General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great BritainPeters, Samuel
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General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement Under George Fenwick to its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain
Peters, Samuel
Connecticut -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Connecticut -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Pork 98,750_l._
Beef 100,000
Mutton 5,000
Horses 40,000
Wheat 340,000
Butter, cheese, rye, oats, onions, tobacco, cider,
maize, beans, fowls, eggs, tallow, and hides 90,000
Ships’ anchors, cables, cordage, pig and bar
iron, pots, kettles, pot and pearl ashes,
boards, and lumber 250,000
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918,750_l._
besides hay, fish, &c. &c. The salmon, large and small, are exported
both pickled and dried.
In the above statement of exports I have allowed only for horses bred
in the colony, and not for those brought for exportation from Canada
and other northern parts, which are very numerous. The calculation of
the wheat, the common price of which is three shillings sterling per
bushel, is founded upon the allowed circumstance of the exportation
being equal to the consumption, viz. 2,600,000 bushels among 200,000
persons, according to the acknowledged necessary portion of thirteen
bushels to one person. The pork is estimated according to the reputed
number of houses in the province, viz. 30,000, allowing one and a
quarter barrels for each house, at 2_l._ 10_s._ per barrel.
The imports in 1680, when the number of inhabitants was 20,000,
amounted to 10,000_l._, i. e. at the rate of 10_s._ for each
individual. Supposing the increase of imports only to keep pace with
that of the people, they would, in 1770, when the province contained
200,000 souls, amount to 100,000_l._; but I believe that to be not
above one-quarter of their value.
Boston, New-York, and Newport, have the greatest share of the exports
of Connecticut, and pay for them in English or Dutch goods at cent.
per cent. profit to themselves, upon a moderate computation. What few
of them are sent from the colony to the West Indies, are paid for
honourably in rum, molasses, sugar, salt, brandy, cotton, and money.
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