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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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r the Revolution the tanners hegan to desert the vicinity of theCollect, and located around Jacob and Frankfort streets, in the Swamp.The old vats at the Collect were left open, and became a subject ofcomplaint in 171*7 as dangerous. From the time of its first occupation by tanners and manufacturersof leather until now, the occupants of the Swamp have grown inwealth and business and social influence. The Swamp has been trans-formed from a place of manufactures f to a mail. Within the lastfifty or sixty years its volume of business has enormously increased.In 1S27 the number of hides of sole leather received in New T~ork * For these facts I am indebted to a series of interesting articles in the Shoe and LeatherReporter, vol. xxiv., written by F. W. Xorcross. f There are, perhaps, persons living who then saw no house in the space boundedby Jacob, Gold, Fern*, and Frankfort streets — nothing but tan-yards or vats. Thehouses surrounding these vats were very small, and all built of wood.
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FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 21? (almost wholly in the Swamp) was 265,000 ; in 1837, 665,000 ; in1S47, 1,168,000 ; in 1S57, 3,24S,000 ; in 1867, 3,824,087 ; in 1877,4,242,570, and in 1881, 5,457,417. Among the men of the Swamp were found some of the mostvaluable citizens of the metropolis fifty years ago, such as Gideon Lee,*Israel Corse, f Abraham Bloodgood,:): David Bryson,§ Jacob Lorillard,Abraham Polhemus, Peter McCartee, Richard Cunningham, WilliamKumble, Hugh McCormick, Shepherd Knapp, Jonathan Thorne,J; * Gideon Lee was mayor of the city in 1833-34. A biographical sketch of him will befound on a subsequent page. f Israel Corse was a Friend or Quaker, a native of Chestertowu, Maryland, where hewas born in 17G9. At the age ot seventeen he was apprenticed to a tanner in Camden,Delaware. When his apprenticeship expired he was worth just seventy-five cents. Onthat capital he began business, married Lydia Trotts, a farmers daughter, who broughthim quite a fortune, at that day. in money,

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