A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...E. Young, 1866 - Industries |
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... nails , spikes , etc. , two hun- dred pounds : this was considered a great enterprise at that time . was the first actual merchant - vessel owned in that place . The term barque , so frequently met with in the history of that period ...
... nails , spikes , etc. , two hun- dred pounds : this was considered a great enterprise at that time . was the first actual merchant - vessel owned in that place . The term barque , so frequently met with in the history of that period ...
Page 224
... Nails were eight to ten stivers ( 16 to 20 cents ) per pound , ( 100 nails to the pound . ) A dwelling house , built wholly of oak , even to the doors and window casings , was purchased for the minister at Rensselaerwyck for 350 ...
... Nails were eight to ten stivers ( 16 to 20 cents ) per pound , ( 100 nails to the pound . ) A dwelling house , built wholly of oak , even to the doors and window casings , was purchased for the minister at Rensselaerwyck for 350 ...
Page 226
... nails . The chimneys are stone . " Bricks were used by some . A quaint and enthusiastic description of West Jersey , some thirteen years later , speaks of " stately brick houses " at Salem and Burlington , " especially at the last ...
... nails . The chimneys are stone . " Bricks were used by some . A quaint and enthusiastic description of West Jersey , some thirteen years later , speaks of " stately brick houses " at Salem and Burlington , " especially at the last ...
Page 340
... nails . The Governor writes , concerning the woolen manufacture , that the country people , who used to make most of their clothing out of their own wool , do not now make a third part of what they wear , but are mostly clothed with ...
... nails . The Governor writes , concerning the woolen manufacture , that the country people , who used to make most of their clothing out of their own wool , do not now make a third part of what they wear , but are mostly clothed with ...
Page 373
... nails , gold , silver , and thread lace of all sorts , gold and silver buttons , wrought plate of all sorts , diamonds , stone and paste ware , snuff , mustard , clocks , and watches , silversmiths ' and jewelers ' ware , broadcloths ...
... nails , gold , silver , and thread lace of all sorts , gold and silver buttons , wrought plate of all sorts , diamonds , stone and paste ware , snuff , mustard , clocks , and watches , silversmiths ' and jewelers ' ware , broadcloths ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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"!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...