New York Directory for 1786

New York Directory for 1786

Benjamin Ed Sachs / Benjamin Ed. Sachs / Benjamin EdSachs / H. J. Sachs / HJSachs

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Editorial:
Heritage Books
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Historia de América
ISBN:
9780788408106
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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.

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