https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:34:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1062 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1062#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:13:24 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1062 In 1802, Uriah Phillips Levy ran away to sea at the age of ten. He returned two years later, as he had promised his mother, to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Then he was apprenticed to a Philadelphia ship owner. To Levy, it was life and death. A]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1062/feed 0