Bisson,Countdown to Violence, p.87-89 | PTH edits | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | November: Tumultuous meeting at Tammary Hall between Bowne supporters and G. Wells supporters. Both supported Jackson. Unsure of how much violence there was. | Howe,DiaryVII, November 1, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | November: Riot on Chestnut street wharf. Some of the passengers in the Balta Steamboat, laborers, started fighting. The stores they threw hit others and the peace officers were forced to interfere, beating the rioters. | NYEP, November 5, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | November: Some violence at meetings of journeymen tailors on strike to maintain meetings. With over 2,000 tailors there were difficulties in maintaing solidarity. Some workers returned to shops for below standard wages. | Morning CourierNovember 16, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | November: Piano Forte workers on strike harassed Benjamin Eastmond because of his refusal to join the strike. They followed him about the street, even into the shop, threatening him. On the evening of the 20th they assaulted him, tearing his court. Twelve men are named. Maybe more involved. | NYC SC PC - 7446 | Benjamin Eastmond | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | November: Piano makers on strike for wages. Hassle non-strikers, threatening them and on the 20th assaulting them. Lasted several days at least. | NYC SC PC - 7446 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | November: Threater riot at Richmond Hill theater interrupted performance. Police were attacked as was the door keeper. 11 persons named. | NYC SC PC - 7446 3. Howes v Raulet et al, Nov 26,1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Maryland | Chesapeake Bay | November: Maryland/Penn oyster war. | NY Eng, November 25, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | South Carolina | Charleston | November: Irish and protestant Americans fight during Thanksgiving celebration at Roger McGowan's restaurant. One yankee died in the fight. | Hammet, "Two mobs…," p.899 | |||||||||
| 1833 | South Carolina | Charleston | November: When Benjamin Daniels looked into an Irish dancing party through a window, his gaping was greeted by an attack. So terrific was the beating that Daniels died the next day. Engraged by Daniels' death, a mob formed the next evening and attempted to demolish Roger McGowan's house, the site of the Irish dance. The navy sent some men who temporarily halted the destruction, but as soon as they left, the mob finished its work. | Com. Adv., December 2, 1833 | Benjamin Daniels | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | Utica, NY | December: After a week of popular agitation about colonization, a mob burned Beriah Green, Pres. Of Oneida Institute and against colonization and Alvin Stewart, another anti-slavery man, in effigy. | Richards, p.86 | Beriah Green; Alvin Stewart | ||||||||
| 1833 | Missouri | Missouri | December: Notice of Mormon war. | Com. Adv., December 17, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Maryland | Lowell, Md | December: From Boston Journal comes a report of an anti-Avery mob in which an effigy of Avery shot and burnt because he preached at the Methodist church on Chapel Hill. | Court NYC, Dec 27, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | December: For over two hours the Bowers Theater was disturbed by several persons. The theater manager had recently dismissed Samuel "Treat" McKinney. Apparently his supporters were going to create a ruckus until he was reinstated. | NYC General Sessions People vs. McKinney et al., January 16, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | December: About 20 men acted riotously and turbulently at Phoebe Duty's house, destroying furniture, etc. | NYC General Sessions, People vs O'Mera, Jan 15, 1834 | Phoebe Dotty | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | January: There was a disturbance during services at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Chambers street, under Rev. McLeod. Eight persons are named by others were involved. Because of the clamor and noise the services were stopped. | SC PC cases 7445, 9, January 14, 1833 | McLeod | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | March: 20 to 40 ruffians entered at least 4 inns along a sleighing road and disrupted them. They beat proprietors and injured at least 6 persons. | Weinbaum.M+D, p.65-66 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | March: Riot at the Park Theater in the evening. Rioters accompanied by Prostitutes very disorderly and theeatened Marshall. | NYC General Sessions, March 13, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | March: Theater riot for un-ascertainable reasons. | Weinbaum.M+D, p.37 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | April: Election riot at the 6th ward poll. David Gilmartin identified as a ringleader who assaulted several people. | SC PC 7445 11, April 10, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | May: Strike by journeymen carpenters for higher wages. Parades through the streets to get support for the strike from some strikers. Wanted a raise from $1.32 to $1.50. | P. Howe Diary VI, May 17, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | Michigan | Detroit | June: A mob of about 40 black people rescued an escaped slave from his owner. They surronded and beat the sherriff. A posse chased the black people into the countryside and managed to arrest a