History of Manufactures in the United States ...: 1607-1860

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Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916 - 675 strani
 

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Stran 195 - He hath a fine house, and all things answerable to it ; he sows yearly store of hemp and flax, and causes it to be spun ; he keeps weavers, and hath a tan house, causes leather to be dressed, hath eight shoemakers employed in their trade, hath forty negro servants, brings them up to trades in his house ; he yearly sows abundance of wheat, barley, &c.
Stran 152 - If by royal munificence, and an expense that the profits of the trade alone would not bear, a complete set of good and skilful hands are collected and carried over, they find so much of the system imperfect, so many things wanting to carry on the trade to advantage, so many difficulties to overcome, and the knot of hands so easily broken by death, dissatisfaction, and desertion, that they and their employers are discouraged together, and the project vanishes into smoke.
Stran 197 - Nay, they are such abominable ill-husbands, that though their country be over-run with wood, yet they have all their wooden ware from England; their cabinets, chairs, tables, stools, chests, boxes, cart-wheels, and all other things, even so much as their bowls and birchen brooms, to the eternal reproach of their laziness.
Stran 209 - I made any inquiry, for every house swarms with children, who are set to work as soon as they are able to Spin and Card, and as every family is furnished with a Loom, the Itinerant Weavers who travel about the Country, put the finishing hand to the Work.
Stran 202 - Plantations relating to the laws made, manufactures set up, and Trade carried on in any of his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, which may have affected the trade, navigation, and manufactures of this kingdom...
Stran 130 - These straits set our people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, etc., and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the West Indies for a trade for cotton.
Stran 240 - American protectionists, that "it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle, in the cradle, those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence, contrary to the natural course of things.
Stran 4 - Of all the American plantations, his Majesty has none so apt for the building of shipping as New England ; nor none comparably so qualified for the breeding of seamen, not only by reason of the natural industry of that people, but, principally, by reason of their Cod and Mackerel fisheries ; and, in my poor opinion, there is nothing more prejudicial, and, in prospect, more dangerous to any mother Kingdom, than the increase of shipping in her Colonies, Plantations, or Provinces.
Stran 213 - Upon actual knowledge, therefore of these northern Colonies, one is surprised to find, that notwithstanding the indifference of their wool, and the extravagant price of labor, the planters throughout all New England, New York, the Jersies, Pennsylvania, and Maryland (for south of that Province no knowledge is here pretended), almost entirely clothe themselves in their own woolens, and that generally, the people are sliding into the manufactures proper to the mother country, and...
Stran 201 - Cloths, druggets, and serges; but these, as well as their homespun linnen, which is generally half cotton, serve only for the use of the meanest sort of people. A great part of the Leather used in the Country is also manufactured among themselves; some hatters have lately set up their trade in the principal Towns...