Excerpt from Letter Book of John Watts: Merchant and Councillor of New York, January 1, 1762 December 22, 1765 The Honorable John Watts, author of these letters, was a prominent man in New York's social, mercantile, and political life, during the three decades preceding the outbreak of the American Revolution. His letters are valuable because of three factors: his alliance by blood, marriage, or friendship with the most important men in the Middle Colonies; his numerous business connections in the West Indies and England, ...
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Excerpt from Letter Book of John Watts: Merchant and Councillor of New York, January 1, 1762 December 22, 1765 The Honorable John Watts, author of these letters, was a prominent man in New York's social, mercantile, and political life, during the three decades preceding the outbreak of the American Revolution. His letters are valuable because of three factors: his alliance by blood, marriage, or friendship with the most important men in the Middle Colonies; his numerous business connections in the West Indies and England, and with the contractors for supplying money and provisions to the British forces in America; and his membership in the Governor's Coun cil. They are for the most part business communications, but written with a facile and lively pen, and generously filled with information concerning the political and eco nomic situation in New York, shrewd observations on Great Britain's party politics and relations to the colonies, news of military and naval events in North America, and piquant gossip about his contemporaries in the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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