Note 61 — A GIRL’S LIFE EIGHTY YEARS AGO (continued 3)
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The yellow fever having broken out in New York, the city was deserted by all who could leave it. Even the business was transacted in the neighboring village of Greenwich, which is now incorporated in the city itself and its boundaries lost in the surrounding streets. The following advertisements have been copied from the “Evening Post,” Thursday, Aug. 25, 1803, as being of interest, as the advertisers were not only well-known New Yorkers, but personal friends of Mrs. Bowne:—
Woolsey & Rogers’ Counting House is removed to No. 28 Courtlandt Street.
Removal. William Codman has removed his Counting House to the N. E. corner room in the 2nd Story of the City Hotel, Broadway.
John G. Bogart, Attorney at law & Notary Public, has Removed his office to the House of Judge Livingston, No. 37 Broadway, near the Custom House.
John Murray & Sons have removed their Counting House to Mr. Murray’s country seat on the Harlem Road, 3 1–2 miles from town.
[This was at Murray Hill, about the corner of 37th Street and Fifth Avenue.]
The Editor being obliged to be absent from town a few days, the discussions respecting yellow fever will, of course, be suspended for a little time.