1()4                    THE OLD MERCHA.VTS
 

CHAPTER XIX.

Nathaniel & Harvey  Weed  were large  dry  goods

merchants.    They commenced in------, and flourished

for many years at No. —- Pearl street, near Maiden
lane.

Nathaniel was the oldest. He was very distinguished
as a merchant as early as 1816. In so much, that the
keen eye of Lawrence Salles made him (N. Weed) ex¬
ecutor of his estate above all of his numerous acquain¬
tance.    I knew him in 1820.

The firm existed until------, when  it was  succeeded

by the sons of the d fferent partners. Nathaniel re¬
tired to his native place, Danvers, Connecticut; and his
brother Harvey to Newburgh, New York. Nathaniel
was at one time President of the North River Bank,
with Peter A. .Jay (son of John Jay) and other distin¬
guished individuals. In fact, N. Weed at that time was
one of the noblest commercial representatives of Con¬
necticut ill this city. I believe he is still alive, enjoying
a green old age. Not so with Harvey-, who, it was said,
had several lovely daughters, who from some cause are
not given in marriage.    He was a fast liver.

Naming Peter A. Jay, brings to mind the Jay fiimily.
Peter was the honest lawyer. The family are descended
from a Huguenot family.