few but the (??) escaped. A committee was formed to investigate the riot. | Schneider. "Urbanization…Detroit 1824-1847,"Michigan History, p.263-265 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | June: Riot in the 1st ward. Watchman hit by cart ring while rioters attampt rescue. Rioters from 6th ward. | NYC General Sessions, July 8, 1833 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | Brooklyn | June: Turnout of ropemakers objecting to the introduction of labor saving machinery. On the 17th abuot 200 ropemakers from NYC and Bklyn marched to Lewis' ropewalk at the Walkabout to seize rope manufactured there with the new marhcinery. They talked it over with the owner and bought it from him. They then paraded through Bklyn, with drum and fife and burnt it in a bon fire at Fort Green. | NYEP, June 19, 1833 | Lewis | ||||||||
| 1833 | Missouri | Independence, Missouri | July: Missourians drive Mormons out. Destroyed press and office of Mormon Star, attacked mercantile property owned by Mormons and tarred and feathered two church elders who refused to renounce the book of Mormon. | Baily, p.6-7 | |||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | July: Several men attacked John Dougherty, master of steamboat Fairhour, aboard the boat. | SC PC 7445 12, July 25, 1833 | John Dougherty | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | July: Watchman Henry Hinson responded to a cry of distress from a house, corner of Pelham and Cherry streets. He and two other watchmen were assaulted by at least 11 men and coomen. This between 11 and 12 o'clock at night. | NYC General Sessions, February 8, 1833 | Henry Hinson | ||||||||
| 1833 | New York | NYC | July: On Sunday morning a number of men rushed into Silvester D. Judson's porter room and acted "in a riotous fashion." Judson had to sseek safety by going to the police. Three persons named. | SC PC 7445 12, July 29, 1833 | Silvester D. Judson | ||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Lancaster, Penn | January: Workers use col (??) violence during strike concerning wages. Pennsylvania canal workers involved. | Geinstel, "A-C," 11,23,40 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Maryland | Williamsport, Md | January-Feb: Canal workers from Cork fight with workers from Longford in an effort to protect their jobs. Several battles fought, resulting in 6 deaths. | Grinsted. "Ante-Bellum Labor," JSH (1965), p.9 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | January: Three Kelsos with several others broke into Mary James' 448 Water street house, Screwdock hotel, set fire to her greens, broke and destroyed several articles of clothing and acted riotously. In the evening. | NYC SC PC - cases 7446 9, James v Kelso et al., Jan 24, 1834 | Mary James | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | February: "A number of boys and men" disturbed and disquited the congregation of the Chatham street chapel on their way to and from services. Such crowds had collected there recently on several occasions. | NYC SC PC - cases 7446 6, Smith v. Brooks et al, Feb. 3, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | February: Public meeting at the Park, called by the Whigs, somewhat disorderly, as pro-Bank whigs and anti-Bank Jacksonians struggled to gain control over the platform and chairmanship. Some pushing and shoving. Eventually anti-bank men controlled the platform, tore it down, and paraded through the streets with it. Standard political meeting disorder. NYEP symptathetic to anti-bank. | NYEP, Feb. 8 and 10, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | February: Riotous attack on Michael Farrel's sailor's boarding house at 350 Water street. Furniture was broken, propery injured, he was robbed of $150 and threatened with further action. There had earlier been a meeting at Harmony Hall to discuss the sailor's interests. Those in the mob are identified by testimony as sailors or other boarding housekeepers. Might be some kind of worker's action. | NYC SC PC 7446 6, Farrel v. Roe et al., F. 15, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Maryland | Baltimore | March: A group of Catholics attacked Samuel B. Smith as he addressed a Baptist group. He escaped bodily injury. | Billington, p.60 | Samuel B. Smith | ||||||||
| 1834 | Louisiana | New Orleans | March: Faction fight among canal workers. Several killed. (??) guards ordered out. | Way.Common Labour, p.195,289 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Massachusetts | Boston | March: Pro Jackson, anti-bank meeting of Democrats at Faneuil Hall attacked by pro-bank whig mob. Democrats held their ground and drove Whigs out. | Bisson.Countdown to Violence, p.93 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | April: Election riots on two days between the anti-Bank Jacksonians and the Whigs. There was a strong ehtnic content to the disturbance as the 1st days dioting started when Whigs visiting the 6th ward polls harassed the Irish. The second day saw fighting in the 6th ward, by the Masonic hall and elsewhere. The Whig even attempted to get weapons from the armory but were persuaded not to by officials. The militia was called out. | Weinbaum.Mobs and Demagogues, p.3-10 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Louisiana | New Orleans | April: A crowd guts the Lalaurie Mansion. Earlier, when there was a fire at the place, it was discovered that Madame Lalaurie had tortured her slaves and then chained several in the attic. That night, when it appeared officials were not going to do anything about it, the crowd outside the mansion becamse threatening. The Lalauries escaped and the house was gutted thereafter. Supposedly, the black butler who drove the carriage holding the escaping was caught by a mob and killed. | Ashara.French Quarter, p.247-252 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | Buffalo | April: News of NY election sent pro-Bank forces into the streets celebrating victory. A lot of singing, carousing, and a few fights. In the streets until 3:00pm. | no source given | |||||||||
