Excerpt from Chronicle of One Hundred Fifty Years: The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, 1768 1918 The founders of the Chamber of Commerce and the found ers of the American Union were one and the same body of men. When they met on April 5, 1768, to establish their commercial society they had been for three years in the fore front of the steadily rising tide of indignant opposition to British rule which was to culminate seven years later in the Revolution. They were engaged, some of them unconsciously, in the momentous task of founding a free and independent republic at the very moment when they came together to form a union of merchants in the interest of the peaceful pur suits oi commerce. 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.