From The Peopling of New York City
Richard Baker was an English immigrant with only 10 pounds wealth who kept a tavern in the Dock Ward. He abstained from politics apparently, as he was not affiliated with either the Court or Country Party, the two major political parties of 1700's New York. The first disobedient slave to be hanged in the so-called Slave Conspiracy of 1741 was named Caesar, whose first crime was stealing from Baker's Tavern. Baker's own slave Cajoe was later accused but discharged, unharmed.
