TRADE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE PROVINCE OF NEWYORK.
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ralty, or sometimes in the Courts of Record holden hereat, for recovery of the subjected Penalty onthe Committed fraud & abuse.
Qre. What is the natural produce of the Country, Staple Commodities and Manufacture , and what
Value thereof in Sterling Money may you actually export?
Jlasr. The production and Manufacture is that the people in the Country here for many years &yet have their home spun, so termed, of Flax and Wool to supply themselves somewhat with neces-saries of Clothing &c. That for thirty four years or thereabouts, have been raised Linseed & miPdinto Oil, Hats , made of beaver Furs, their Exportation prohibited by the act from Michaelmas 1730,also the working .of Lampblack. That for nineteen years, Sugar baking and its refining in order toconsumption here & transportation for other Districts on the Continent & the West Indies upon regu-lar certificate; And Erecting Six houses latterly that rum and other Spirits may theirem Distillable.That in the said Province are Mines of Lead & Iron ores; the Manufacturing of which hath been oflate proposed; likewise Hemp raised; And that besides there are Grain of all kinds & other Provi-sions with Tobacco, a small quantity out of soil naturally productive: Yet such with the like hitherbrought from the Western & Eastern parts of this Continent being Vendible abroad cannot be dis-tinguished as to ascertain the Prices of Annual Export, neither could be practicable if from theseperated Exportness, because their current value according to the Markets in their respective
Species vary. G Clinton .
GOVERNOR CLINTON’S CERTIFICATE ABOUT IRON ROLLING MILLS, &c., 1750.
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By His Excellency Honble George Clinton Captain General, and Governor in Chief of the Provinceof New York and territories thereon depending in America , Vice Admiral of the same and Admiral
of the White Squadron of His Majesty’s Fleet.
In Obedience to an Act of Parliament, Entitled, “An Act to Encourage the Importation of Pigand Bar Iron from His Colonies in America ; and to prevent the erection of any Mill or other Enginefor Slitting or Rolling of Iron; or any plating Forge to work with a Felt Hammer, or any Furnacefor making Steel in any of the said Colonies” passed in the twenty third year of His Majesty s ReignHis said Excellency doth hereby certify, that there is erected within the said Province, m the Countyof Orange , at a place called Wawaganda, about twenty six miles from Hudsons River, one p atemgForge to work with a Tilt Hammer , which belongs to Lawrance Scrauley of the said Coun y a ack-smitli; has been built about four or five years, and is not at present made use. And lurther thatthere are not erected in his said Excellency’s Government, any other or more pla-teing Forges , oworkwith a Tilt Hammer or any Mill or Mills, or other Engine for Slitting or Rolhng of Iron , or anyFurnace or Furnaces for making Steel . In Testimony, whereof his said Excellency ha sn sen edthese Presents, and caused the Great Seal of the Province of New York to be hereunto affixed^ AtFort George in the city of New York the fourteenth day of December in the yeai of Our Lord onethousand seven Hundred and Fifty, and in the seventy fourtli year of His Majes ys