A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . Into this seething little volcano of popular struggles A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 247 after the rights of citizenship young Lewis was pre-cipitated. It was the moulding of his manhood. Nev-er hesitating for an instant, he ranged himself on theside of the people as against the Crown, and when thetime came for this grand old merchant of New Yorkto prove his sincerity by sacrifice, he laid all that hehad upon the altar of his country. It was but theembryo of a city to which the youth of twenty-onecame in 1735. Its p
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . Into this seething little volcano of popular struggles A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 247 after the rights of citizenship young Lewis was pre-cipitated. It was the moulding of his manhood. Nev-er hesitating for an instant, he ranged himself on theside of the people as against the Crown, and when thetime came for this grand old merchant of New Yorkto prove his sincerity by sacrifice, he laid all that hehad upon the altar of his country. It was but theembryo of a city to which the youth of twenty-onecame in 1735. Its population was then less than ninethousand, and it lay entirely below the Lewis went at once into partnership with Annesley in the foreign trade; their storewas in Dock Street, near the Merchants Exchange,that then stood in Broad Street, between what arenow Pearl and Water streets. And here comes in asweet touch of romance, in the story of how the youngstranger wooed and won for his wife fair Mary Annes-ley, sister of his partner, and the acknowledged belle. THE ROYAL EXCHANCE, BROAU STREET
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