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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
eclared, that the erecting of manufactories in the colonies tended to lessen their dependence on Great Britain. Under pretence of Ross, 78. encouraging the importation of American naval stores, they voted a clause that none in the plantations Anderson, III. 88, 89. should manufacture iron wares of any kind whatsoever; and the house of peers added a prohibition of every forge going by water for making bar or rod iron. The opposition of the northern colonies defeated the bill. Of the purpose, topic of variance between England and her continental colonies of America, lay in the mercantile system and its consequences. Controversies were also occurring in every part of the country Did the lumberers in Maine, on any land first pur- Anderson, III 39, 129, 153. chased since the grant of the new charter of Massachusetts, cut some stately pine tree into logs for the Chap. XXIII.} saw-mill, the officer of the British crown came to measure its diameter, and to arraign them for a trespa