Albany, Saturday October 11th,
1823 – Early in the morning [again!] I called on Jesse Bull, Esq., a
friend of Governor Clinton’s, and formerly printer for the state of New York.
He has now retired from a pressing business with an ample fortune, to his
pleasing pursuit of farming and gardening, of which he is very fond and shows
skill in both. His garden is yet in infancy, but laid out with taste and
utility. His farm is large and all divided by hedges of Crataegus oxycantha
from Britain. Hedging is a thing unknown in a general sense.
Mr Bull offered to send me some
things to New York as my time was limited. He was kind and very affable for the
short space of four hours acquaintance.
[In Albany]……I waited on
Governor Clinton, who was to see me at New York after furnishing me with a
letter of introduction to James Thomson Esq., of Elerslie, at whose house I was
already used very politely, unknown to Mr Clinton. [This was on Douglas’s journey UP
the Hudson, on September 5th]
After making acknowledgement for the
very great interest which he had taken for the furtherance of the Society’s
views, I went on board the steamboat and at 10 at night arrived at the house of
General Morgan Lewis.
From Wikipedia we learn that…..Of Welsh descent,
Morgan Lewis (October 16, 1754 – April 7, 1844) was an American lawyer,
politician, and military commander. The second son of Francis Lewis, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence, Lewis fought in the American Revolutionary
War and the War of 1812. He served in the New York State Assembly (1789, 1792)
and the New York State Senate (1811–1814) and was New York State Attorney
General (1791–1801) and governor of New York (1804–1807).
Official Gubernatorial portrait of New York Governor Morgan Lewis (Public Domain)
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