Miller's New York as it is, or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers ; including public buildings, churches, hotels, places of amusement, literary institutions, etc . other notable men of their times, having met within itswalls. Aaron Burr once lived at the corner of Cedar andNassau streets, and, after he held the office of Vice-President, at the corner of Pine and Nassau. Cobbett kept his seed store at 62 Fulton street. Hisfarm was at Hempstead, Long Island. Grant Thorburns celebrated seed s
Miller's New York as it is, or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers ; including public buildings, churches, hotels, places of amusement, literary institutions, etc . other notable men of their times, having met within itswalls. Aaron Burr once lived at the corner of Cedar andNassau streets, and, after he held the office of Vice-President, at the corner of Pine and Nassau. Cobbett kept his seed store at 62 Fulton street. Hisfarm was at Hempstead, Long Island. Grant Thorburns celebrated seed store, which was oneof the notable objects of the city, in its time, was inLiberty street, between Nassau and Broadway, and oc-cupied as large a space as the present establishment inJohn street. His store was previously used for a Qua-ker meeting-house, the first that that society had erect-ed in the city. The brick meeting-house, built in 1764, in Beokman. Broadway, looking HISTORICAL LOCALITIES. 13 street, near Nassau street, then standing on open fields,was the place where Whitefield preached. On the site of the present Metropolitan Hotel, oncelived the diplomatist—Talleyrand, when ambassador tothe United States. He published a small tract onAmerica, once much read ; he it was who affirmed thatthe greatest sight he had ever beheld in this country,was Hamilton, with his pile of books under his arm,proceeding to the court-room in the old City Hall, inorder to expound the law. James FJ-ington, from London, opened a bookstorein 1761, near the foot of Wall street, from which his Koyal Gazetteer was published in April, 1773. Gaines u New York Mercury, in Hanover Square,was established in 1752 ; Holts New York Journal,in Dock (Pearl) street, near Wall, commenced in 1776;and Andersons Constitutional Gazette, a very smallsheet, was published for a few months in 177o, at Beek-mans Slip. Gaine kept a bookstore under thesign of the Bibleand Cro
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