Book/Printed Material Richmond in by-gone days; being reminiscences of an old citizen General Collections copy 1

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  • Image 1 of General Collections copy 1 nett gigt ee syker fhe ow arty TV OV Sty pete gay Ba teltyd FERS reine ee a a te ey yachts past Da Ui ethan eae tari yep aeth me Pr…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
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    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
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    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
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    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
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  • Image 7 of General Collections copy 1 4 RICHMOND ae BY ON Se Fe SS 2 BEING REMINISCENCES OF Au Old Citizen H2C OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT RICHMOND VIRGINIA PUBLISHED BY GEORGE M WEST 1856
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 8 of General Collections copy 1 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856 By Gerorece M West In the Clerks Office of the District Court of Virginia Kina BAtRD PRINTERS No 9 Sansom Street Philadelphia
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 9 of General Collections copy 1 CONTENTS CHAPTER I Long Time Ago F bi CHAPTER II British Merchants x ates CHAPTER III Modern Antiquities nega CHAPTER IV Main Street a g 43 CHAPTER V Broad Street F Rape…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 10 of General Collections copy 1 vl CONTENTS CHAPTER IX The Hay Scale War CHAPTER X Two Parsons and Neer a Church CHAPTER XI Cemeteries CHAPTER XII Jitizens of Yore CHAPTER XIII Places of Amusement CHAPTER XIV Places…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 11 of General Collections copy 1 CONTENTS CHAPTER XX Societies CHAPTER XXII Evening Pastimes CHAPTER XXII A Medley CHAPTER XXIII Dentistry and Architecture CHAPTER XXIV The Sharp Shin and Shinplaster Currency CHAPTER XXYV The Flush Times in Richmond…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 12 of General Collections copy 1 Vill CONTENTS CHAPTER XXXI Tobacco Warehouses CHAPTER XXXII The Washington Monument CHAPTER XXXITI The Visit of Lafayette CHAPTER XXXIV The Museum CHAPTER XXXV Lotteries CHAPTER XXXVI Church Conversions CHAPTER XXXVII The Eagle…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 13 of General Collections copy 1 PREFACE THE unpretending character of this little book will probably disarm criticism except from the attacks of such literary prowlers as make their assaults on the weakest that they may be safe…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 14 of General Collections copy 1 x PREFACE The reader may doubt whether a large portion of the contents deserve to be thus rescued and should this be the general opinion its judgment will be carried into execution…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 15 of General Collections copy 1 PREFACE Xi the susceptibilities of any one living person mentioned or of the descendants of one he can conscientiously assert that there is no such intention and express his regret if his…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
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    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 17 of General Collections copy 1 INTRODUCTION It may not be amiss to prefix to these Recollections of the City of Richmond a short notice of its origin The following extract from a manuscript volume of Col Wu…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 18 of General Collections copy 1 14 INTRODUCTION PETER JONES was one of the party em braced in the term We and to him as the proprietor of the land is Petersburg indebted for its namenot to Peter…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 19 of General Collections copy 1 INTRODUCTION 15 purposes locates the Capitol Halls of Jus tice State House for Executive Boards and a house for the Governor on Shockce Hill and a Public Market below the hill on…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 20 of General Collections copy 1 16 INTRODUCTION spending a fortune as his father had been in making one The sale of lots in Richmond was perhaps not as rapid as his expenditures required and from the recital…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 21 of General Collections copy 1 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS CHAPTER I LONG TIME AGO Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to min Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days olangsyne HERE are few residents of…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 22 of General Collections copy 1 18 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS from it down to Shockoe Creek was a green pas ture and considered a common much used by laundresses whereon to dry the clothes which they washed…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 23 of General Collections copy 1 LONG TIME AGO 19 from about the rear of the present Union Hotel a grassy walk shaded by elm and other trees extended for a considerable distance down to where Fosters ropewalk…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 24 of General Collections copy 1 20 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS Widewilt procured a land warrant and located it on this newfound land and to secure it against becoming a floating island he drove stakes all round his…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 25 of General Collections copy 1 LONG TIME AGO 21 sovereign and gave to it the name of his ship It was my fortune or misfortune during the war in 1814 soon after passing the site of this…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 