The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

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When Comfort Sands married he hired the house
No. 307 Pearl street, near Peck slip, for $32 a year.
That was the way our great merchants commenced
living in the earlier times of the city.
Churchill, Sands & Co. kept for many years a China
and crockery store, in Wall street, No. 78. Ferdinand
Sands was of this house. Joseph Churchill was the
partner.
Robert Sands had a son named Joshua C. Sands.
He was of the firm of Sands & Crump. He died May
26, 1809. J. C. went into business at 55 South street,
as early as 1804. He afterwards went into partnership
with Mr. Crump.
His father, Robert Sands, was in the ship chandlery
business; and kept a hardware store, under the firm of
Sands & Dickinson, at 60 Barclay, corner of Washington
street, as early as 1801. The partner was not Dickinson.
Young Joshua C. when he died was only twenty-eight
years of age. He died suddenly, after a short illness,
up at Rhinebeck. He was one of the most amiable
young men in the city. He was a model of the youth
of forty years ago, spotless integrity and pure intentions.
The notice of the death says: " Few like him have
avoided the indiscretions of youth, and the more improprieties of manhood. Yet, exemplary as he was, he
found a better prospect to future happiness than his own
virtues. He was enabled to realize an interest in the
merits and death of an all suffering Redeemer, and
departed in peace, with a sure and certain hope of eternal
life."
There was in 1830, a Joseph Sands, who was of the
firm of Sands, Spooner & Co., a heavy English importing house, at 69 Pine street. He lived in Brooklyn,