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Excerpt from Experiences of a Century: 1818 1918
Presbyterian in religious faith, which sent such numbers of enterprising and rugged men and women overseas in the eighteenth century to form the backbone of the American commonwealth. His boyhood was spent amid the bleaching greens, which then stretched away for many miles around Belfast. There he saw the ?ax grown, the yarn spun and sold to the weavers, who operated the looms in their own homes, the coarse cloth spread on the grass to whiten, and the finished product carried to Belfast in carts for sale and exportation to other countries. From his early youth the linen market had been his world and it was not unnatural, therefore, that he should become a linen auctioneer. In 1800, how ever, he determined, because he was dissatisfied with the conduct of the English Government in its management of Irish affairs, to seek his fortune in America and to establish his home in Baltimore, where some of his kins men had settled in 1796 and where they had already made valuable friends and connections.
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Presbyterian in religious faith, which sent such numbers of enterprising and rugged men and women overseas in the eighteenth century to form the backbone of the American commonwealth. His boyhood was spent amid the bleaching greens, which then stretched away for many miles around Belfast. There he saw the ?ax grown, the yarn spun and sold to the weavers, who operated the looms in their own homes, the coarse cloth spread on the grass to whiten, and the finished product carried to Belfast in carts for sale and exportation to other countries. From his early youth the linen market had been his world and it was not unnatural, therefore, that he should become a linen auctioneer. In 1800, how ever, he determined, because he was dissatisfied with the conduct of the English Government in its management of Irish affairs, to seek his fortune in America and to establish his home in Baltimore, where some of his kins men had settled in 1796 and where they had already made valuable friends and connections.
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.
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ISBN - 9780266286622
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Page Count - 130
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