The production and Manufacture is that the people in the Country here for many years &

yet have their home spun, so termed, of Flax and Wool to supply themselves somewhat with necessaries of Clothing &c.

That for thirty four years or thereabouts, have been raised Linseed & mil'd

into Oil, Hats, made of beaver Furs, their Exportation prohibited by the act from Michaelmas 1730, also the working of Lampblack.

That for nineteen years, Sugar baking and its refining in order to

consumption here & transportation for other Districts on the Continent & the West Indies upon reguAnd Erecting Six houses latterly that rum and other Spirits may theirein Distillable.

lar certificate ;

That in the said Province are Mines of Lead & Iron ores late proposed ; likewise

Hemp raised

;

;

the Manufacturing of which hath been of

And that besides there are Grain of all kinds & other Provisions with Tobacco, a small quantity out of soil naturally productive

:

Yet such with the like hither

brought from the Western & Eastern parts of this Continent being Vendible abroad cannot be distinguished as to ascertain the Prices of Annual Export, neither could be practicable if from the seperated Exportness, because their current value according to the Markets in their respective Species vary.

G Clinton. New York 23d May, 1749.

GOVERNOR CLINTON'S CERTIFICATE ABOUT IRON ROLLING MILLS, &c, 1750. [Lond. Doc. XXIX.]

By His Excellency Honble George Clinton Captain General, and Governor in Chief of the Province of New York and territories thereon depending in America, Vice Admiral of the same and Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet.