After the peace, I settled in the city of New York, in the practice of the law, and was in a very lucrative course of practice, when the derangement of our public affairs, by the feebleness of the general confederation, drew me again reluctantly into... Memoir of His Own Life - Page 266by Roger Lamb - 1811 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
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