...1787, on my return from a residence of a few years in P'rance, I arrived in New York, and found it a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a...the latter end of the war. The ruined walls of the burned houses standing on both sides of the way, testifying to the poverty of the place, five years...

...June, 1787, on my return from a residence of a few years in France, I arrived in New York, and found it a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a...by the enemy during the latter end of the war. The rumed walls of the burned houses standing on both sides of the way, testifying to the poverty of the...

...1787. on my return from a residence of a few years in France. I arrived at that eity, and found it a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a state of prostration and decay. Л dozen vessels in port. Broadway, from Trinity Churcri inclusive down to the Battery, in ruins, owing...

...France. I arrived at that city, and found it a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a stale of prostration and decay. A dozen vessels in port. Broadway, from Trinity Choren inclusive down to tho Buttery. in ruins, owing to a fire that had occurred when the city was...

...1787, on my return from a residence of a few years in France, I arrived at that city, and found it a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a...city was occupied by the enemy, during the latter part of the war. The ruined walls of the houses standing on both sides of the way, testifying to the...

...my return from a residence of a few years in France, I arrived at that city [New York] and found it a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a...when the city was occupied by the enemy during the later part of the war—the ruined walls of the houses standing on both sides of the way testifying...

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...during the Revolution; the merchant Saumel Brcck. on his return from France in the late 1780s, found it "a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a state of prostration and decay."4 Ten years later, the national government had relocated to the pestiferous Potomae, safe from...

...91,659 residents.28 Growth did not automatically produce grandeur. In the mid- 1780s, New York was still "a neglected place, built chiefly of wood, and in a state of prostration and decay." Noah Webster described parts of lower Manhattan around the Stock Exchange on Broad Street as "recovering...