Charleston's first public market was established in 1692 at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets, although a formal brick building wasn't built at the site until 1739 . This first " Beef Market " was replaced by a more appealing structure in 1760, and within a short period, new markets for fish and general merchandise were established along Vendue ( Queen ) and Tradd streets.
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The wind picked up from the southeast and sent flames to the pink four-story Beaumont House, home to several off-shore banks, shops and lawyers'offices; the Colony House, which had an upstairs restaurant with a balcony overlooking the street; and the Pompey Museum in the Vendue House on Bay Street, which was an auction house for slaves until the Emancipation Act in 1834.
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He was the author, alone or in collaboration, especially with Paul Ferrier, of many com�dies en vaudeville and operetta librettos, the best known being " Jos�phine vendue par ses sSurs " ( 1886 ), music by Victor Roger, " L'Enl�vement de la Toledad " ( 1894 ) and " Monsieur Lohengrin " ( 1896 ), music by Edmond Audran.
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In the meantime Swinburne was sent to Paris in September 1796 as commissioner, to negotiate an exchange of prisoners with France, but, in the face of difficulties arising from the capture by the French of Sir Sidney Smith, was unsuccessful, and in December 1797 was recalled to England, In December 1801 he went out to the lucrative post of vendue-master in the newly ceded settlement of Trinidad, and also as commissioner to deliver up the Danish West Indian islands to a Danish official.
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Buying and selling of slaves also took place in Dock Square ( and elsewhere in town ), for instance by " Capt . Thomas Smith, Dock Square, slave boy at 14 " in 1717; and in the Sun Tavern in 1727 : " On Thursday . . . will be sold by publick vendue at the Sun Tavern on Dock Square at five a clock p . m . Four likely negros, and sundry sort of merchandize, all to be seen at the place of sale from two of the clock till the sale begins ."
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Dans le domaine de la transmission du patrimoine, les femmes peuvent �galement �tre d�favoris�es mais sans qu'il s'agisse l?d'une r�gle g�n�rale au travers du syst�me de l "'entail " : ce terme juridique ancien d�signe en effet une propri�t?re�ue en h�ritage, consistant en biens immobiliers, et qui ne peut �tre ni vendue, ni transmise par h�ritage ni ali�n�e par son propri�taire de quelque fa�on que ce soit, mais qui sera ?la mort du propri�taire juridiquement transmise ?certains h�ritiers r�pondant ?certains crit�res.
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Pennsylvania Chronicle, Sep 26 Oct 3, 1772 : 152, advertisement : On Thursday, the 15th of October next, will be sold by Public Vendue, on the premises { pursuant to a decree of the County Court of Frederick, in the colony of Virginia, for satisfying a debt due from Jacob Hite to Richard and Peter Footman, Francis Richardson, Clement Biddle, and Daniel Wisser } A valuable tract of land, containing 3118 Acres { more or less } with the dwelling-house, stores, and buildings thereon erected, situate in Berkeley County, { formerly part of Frederick County } within of Winchester, on the great road leading thence from Shweringan's Ferry.
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A 19th-century antiquarian wrote of the great tree as it stood during the American Revolution and in doing so named the families of the local landowners : Around the roots of the old tree were the huts and stables of the cavalry : with a number of settler's huts ranged in woods . . . Great festivities too were constant in the spacious rooms of the old Moore house, during the winter months when the snow was deeper and the frost more cold than now-a-days . To the streaming lights from the ball room, and the lanterns hung on the trees, were wont to assemble the gay sleighing parties from the Sacket [ i . e . Sackett ], Morrell, Alsop, Leverich and other houses; for the soldiers were all over and had come to Newtown to recruit [ i . e . refresh and restore ] themselves after the yearly campaigns . . . Is there any relic more associated with Newtown [ i . e . the town in which the village of Woodside would come to be located ] than its old chestnut tree ? . . . [ Has it ] not been for two centuries the " Legal Notice " centre of Newtown, for all vendues, real estate transfers, town meetings, lost " creeturs " and runaway slaves?
