BALTIMORE, shipbuilding, 79, 82; growth of, 79,
81, 229, 586; mills, 112, 146, 147, 595; printing,
176, 187; brickmaking, 229; breweries, 263;
cloth making, 336, 396, 398; ladies of, 395; tan-
neries, 448; iron works, 585, 586, 587, 590, 593,
594; coal, 595; gas light first, 595; exports of,
337, 397; tradesmen, petitions of, 81, 398, 594.
Bark mills, 440, 445, 453, 454.
Barley and Malt, 123, 143, 245, 246, 249, 256, 257,
258, 259, 261, 262.
Beer, Ale and Porter, use of, in early times, 244,
259; first excised in England, 247; in America,
251, 252; prices of at different times, 99, 249,
257, 239, 260, 261, 262; exported, 250, 258, 260,
261, 262; importations of, 261; quality of, 250,
261. (See BREWING.)
Beeswax exported, 337; premium for, 406.
Bennington, Vt., 205, 206, 511, 523, 524.
Berkshire, 102, 128, 420; iron ore and works, 493-
Beverly cotton factory, 399.
Bible, first printed in America, 157, 158; first in
English, 159, 181, 183.
Bleaching, 204, 205, 397, 405, 406, 407, 408; pre-
miums for, 369, 416.
Boat building, 37, 44, 75, 77, 107.
Boats, Durham, and Arks, 84, 107, 559.
Bolting act, New York, 60, 133, 441; mills, 142.
Books, first printed in British America, 31, 154;
first medical, 162; trade fairs established, 189-
blank first, 192, 197;-binding and binders, 157,
158, 190, 191, 192, 193; price of, 190;-sellers,
early, 189, 190; premiums for, 406.
Boots prohibited, 435; limited use of, 454.
Boring mills for guns, 486, 492, 566, 573.
BOSTON, shipbuilding, 39, 40, 41, 42, 47, 48; mills
at, 96, 117, 118, 123, 128; printing, 162-167, 177,
183, 184, 185, 187; booksellers and bookbinders,
157, 190, 191, 192, 197; paper making, 197, 200,
209, 210, 237; stops importing, 202, 237, 372,
373, 374, 375, 379; type foundry, 212; first brick
house in, 219; described, 220, 221; glassworks,
241; vineyard, 269; salt works, 290; rope-
making, 303, 419; solid men of, 314; spinning
schools and linen manufactures, 333, 334, 335,
345, 362, 372, 375, 376, 419; hatmaking, 342;
port bill passed, 379; card factories, 388, 420,
497; mint house, 477; mechanics, 500; fire en-
gines, 500.
Bounties and Premiums parliamentary, on naval
stores and raw materials, 99, 105, 328, 337, 358,
365, 372, 624; on indigo and silk, 323, 358; on
exports, 337, 344;-domestic, on manufactures
and raw materials in Massachusetts, 299, 334,
335, 362; in Rhode Island, 334, 335, 398; in
Connecticut, 200, 335, 418; in New York, 367,
368, 369, 455, 532; in Pennsylvania, 206, 316,
336, 363, 381, 402, 406, 407, 409, 578, 579, 619; in
Delaware, 346; in Maryland, 592; in Virgina,
320, 321, 382, 383, 606; in North Carolina, 615,
616; in South Carolina, 382, 416, 417, 619; in
Georgia, 357; of Society of Arts in London (see
SOCIETY OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES); and
drawback effects of, 327.
Bowdoin, Governor, 242, 367, 414, 498, 499.
Bradford, William, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 196, 197.
Braintree, 221, 239, 472, 474, 475, 476.
Brandy, first made in America, 250; household
manufacture of, 258, 262, 264, 265, 274, 276.
Brass and Bronze, antiquity of, 465; American,
Brass and Bell Founding in Massachusetts, 476,
485, 487, 492, 496, 497; in Rhode Island, 502,
503; in Connecticut, 510, 518; in Pennsylvania,
568, 573, 574; in Maryland, 594.
Brazil, first cotton from, 354.
