A History of American Manufactures, from 1608 to 1860: Exhibiting ... Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts, with a Notice of the Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of Each Decennial Census, Volumen 1Edward Young & Company, 1864 |
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... British Colonies to a foreign country , with the exception of a load of sassafras gathered near Cape Cod in 1608 , and consisted almost exclusively of manufactured articles , in the strict sense of that term . The Glass - house , he ...
... British Colonies to a foreign country , with the exception of a load of sassafras gathered near Cape Cod in 1608 , and consisted almost exclusively of manufactured articles , in the strict sense of that term . The Glass - house , he ...
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... British craft over every sea of the globe , and is probably the best work of the sort ever published . " Newburyport was formerly celebrated for the extent and excellence of its Ship - building , as well as its commerce . Its vessels ...
... British craft over every sea of the globe , and is probably the best work of the sort ever published . " Newburyport was formerly celebrated for the extent and excellence of its Ship - building , as well as its commerce . Its vessels ...
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... British Settlements in America , written previous to 1750 , thus refers to Connecticut Ship - building : " In Connec- ticut are eight convenient shipping ports for small craft , but all masters enter and clear at the port of New London ...
... British Settlements in America , written previous to 1750 , thus refers to Connecticut Ship - building : " In Connec- ticut are eight convenient shipping ports for small craft , but all masters enter and clear at the port of New London ...
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... British shipping ; but from accidents , not militating against the philosophical principles on which their success depended , they but partially succeeded . " In 1777 Congress offered rewards for the destruction of British ships , and ...
... British shipping ; but from accidents , not militating against the philosophical principles on which their success depended , they but partially succeeded . " In 1777 Congress offered rewards for the destruction of British ships , and ...
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... British ports , and were sold with their cargoes for the same purpose . coasting trade to the Southern ports , was an exchange of West India produc- tions for corn , rice , flour and naval stores , portions of which were re - exported ...
... British ports , and were sold with their cargoes for the same purpose . coasting trade to the Southern ports , was an exchange of West India produc- tions for corn , rice , flour and naval stores , portions of which were re - exported ...
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afterward America arts Assembly bar iron Beer bloomery Boston branches brick British built bushels Carolina cent century Cloth Colonies commenced Company Connecticut copper cotton Court Creek Delaware duty early East Jersey employed encouragement England English enterprise erected established exported factory facture flax flour foreign forge furnace furnished Governor granted Grist-mill 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 North Oliver Evans paper Pennsylvania Philadelphia port pounds principal printed printer probably production profitable proprietor Province quantity Revolution Rhode Island river Salt Saw-mills sent settlement settlers Ship-building ships shoes silk slitting mill sold South Carolina spinning steel street supply tanners thousand timber tion tons town trade twenty vessels Virginia West William Wine wool woolen yards York
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Página 139 - 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 116 - 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 129 - 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 15 - ... to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Página 537 - Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel in any of the said Colonies...
Página 277 - 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 357 - Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts...
Página 66 - ... or a barrel of corn to any place in Europe out of the king's dominions. If this were for his majesty's service or the good of his subjects, we should not repine, whatever our sufferings are for it; but on my soul, it is the contrary for both.
Página 263 - Neither doth their industry rest here ; for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and at home work the same and perfect it into fustians, vermillions, dimities, and other such stuffs, and...
Página 137 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?