| 1834 | New Hampshire | Portsmouth, NH | April: Election riot. Whigs celebrated success in NY during the day. That evening Democrats set fire to tar barrels and rolled them in streets; then they burnt Henry Clay and Daniel Webster in effigy. They stole and smashed a fire engine to prevent its being used. Then they went to the branch office of the Bus and ripped down the eagle and sign and thew them into the bonfire. Police efforts to interrupt failed. Earlier news article. | Common Advertiser, April 29, 1834 | Henry Clay; Daniel Webster | ||||||||
| 1834 | Massachusetts | Mansfield, MA | April: 400 R.R. laborers struck for higher wages and armed with clubs, assaulted one of the contractors. The High Sheriff of Norfolk called out the militia, and arrested nine ringleaders. The deputy sheriff also caleld on the militia and arrested six. | Common Advertiser, April 25, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | April: Sailor's riot at Munson's boarding house, Number 62 Cherry street. Conflicting stories. One says Munson shipped sailors out with less than the standard advance. As a result, 100 sailors attacked his house and abused his barkeeper. Another report says that Munson was head of a sailor's organization. After a meeting some sailors were misled by a Munson rival and then engaged in the destruction. | M. Court. NY Eng, April 25, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Maryland | Baltimore | April: On the 23rd large anti-Jackson rally at Monument square. Some violence with pro-Jackson people. Following evenign young whigs "attacked on South street, by democrats, but Mayor and posse interfered and restored peace." NYEP calls this a small disturbance over pro-Bank meeting. Some windows broken. | Scharf.Chronicles, p.468-469;NYEP, April 28, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | April: Engine 24 attacked in the afternoon while putting out a fire in Oliver street. Later, 18 men were arrested at an unlicensed tippling house run by a French man named Bentig. Others arrested Monday morning. Original fight at fire was between rival fire companies. Fighting also occurred at engine house in Wooster street. | Common Advertiser, April 29, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Massachusetts | Mansfield, MA | April: Irish workers demand higher wages and more grog. They beat contractor when he refused to comply immediately. | Grimsted, "Ante-bellum Labor," p.10,11 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Louisiana | New Orleans | April: Madame LaFaurie's house destroyed by a mob. Reason unsure. Other houses also threatened. Two black persons saved from the fire at Lafaurie's house later died. In the yard and in the old well bodies found. The civil military authorities prevented any further damage. | Common Advertiser, May 2, 1834 | LaFaurie | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | May: Anti-abolitionist disturbance. | Richards, p.113 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Massachusetts | Cambridge, MA | May: Disorder at Harvard began as a confrontation between a student and an instructor. Students wrecked the instructor's room and furniture when he reported the student. Disturbances continued with more attacks on property and even battles with the watch. Ultimately entire sophomore class dismissed. | Bisson.Countdown to Violence, p.95-99 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | May: Black people riot to protect an ex-slave. A Virginia gentleman claimed a black man as a runaway. Black people attempted to rescue him. But they were unsuccessful. Some were arrested. Six were convicted and sent to jail for 8 or 9 months. | Mor. Court and NY Eng, May 5, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Missouri | Jackson Co., Missouri | June: News of the approach of Joseph Smith and armed Mormons triggered a violence Missouri response. The Missourans stormed the jail, took every fighting weapon Mormons had, and burnt down all remaining Mormon property. | Baily.Armres, p.19-20 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | June: Three individual cases of riot reported in the Court of S. S. listing of offenses. | NYEP, July 9, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | June: J. Bakers strikes for higher wages. Strike sanctioned by the Trades Union. They want $1.00 per barrel for baking and a 9 barrel week…some bakers willing to comply. Fear of outside workers expressed. | MC and NYE, June 9 and 19, 1834;NYEP, June 9, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | Albany | June: Theater riot. A visint Irish actor, Power, refused to perform one night because the audience was not big enough. The nex ttheater was crowded and booed and hissed his performance. Not too much was thrown. | M. Court. And NY Eng, June 14, 1834 | Power | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | June: Turnout among J. cordwainers of ladies shoes. Not industry-wide; confined to those employees who were trying to lower wages. | NYEP, June 14, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Maryland | Maryland | June: Laborers on Washington railroad rioted. Fight was between Irish factions and four persons were killed. 