Download or read book Preservation of the Hermitage, 1889-1915 written by Mary C. Dorris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Preservation of the Hermitage, 1889-1915: Annals, History, and Stories While serving as senator at Philadelphia, then the seat of government, he sold some of his wild acres of Tennessee land to one David Allison. Notes instead of currency were paid for the land; and Andrew Jackson bought a stock of merchandise suitable for the needs of the frontier and gave the notes in payment. David Allison failed in the panic of 1793, and the merchant of whom Andrew Jackson bought the goods came back to him for the money. When Jackson was notified that he was to meet an indebtedness of nearly seven thousand dollars it staggered him, for there was nothing so scarce at that time in Tennessee as currency, barter taking its place. Andrew Jackson owned at that time more than fifty thousand acres of wild Tennessee land and a comfortable home, much better than any of his neighbors, at Hunter's Hill. 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.