Wealth and Pedigree of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City

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Excerpt from Wealth and Pedigree of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City: Comprising an Alphabetical Arrangement of Persons Estimated to Be Worth and Upwards, With the Sums Appended to Each Name, Being Useful to Banks, Merchants and Others As the name imports, one of our numerous New Eng land immigrations. New York being in fact as much the metropolis of New England and the emporium of her commerce and of her enterprizing, adventurous and mo ney-hunting population, as it is of the Empire State and of the American Continent. Our city has been none the worse, perhaps, for this in¿ux from down east, which, like the fresher, deposits always en mouvement upon their own sterile soil, and driven by ocean currents, (favorite element lo your Yankee race) have quite over laid the original and primitive aggregations of early Dutch settlers of this once city of New Amsterdam. Mr. John Adams ¿ourished in the dry goods line, when great wealth was easily and rapidly acquired thereby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.