30 or 40 rioters arrested. Militia from Baltimore ordered out to quell riot. Factions: Fardowns and Corkeans - one of those killed was a woman. | Common Advertiser, June 19, 20, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Maryland | Maryland | June: Railroad workers again rioted in the evening. One man killed, two others seriously injured. Some Gerrons and oe Native American attacked. | NYEP, June 28, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | June: Authorities arrested a woman for stealing a pair of shoes. About 200 rioters shouting "State Prison monopoly!" attacked the shoe store, destroyed the awning, smashed the windows, and rescued some of the arrested rioters after the watch attempted to intervene. 2000 persons watched this scene. | Weinbaum,M + D, p.66 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Iowa | Dubuque, Iowa | July: Mob whipped William Hoffman because his friend accused him of keeping the friend's money. Punishment stopped when friend found the money. | Block. "Lynchings…," Iowa JH+P, p.170-171 | William Hoffman | ||||||||
| 1834 | New Jersey | Camden, NJ | July: Race riot concerning self-improvement. About 50 white people fought with some black people returning from a Sunday afternoon church service. | Werner, p.273-239 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | July: Black eel-skinner beaten because he did his job cheaper than his fellow workers. | Grinsted.Antebellum Labor, p.11 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Illinois | Illinois | July: More Mormon troubles. | NYEP, July 9,17,25,1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | July: A great mob of sailors attacked and pulled down James Moore's house at No. 6 James Slip. | NYC GS SC PC - cases CC88 (7), People v. Thatcher et al., July 11, 1834 | James Moore | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | July: Disruption of anti-slavery meeting in Chatham street chapal. | Weinbaum, p.38-39 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | July: Anti-abolitionists - July 7 disruption of black meeting in Chatham street chapel; July 8 disruption of Morally (??) meeting in Clinton hall; July 9 attack on L. Toppman's house, forced entry into Chatham st. chapel, riot at Bowery Theater; July 10, assault on Rev. Sam. Cox's house and church; July 11, attack on A. toppman and Co. store, Cox's church, Rev. Henry Ludlow's church; rampage against stp. black people. | Richards, p.113-120 | L. Toppman; Sam Cox; Henry Ludlow | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | July: After putting out a fire onPearl street, several firemen went down to the river to bathe. After that they climbed aboard the Herald. The captain told them to get off, believing that their nudity would offend female passengers. Blows were exchanged and there was a small affray. | NYEP, July 9, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New Jersey | Newark, NJ | July: Presbyterean minister preached a sermon on Friday evening entitled, "Sin of Slavery," and planned to take a collection for the anti-slavery society. Large crowd formed outisde, some charge and drove minister and congregation out. Crowd then demolish the interior and smashed windows. They went to the minister's house but he wasn't there. Next night a mob attacked a black own barber shop. One black man had attended the meeting. | Common Advertiser, July 16, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | Bufallo, NY | July: At night at least a dozen black people rioted, attacking several houses including: the the house used by the Bd of Health for smallpox hospital and the house of a respectable Frenchman. Constable Furmen with friends quelled the disturbance. There was some resistance. One black man drowned when he tried to escape by jumping into the canal. | Common Advertiser, July 25, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | July: Seamen and boardinghouse keepers had agreed that no sailors should ship out across the Atlantic for less than $15 a month. Aat No.15 Burling slip a crew had signed on for $13 a month aboard the packet John Jay. A group of sailors threatened to strip the ship, if its papers were not surrendered. The captain said the papers were at the shipping office. Before the sailors could get there, police intervened and arrested 6 o 7. | Common Advertiser, July 23, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New Jersey | Bloomfield, NJ | August: Mob of distinguished men cut in temperance cause. They attacked a tavern, destroyed its stock of liquor and then beat up the owner. | Werner. "Race Riots," p.42 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | August: A gang of young men attacked Phoebe Doty's house, threatening her, etc. Two named. | SC PC 7446 1, Doty v Granger et al., August 8, 1834 | Phoebe Dotty | ||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | August: A gang of about 50 men assaulted son of James Forton, one of the wealthiest black residents in town. | Werner, p.188 | James Forton | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | Palmyra, NY | August: Charles Williams, working as a clerk in Washington, returned hom to visit his mother. He brought an enslaved girl servant with him. Local black people talked her into running away. They also attacked Mrs. Williams house on Sunday breaking some windows. Shots exchanged and with the town alerted, a dozen black people were arrested. | NYEP, August 18, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Massachusetts | Charleston | August: Burning of Ursuline Convent. Large crowd outside, disperses, but then reassembles around midnight. 