The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-28
BOUGHT AND SOLD
Trading Ancestry Of Which So
ciety Leaders Should Be Proud
Bogus Claims OF Royal Blood-The Tai
low, Hide and Ironware Advertise
ments Of the First Families OF New
York Maze Queer Reading.
lcoPYRrGHr, 1851

feOgc wheeler, mas Deen InOulglng IN
satirical remarks about the leaders of
New York's 400, asserting that the al
legged aristocracy of the Knickerboc
families and ancestry of the other
colonial Manhattarese are all a sham,
for the reason that the grandfathers
and more remote forbears of our prom
inent society people" actually sold
soap, tomatoes, rawhides, tallow and
such like articles This has been
known for years to most New Workers,
whether within or without the sacred
pale of the 400. Yet another fact can
not be denied-that there are a number
OF New York shoddycrats, who not
only claim mobile" lineages, but claim
royal descents from William the Con-
monarchical reprobates.
The best authorities on the history OF
New York have never denied the soft
impeachment of the tallow; as, for in
stance, John Austin Stevens, the
founder of the Sons of the Revolution,
who does not hesitate to assert that
with the exception of that of Morris.
u
York was engaged in commerce or in.
dustry of some kind" And he made
this statement with the full knowledge
of the fact that almost an entire shelf
in the family history alcove of the AS
tor library is devoted to volumes print
ed within the last ten years or SO OF
american Regal Descents."
T. i tar 70 int <.r,{
what manner of. people our Knicker-
booker and colonial families really de-
scend. The best existing proofs of this
will be found in the advertising col
urns of the eighteenth century news
papers published in New York city.
The LivingstOns were engaged in
commerce, and were owners of vessels
privateers. About the time of the Co
lonial-French war Philip Livingston
was engaged, with his nephew, Robert
Cambridge Livingston, whose mother
was Schuyler, in the distillery bust
ness, as well as general importing, their
store being on Burnet's quay, near the
Wall street ferry. Their relative, Rob-
goods trade principally, and in 17se
moved to Cruger's block, at the corner
of King and Queen streets. An adver-
tisement, published on that occasion,
tells us that
Robert C. Livingston, Jun.
sas ,.,ovedA a., Store from No 2, C,oss'"
ooet, ahS. 7.c0'"s'of N"s 0"a Sa''"-
na..1e hos Sr JSls, on ne "a.e reeencsk
ferns e" nH,
a VARIETY or etec Ant
China and Japan Ware,
AlIo,fr,ent Of non@onsery and cuda!y'
{nell aiR ffamel LOOKING gloaes cooper tea
end Fin keiiss Of all tizes nails no" 90;
o a4d per,hecak; fhrped outfits and troffed
RIGGS per the bale or P'ere teas ; suni
tusaS, indigo, s.n in eoes, mould condiespe-
thsbos j!huff; long ond nhort hs''bsooms,sc
AjIs; a 1eS ekSoo' ssS'aeer'd A0:Ft0''
/ottfns
New-York, 6et 3D.
The Bayards were sugar refiners, and
they introduced the mystery" thereof
into New York Some of the Living
stons were also in sugar, as were the
Van Cortlands, the Roosevelts and the
Cuylers. The Cuyler sugar house after
ward got into the hands of the Rhine
landers, who had previously kept
crockery shop on Burling slip. One of
their advertisements reads: ITO be sold
cheap at Rhinelander's store, the cor
ner of Burling slip and Water street,
China, Earthen Ware, Ironmongery and
Cutlery"
The Van Cortlandt and Roosevelt as
ISOLATION with sugar is shown by the
two following lads" both published
not long after the British evacuation,
in 1888:
John Van Cortlandt. IN Broadway. No II.
adjoining Trinity church. has for sale the best
refined sugar manufactured in his sugar house