Excerpt from Greenleaf and Law in the Federal City Pennsylvania's two most distinguished citizens, Robert Morris, a native of Great Britain, and Benjamin Franklin, a native of Massachusetts. Robert Morris's birth-place is Liverpool and birth-date Janu ary 31, 1734. At fourteen years of age he entered the mercan tile house of the Willings at Philadelphia. At twenty, he and Thomas Willing formed the new firm, Willing and Morris, or Willing, Morris and Cc., or subsequently so styled. The stock was as diverse as the heterogeneous commodities of a cross roads emporium and as varied as a modern department store. They imported and exported from and to every mart in the world; they bought and sold bills of exchange and engaged in other branches of banking. The business was comprehensive enough to include the barter in human chattels. Morris never concealed that to him public office meant no relinquishment of private pursuit. The operations of the war gave opportunity for enrichment, and Morris never was slow either in business or politics. As financier-general he acquired additional credit and he actually circulated his own notes throughout the conti nent as currency and even had the assurance to have the Assembly of Virginia and perhaps the legislatures of other col onies enact them current in payment of tax? Before the ter mination of the war his firm was favorably known in the considerable trading towns in Europe, and he, himself. Was reputed to be the possessor of prodigious wealth. Of his personal appearance and manner of living, i will now let others say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.