308                    THE OLD MERCHAA'TS
 

CHAPTER XXXI.

I have had occasion in former chapters to mention at
some length two large commercial firms that once ex¬
isted in this city of the name of Rogers. One was
the firm of David Rogers & Son, large sugar merchants
forty years ago. The other was Rogers & Co., a heavy
shipping house, largely Interested in forwarding tobacco
under French government contracts for several years.
Both of these houses have been long since extinct.
The business of the latter Is stUl continued by the
founder, John T. Farish, who was a nephew of the
founder Lewis Rogers, of Richmond, Va.

The Rogers' commercial house that I shall write
about in this chapter, existed soon after the Revolution¬
ary war. In 1784, Rogers & Lyde did business at 209
Queen street. The founder of that house was Henry
Rogers, who resided at 28 Beekman street. His partner
was Edward Lyde. That house did an immense iron
business, and were called Iron importers. It kept in the
same store (229) Pearl, as late as 1821 — thirty-seven
years. I will give a history of it and of its eminent
partners, before I finish this sketch.

Another brother of Henry was named Moses Rogers.
He certainly was In business Immediately after the Rev-
jlution, if not before it.    He married, about 1773, a Miss