Old New York: A Lecture (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Old New York: A LectureEighteen hundred and eighteen found me a boy in a Wholesale dry-goods store, no. 30£pear1 street, near Peck slip. My employers were two most worthy Quakers. A promise made by my father to the junior partner, that When he went into business I was to be with him, Will account for my leaving school SO early.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.