Brewing and Malting, 244-265; in Massachusetts,
245-250; use of Maize in, 217, 258, 263; in
Rhode Island and Connecticut, 250; in New
York, 250-254, 257; taxed, 251; in Albany,
254; monopoly of, 255; prohibited, 256; regu-
lated, 249, 257; in New Jersey, 257, 258; in
Pennsylvania and Delaware, 258-262; in Mary-
land and Virginia, 27, 262-264; in Carolina
and Georgia, 264; as a household art, 244, 258,
263, 264; of pale ale and porter first, 265. (See
BEER, &c.)
Bricks and Tiles, 216-231; first in New England,
217, 221; in Virginia, 28, 220; in New York,
222; in New Jersey, 226; in Pennsylvania,
228; Maryland, 229; Carolina and Georgia,
229; prices of, 222, 223, 224, 226; exports of,
231; duty on, 222, 224, 231; improvements in
making, 231.
Bridges, iron, proposed, 519, 581.
Bridgewater, 346, 398, 485, 486, 487, 488, 496.
British Trade acts and policy, origin of, 87, 202,
306, 324, 325, 327.
Board of Trade and Plantations created, 305, 326;
reports and suggestions to, respecting colonies,
57, 61, 63, 68, 69, 90, 97, 162, 199, 200, 236, 322,
326, 328, 329, 330, 337, 339, 340, 341, 342, 346,
362, 370, 371, 489, 491, 522, 526, 527, 530.
Broadcloth, 331, 344, 366, 371, 372, 375, 377, 383,
418; first fine in Europe and America, 306, 421.
Brown & Almy, 399, 401, 402, 403, 404.
Buckles, shoe and knee, 406, 447, 463, 492, 519,
551, 574.
Buck and doeskins, 317, 346, 368, 429, 432, 444,
447, 448, 449, 458, 459; prices of, 429, 444, 446,
458, 459; premiums for, 346, 368, 447; exports
of, 447, 449; prohibited, 444, 445.
Bulls, novel use of, 136, 141; of papal, 198.
Burlington, N. J., 69, 70, 109, 121, 172, 178, 226,
258, 548, 549, 550.
Bushnell's Marine Turtle, 53.
Buttons, 330, 382, 418, 492, 539, 574, 575; silk,
413; gold and silver, 372, 519; wooden, 575;
importations of, 406.
Byfield woolen and cotton factory, 404, 421.
Cables, 83; iron, 485, 528.
Calico and linen printing, known to the Egyp-
tians, 307; in England, 81, 397; in America,
377, 404, 406, 407; blocks, plates, &c., not to be
exported, 396; cylinders invented, 397.
CALIFORNIA, first printing in, 180; paper mill,
205; vine culture, 270.
Camblets, 314, 317, 344.
Cambridge, 39, 40; first printing at, 153, 154, 157,
160, 161, 221, 383.
Canada, first saw-mill in, 101; printers sent to,
186; iron Works, 536.
Canals, 124; first proposed, 534, 535, 562; first
surveyed, 562; in Maryland, 490; in Virginia,
605; in Carolina, 621.
Cannon, brass, first in England, 467; first in Ame-
rica, 487, 497, 572, 573, 574; iron and shot in
England, 467; first in America, 482, 484; in
Massachusetts, 482, 484, 483, 486, 487, 490, 495;
in Rhode Island, 502, 503; in Connecticut, 511,
512; in New York, 528, 531; in New Jersey,
542, 549; in Pennsylvania, 553, 567, 568, 572,
573; in Maryland, 587, 588, 590; first bored, 486;
inscription on, 487; wrought iron and wooden,
560; prices of, 589.
Carding machines, 384, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403,
407, 408, 409, 413, 417, 421, 579.
Cards, cotton and wool, 333, 388, 405, 414, 420, 434,
494, 497, 518, 571, 606, 615, 616; first stock in
United States, 398; machinery for making, 388,
420, 497, 518, 571.
Carey, Matthew, 179, 189, 409.
Carpets, Flemish, 15; none in 16th century, 16;
in America, 209, 414.
Carriages, taxed for the support of spinning
schools, 333, 335; not to be imported, 372; ma-
nufacture of, 445, 518, 538;-springs first, 538,
580, 609; boxes, 569, 598; steam, 595.
Carving, ship, 40, 70, 74, 75.
Cattle, domestic, introduction and propagation of,
427, 429, 431, 439, 448; prices of, 298, 429, 430,
431, 439, 443, 444, 448, 449; exported, 297, 341.
Chains, heavy forged, 485, 528.