40-50 organized men burst in. Nuns and students escape and convent burnt. Next night mob of men and boys burn fences and trees and all else left on convent ground. Next night over 1,000 men roamed city but did little damage. On night of August 15 rioters burned a shanty in Charleston occupied by about 35 Irish laborers | Billingston. "Burning the Convent," p.4-24 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | August: White mob begins by attacking "flying horses" amusement establishment that had been used by black and white people. But then turned to assaults on black people and their property for three nights. Two churches and over 30 houses destroyed, damaged, or looted. One black person died from the wounds inflicted during beating. 100s flee. Authorities use militia, etc., to quell the riot along Philadelphia. | Curray, p.106-7 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New Jersey | Bloomfield, NJ | August: Saturday night 20 or 30 men "with faces blackened, painted with various colors, or veiled" entered William Iles' porter house, tied his hands and took him to a field. There they stripped him and treated him in a shameful manner. Others dumped the contents of his shop in the stream. Iles is an immigrant. | NYEP, August 21, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Lancaster, PA | August: Racial rioting. 1st two days minor skirmishes between black and white people. One 3rd day, black persons attacked a white man in an attempt to protect their property. About 30 white people then marched into the black section and attacked several houses and fired off some guns. | NYEP, August 27, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Columbia, Penn | August: For several nights whites break windows, etc, of black homes. On the 19th a crowd of 50 or 60 marched into the black area of town, stoned houses and fired guns. | Werner. "Columbia Race Riots," p.177-178 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Columbia, Pa | August: Race riot concerning job competition, amalgamation fears and desire to drive black residents out of community. Windows broken by roving gangs of whites followed by attacks on black homes. Labor competition a big issue here. African Americans beaten in off-again on-again violence. | Werner, p.198-202, 273 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | August: Saturday night, about 12:30, about 20 persons started an uproar by shouting fire, etc., in Broadway. About 150 persons collecte and were disorderly for several hours. They stoned several houses including Nos. 22, 18, 10, and 2. Signs and windows were destroyed. When the watch arrived there was a scuffle; one watchman and one citizen were injured. The rioters didn't seem to have any objective and dispersed at 3:00am. | NYEP, August 25, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | August: Sailors' strike in opposition to a reduction in wages. | Commons J, p.478 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | August: A "mob of persons" attack Conrad Sebring's 102 Anthony street home, tearing down his privy and threatening him. Two were identified. | SC PC 7446 13, Sebring Van Winkle et al., August 28, 1834 | Conrad Sebring | ||||||||
| 1834 | Michigan | Detroit, Michigan | September: Minor race riot. | Werner, p.273 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Michigan | Detroit | September: Mob tore down home of a black family that had somehow offended whites. | Werner, p.239, 270 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New Jersey | Trenton, NJ | September: Race riot, probably over self-improvement. Crowd outside African Methodist church then threw rocks and broke windows. Congregation fled. | Werner, p.273, 178 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Conneticut | Cantebury, CT | September: Mob physically dismantled Pedence Crandall's school. | Richards, p.38-40 | Pedence Crandall | ||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Columbia, Penn | September: Crowd of white workers destroy property - porch, windows, entered house and rifled papers - of affluent black people - especially lumber merchant Stephen Smith. | Slaughter.Bloody Dawn, p.174-175 | Stephen Smith | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | September: Carpet weavers strike in opposition to a reduction in wages. | Commons I, p.479; National Traders' Union, September 6, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | South Carolina | South Carolina | September: Affray between union men and nullifiers. Union men head off a nullifying county meeting. Blows were exchanged. | NYEP, September 12, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | September: A rumor spread that a "respectable" girl had been seduced and then, when she came down with cholera, turned out to die by a brothel. 