He was the proprietor of the Knickerbocker Barber-Shop at Broadway and Wall Street, and the town gossip.

Years later he was to enjoy the patronage of the Third Napoleon in Paris as a reward for favours extended to the Prince when the latter was an exile here.

There is little record of elaborate pre-nuptial bachelor dinners in the style of modern New York.

What would have been the use?
The gardens of the city's fashionable homes boasted no extensive circular fountains or artificial fishponds into which the best-man or the father of the bride-to-be could be flung as an artistic diversion.

As has been said, it was something of a slow old world, lacking in many of the modern comforts.
The robe of the bride was of white satin, tinged with yellow, the bodice cut low in the neck and shoulders, and ornamented with lace.