Charcoal best for smelting, 482, 489; prices of,
489, 525, 597.
Charleston, S. C., shipping at, 85, 86; printing at,
176, 187; bookselling and binding, 190; build-
ings of, 230; settlement of, 271; exports of, 348,
349, 351, 354, 356, 449, 461; silk filature at, 360.
Charlestown, shipbuilding, 40, 41; mills, 117;
first acts at, 152, 220; manufactures at, 221, 303,
304, 433, 439, 470.
Chemicals, first made, 392, 407.
Child, Sir J., 81, 88.
Chimneys, in 16th century, 18; early American,
109, 219.
China, first American ship at, 64; increased trade
with, 92, 411.
Chinaware and porcelain, Sevres, 15; duty on re-
pealed, 237; factory established, 238, 619; ex-
cluded, 372.
Chlorine, use of, in bleaching, 204, 205, 397, 406.
Chocolate mills, 121, 144.
Cider, 250, 257, 263, 265, 274.
Cincinnati, first printing in, 179.
Clapboards, 25, 26, 95, 96, 111, 112, 222.
Clock and watchmaking in Connecticut, 518, 519,
520; in Pennsylvania, 551, 568, 573, 580; ma-
chinery 520, 521.
Clocks, curious, 501, 521, 579.
Cloth manufacture and its materials, 296, 423;
why commenced in Massachusetts, 298; first le-
gal encouragement of, 299; first sample of, 300;
begun in Connecticut, 300; scarcity of at Ply-
mouth, 301; first regular manufacture of, 303 ;-
woolen, state of in England, 305;-linen, house-
hold, in New York, 314; New Jersey, 314;
Pennsylvania, 315; Delaware and Maryland,
319; Virginia, 314, 320, 343; prohibition of re-
commended, 322; promoted by laws of trade,
322-327, 367; complained of, 327; proposed
means of checking, 328, 329, 330, 337, 341; kinds
chiefly made, 330, 331; linen branch improved,
331; importations of British, 344, 367, 359, 451;
American silk used in, 33, 360, 414; frugal
use of, 380; increased attention to, 381-33;
improved machinery introduced, 383: first
factory, 385; scarcity of during war, 390, 392,
393; efforts to provide, 391-395; price of
wollen, 392; effects of the peace on, 395; re-
newed efforts to procure cotton and woolen ma.
chinery, 396-400; first water mill for cotton,
401-403; state of household production, 411-
418; woolen and linen factories, 418-422; du-
ties laid, 423 (see COTTON, LINEN, SILK, and
WOOLEN).
Coal, early use of, in England, 20; in smelting iron,
29, 467; Anthracite in smelting, 454, 562; found
in Rhode Island, 503; in Pennsylvania, 561;
Maryland, 598, 591, 595; in Virginia, 605; bita-
minous of Pittsburg, 568.
Cobalt and Nickel, 618, 619.
Cochineal, 350, 356, 619.
Coins and Coinage, colonial, 78, 397, 477, 478,
510, 519; and bullion whence obtained, 365.
Colles, Christopher, 534, 539, 547, 576, 577.
Columbium, 505.
CONNECTICUT, shipbuilding in, 49–54, 90; saw mills
in, 103-105; corn mills, 131, 132; printing in, 175,
183, 187; paper making in, 200, 203, 207, 210;type
foundry and presses, 213, 215; brickmaking,
219; glassmaking, 242; beer and cider making,
250; textile arts and materials in, 300, 313, 329,
335, 339, 340, 360, 388, 389, 413, 417, 418, 419;
silk raising, 360, 361; leather making in, 437-439,
462; iron mines and manufactures, 504–521; cop-
per mines,507-510; non-importation agreements
in, 373, 374; imports of, 49, 51, 629; exports of,
51, 104, 242, 300, 341, 346, 436, 438, 439, 509, 626,
628.
Coopers, early, 280; incorporated, 434.
Copperas works, 493, 524, 543.
