A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America: Its Connection with Agriculture and Manufactures: and an Account of the Public Debt, Revenues, and Expenditures of the United States. With a Brief Review of the Trade, Agriculture, and Manufactures of the Colonies, Previous to Their Independence. Accompanied with Tables, Illustrative of the Principles and Objects of the Work |
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... shipped , carried , conveyed , or trans- ported from any of the said English Plantations , to any land , island , territory , dominion , port , or place whatsoever , other than to such other English Plantations as do belong to his ...
... shipped , carried , conveyed , or trans- ported from any of the said English Plantations , to any land , island , territory , dominion , port , or place whatsoever , other than to such other English Plantations as do belong to his ...
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... shipped in England , Wales , or the town of Berwick upon Tweed , and in English built shipping , or which were bought before the first day of October , 1662 , & c . and which were to be carried directly to the said Colonies , & c . with ...
... shipped in England , Wales , or the town of Berwick upon Tweed , and in English built shipping , or which were bought before the first day of October , 1662 , & c . and which were to be carried directly to the said Colonies , & c . with ...
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... shipped from New - York and Pennsylvania . The chief trade of Pennsylvania lay in their exportation of provisions and lumber ; no manufactures being established , and their clothing and utensils for their houses be- ing all imported ...
... shipped from New - York and Pennsylvania . The chief trade of Pennsylvania lay in their exportation of provisions and lumber ; no manufactures being established , and their clothing and utensils for their houses be- ing all imported ...
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... shipped off , " & c . By the same act no person could make hats , unless he had served an apprenticeship for seven years , nor could he employ more than two apprentices at any one time . The making of pig and bar iron had become an ...
... shipped off , " & c . By the same act no person could make hats , unless he had served an apprenticeship for seven years , nor could he employ more than two apprentices at any one time . The making of pig and bar iron had become an ...
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... shipped as A- merican produce , Foreign merchandize mostly from the West - Indies , £ 1,686,654 4 6114,078 13 6685,920 6 4 844,178 14 921,381 16 6 £ 65,860 6 9 4,698 5 10 5,991 17 1 4,754 16 0 296 12 0 Total exports , £ 1,752,514 11 ...
... shipped as A- merican produce , Foreign merchandize mostly from the West - Indies , £ 1,686,654 4 6114,078 13 6685,920 6 4 844,178 14 921,381 16 6 £ 65,860 6 9 4,698 5 10 5,991 17 1 4,754 16 0 296 12 0 Total exports , £ 1,752,514 11 ...
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ad valorem American vessels annual Average price barrels bbls Bremen British American Colonies British West-Indies bushels cocoa coffee commerce Commissioners Congress Connecticut cotton countries custom-house books Denmark and Norway Dolls domestic produce Drawbacks Dutch West-Indies duties ad valorem East-Indies Europe exports and imports fish fishery flour follows foreign produce France French West-Indies gallons Georgia Great-Britain Hamburg hemp Holland hundred imported from Great-Britain increase indigo IV.-CONTINUED lands loan Madeira manufactures Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Territory millions of dollars molasses New-Hampshire New-Jersey New-York paying duties payment Pennsylvania pimento Plantations ports Portugal pounds principal public debt quantity revenue Rhode-Island rice Russia salt shipped sinking fund six per cent South-Carolina Spain Spanish West-Indies Species of Merchandize spermaceti spirits sugar Sweden Swedish West-Indies TABLE Territory thousand tobacco tonnage tons Total trade Treasury turpentine United value of imports Value-dolls West-India Islands whale whale oil wheat Whither exported
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Page 38 - Island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 38 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 38 - Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 44 - ... they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland...
Page 38 - British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 32 - States ; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony, and to report to the several States such an act relative to this great object, as, when unanimously ratified by them, will enable the United States, in Congress assembled, effectually to provide for the same...
Page 32 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 11 - 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...
Page 44 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Page 44 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.