Merchants at the port of Wilmington had trading ties with the British.

Merchants who had previously regarded the buccaneers as a defense against Spain now saw them as a threat to commerce, and colonial authorities grew hostile.

Merchants who had made a fortune ordered new houses built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around various cities and towns ( for defense and transport purposes ), houses with ornamented facades that benefited their new status.

In March 1965, he had three novels on the British paperback bestseller list – Where Love Has Gone at No. 1, The Carpetbaggers at No. 3 and The Dream Merchants in the sixth spot.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

By 1850 the surrounding area had become a centre for mercantile activity, with the Merchants House moving to the square in 1877, and the square itself, which had been developed into a private garden for the surrounding townhouses, became an established public space, after frequent disturbances and pulling down of railings by a disgruntled mob.

Merchants could not compete with the commissary's prices or quality ; for example, it boasted that the meat it sold had been refrigerated every moment from the Chicago slaughterhouse to the moment it was passed to the consumer.

Merchants wrote them in their books of credit ; fishermen used it in religious rituals by marking them in the door of Catholic chapels near hills or beaches ; in the table of their town ’ s first church during marriage ; and also had magical significance, such as the São Selimão sigla, that could be used as a protecting symbol and not as family mark.

Merchants also had a guild, but many merchants did not belong to it, and it would be run by a small group of the most powerful merchants.

After regaining his health in California, he joined the Merchants Shipbuilding Corporation that November, a firm in which his brother Averell had an interest.

Merchants and boyars of Novgorod had exploited the fur resources “ beyond the portage ”, a watershed at the White Lake that represents the door to the entire northwestern part of Eurasia, from as early as the tenth century.

John Dryden wrote a play, entitled " Amboyna or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants ," apparently at the behest of his patron, who had been one of the chief negotiators of the Secret treaty of Dover that caused England's entry into that war.

This exodus was led by the On Leong Merchants Association who, in 1912, had a building constructed along Cermak Avenue ( then 22nd Street ) that could house 15 stores, 30 apartments and the Association's headquarters.

Merchants who had been acting as the middlemen in legally importing tea stood to lose their business, as did those whose illegal Dutch trade would be undercut by the Company's lowered prices.

A Guild of Merchants was founded in Bristol by the 13th century, and swiftly became active in civic life ; by the 15th century it had become synonymous with the town's government.

In early 2008, a new Locksmith was opened in place of Unwins Wine Merchants, which had previously gone out of business.

Although World War I had been over for sixteen years, there were revived reports that America's leading munition companies had effectively influenced the United States into that conflict, which killed 53, 000 Americans, hence the companies ' nickname " Merchants of Death.

Merchants had a special status in the system as did Jews.

Merchants often bought wool and flax from farmers and employed newly arrived immigrants, who had been textile workers in Ireland and Germany, to work in their homes spinning the materials into yarn and cloth.

Merchants in Chinatown had suffered a dramatic decline in business in the months immediately following the earthquake and feared that if the freeway was not reopened they would not recover.

It is on record that the game of Football was introduced into the Gold Coast towards the close of the 19th century by Merchants from Europe, who had then invaded the coastal areas and built forts and castles to enhance their trading activities either in merchandise or human cargo.

The true power had shifted to the side of the Merchants.

Following commercial rivalries between the original English East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the “ United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies ”.

The company's operations merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves ; Rupert was the third named member of the company's executive committee.

A four-star hotel recently opened next to Rugby Park, the home of Kilmarnock F. C., and new restaurants, such as Merchants and the award winning Jefferson Restaurant have opened in the town centre.

Merchants brought goods and their faith to China ( resulting in a present-day population of some 37 million Chinese Muslims, mainly ethnic Turkic Uyghurs, whose territory was annexed to China ), India, southeast Asia, and the kingdoms of western Africa and returned with new discoveries and inventions.

Jim Moy, then-director of the On Leong Merchants Association, then decided that a Chinese-style building should be constructed as a strong visual announcement of the Chinese community's new presence in the area.

With no Chinese-born architects in Chicago at the time, Chicago-born Norse architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad were asked to design the new On Leong Merchants Association Building in spring, 1926.

The new office did have some tough first years, as the Union of Merchants boycotted the new paper until 1937.

* Dan Skoda and his colleagues are bringing new sparkle to Marshall Field's # 148, September 1995, Illinois Retail Merchants Association, April 23, 2003

It collapsed in 1667 during the war with the Netherlands – the very war it started by having company Admiral Robert Holmes attack the Dutch African trade posts in 1664 – and re-emerged in 1672, having been merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves.

The Board of Brokers moved into the Merchants Exchange Building at 3rd and Dock Streets in 1834 following a fire at the coffee house.

Another is located in a house once owned by the On Leong Chinese Merchants Association, which was among the first Chinese organizations to move into the neighborhood ; today the structure is on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1853 he removed to Chicago, served for three years as bookkeeper, and in 1858 entered tile banking house of the Merchants Loan and Trust Company, of which he was cashier in 1861-1868.

Starting this trend, the On Leong Chinese Merchants Association appealed to deed-holder and former Illinois State's Attorney Jacob J. Kern to hire architect H. J. Swanson to design a building large enough to house 15 stores, 30 apartments and office space on the 200 block of West 22nd Street ( now Cermak Road ).

In the early 18th century Bishop Sceberras built the Palazzo Parisio, Valletta on the site of two former houses in Merchants ' Street, then known as Strada San Giacomo.

A fire station was built in 1958 on Merchants Alley, behind the 12 N. Main Town Hall.

Merchants Coal, and the related Orenda Coal, were subsidiaries of Hillman Coal and Coke Company of Pittsburgh, the same firm that built the neighboring town of Jerome, Pennsylvania.

Standard Life Assurance built their flagship Dublin branch in a striking classical style close to the GPO, while the Findlater family opened a branch of their successful chain close to Parnell Street, as did Gilbeys Wine Merchants.

The Dorchester was a 5, 649 ton civilian cruise ship, 368 feet long with a 52-foot beam and a single funnel, originally built in 1926 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the Merchants and Miners Line, operating ships from Baltimore to Florida, carrying both freight and passengers.

An employee of the Merchants ' Bank of Halifax, he built that bank's Quebec business to where Montreal became its centre of operations.

On the west side of the plaza, the Portales de Mercaderes ( Merchants ’ Portals ) were built, south of Cortés ’ other palace, the Palace of the Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca.

In 1949, the Roanoke Merchants Association decided to kick off that year's Christmas shopping season by having a neon star built on top of Mill Mountain.

Designed by architects Christian S. Michaelsen and Sigurd A. Rognstad, the building was built for the On Leong Merchants Association and opened in 1928.

Merchants built their warehouses right next to each other along Boat Quay, which was the main port area.