Copper, use of preceded iron, 465; mines and
manufactures of, in England, 21, 508, 509, 548;
in Massachusetts, 471, 475, 483; in Rhode Island,
503; in Connecticut, 507-510; in New Hamp-
shire, 522; in New York, 509, 524, 526 532,
535; in New Jersey, 541, 546, 548; in Pennsyl
vania, 550, 551, 553, 555, 556, 574; in Maryland,
585, 586, 588; in Virginia, 471, 599, 603; in
North Carolina, 610; in Tennessee, 613; in
South Carolina, 619; in Wisconsin, 526;—ores
enumerated, 509, 546; exported, 337, 509, 535,
547, 599;-smelting, 483, 508, 509, 547, 548, 585;
coins, American, 397, 478, 510, 519;-kettles first
used in America, 488; made, 548, 574.
Copyright law first, 161; in Carolina, 186.
Cordage, 27, 55, 70, 75, 82, 83, 303, 304, 336, 372,
419, 448, 496, 609.
COTTON, early introduction of in Virginia, 28, 344;
recommended, 354; early imports of, 49, 300, 330;
first exports of, 337, 349, 351, 354; from South
America, 354; its culture in Carolina and Geor
gia, 354-356; ginning machines, 331, 333, 335,
620; price of, 30, 355, 386, 405, 408; consumption
of in England, 397; duty on foreign, 410;-man-
ufacture, antiquity of and whence derived, 306;
known to aborigines, 307; first in England, 308;
in America, 309; early mention of, 369; encour-
agement of, 381, 383; first jeuny and company
engaged in, 383-357; in Massachusetts, 396;
domestic unions" first advertised, 396, 398;
first New England factory, 399; first water
frame, 401; Slater's the first successful one,
403; shirting, checks, &c., first made, 404;
Philadelphia manufacture, 404-409; assisted
by Act of Assembly, 409; water mill in Caro-
lina, 417; household products of, 412, 413.
Cottons, India, first, 331, 365, 411.
Coxe, Tench, 49, 410; promotes manufactures,
397, 400, 405, 408; his plan of a manufacturing
town, 410; various statements of, 82, 261, 262,
277, 364, 405, 408, 410, 412, 413, 423, 459, 460,
573, 609.
Crompton, his mule jenny, 397.
Currency, early colonial, 54, 78, 99, 109, 146, 156,
233, 264, 335, 336, 428, 477; paper prohibited,
345, 355, 365; continental, 393, 394.
Curriers, laws respecting, 433, 436, 439, 447; a
corporate body in England, 434; prices paid to
in Philadelphia, 444; oil, 444, 458.
Cutlers, 391, 502, 568, 575.
Cylinders, steam, first, 534, 577, 590; for calico
printing invented, 397.
Danvers, 453, 483.
Dedham, 313, 497.
Deer-skins (see BUCKSKINS).
DELAWARE shipbuilding, 77, 78; mills, 110, 111,
139, 145; printing, 178; paper-making, 201,
207, 210; bricks and pottery, 227, 229; brewing,
258, 262; vines, 270; salt, 285, 285, 290; cloth
and its materials, 315, 319, 346, 353, 363, 364;
leather and skins, 443, 447, 461; iron works
and mines, 552, 583, 585.
Delft ware, 223.
Diamonds, 612.
Dies for coins, 477, 492, 510, 580.
Distaff and spindle, not used in this country,
332.
Distilling, 30, 51, 250, 263, 264, 265, 340, 600;
prohibited, 140, 256, 276.
Domestic comfort in England in 16th and 17th
centuries, 18, 19; in America, 208, 209, 216, 224,
234, 235, 259, 556.
Dorchester, 39, 122, 221.
Dry dock, 41.
Duffles, frizes, &c., 344.
Duck and sail cloth, preminms for, 334, 335, 340,
419; patent for, 335; bounty on export of, 337;
British only to be used, 337; manufacture re-
commended by Congress, 391; importations of,
411, 412, 496; household manufacture of, 413,
419; factories, 371, 373, 419, 420.
Duties, parliamentary, proposed, 337; first laid,
365, 452; on stamps, 201, 203, 337; on tea, glass,
paper, &c., 202, 237, 372, 375, 379; on sugars,
wines, calicoes, &c., 365, 367; on iron and its
manufactures, 597, 624;-domestic on tonnage,
41, 54, 62. 71, 72, 78, 92; on cordage, 84; first
excise, 251; on barley, hops, and malt,
246, 249, 260, 261; on liquors, 250, 251, 259,
269; on glass, 242; on salt, 255; on cotton, 410;
on imports generally, 54, 60, 423, 631; on
leather and its manufactures, 463; on iron and
its manufacture, 499, 500, 590, 631; on exports,
60, 109, 590.
