A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...E. Young, 1866 |
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... trade , that in 1666 new efforts were made to introduce Manufactures . Each county was ordered to set up a loom at the public expense ; the rewards for silk were renewed , and severe penalties imposed for neglecting flax , hemp , etc.a ...
... trade , that in 1666 new efforts were made to introduce Manufactures . Each county was ordered to set up a loom at the public expense ; the rewards for silk were renewed , and severe penalties imposed for neglecting flax , hemp , etc.a ...
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... trade . " Thus early began the circuitous and profitable trade to distant ports , in which colonial vessels , at no remote period , bore so prominent a share . In 1642 five other vessels , all of considerable size , were built at Boston ...
... trade . " Thus early began the circuitous and profitable trade to distant ports , in which colonial vessels , at no remote period , bore so prominent a share . In 1642 five other vessels , all of considerable size , were built at Boston ...
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... trade and fishing , and at the island of Monhegan , in Lincoln County , erected dwellings and built a number of fishing boats . There , as in other parts of the New England provinces , the fishery was the principal occasion of the ...
... trade and fishing , and at the island of Monhegan , in Lincoln County , erected dwellings and built a number of fishing boats . There , as in other parts of the New England provinces , the fishery was the principal occasion of the ...
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... trade and other business of this town now employs between two and three thousand sail of vessels annually . A large part of Falmouth , including Portland , was burned by an English frigate in 1770. Ship- building has long been an ...
... trade and other business of this town now employs between two and three thousand sail of vessels annually . A large part of Falmouth , including Portland , was burned by an English frigate in 1770. Ship- building has long been an ...
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... trade was growing up already ; and in 1661 , we are informed there was in New London a " still and worm , " recently set up for distilling rum from the molasses procured there in exchange for the exports of the Colony . As early as 1668 ...
... trade was growing up already ; and in 1661 , we are informed there was in New London a " still and worm , " recently set up for distilling rum from the molasses procured there in exchange for the exports of the Colony . As early as 1668 ...
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afterward American arts Assembly bar-iron Beer bloomery Boston branches brick Britain British built bushels Carolina carried cent century Cloth Colonies commenced Company Congress Connecticut copper cotton Court Creek Delaware duty early East Jersey employed encouragement England English enterprise erected established exported facture flax foreign forge furnace furnished Governor granted Hampshire hematite hemp Hist hundred imported improvements increased Indian industry Iron Iron-works Island Jersey John labor land Leather linen London machine machinery manu manufacture Maryland Massachusetts mentioned merchants metal miles mill nails native North Oliver Evans paper patent Pennsylvania Philadelphia port pounds principal printed printer probably production profitable proprietor Province quantity Revolution Rhode Island river Salt Saw-mills sent settlement settlers shillings Ship-building ships shoes Silk slitting mill South Carolina spinning steel street supply tanners Tench Coxe thousand timber tion tons town trade twenty vessels Virginia West William Wine wool woolen York
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Página 149 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Página 162 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 325 - English shipping and seamen, and in the vent of English woolen and other manufactures and commodities; rendering the navigation to and from them more safe and cheap ; and making this kingdom a staple not only of the commodities of the plantations, but also of the commodities of other countries and places for their supply ; it being the usage of other nations to keep their plantation trade exclusively to themselves.
Página 298 - And no man now thought he could live except he had cattle and a great deal of ground to keep them, all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scattered all over the Bay quickly and the town in which they lived compactly till now was left very thin and in a short time almost desolate.
Página 136 - Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound...
Página 183 - It was carried through the press as privately as possible, and had the London imprint of the copy from which it was reprinted, viz : " London : Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty...
Página 268 - Degr. relating the meanes of raysing infinite profits to the Adventurers and Planters. The second Edition, with Addition of The Discovery of Silkworms, with their benefit. And Implanting of Mulberry Trees. Also The Dressing of Vines, for the rich Trade of making Wines in Virginia.
Página 302 - Our other in-garments are clout upon clout: Our clothes we brought with us are apt to be torn, They need to be clouted soon after they're worn, But clouting our garments they hinder us nothing, Clouts double are warmer than single whole clothing.
Página 430 - Shoes; but at so careless a rate, that the Planters don't care to buy them, if they can get others; and sometimes perhaps a better manager than ordinary, will vouchsafe to make a pair of Breeches of a Deerskin. Nay, they are such abominable Ill-husbands, that tho...