200 to 300 persons marched on the place and, encouraged by the rest about a dozen entered and destroyed the premises. | Weinbaum.M+D, p.66 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | September: Every black person on the Battery was compelled by a mob to run for shelter in the nearest building. Few black people showed up the next day. In the afternoon, the rioters numbered "hundreds". Most were young men about 20 years old. | NYEP, September 25, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | September: In the afternoon a barouche was attacked by a mob because the servant driver was black. A lady and her daughter in the coach were in danger. | NYEP, September 25, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | September: Irishmen and nativists fought one another. In Sept. there was a brawl involving almost 1,000 persons. Some of the fighting was between Protestant and Catholic Irish. | Weinbaum.M+D, p.55,66 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | October: Large crowd gathered at the Battery to watch a balloon ascension; amused themselves by taunting and beating some African Americans in the crowd. | Werner, p.178 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Columbia, Penn | October: White crowd attacks homes of four property belonging to African Americans. Stealing and looting proprerty for at least one and destroying property. One black person injured. | Slaughter.Bloody Dawn, p.176-177 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | October: Locksmith strike opposing a reduction in wages. | Commons I, p.479 | |||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | October: Election riots. Jackson men in Moganensing driven from polls. Then whigs took Jackson headquarters, destroying two tents and cutting Jackson hickory tree. Later reinforced, Jackson men attack whig HQ on NE corner of Christian and Mostcalm sts. Whigs fired upon them wounding 15 or 20 - one later died. Enraged, Jackson men stormed the building and drove the whigs out. They set fire to the whig pole - iron bends prevented efforts to drop it down, and the fire spread to nearby houses. When firemen arrived, Jackson men beat them and prevented them from downing the flames. | Scharf and Wescott, p.639 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | October: Several hundred stonecutters march up Broadway attacking buildings erected by Mr. Bloomer because of his use of prison stone. They smashed windows and doors and battered marble pillars. A "strong posse" of watchmen prevented more serious damage. | Weinbaum.M+D, p.63-64 | Bloomer | ||||||||
| 1834 | Indiana | Fort Wayne, Indiana | November: Canal workers riot in dispute with locals. | Way.Common Labour, p.289 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | November: Between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning there was a disturbance in Prince street. A door of a dwelling was broken. At least 13 men were involved. | SC PC 7447 2, November 7, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | November: At least 10 men came to Mary Adam's house at night, acted disorderly and abused the people there. | NYC General Sessions, December 10, 1834 | Mary Adam | ||||||||
| 1834 | Maryland | Maryland | November: Baltimore and Ohio railroad workers - mainly Catholic Irish - riot. Troops called in from Washington DC. Grimsted says this riot included battle between Protestants and Catholics.Scharf says attack focused on contractor. Indeed, contractor's house attacked and he was beaten. Next day superintendent John Watson and two others killed. 300 Irish laborers arrested. | Billington, p.197 | John Watson | ||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | November: About 20 or 30 boys came to home of Elizabeth Post, and acted in a riotous manner. They broke windows, a lock, and threw stones into the basement room, injuring persons there. The mob also harassed Mrs. Weldon's house in the neighborhood. | SC PC 7447 1, November 26, 1834 | |||||||||
| 1834 | New York | NYC | December: Hatters strike against reduction in wages. | Commons I, p.479 | |||||||||
| 1835 | District of Columbia | Washington DC | August: Dr. Reuben Crandall was to give lectures at Georgetown Univ., brought some antislavery publications with him. He lft some in a store. A large mob formed to injure him. He was protected by being arrested. Also strike and Snow and race riot. | Eaton. "Mob Violence," p.359 | Beverly Snow; Reuban Crandall | ||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | Plainsville, OH | April: Anti-Abolitionist riot. | Price. "Ohio A-S Conv.," p.105 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | Zowesville, OH | April: Anti-Abolitionist riot. | Price. "Ohio A-S Conv.," p.105 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | St. Albans, OH | April: Anti-Abolitionist riot. | Price. "Ohio A-S Conv.," p.105 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | Marietta, OH | April: Anti-abolitionist riot. Religious meeting attacked. | Price. "Ohio A-S Conv.," p.105 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | Mt. Pleasant, OH | April: Anti-abolitionist riot. | Price. "Ohio A-S Conv.," p.105 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | New London, OH | April: Anti-abolitionist riot. | Price. "Ohio A-S Conv.," p.105 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Maine | Auguste, Me | January: Public hanging led to a riot. | Weinbaum, p.111 | |||||||||
| 1835 | New York | NYC | January: Fight between Irishmen and nativists. While fighting a fire, the firemen had built a fire on property belonging to a nearby gas company to keep themselves warm. The Irish workers objected. A scuffle ensued that included an attack on chief engineer James Crulick. In the melee that followed 10 to 20 arrested. | Weinbaum, p.55, 62-63 | James Crulick | ||||||||
