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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... pounds sterling . ' Beds of rock salt were discovered after the Restoration , but not worked , and the salt made in rude brine pits was nauseous and unwholesome . A great part of the iron used at the close of Charles the Second's reign ...
... pounds sterling . ' Beds of rock salt were discovered after the Restoration , but not worked , and the salt made in rude brine pits was nauseous and unwholesome . A great part of the iron used at the close of Charles the Second's reign ...
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... pounds were exported to Holland , but none to England . The year following they made sixty - six thou- sand pounds , and in 1639 the Assembly ordered all the tobacco in the Colony made in that and the two succeeding years to be ...
... pounds were exported to Holland , but none to England . The year following they made sixty - six thou- sand pounds , and in 1639 the Assembly ordered all the tobacco in the Colony made in that and the two succeeding years to be ...
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... pounds of linen thread . The manufacture declined on the withdrawal of the premiums . 2 A tract entitled , " A ... pound ; that they produced much flax and hemp ; that iron ore was abundant , and had been tried and proved good ; and that ...
... pounds of linen thread . The manufacture declined on the withdrawal of the premiums . 2 A tract entitled , " A ... pound ; that they produced much flax and hemp ; that iron ore was abundant , and had been tried and proved good ; and that ...
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... pounds of tobacco was given for each pound of silk . It was enjoined upon every person to plant mulberry trees in proportion to the number of acres of land he held . Tan - houses were erected , with " curriers and shoemakers attached ...
... pounds of tobacco was given for each pound of silk . It was enjoined upon every person to plant mulberry trees in proportion to the number of acres of land he held . Tan - houses were erected , with " curriers and shoemakers attached ...
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... pounds . It appears by the records of Plymouth , there were thirteen proprietors , of whom William Paddy , William Hanburry , and John Barnes , owned each one- eighth part , and William Bradford , John Jenny , John Atwood , Samuel Hicks ...
... pounds . It appears by the records of Plymouth , there were thirteen proprietors , of whom William Paddy , William Hanburry , and John Barnes , owned each one- eighth part , and William Bradford , John Jenny , John Atwood , Samuel Hicks ...
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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?