Dyeing aud dressing of cloth, in England, 81, 305;
in America, 330, 333, 366, 376, 392, 415, 417, 418,
420; price of, 400, 408; of leather, 458, 459.
Dyestuffs, native, 319, 348, 350, 351, 356, 382;
enumerated, 87 (see INDIGO, MADDER, &c.)
Earthenware (see POTTERY).
East Indies and China, importations from, 331,
338, 341, 398; first raw cotton from, 355; early
voyages to, 55, 64, 261, 262.
Easton, Massachusetts, 486, 487, 496; Pennsyl-
vania, 558, 559.
Edge tools, 28, 476, 486, 489, 494, 570, 627.
Edwards, Col. William, 442, 453, 454.
Eliot, Rev. John, 154, 157, 160; Rev. Jared, on
silk, 361; makes iron and steel from magnetic
sand, 514, 515.
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, 197, 253, 442, 443, 453,
456, 540.
Emigration checked, 38, 296-298, 431.
Engineers and machinists, early, 100, 470, 476,
504, 534, 547, 568, 576, 577, 581, 594, 595.
Engravers, early, 172, 397, 492, 519; calico, 377,
396, 404.
Evans, Oliver, 76, 115, 130, 145, 147, 149, 388, 568,
576, 578, 595.
Exeter, New Hampshire, 58, 130, 420.
Export of ships, 44, 46, 47, 49, 56, 58, 63, 70, 89, 91,
341, 455; of lumber, &c., 26, 56, 68, 108, 109, 111,
113, 115, 147, 341; of flour, bread stuffs, &c., 123,
133, 134, 137, 138, 143, 145, 148, 149; of beer,
250, 258, 260, 261, 262; of bricks, 231; of hemp
and flaxseed, 335, 337, 346, 378; of wool,
woolens, and hats, 327, 340, 342, 343, 371; of
indigo, 348, 349; of cotton, 349, 351, 354; of raw
silk, 337, 357, 358, 359; of leather, shoes, &c.,
434, 435, 449, 450, 452, 458, 460, 462; of deer
skius, 447, 449; of iron and its manufactures,
491, 527, 535, 549, 550, 569, 571, 584, 589, 599,
625, 628; total, 344; duties on, 60, 109, 590; of
machinery from England prohibited, 378, 396,
409, 630; from Pennsylvania, 579.
Fairs established, 258, 315.
Federal procession in Pennsylvania, 74, 262, 422,
462, 574.
Fire arms, manufacture of, in Massachusetts,
414, 486, 492, 494, 498; in Rhode Island, 504; in
Connecticut, 516; in New York, 537, in Penn-
sylvania, 568, 572, 573; in Maryland, 591-594;
in Virginia, 607; in Carolina, 616; prices of,
572, 573, 592, 593; description of, 573, 592;
premiums for, 516, 592;-engines first in Amer-
ica, 478, 500, 501, 576; not to be imported, 372;
rivets for hose invented, 492.
Fisheries early commenced, 37, 41, 38, 43, 44, 45,
47, 51, 69; first deep sea, 278, 279.
Fish hooks, 27, 374, 498.
Fitch, John, builds first steamboat in America,
76, 77, 84, 595; first working steam engine, 577;
bred a watchmaker, 521.
Flax and hemp culture in Virginia, 26, 33, 34, 35,
319, 321, 326, 336, 337, 383; in New England,
300, 314, 331, 345, 346, 378, 382; in New York,
367, 368; in New Jersey, 314, 362, 390; in Penn-
sylvania, 335, 336, 406; in Delaware, 346;
premiums and bounties for, 335, 362, 367, 368,
406; seed exported, 335, 337, 346, 378; price of,
415; dressing and spinning machinery, 335,
346, 369, 376, 383.
Flour and grain, exports of, 40, 133, 137, 138, 143,
145, 148, 149.
Fly shuttle first used, 333, 401, 410, 413.
Forges, iron smelting, early British, 467, 480;
first in New England, 472; bloomary, first, 479,
480, 489; first in Rhode Island, 501; destroyed
by Indians, 29, 469, 483, 502, 552;-plating pro-
hibited, 491, 558, 625;—refining, 489, 493, 512,
531, 533; number of at different dates in Massa-
chusetts, 483, 489, 492; in Connecticut, 513; in
Vermont, 524; in New Jersey, 541; in Pennsyl-
vania, 556
France in 17th century, 15; opposition to cotton
machinery in, 376.
