 | John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1826 - 446 pages
...no price. Corn would buy nothing : a cow which cost last year £20 might now be bought for 4 or £5, &c. and many gone out of the country, so as no man...people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, £<c. and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the W. Indies for a trade... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Latter Day Saint churches - 1841 - 590 pages
...price. Cora would buy nothing—a cow which cost last year .£20 might now be bought for four or .£5 &c. and many gone out of the country, so as no man...which occasioned many there to speak evil of us. These streights set our people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank &c. and to sow hemp and flax (which... | |
 | Joshua Coffin - Indian captivities - 1845 - 452 pages
...and our own of no price.' 'Corn would buy nothing — and no man could pay his debts, and so forth. These straits set our people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the West Indies for a trade... | |
 | John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1853 - 520 pages
...price. Corn would buy nothing : a cow which cost last year £20 might now be bought for 4 or £5, etc., and many gone out of the country, so. as no man could...people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, etc., and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the West Indies for a... | |
 | John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 644 pages
...price. Corn would buy nothing — a cow which cost last year £20 might now be bought for four or JC5 &c. and many gone out of the country, so as no man...which occasioned many there to speak evil of us. These streights set our people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank ,fcc. and to sow hemp and flax... | |
 | John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 636 pages
...price. Corn would buy nothing — a cow which cost last year £20 might now be bought for four or £5 &c. and many gone out of the country, so as no man...which occasioned many there to speak evil of us. These streights set our people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank &c. and to sow hemp and flax (which... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 522 pages
...price. Corn would buy nothing : a cow which cost last year £20 might now be bought for 4 or £5, etc., and many gone out of the country, so as no man could...people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, etc., and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the West Indies for a... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1867 - 506 pages
...price. Corn would buy nothing : a cow which cost last year £20 might now be bought for 4 or £5, etc., and many gone out of the country, so as no man could...people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, etc., and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the West Indies for a... | |
 | Thomas Lechford - Colonization - 1867 - 228 pages
...price. Corn i5 would buy nothing ; " a cow worth £20 in 1640 might now be bought for £4 or £,$ : " fo as no man could pay his debts, nor the merchants make return into England for their commodities." Winthrop, ii. 21, 31. 198 Lechford left New England before the return of thefe barks, with their paflengers... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Puritans - 1869 - 514 pages
...price. Corn would buy nothing : a cow which cost last year £20 might now be bought for 4 or £5, etc., and many gone out of the country, so as no man could...people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, etc., and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the West Indies for a... | |
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These straits set our people on work to provide fish, clapboards, plank, etc., and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered very well) and to look out to the West Indies for a trade for cotton. 
