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NEW YORK DIRECTORY FOR 1786 IBD

BENJAMIN ED SACHS / BENJAMIN ED SACHS / BEN
HERITAGE BOOKS INC.
08 / 2013
9780788408106
Inglés

Sinopsis

This 'Valuable and well Calculated Almanack' offers tables of different coins, the names of citizens, their occupations and places of abode, the members of Congress, from what state, and where residing, grand departments of the United States for adjusting public accounts, and by whom conducted, members in Senate and Assembly, from what county, and where residing, judges, aldermen, and other civil officers, with their places of abode, public state-offices, and by whom kept, counselors at law, and where residing, ministers of the gospel, where residing, and of what church, physicians, surgeons, and their places of abode, president, directors, days, and hours of business at the bank, professors, etc. of the University of Columbia College, rates of porterage, as by law established, arrivals and departures of the mails at the post office, and a key to the changes in names of streets. A detailed description of New York written by Noah Webster covers 'the time between the recognition of the colonies? independence and Washington?s Presidency' and offers readers a very interesting contrast between the 'quaint old Dutch town' and New York in the twenty-first century.