Mordecai Manuel Noah

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Excerpt from Mordecai Manuel Noah: A Biographical SketchThereupon the friends of the family caused the boy Mordecai, who was then but ten years of age, to be sent to his grandfather at Philadelphia. Realizing that his grandfather had a large family to support and educate, and being ambitious to provide for himself, and not be a burden upon his relatives, the boy apprenticed himself, with the consent of his grandfather, to a carver and gilder to learn that handicraft, and for the remuneration of his board and clothes he contracted to serve his master nu til he arrived at the age of twenty-one.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.