Occupation: Merchant Birth: August 16, 1739 Death: September 8, 1799
A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection..
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a….
When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disea….