The Diary of Philip Hone, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from The Diary of Philip Hone, Vol. 1 of 2: 1828-1851 Hilip hone was born on the 25th of October, 1780, in Dutch street, New York. Four years later his father bought a wooden house, on the corner of Dutch and John streets, where Philip passed his boyhood. He received a common-school educa tion, and at seventeen years of age began his mercantile career as clerk to his elder brother John. The business was that of an auc tioneer, which, at that time, consisted chie¿y in selling the cargoes brought to the port of New York by the ¿eet of American merchant men. Philip displayed so much ability and fidelity in his work, that in 1799, when nineteen years of age, his brother took him into partnership. The firm became extremely prosperous, and bore an honoured name throughout the United States. On the rst of October, 1801, in his twenty-second year, Mr. Hone mar ried Catherine Dunscomb, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. 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.