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JOHN OXENFORDH A. I. Gen'l. Custom House Inspect'r Gen'ls Office 17 Nov'r 1729.

NUMBER OF NEGROES IMPORTED FROM 1701--1726. ANT ACCO'L of what Negro Slaves have been Imported into his Majesties Province of New York as taken from the Custom House Books between the year 1701 & this present year 1726. [

Lond. Doc. XXIII. ]

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That all the Negroes in the foregoing account have been Imported by Private Traders and that none have been ARCH'D KENNEDY Coll'r. imported dureing that time by the African Company. N. B.

New York 15 Decembr 1626. •Entered from the Coast of Africa but found afterwards to have been from Madagascar.

XXV.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE

TRADE AND MANUFACTURES

OF THE

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of

Ncro-Uork,

1705--1757.

ftrabc anij ittanufacturea of

tl)c

Iprotrince,

1705.

LORD CORNBURY TO SEC. HODGES. [

Lond. Doc. XVI. ]

The Trade of this Province consists chiefly in flower and biskett which is sent to the Islands in the West Indians, in return they bring Rurn, Sugar, Molasses, and some times pieces of Eight and Cocoa and Logwood to Europe Our people send Skins of all sorts, Whale Oyle and Bone, which are the only Commodity this Country sends to Europe, of its own produce as yet, but if they were encouraged, the people of this Province would be able to supply England with all manner of Naval Stores, Pitch, Tarr, Rosine, Turpentine, Flax Hemp Masts and Timber of all Kinds and Sizes, and very good ;