| 1835 | Maryland | Maryland | February: Canal workers on Ohio canal strike put down by militia. | Morris AJ Strikebreaker AHR 1949 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Pennsylvania | Columbia, PA | February: White mob attacks (??) black person, freezing cattle and threatening to pull down his house. | Slaughter.Bloody Dawn, p.179-180 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | Circleville, OH | March: Mob pelted Theodore Dwight Weld with stones through open windows, etc. | Abzug.Passionate Lib., p.125 | Theodore Dwight Weld | ||||||||
| 1835 | District of Columbia | Washington, DC | March: Labor disturbance along railroad. | Weinbaum, p.55 | |||||||||
| 1835 | New York | NYC | March: Broadway Hall riots between immigrant Catholics and Native Americans. Meeting of Protestant Assoc. broken up by Irish. Debate at hall over "Is Popery compatible with Civil liberty?" by both Cathlics and Protestants. Mob broke in, drove off speakers and destroyed furniture and fixtures. | Headley, p.309; Billington, p.60, 63 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Ohio | Granville, OH | April: Mob harrassed abolitionist Theodore Weld. They shaved his horse's tail and pelted him with eggs and stones. | Price. "Ohio A-S Conv.," p.173-74 | Theodore Dwight Weld | ||||||||
| 1835 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | April: Church sells part of its graveyard. Laborers being excavation and treat remaining bodies poorly. About 100 outraged persons assembled, threatened minister and vestrymen, chased the laborers away and then filled in the excavation. | Werner. "Race Riots," p.43 | |||||||||
| 1835 | District of Columbia | Washington DC | May: Several street battles between striking printers from Green's shop - "terriers" and scabs or "rats." Boarding houses containing scabs harrassed and threats of tearing down the Telegraph's office. Two men subsequently convicted of assault. 4 of riot. As many as 40 may have rioted. | Pretzer. "The British Duff Green…" | Duff Green | ||||||||
| 1835 | Alabama | Mobile, AL | May: Burning of Black man for allegedly murdering children | James Elbert Cutler, Lynch-Law and Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York: Longman, Green, and Co., 1905), 108 from Michael J. Pfeifer, The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2011). | PTH | ||||||||
| 1835 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | June: Workers use violence during strike. Coal heavers involved. Possibly no violence, but intimidation for sure. | Grimsted. "A C," p.11 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Conneticut | Hartford, CT | June: Some sort of anti-black riot. Whites harrassed a black church the 9th and attacked the black people on their way home from services. One black man got a gun and shot two white people. The white mob then went to his house and tore it down. The next evening a large white crowd invaded the black neighborhood called "Sinking Fund" and demolished two more houses. | Weinbaum, p.55 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | June: An elderly black woman gave allegedly false testimony about Mary Gilmore, a very white mulatto who had been seized as a fugitive slave. A crowd of black people broke into her house the evening of the 16th and violently beat the woman and her daughter. Police interefered and broke up the disturbance. | Werner, p.201 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | June: A large group of black people unsuccessfully attempted to liberate two men seized as fugitive slaves. This occurred in the afternoon. | Werner, p.201 | |||||||||
| 1835 | New York | NYC | June: Five Point riot between "Americans" and foreigners. Police quell. Dr. W.M. Caffrey killed and Justice Lowdnes wounded. Foreigners the Irish - if this is the same riot reported by Billington. Rioters gutted a tavern. Shots fired. | Headly, p.95; Weinbaum, p.55; Billington, p.196; Werner, p.38 | W.M. Caffrey; Lowdnes | ||||||||
| 1835 | New York | NYC | June: When an Irishman beat up a boy a mob formed that entailed special action by the Common Council before peace could be restored. | Billington, p.196 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Mississippi | Livingston, Mississippi | June: Fearing a slave insurrection, whites held a meeting, seized several African Americans, tortured them and elicited confessions of a slave insurrection. | Miles. "Miss. Slave Insurrection…," p.50 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Indiana | Indiana | July: Faction fight among canal workers o nthe Wabash and Erie. Militia ordered in. | Way.Common Labour, p.289 | |||||||||
| 1835 | New York | Buffalo, NY | July: Minor race riot over slave rescue. Slave catcher had gone into Canada to capture escaped slave and family. Black people from Buffalo pursued him and liberated the captives in Hamburgh, NY. But upon returning to Buffalo they ran into police and citizens at the ferry. A fight ensued. Injuries on both sides. 