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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… commands in your letter of 2 September. As to pitch and tar I have made enquiry of those who have most experience thereof, and I understand that the tar is much hotter and more burning than that of Sweden and … River, where there is annually made about 1,200 barrels of tar and pitch, which they burn out of knots of old fallen …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I say that the women and children will be able to make tar in the Province of New York, for that 'tis but tapping … of all people that I heard had any insight in making tar, etc., and I find other people's notions agree with mine, viz., that the cheapest and surest way of making tar will be with soldiers, that the pay I proposed for them. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that the importers receive 10 s. per barrel of pitch or tar etc. Signed, J. Bridger. Endorsed, Recd. 17, Read June … the Council of Trade and Plantations. Proposes to supply tar at 40 s. a barrel, with an allowance besides of 3 l. per …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 25, 1705. Cordage 4 cwt. Masts, great, 106, pitch and tar 179 last, Rozen 47 cwt. 3 qrs. 25 lb. Whale fins Xtmas …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the method us'd by Mr. Sacket in preparing the trees for tar, we writ to Mr. Whitworth etc., who sent us the inclos'd …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… rice, 12,677 barrells, 200 baggs; pitch, 4580 barrels; tar, 2037 barrels; turpentine, 661 barrells; tallow, 29 … in abundance all manner of timber in great plenty pitch tar turpentine rossin indigo and silk which has been …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and what conveniences there are for making pitch and tar with the land proper for raising of hemp, and what …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… examination for the future into the goodness of pitch and tar imported here from the Plantations, and no prmium is to … any deals, masts, planks, ship timber, hemp, pitch, tar or any other Naval Stores whatsoever, under the same …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… encourage the growth and production of timber, masts, tar, hemp and other Naval Stores, in the Province of Nova … in New Hampshire relating to the preservation of the tar tree, but it was not minded but shall endeavour for it … the abuses committed in the manufacturing pitch and tar, but upon this occasion we are to inform you that there …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and very lately some to Great Britain as also some tar and turpentine, from whence the whole supply of all …