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TRADE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.
THE REFERRED QUERIES FROM THE LORDS OF TRADE AND PLANTATIONS ; AND THE REQUIRED ANSWER FROMTHE BOOKS OF REPORTS AND ENTRIES IN THE CUSTOM HOUSE AT ITS PORT BY DIRECTION OF THE GOV r OFTHIS HIS MAJESTY’S PROVINCE. 1749.
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Qre. What is the Trade of the Province, the Number of Shipping, their Tonage and the numberof Seafaring Men with the respective Increase or Diminution within the years past 1 What Quantityand Sorts of British Manufactures do the Inhabitants Annually take from hence ? What trade liasthe Province with any Foreign Plantations or any part of Europe besides Great Britain ? How isthat Trade caryed on ? What Commodities do the People send to and receive from Foreign Planta-tions? What methods are there used to prevent Illegal Trade and are the same effectual?
Jlnsr. The Inward Trading in General is from Great Britain, European Goods, & those India withSilk Manufactures chiefly. From Ireland Linnen and Canvas Manufactories certified duly. FromBritish Colonies, enumerated Commodities, Piemento,Sulphur, Strawplating, Lime juice, Coffee growththereof, Hides, Deer Skins, Conch Shells, Mahogonie, Plank, Ebonie, & Negros. From Europe andAfrica, besides from English Foreign Settlements in America, Salt . From the African Coast withinthe proper limits Directed, Negros: now less than formerly. From the Northern & Southern partsof this Continent; Fish, Oil, Bluber, Whale fins, Turpentine oil, Seal Skins, Hops, Cyder, Flax ,Bricks , Cole, Lamp Black, certain wrought Iron, Tin & Braziery, Joinery, various Carriages andChairs. From Plantations not under Ins May 3 Dominions, Molasses, Sugar , & Rum in no greatQuantitys, since the Act imposing the new Dutys thereon, Lign. Vitie, Drugs, Logwood and otherDying Wood, Indico, Cocoa Nutts, Cotton Wool, Snuff &c a . And the Outward is to London and itsOutports, the latter more seldom, Naval Stores, Copper Ore, Furs and other the enumerated species,with the legal Import of divers Mercantile Wares, Plantation Iron, Oil, Spermaceti, Whale Fins,LimeJuice, Shruff, [snuff?] Myrtle Candles, Mahogany & Walnut planks, Reeds and Drugs. To IrelandFlax Seed, Rum, Sugar, being Prise effects, and Staves. To sev 1 Parts in Europe , Grain, Hides, Deer& Elk Skins, Ox Horns, Sarsaperila, Indico, Logwood, Cocoa Nutts &,ca. And Foreign Produce &Lumber, Moreover Argent Vivum, Coffee, Anatts, Elephant’s Teeth, Beewax, Leather , Sarsafrax,Casiafistula, Wines & other goods as Prise effects hitherto brought and in the Vice admiralty Courtshere and el3 where adjudicated upon proper certifying. To Madeira & the Azorts, Grain and otherProvisions, BeeWax & Staves. To English Districts North & South of this Continent & West Indies ,Provisions, Chocolate, Lumber European & India Goods with those enumerated in the PlantationTrade Acts, and such other Imported here for Conveyance home regularly To neutral Ports asCuracoa, Suranhaim, & Saint Thomas; Provisions, Lumber, Horses, Sheep , and other live Stock withtheir Provender. All which are particularized as to the Quantitys and Qualitys in the QuarterlyLists of Vessells: the due transmitting whereof to their honours the Commissioners of the Customsfrom the offices hereat; thereby may appear within the Queries signifyed time what the Increase orDiminution respectively differenceth; Therefore upon comparing which it ’1 be thus considerate, thatthe first is somewhat more than the other. As to the Shipping which at present belong here, theNumber whereof is 157, the tons for registry 6406 & Navigated with 1228 men of Sea Employ, andfor the preventive method of which happening illicite here, such prescribed in the principal Law 'sand aptly made use of, whereby to effect the same as contrary thereto; so that upon any Breachcarefully inquired after by the Deputed Officers, process is issued against the like in the Vice Admi-