8 to 10 black people arrested, but family escaped. | Werner, p.273 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Mississippi | Livingston, Mississippi | July: Mob summarily hanged the slaves who had been suspected of organizing a conspiracy. Also seized two white "steam doctors" and organized a committee to deal with insurrection. They elicited a confession from one of the whites. | Miles. "Miss. Slave Insurrection," p.50 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Mississippi | Livingston, Mississippi | July: Fear of slave insurrection swept the state. The Livingston vigilance committee seized a poor man who had brought a load of corn to sell in Yazoo. Despite the efforts of Henry Foote, the comm. Hanged the man on the testimony of 3 secured black people. | Eaton. "Mob Violence," p.361 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Mississippi | Livingston, Mississippi | July: Two white people seized, sentenced by committee to be hanged. Both were executed. | Miles. "Miss. Slave Insurrection," p.50 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Michigan | Detroit | July: Irishmen attacked citizens on principle streets, in turn were disbanded by mobs of natives. The Irishmen numbered 30 or 40 and were laborers employed in grading streets along the river. The assaulted sailors, local citizens and other "damned Yankees" A hastily formed posse of "worthy citizens" was bloodied in attempt to arrest the mob, which dispersed of its own accord. | Schneider. "Urbanization…Detroit," p.267; Billington, p.197 | |||||||||
| 1835 | New York | Albany | July: Irish laborers rioted. | Werner. "Race Riots," p.27 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Mississippi | Vicksburg, Miss | July: Argument between gambler and citizen triggered action against gamblers. When the gambler returned armed, apparently to kill the citizen, the crowd seized the gambler, tied him to a tree, whipped him, tarred and feathered him, and banished him. Next day citizens ordered all gamblers out of town. A search of gambling houses on the 6th led to more rioting. Besides destroying tables etc., some gamblers defended one house - rest had been abandoned. During the gun battle one citizen was shot and killed. The five gamblers were seized and hanged by the crowd. | H+W p.450-453 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Mississippi | Hinds Co., Miss | July: Slave insurrection scare infects county and several committees form. When two leading committeemen allowed suspects to go free because of lack of evidence, one, William L. Sharken, came under mob attack. On night of July 6 an armed band from Madison Co. attempted to capture Sharkey. They tried again, but Sharkey defended himself, killing one. | Miles. "Miss. Slave Insurrection," p.53-55 | William L. Sharken | ||||||||
| 1834 | Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | July: An enslaved boy named Juan attempted to kill his slaveholder. In response, a mob of "the very lowest classes, with apprentices and half-grown boy" rioted. Violence began at around nine at night. The mob attacked several black homes between Sixth and Seventh street, beating the occupants severely. The mob then targeted a house occupied by a black barber and several white women, but, finding it empty, left without destorying any property. The riot spread to "Red Row" and the mob attacked more black property and persons, including a youth who was beaten. On Christian and Ninth Streets, the mob attacked more black homes, but these were defended and fire was exchanged. Fireman arrived to put out a fire that had been started in Red Row, and the mob attempted to intimidate the firemen away. Some violence against the firemen and their equipment followed, but the troop put out the fire. Several more black people and residences attacked throughout the night. One black man attempted to defend himself with an axe, and rioters beat him harshly as a result. Several white residences attacked as well, either by accident or as a result of companionship with black people. The rioting continued the next night. A group of fifty or sixty black residents had armed themselves and resolved to defend a building if attacked. The incensed the white mob. Eventually, authorities convinced the black fighters to retreat. Meanwhile, in Moyamensing, about two hundred armed black residents reportedly gathered. This group disbanded without violence. Many black families fled the city in fear. | Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania 14, 34-38. | George Conover; Johnson; James M'Dermott | PTH | |||||||
| 1835 | Maryland | Baltimore | August: Bank riot. On the evening of the 6th only a few windows broken as crowd was angry at rich investors because of the apparent failure of the bank of Maryland. Similar actions occurred on the night of the 7th. More serious rioting broke out on Saturday the 8th and mayor's guard, after fighting with clubs, fired into the crowd, killing five and wounding many more. But the rioting continued and the Mayor's guard left town. Six houses sacked between Saturday and Sunday. Voluntary guard under Samuel Smith finally gains control on Monday. | Grimsted. "Democratic Rioting," | Samuel Smith | ||||||||
| 1835 | Vermont | Vergennes, VT | October: Bawdy-house riot. 20-30 men break into house run by local madame. She had been charged with keeping a house of prostitution and wanred to leave several times. As the mob was breaking down the door, someone shot a gun from inside. One man was killed. No other resistance. House quickly leveled. Madame and male employee arrested. | Werner. "Race Riots," p.42-43 | |||||||||
| 1835 | New Hampshire | New Hampshire | October: John H. Tyler owed a man some "large sum." Deputy Sheriff William M. Smith arrested Tyler, who was rescured by a group of people and subsequently escaped. | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of Judicature for the State of New-Hampshire, 539-549. | John H. Tyler; Applebee | William M. Smith | PTH | ||||||
| 1835 | New York | Albany | July: Irish laborers rioted. | Werner. "Race Riots," p.27 | |||||||||
| 1835 | Massachusetts | Boston | July: Irish laborers rioted. | Werner. "Race Riots," p.27 |