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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A letter from Barbados dated Nov. 28, 1764, reports low prices for lumber and Northern produce, with high local plantation goods, creating poor returns for 600,000 hoops shipped to Providence in recent weeks. It criticizes a British act of parliament for burdening Northern colonies' trade, benefiting West Indians at the colonies' expense.
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By a letter from Barbados, dated Nov. 28. 1764, we are informed, that the price of Lumber was then very low there, and likely to continue so; the best hoops would sell for no more than 3l. 10s. per thousand, and, indeed, no Northern produce would bring the prime cost; while the produce of the plantations there, was extravagantly high.--This affords a gloomy prospect of return for the six hundred thousand hoops we have shipped for this port thither, in six weeks past; as well as demonstrates the fatal effects of the late cruel act of parliament, on the trade of the Northern colonies, which is thereby unnaturally burthened, and contracted within very narrow limits, produced by a wrong system of politics, that must in the end prove highly injurious to Great-Britain, and can have no one advantage, without partially aggrandizing a number of prodigal all-grasping West-Indians, at the expence of whole colonies of loyal and valuable subjects, can thro' infatuation or ill-founded jealousy, be considered one.
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Barbados
Event Date
Nov. 28. 1764
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gloomy prospect of return for the six hundred thousand hoops shipped for this port thither, in six weeks past; demonstrates the fatal effects of the late cruel act of parliament, on the trade of the northern colonies, which is thereby unnaturally burthened, and contracted within very narrow limits.
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By a letter from Barbados, dated Nov. 28. 1764, we are informed, that the price of Lumber was then very low there, and likely to continue so; the best hoops would sell for no more than 3l. 10s. per thousand, and, indeed, no Northern produce would bring the prime cost; while the produce of the plantations there, was extravagantly high.