BIOGRAPHY: Jose Rois Silva; New York co., NY
surname: Silva

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Author: Walter Barrett

Jose Rois Silva
Page 100
Old Merchants, 
Walter Barrett, 
Thomas R. Knox, 1885

Another eminent merchant was Jose Rois Silva. In the war his store was at No. 
1 Beekman Street. He afterwards removed it to No. 79 Front Street and resided 
at No. 9 Beaver Street. He was doing a large and successful foreign trade as 
late as August 1798 when the yellow fever seized him and he died at 28 William 
Street.

His book-keeper was Thomas T. Gaston, a regular accountant of those days, and 
who lived at No. 4 New Street. R. Gaston kept books for perhaps twenty other 
large houses.