Franklin, Benjamin, suggests improvements in
shipbuilding, 73; arrives in Philadelphia, 172
his services, 184; anecdotes of, 185, 186; pub-
lishes first literary journal, 186; a bookseller
192; promotes paper manufacture, 201; erects
a type foundry, 213; recommends a silk fila-
ture, 363; encourages spinning, 378; his elec-
trical discoveries ridiculed, 500; organizes a
fire'company, 576.
Frederick County, Maryland, 243, 415, 584, 588,
589, 592, 593, 594, 608.
Fredericksburg, Virginia, 596, 597.
Frigates, national, built, 42, 43, 52, 57, 63, 72, 74,
S0, 83; America, description of, 57.
Fuller's earth, 306, 328, 329.
Fulling mills, first in America, 303; early one in
England, 305; in Massachusetts, 303, 312, 313,
420; in Connecticut, 313; in New Hampshire,
414 in New York, 366; in New Jersey, 315, 414;
in Pennsylvania, 317, 377, 392, 414, 415; in
Virginia, 321, 383; in Carolina, 417; premium
for, 381; and dressing of cloth, price of, 420.
Fulling stocks for hides invented, 442.
Fulton, Robert, 67, 75.
Furnaces, iron, in England, 21, 467, 479, 512; first
in New England, 472, 473, 489; description of
federal, 490; in Canada, 526; number of char-
coal at different dates in Massachusetts, 483,
489, 492; in Vermont, 524; in Pennsylvania,
556; in Maryland, 589; in Virginia, 596; in
Kentucky, 602; first regular, 596; cost of
erecting, 597; first anthracite, 562, 563; steel
prohibited, 491, 625 (see STEEL); copper smelt-
ing, 508, 509, 548.
Fustians, dimities, &c., 308, 309.
Gas from coal first used in England, 20; in
America, 595.
Gee, Joshua, 89, 328, 359.
GEORGIA, shipbuilding in, 84, 85, 91; mills in,
114, 148; printing in, 178; beer, 264; wine cul-
ture, 275; indigo manufacture, 349; cotton
culture in, 351-353, 355, 356; silk culture,
356-359, 364; non-intercourse policy of, 374;
imports of, 374; encourages manufactures, 383;
tanning in, 449, 450; iron mines and works,
622; branch mint in, 611, 623; exports of, 349,
357, 358, 359, 449, 457.
Germantown, Pa., 141, 181, 187, 188, 190, 212, 316,
555.
Glass in France, 15, 234; in Italy, 17, 232; in
England, 19, 23, 26, 81, 232, 234; made in Vir-
ginia, 25, 26, 30, 232, 233, 242; in Massachusetts,
233, 239, 241; scarcity of, 234, 239; made in
New York, 235, 240, 241; in Carolina, none,
236; in New Jersey, 236, 239; in Pennsyl-
vania, 235-237, 239, 243, 371, 406, 574; in
Connecticut, 242; in Maryland, 242; duty
on, 237, 243; Lord Sheffield's remarks on, 239;
cost of, 242.
Gloves, disused at funerals, 366, 380; premiums
for, 368; manufactures of, 405, 414, 434, 445,
458.
Godfrey, Thomas, 73, 576, 580; Thomas Jr., 193.
Gold, antiquity of, 465; early search for, 468, 470,
524, 525, 550, 556, 564; found in Virginia, 471,
599; in Carolina, 610, 611, 618; in Georgia, 622,
623.
Gold and silversmiths, early, 519, 538, 551, 568,
573, 574, 675; petition for an assay office, 575.
Grain crop, first in New England, 123; first blight
in, and theory of its cause, 126; distillation of
prohibited, 140, 256.
Granite, first used, 221.
Green, Samuel, prints first Bible, 157, 160, 190;
his descendauts in same business, 162, 164, 175,
176, 178, 183.
Griffin, the, 65.
Grindstones, 383.
Gun barrels and locks, 498, 516, 591, 592, 593;
prices of, 573, 592, 593; stocks, 537, 538.
Guns (see CANNON and FIRE ARMS).
