From The Peopling of New York City
Anthony Duane was a whole bunch of years older than the rest of my immigrants, and, as such, the information that exists pertaining to him is even more scarce. I searched through America's Historical Newspapers and came up with only one bit of information: Anthony Duane was deceased by September 1747. The New York Gazette ran multiple ads requesting all persons indebted to his estate to kindly retire the debt. Other ads from around the same time advertise the sale of his belongings. The ads aren't very informative, but, after reading through about fifteen of them, I gleaned enough information from them to state definitively that Duane was a merchant, and that he lived in a house opposite the fly-market, which Obadiah Wells later moved into.
Ancestry.com has one listing that may refer to Anthony Duane: He is listed as having been born in Galway, Ireland in 1682, having been a "purser" in the English Navy, and having settled in New York in 1702. (Ancestry.com cites the information as follows: Ancestry.com. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001. Original data: John Matthews. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. New York, NY, USA: Crest Publishing Company, Inc., 1907.) This information is consistent with the information in the Gazette regarding his death, and would mean that Anthony Duane lived until about the age of 65. Ancestry didn't have any information on his death or burial.
I searched for "Anthony Duane" on Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Eighteenth Century Journals through NYU's Library's website, but found nothing.
