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New Amsterdam

Block And His Companions On Manhattan Island Building A Vessel

History Images

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217Native Americans, Early Encounters and Colonial Development The Planning Framework 217Sample Lessons, Materials, and Resources

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Middle Colonies Economy Documents

Mesier Mill, Manhattan

The Dutch Left their Influences

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Middle Colonies Economy Documents: The Trade of the Middle Colonies

The goods with which the province of New York trades are not very numerous. They chiefly export the skins of animals, which are bought of the Indians about Oswego; great quantities of boards coming for the most part from Albany; timber and ready made lumber, from that part of the country which lies about the river Hudson; and lastly wheat, flour, barley, oats and other kinds of corn, which are brought from New Jersey and the cultivated parts of this province. I have seen yachts from New Brunswick, laden with wheat which lay loose on board, and with flour packed up into tuns; and also with great quantities of linseed. New York likewise exports some flesh and other provisions out of its own province, but they are very few; nor is the quantity of pease which the people about Albany bring much greater. Iron however may be had more plentifully, as it is found in several parts of this province, and is of a considerable goodness; but all the other products of this country are of little account.

From Empire City: New York Through the Centuries, by Kenneth T. Jackson & David S. Dunbar. Copyright © 2005 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

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Seal of the Province of New Netherland 1623