 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 446 Seiten
...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 could...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 Winthrop - 1826 - 452 Seiten
...price. Corn would buy nothing: a cow which cost last year j£20 might now be bought for 4 or ^£5, &c. and many gone out of the country, so as no man could...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 - 1841 - 590 Seiten
...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 could...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 - 1845 - 452 Seiten
...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 Warner Barber - 1856 - 636 Seiten
...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 could...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... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1856 - 644 Seiten
...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 could...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... | |
 | Thomas Lechford - 1867 - 228 Seiten
...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 - 1869 - 508 Seiten
...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...plank, etc., and to sow hemp and flax (which prospered vejy well) and to look out to the West Indies for a trade for cotton. The general court also made orders... | |
 | james r - 1873 - 520 Seiten
...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...which occasioned many there to speak evil of us." The simple truth was, that the ideas and methods of administration alike for Church and State, under... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1873 - 512 Seiten
...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...which occasioned many there to speak evil of us." The simple truth was, that the ideas and methods of administration alike for Church and State, under... | |
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England in expectation of a new world, so as few coming to us, all foreign commodities grew scarce, and our own of no price. Corn would buy nothing : a cow which cost last year ,£20 might now be bought for 4 or £5... 
