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Excerpt from New York as an Eighteenth Century Municipality, Vol. 75: Prior to 1731
This limited area was occupied by less than 120 houses and perhaps a thousand people when rights of municipal government were first granted to the community.3 Ten years earlier, when Father Jogues, the Jesuit missionary, was here on his way back to France, he wrote that there were men of different sects and nations,8 and that the dirce tor general told him there were men of eighteen different languages in the town. 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.
