Days and ways in old Boston . Charles Bulfinch. Days and Ways in Old Boston abled him to purchase the estate of the loyalistNathaniel Hatch, son of Col. Estes Hatch, inDorchester. In 1784 Swan bought Burnt CoastIsland, Lincoln County, Me. This he paid forwith depreciated Continental currency, a shrewdcondition inserted in the resolve of the GeneralCourt. The financial conditions of the new republicwere unfavorable to Swans ventures and he leftBoston in January 1788. His most pressing cred-itor was Patrick Jeffries, against whose treatmenthe expressed himself most bitterly. He went toHavre and

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Days and ways in old Boston . Charles Bulfinch. Days and Ways in Old Boston abled him to purchase the estate of the loyalistNathaniel Hatch, son of Col. Estes Hatch, inDorchester. In 1784 Swan bought Burnt CoastIsland, Lincoln County, Me. This he paid forwith depreciated Continental currency, a shrewdcondition inserted in the resolve of the GeneralCourt. The financial conditions of the new republicwere unfavorable to Swans ventures and he leftBoston in January 1788. His most pressing cred-itor was Patrick Jeffries, against whose treatmenthe expressed himself most bitterly. He went toHavre and Rouen in France, where he investig-ated French manufactures. On his arrival inFrance he advanced the interests of the Statesand in 1790 published in French six letters ad-dressed to Lafayette on the causes of the opposi-tion to commerce between France and the 1790 Swan attempted to negotiate a loan of$2,000,000 for the States from some citizens inGenoa. As an American whose country was arefuge he assisted many royalist refugees to Am

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