Identifier: historynewyorksw00norc (find matches)
Title: A history of the New York Swamp
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Norcross, Frank W
Subjects: Leather industry and trade -- New York (State) New York Tanning New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Chiswick Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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did business at No. 345Pearl street. Isaac Hicks was the founder. Hecommenced in 1796. Jacob Barker was broughtup in his office. Samuel and Valentine Hicks werehis brothers and partners. The firm became Hicks,Jenkins & Co. later. Another house was founded by WhiteheadHicks. This was in 1870. His sons, Gilbert andRobert T., succeeded. The firm became G. & R. HISTORY OF THE SWAMP.
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SWAMP STREETS 31 T. Hicks. They owned vessels and traded withSouth America. Through deaHngs with tanners inthe Swamp R. T. became acquainted with ThomasEverit, a hide and leather dealer in Ferry street.In 1822 he married Thomas Everits daughter,and in 1848 retired from business rich, and livedat Poughkeepsie. Comfort and Joshua Sands were merchants be-fore the Revolution. They did business in PeckSlip. The first ferry from Brooklyn ran from theslip. In 1800 they bought a property, 160 acres,there, and built ropewalks, wharves and buildingsjust across the East river. Sands street runsthrough it. Comfort Sands, before the war, wasone of a party that took ten bales of stamp paperfrom a British brig at Peck Slip and burned them.During the war he fled to Philadelphia, and theBritish burned his books and papers. He was amember of the first Continental Congress, but onlyserved the first term, so he did not have the privi-lege of signing the Declaration. In 1776 he con-tracted to furnish the

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