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A64548 An historical and geographical account of the province and country of Pensilvania, and of the West-New-Jersey in America ... with a map of both countries / by Gabriel Thomas ... Thomas, Gabriel.; Thomas, Gabriel. Historical description of the province ... of West-New Jersey. 1698 (1698) Wing T964; ESTC R2921 24,884 114

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or Maggots They commonly bring forth two Lambs at once some twise in one Year and the Wooll is very fine and thick and also very white Bees thrive and multiply exceedingly in those Parts the Sweeds often get great store of them in the Woods where they are free for any Body Honey and choice too is sold in the Capital City for Five Pence per Pound Wax is also plentiful cheap and a considerable Commerce Tame Fowls as Chickens Hens Geese Ducks Turkeys c. are large and very plentiful all over this Countrey And now for their Lots and Lands in City and Countrey in their great Advancement since they were first laid out which was within the compass of about Twelve Years that which might have been bought for Fifteen or Eighteen Shillings is now sold for Fourscore Pounds in ready Silver and some other Lots that might have been then Purchased for Three Pounds within the space of Two Years were sold for a Hundred Pounds a piece and likewise some Land that lies near the City that Sixteen Years ago might have been Purchas'd for Six or Eight Pounds the Hundred Acres cannot now be bought under One Hundred and Fifty or Two Hundred Pounds Now the true Reason why this Fruitful Countrey and Florishing City advance so considerably in the Purchase of Lands both in the one and the other is their great and extended Traffique and Commerce both by Sea and Land viz. to New-York New-England Virginia Mary-Land Carolina Jamaica Barbadoes Nevis Monserat Antego St. Cristophers Barmudoes New-Found-Land Maderas Saltetudeous and Old-England besides several other places Their Merchandize chiefly consists in Horses Pipe-Staves Pork and Beef Salted and Barrelled up Bread and Flower all sorts of Grain Pease Beans Skins Furs Tobacco or ●●t-Ashes Wax c. which are Barter'd for Rumm Sugar Molasses Silver Negroes Salt Wine Linen Houshold-Goods c. However there still remain Lots of Land both in the aforesaid City and Country that any may Purchase almost as cheap as they could at the first Laying out or Parcelling of either City or Country which is in the Judgment of most People the likeliest to turn to account to those that lay their Money out upon it and in a shorter time than the aforementioned Lots and Lands that are already improved and for several Reasons In the first place the Countrey is now well inhabited by the Christians who have great Stocks of all sorts of Cattle that encrease extraordinarily and upon that account they are oblig'd to go farther up into the Countrey because there is the chiefest and best place for their Stocks and for them that go back into the Countrey they get the richest Land for the best lies thereabouts Secondly Farther into the Countrey is the Principal Place to Trade with the Indians for all sorts of Pelt as Skins and Furs and also Fat Venison of whom People may Purchase cheaper by three Parts in four than they can at the City of Philadelphia Thirdly Backwards in the Countrey lies the Mines where is Copper and Iron besides other Metals and Minerals of which there is some Improvement made already in order to bring them to greater Perfection and that will be a means to erect more Inland Market-Towns which exceedingly promote Traffick Fourthly and lastly Because the Countrey at the first laying out was void of Inhabitants except the Heathens or very few Christians not worth naming and not many People caring to abandon a quiet and easie at least tolerable Life in their Native Countrey usually the most agreeable to all Mankind to seek out a new hazardous and careful one in a Foreign Wilderness or Desart Countrey wholly destitute of Christian Inhabitants and even to arrive at which they must pass over a vast Ocean expos'd to some Dangers and not a few Inconveniencies But now all those Cares Fears and Hazards are vanished for the Countrey is pretty well Peopled and very much Improv'd and will be more every Day now the Dove is return'd with the Olive-branch of Peace in her Mouth I must needs say even the present Encouragements are very great and inviting for Poor People both Men and Women of all kinds can here get three times the Wages for their Labour they can in England or Wales I shall instance in a few which may serve nay and will hold in all the rest The first was a Black-Smith my next Neighbour who himself and one Negro Man he had got Fifty Shillings in one Day by working up a Hundred Pound Weight of Iron which at Six Pence per Pound and that is the common Price in that Countrey amounts to that Summ. And for Carpenters both House and Ship Brick-layers Masons either of these Trades-Men will get between Five and Six Shillings every Day constantly As to Journey-Men Shooe-Makers they have Two Shillings per Pair both for Men and Womens Shooes And Journey-Men Taylors have Twelve Shillings per Week and their Diet. Sawyers get between Six and Seven Shillings the Hundred for Cutting of Pine-Boards And for Weavers they have Ten or Twelve Pence the Yard for Weaving of that which is little more than half a Yard in breadth Wooll-Combers have for combing Twelve Pence per Pound Potters have Sixteen Pence for an Earthen Pot which may be bought in England for Four Pence Tanners may buy their Hides green for Three Half Pence per Pound and sell their Leather for Twelve Pence per Pound And Curriers have Three Shillings and Four Pence per Hide for Dressing it they buy their Oyl at Twenty Pence per Gallon Brick-Makers have Twenty Shillings per Thousand for their Bricks at the Kiln Felt-Makers will have for their Hats Seven Shillings a piece such as may be bought in England for Two Shillings a piece yet they buy their Wooll commonly for Twelve or Fifteen Pence per Pound And as to the Glaziers they will have Five Pence a Quarry for their Glass The Rule for the Coopers I have almost forgot but this I can affirm of some who went from Bristol as their Neighbours report that could hardly get their Livelihoods there are now reckon'd in Pensilvania by a modest Computation to be worth some Hundreds if not Thousands of Pounds The Bakers make as White Bread as any in London and as for their Rule it is the same in all Parts of the World that I have been in The Butchers for killing a Beast have Five Shillings and their Diet and they may buy a good fat large Cow for Three Pounds or thereabouts The Brewers fell such Beer as is equal in Strength to that in London half Ale and half Stout for Fifteen Shillings per Barrel and their Beer hath a better Name that is is in more esteem than English Beer in Barbadoes and is sold for a higher Price there And for Silver-Smiths they have between Half a Crown and Three Shillings an Ounce for working their Silver and for Gold equivalent Plasterers have commonly Eighteen Pence per Yard for Plastering Last-Makers have