on Friday the 7 ln day Nov 1766. Sir Henry Moore Baronet, Capt. Genl &c

M Horsmanden M Smith r r

M Read M Morris r

M Apthorpe r

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His Excellency communicated to the Council a Letter to him of the 1 st of August from the Right Honble the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations requiring his Excellency, in pursuance of the Address of the House of Commons to his Majesty on the 27 March

last,

and of his Majesty's

Commands thereupon, forthwith to prepare and transmit to their Lordships, in order to be laid before the House of Commons, at their next Sessions, a particular and exact Account of the Several Manufactures &c.

[Jls in the preceding Letter.]

The Council declared, that no manufactures had been set up within this Colony since that Peroid, or received any public encouragement; nor did they know of any Manufacture of Wool or Woolen Cloth, but what was principally confined to private Families, for their own particular Consumption.

[Vol. I.

TRADE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

GOV.

MOORE TO THE LORDS OF TRADE. [

Lond. Doc. XL. ] Fort George, New York, 12 Jany 1767.

My Lords --

Having rec J your Lordships'

commands in a letter dated the first of August last, in

which I was directed to prepare and transmit as soon as possible an account of the Several Manufacr tures Set up and carried on within this Colony since the year 173-1, 1 took the liberty of giving to your Introduction Lordships as he was then ready Letter of to sail for a Hasenclaver Peter England, imagining that from his Character and Knowledge of the Country a more perfect Account might be obtained from him of what was required in the beforementioned Letter, than I could possi-