He then became a merchant, engaged in shipping and commerce with the East and West Indies and South America.

In what it called the largest sweep of merchants engaged in phony going-out-of-business promotions, the Department of Consumer Affairs issued summonses to 13 Manhattan store owners.

Unlike many of the other girls Thetis had spent her earnings wisely, investing with three merchants engaged in the spice trade and one from Thespiae who bred and trained war horses.

It suggested a moral equivalence between the African rulers and British merchants engaged in the Atlantic slave trade.

Until the advent of the railroad in 1848, Darien remained a small, rural community of about 1,000 farmers, shoemakers, fishermen, and merchants engaged in coastal trading.

The merchant, engaged in a voluble exchange with an aristocratic customer, who leaned from a slave-borne palanquin to haggle over a fine pelt from some large, catlike beast, saw nothing.

Yesterday, in what it called the largest sweep of merchants engaged in bogus going out of business promotions, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs issued summonses to 13 Manhattan store owners.

This type of policy created widespread clearing and reflected the importance of agriculture, not only to the affluent, but also to citizens, to the military and to merchants engaged in trade with other regions.

In 1775, he immigrated to New York City, where he established himself as a financial broker for merchants engaged in overseas trade.

Other businesses operating in the marketplace included retail outlets for agricultural machinery, flour and feed traders, grocery provisioners, hardware suppliers and merchants engaged in similar import/export enterprises.