The Commercial Tercentenary Of New York PDF Download

Excerpt from The Commercial Tercentenary of New York, 1614-1914: Containing a Brief History of the Beginning of the Regularly Chartered Commerce of New Netherland and the Permanent Settlement of What Is Now the State of New York This Commission is the outgrowth of a citizens' committee appointed by the late Mayor William J. Gaynor of the City of New York in December, 1912, upon the request of a number of prominent merchants, business houses, boards of trade and com mercial exchanges of New York City, and was incorporated by special act of the Legislature for the purpose of celebrating in 1914 the three hundredth anniversary of the granting of the first charters by the States General of the United Netherlands for trading to New Netherland. The history of the events commemorated are set forth in a monograph by the Secretary of the Commission appended to this Report. 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.