26 of General Collections copy 1 22 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS several times near the same spot Should Sabrina or one of her ascendants venture to raise her head above water she will proba bly be claimed by…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 27 of General Collections copy 1 LONG TIME AGO 23 pure sources After many years interment it was exhumed and like some other subjects whose graves are violated its still firm body was dislocated and the members scattered…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 28 of General Collections copy 1 24 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS had no nests at all were brought to roost here until that official ornithologist the police master should examine into their characters This was a somewhat convenient…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 29 of General Collections copy 1 BRITISH MERCHANTS 25 CHAPTER II BRITISH MERCHANTS HE term British merchants is here used not in its general acceptation but as it was formerly applied in Virginia to those who had establishments…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 30 of General Collections copy 1 26 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS It was said to be one of the stipulations be tween the principals of these houses and the young men they sent to Virginia as clerks that…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 31 of General Collections copy 1 BRITISH MERCHANTS oT and at that time the sale of no tobacco other than good leaf or stemmed was permitted_ such as was not merchantable if presented for inspection was burned Previous…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 32 of General Collections copy 1 28 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS about six months use of the money I have heard that such bills had been drawn on the _ pump at Aldgate and that on one occasion…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 33 of General Collections copy 1 BRITISH MERCHANTS _ 29 ruin and to punish the merchants for Toryism the Legislature passed an act confiscating British debts and authorizing the treasurer to collect them The effect of this was…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 34 of General Collections copy 1 30 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS more stylish and his store more showy and brilliant than those of the old fogies and he attracted the fashionable custom His deeds were celebrated in rhyme…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 35 of General Collections copy 1 BRITISH MERCHANTS Si retire to the old country as they called it with the capital they had accumulated and this continual drain kept the new country poor Many adventurers from the Northern…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
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    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
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  • Image 37 of General Collections copy 1 MODERN ANTIQUITIES 33 CHAPTER III MODERN ANTIQUITIES UR antiquities are so modern compared even with Huropean and they are but mere upstarts in comparison with the Egyptian and Asiatic that the term…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 38 of General Collections copy 1 34 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS triarch from his grave to see his old mansion thus besiegedbut if he were to come he would be astonished by the whistle of the locomotive on…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 39 of General Collections copy 1 MODERN ANTIQUITIES 35 objects in the many beautiful landscapes of which Richmond can boast The Masonic Hall deserves also to be men tioned among the ancient and honorable edifices though comparatively of…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856
  • Image 40 of General Collections copy 1 86 RICHMOND IN BYGONE DAYS names when they lose their characters and this is a case of reformation under new rulers Bowlers Tavern stood where afterwards was the Bell Tavern named after…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Mordecai, Samuel
    • Date: 1856

About this Item

Title

  • Richmond in by-gone days; being reminiscences of an old citizen

Names

  • Mordecai, Samuel, 1786-1865
  • Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Richmond, Va., George M. West, 1856.

Headings

  • -  Richmond (Va.)--Description and travel
  • -  Richmond (Va.)--History
  • -  Richmond (Va.)--Social life and customs

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form.
  • -  LAC ael 2020-09-17 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 1 p.l., [v]-xi, [13]-321 p. 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F234.R5 M8
  • F234.R5 M8 Copy 4. Has inscription: To the Smithsonian Institution for copyright, Sam. Mordecai.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • rc01002923

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Mordecai, Samuel, and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. Richmond in By-Gone Days; Being Reminiscences of an Old Citizen. Richmond, Va., George M. West, 1856. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01002923/.

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Mordecai, S. & Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. (1856) Richmond in By-Gone Days; Being Reminiscences of an Old Citizen. Richmond, Va., George M. West. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01002923/.

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Mordecai, Samuel, and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. Richmond in By-Gone Days; Being Reminiscences of an Old Citizen. Richmond, Va., George M. West, 1856. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rc01002923/>.