Hudson (No. 13 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

The town of Hudson, seen here from across the river, sits on the east bank. John Agg's text records "five or six thousand inhabitants, amongst whom we discover much wealth and refinement...[with] facilities for acquiring wealth which many of our cities may envy: that there is a strong disposition to improve the good which Providence has bestowed." Active commerce was carried out with Albany, forty-five miles to the north, and New York, a hundred and twenty-five miles to the south.