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Cotton.
Mention is made of cotton planted as an experiment in the region of the Carolinas so early as 1621, and its limited growth there is noted in 1666.
In 1736 it was cultivated in gardens as far north as latitude 36°, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Forty years later it was cultivated on Cape May, N. J.; but it was almost unknown, except as a garden plant, until after the Revolutionary War. At the beginning of that conflict General Delagall had thirty acres under cultivation near Savannah, Ga. In 1748 seven bags of cotton-wool were exported to England from Charleston, S. C., valued at £ 3 11s. 5d. a bag. There were two or three other small shipments afterwards, before the war. At Liverpool eight bags shipped from the United States in 1784 were seized, on the ground that so much cotton could not be produced in the United States.
In 1786 the first seaisland cotton was raised, off the coast of Georgia, and its exportation began in 1788 by Alexander Bissell, of St. Simon's I
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Monts , Sieur (Pierre De Gast) (search)
De Monts, Sieur (Pierre De Gast)
was a wealthy Huguenot, who was commissioned viceroy of New France, with full powers to settle and rule in a region extending over six degrees of latitude, from Cape May to Quebec.
The domain was named Cadie in the charter (see Acadia). Vested with the monopoly of the fur-trade in the region of the river and gulf of St. Lawrence, they attempted to make a settlement on the former.
Making arrangements with Champlain as chief navigator, De Monts sailed from France in March, 1604, with four ships, well manned, accompanied by his bosom friend, the Baron de Poutrincourt, and Pont-Greve as his lieutenants; and finding the St. Lawrence icebound, on his arrival early in April, he determined to make a settlement farther to the southward.
The ships also bore a goodly company of Protestant and Roman Catholic emigrants, with soldiers, artisans, and convicts.
There were several Jesuits in the company.
Passing around Cape Breton and the peninsula of Nova S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Leach , Frank willing 1855 - (search)
Leach, Frank willing 1855-
Lawyer; born in Cape May, N. J., Aug. 25, 1855; was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1877.
He is the author of several chapters in Scharff and Westcott's History of Philadelphia; and The signers of the Declaration of Independence: their ancestors and descendants.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), May , Cornelius Jacobsen (search)
May, Cornelius Jacobsen
Colonial governor; commanded the Dutch tradingvessel Fortune on a trading excursion to Manhattan in 1613.
The next year he coasted along New England to Martha's Vineyard.
In 1620 he was on the coasts and rivers southward of Manhattan, in the ship Glad Tidings, visited Chesapeake Bay, and sailed up the James River to Jamestown.
The bay at the mouth of the Delaware River the Dutch called New Port May, in compliment to their commander, and the southern extremity of New Jersey is still known as Cape May.
In the spring of 1623, Captain May conveyed to Manhattan thirty families, chiefly Walloons,. in the ship New Netherland, with Adriaen Joris as lieutenant.
May remained at Manhattan as first director or governor of the colony.
He was succeeded by William Verhulst, second director of New Netherland, and returned to Holland.
Excepting his career in America, little is known of his life.
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