were soon changed to New York after James, Duke of 

 York and Albany. The Dutch recaptured New York in 

 1673, but it was returned to the Enghsh by the Treaty 

 of Westminster, February 19, 1674. 



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he long road to success 



Tobacco manufacture got its start in New York in 

 1760 when Pierre Lorillard, a French Huguenot, estab- 

 hshed a tobacco business on the high road to Boston on 

 Chatham Street near Tryon Row. Lorillard owned one 

 of the only two pre-revolutionary snuff mills in the 

 colonies to survive British opposition to colonial manu- 

 facture. Following the Treaty of Paris, Lorillard built 

 his snuff mill on the Bronx River. It was later expanded 

 to include workmen's cottages, a warehouse, facilities 

 for packing smoking tobacco and the family mansion. 

 The original mill was replaced in 1840 by a granite 

 structure still standing in the Bronx Botanical Gardens. 



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end tobacco" 



By the eve of the Revolution, tobacco's growth was 

 flourishing throughout the colonies. Though New York 

 did not participate yet as a tobacco growing area, the 

 port served as a major shipping area of colonial tobacco 

 to European markets. In 1776, when George Washing- 

 ton lost New York to the British, he appealed to his 

 countrymen for economic assistance and said, "If you 

 can't send money, send tobacco." In 1777 Ben Franklin 

 drew two million livres on a French loan against a con- 

 tract to deliver 5,000 hogsheads of tobacco to France. 

 British ships seized about 34 million pounds, but an 

 additional 53 million reached overseas markets. 



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