A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . FOOT OF WALL STPEET AND FERRY-HOUSE, 1629. FOOT OF WALL STREET AND FERRY-HOUSE, 1746 to business at once, and was elected alderman beforehe was thirty. Possessed of the mercantile instinct,he made money. It could not be otherwise, for heknew the value of advertising, and whatever he hadfor sale will be found in the newspaper columns of hisday. Here, for instance, is a notice that there is tobe sold by Philip Livingston, at his store in the NewDock, near the Ferry stairs, Irish linens, black andblue peelong, n
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . FOOT OF WALL STPEET AND FERRY-HOUSE, 1629. FOOT OF WALL STREET AND FERRY-HOUSE, 1746 to business at once, and was elected alderman beforehe was thirty. Possessed of the mercantile instinct,he made money. It could not be otherwise, for heknew the value of advertising, and whatever he hadfor sale will be found in the newspaper columns of hisday. Here, for instance, is a notice that there is tobe sold by Philip Livingston, at his store in the NewDock, near the Ferry stairs, Irish linens, black andblue peelong, needles and teakettles, breeches and sper-maceti candles, pork and knee-buckles, combs and Bo-hea tea, brass thimbles and a cargo of choice Teneriffewine just imported! Fancy a signer of the Declara-tion of Independence dealing out tape and snuff, ivory 254 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK combs, and split-horn knives and forks ; and yet thiswas what PhiHp Livingston was doing when, in 1774,he was sent to the first colonial Congress at Philadel-phia. Elected to each successive Congress, he died inthe harness, at York, Pa., in the dar
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