{"id":11434,"date":"2015-09-14T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=11434"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:21:23","slug":"elijah-sold-shoes-straight-from-his-saddlebags-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/elijah-sold-shoes-straight-from-his-saddlebags-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Sold Shoes Straight from His Saddlebags"},"content":{"rendered":"

No shoe stores in Boston in the late 1700s? According to Elijah Leathe\u2019s obituary, \u201che was about the first who carried shoes, in saddle bags, to market to Boston, there being then no shoe stores.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Boston Traveler (Boston, Massachusetts), 22 December 1835, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This old 1800s newspaper article added that \u201cHe peddled them out from a bench, north side Faneuil Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Illustration: Faneuil Hall as it appeared in 1776. Source: Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can it be true that there were no shoe stores in the late 1700s in Boston? Anyone know for sure if this is a fact?<\/p>\n

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