A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860..: 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, Volume 1E. Young, 1861 - Industries |
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... tons . In 1856 , it was reported at eight thousand seven hundred and forty - seven tons . The copper mines , he says , then lay wholly neglected , and were not reckoned in the value of land ; but Cornwall and Wales , at the time he ...
... tons . In 1856 , it was reported at eight thousand seven hundred and forty - seven tons . The copper mines , he says , then lay wholly neglected , and were not reckoned in the value of land ; but Cornwall and Wales , at the time he ...
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... tons burden . She was built by Captain Adriaen Block , at Manhattan River , in 1614 , to supply the place of one destroyed by fire , which , with four others , arrived there that year from Amsterdam . In her , Captain Hen- drickson , in ...
... tons burden . She was built by Captain Adriaen Block , at Manhattan River , in 1614 , to supply the place of one destroyed by fire , which , with four others , arrived there that year from Amsterdam . In her , Captain Hen- drickson , in ...
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... tons , called the " Rebecca , " was built in 1633 at Medford , where Mr. Cradock , the first governor chosen by the Company , had a shipyard . A ship of one hundred and twenty tons was built at Marblehead by the people of Salem in 1636 ...
... tons , called the " Rebecca , " was built in 1633 at Medford , where Mr. Cradock , the first governor chosen by the Company , had a shipyard . A ship of one hundred and twenty tons was built at Marblehead by the people of Salem in 1636 ...
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... tons , and the inhabitants of Boston stirred up by his example , set upon the building another at Boston of one hundred and fifty tons . The work was hard to accomplish for want of money , etc .; but our shipwrights were content to take ...
... tons , and the inhabitants of Boston stirred up by his example , set upon the building another at Boston of one hundred and fifty tons . The work was hard to accomplish for want of money , etc .; but our shipwrights were content to take ...
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... tons built at Cambridge , and which sailed the same year for the Canaries , he tells us , was " set upon " by an Irish man - of - war with seventy men , and twenty pieces of ordnance , the New England ship having but thirty men and ...
... tons built at Cambridge , and which sailed the same year for the Canaries , he tells us , was " set upon " by an Irish man - of - war with seventy men , and twenty pieces of ordnance , the New England ship having but thirty men and ...
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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 19 - 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.
Page 610 - State, with the fishing of all sorts of fish, whales, sturgeons, and all other royal fishes in the seas, bays, inlets and rivers within the premises ; and the fish therein taken, together with the royalty of the sea upon the...
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Page 82 - ... 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.
Page 245 - For," as the Forefathers sang, we can make liquor to sweeten our lips Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips. Finally, as for salt, that grossest of groceries, to obtain this might be a fit occasion for a visit to the seashore, or, if I did without it altogether, I should probably drink the less water. I do not learn that the Indians ever troubled themselves to go after it.
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...
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