Gunpowder, 109, 382, 383, 494, 592, 616.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, first newspaper at, 187.
Hamilton, Alexander, 194, 208, 241, 423.
Hamilton laid out for a manufacturing town, 240.
Hargreave's spinning Jenny patented, 376; op-
posed, 376, 384; superceded 397.
Hartford, shipbuilding at, 49, 50; mills near,
103; printing at, 175, 187, 205; paper mills,
205; glass factory, 242; imports cotton, 300;
cotton machinery made at, 410; woolen factory
at, 418; duck factory at, 419; order made at,
respecting leather, 438; guns and clocks made
at, 516, 520.
Hats, premiums for, 321, 342, 346; manufac-
ture complained of, 340; manufacture of, 340,
342, 343, 371, 405, 415, 421, 455, 461, 609; ex-
portation of, 340, 342, 343, 371; prohibited, 342.
Haverhill, Mass., 43, 156, 420, 453.
Heels, wooden, use of, in early times, 331, 444,
447.
Hemp, first raised in New England, 303; boun-
ties of parliament for, 328, 336, 337, 368, 371;
first exported, 337; a substitute for flax, 390;
wild, used in manufactures, 26, 302, 303, 315,
Hemp mills, 383, 410, 415.
Hides and Skins, not to be exported, 428, 429,
433, 436, 438, 442; enumerated, 450; laws and
ordinances respecting, 432, 436, 438, 456; prices
of, 428, 438, 442, 444, 449, 455, 456; imported,
455; first from South America, 455; exports
of, 449, 450, 455, 461.
Hide, fulling-stocks invented, 442.
Hollow ware and Castings, 372; first in Massachu
setts, 476, 482, 484, 485, 488, 489, 490, 492, 493;
in Rhode Island, 504; in Connecticut, 511, 516;
in New York, 531, 532, 533, 544; in New Jersey,
549, 550; in Pennsylvania, 568, 571; in Dela-
ware, 583; in Maryland, 557, 588, 589, 594; in
Virginia, 598; prices of, 525, 571, 598; scarcity
of, 471, 4SS; first in sand, 484.
Homespun, becomes fashionable, 368, 371; quan-
tity and quality of, 314, 329, 330, 331, 343, 372,
375, 386, 399, 411-416.
Hops, cultivation of, 246, 263, 416; duty on, 260.
Horn smiths, 382.
Horse mills, 116, 119, 121, 122, 135, 136, 138.
Hosiery made by the Dutch, 314, and Germans,
316, 317, 405; worsted, 314, 333, 418; knit
woolen, 317, 367, 394, 412, 413, 414, 418, 457;
woven, 368, 415, 418; silk, 360, 361; manufac-
ture of, to be encouraged, 382, 383; premiums
for, 368, 369, 382, 418; scarcity of, 457.
Household manufactures, character and extent
of, 265, 314, 329, 330, 331, 346, 375, 386, 390, 395,
411-416, 608, 617, 621; of nails, 413, 491, 499;
estimated value of iu 1790, 416, 423.
Huguenots, expulsion of, 15, 16, 305; sent to
America, 271, 322, 356; cultivate the vine, 272,
277, 316; and silk, 322, 346, 359; naturalized,
271, 273.
Humphreys, Joshna, naval architect, 74.
Huntingdon, Penn., 564, 565.
ILLINOIS, first printing in, 179; wine in, 277; salt
in, 294.
Importations, effects of large, 422, 452; of Brit-
ish goods, 89, 184, 281, 331, 344, 369, 374, 389,
394, 406, 411, 414, 455, 460, 462; of iron, 629;
from Russia, 411, 412, 496; of wine and liquors,
261, 269, 274; decrease of, 202, 369, 374, 414.
INDIANA, first printing in, 179.
Indians, lay waste early improvements, 29, 42,
98, 101, 272, 469, 481, 483, 502, 552; large ca-
noes of, 38; brickmaking by, 216; brewing,
247; first learn the use of ardent spirits, 248;
use of salt among, 279; teach the use of wild
hemp, 302; use of cotton among, 307; use of
iron unknown among, 29, 465; tools and wea-
pons of, 466.
Indigo, indigenous to America, 308; cultivation
of, attempted in New York, 314, 348; in Caro-
lina, 322, 326, 348; in Louisiana, 348; boun-
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