Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
What methods are there used to prevent Illegal Trade and are the same effectual? Ansr.
The Inward Trading in General is from Great Britain, European Goods, & those India with
Silk Manufactures chiefly.
From Ireland Linnen and Canvas Manufacturies certified duly.
From
British Colonies, enumerated Commodities, Piemen to, Sulphur, Strawplating, Lime juice, Coffee growth thereof, Hides, Deer Skins, Conch Shells,
Mahogonie, Plank, Ebonie, & Negros.
From Europe and
From the African Coast within From the Northern & Southern parts
Africa, besides from English Foreign Settlements in America, Salt.
the proper limits Directed, Negros
:
now less than formerly.
of this Continent; Fish, Oil, Bluber, Whale fins, Turpentine
oil,
Seal Skins, Hops, Cyder, Flax,
Bricks, Cole, Lamp Black, certain wrought Iron, Tin Chairs.
& Braziery, Joinery, various Carriages and From Plantations not under his May Dominions, Molasses, Sugar, & Rum in no great
Quantitys, since the Act imposing the new Dutys thereon, Lign. Vitse, Drugs, Logwood and other Dying Wood, Indico, Cocoa Nutts, Cotton Wool, Snuff' &c a And the Outward is to London and its Outports, the latter more seldom, Naval Stores, Copper Ore, Furs and other the enumerated species, .
with the legal Import of divers Mercantile Wares, Plantation Iron, Oil, Spermaceti, Whale Fins, Lime Juice, Shruff, [snuff?] Myrtle Candles,
Mahogany & Walnut planks, Reeds and Drugs. To Ireland To sev Parts in Europe, Grain, Hides, Deer
Flax Seed, Rum, Sugar, being Prise effects, and Staves.
& Elk Skins, Ox Horns, Sarsaperila, Indico, Logwood, Cocoa Nutts &ca.
And Foreign Produce & Lumber, Moreover Argent Vivum, Coffee, Anatts, Elephant's Teeth, Bee wax, Leather, Sarsafrax, Casiafistula, Wines & other goods as Prise effects hitherto brought and in the Vice admiralty Courts here and els where adjudicated upon proper certifying. To Madeira & the Azorts, Grain and other Provisions, Bee Wax & Staves.