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Title: New England, old and new; a brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of promise
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Old Colony Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Cambridge, Mass.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd thatit would deprive many of them of a livelihood. This pioneer among American sawmills employed thirtypeople. It was, perhaps, the first industrial use of NewEnglands unrivaled water powers. Grants for sawmills usually provided that the town shouldhave a certain proportion of the total as rental or royalty.On such other supply as was required, the town enjoyeda preferred price. Gloucester, in 1650, obliged the granteeto sell boards to the Inhabitants at one shilling per hundred— better cheap than to strangers. Other towns providedthat their Inhabitants should have preference over strangersin the matter of work at the mills ; and supplies must bebought from the townsmen. No timber was to be cutwithin three miles of the meetinghouse, etc.Shipbuilding Abundance of cheap timber, fit for shipping, planckes, and Shipping ^^ knees, etc., and skilled shipbuilders made New Eng- land a big faftor In shipbuilding and commerce early inher history. New England could build ships at a cost per
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« c T/iy^E whose Names are underzorit-r ten... Having undertaken... toplant the first Colony in the Northernfarts of Virginia ; Do by these Presentssolemnly and mutually, in the presenceof God and one another. Covenant andCombine our selves together into a CivilBody Politick for our better orderingand preservation... From the ^Mayfloioer Compact.^ in Fish andLumber New England — Old and New 11 ton that was twenty-five dollars below the European price.Ships soon became a principal New England export. Fish and lumber formed the keystone of early New ^^^y CommerctEngland commerce and wealth. In 1641 New Englandexported 300,000 dried fish to the West Indies and tothe Catholic countries of Europe. During this year elevenvessels sailed to the West Indies loaded with lumber andpipe-staves, bringing back, sugar, indigo, and other tropicalproduds. Year by year this trade grew and the number of vessels Foreign Shipsincreased. At first trade was carried on largely by Dutchships; but after 165

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