The American gazetteer - exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a much more full and accurate account, than has been given, of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns on the American continent, (14782904585)

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Title: The American gazetteer : exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a much more full and accurate account, than has been given, of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns ... on the American continent, also of the West-India islands ... with a particular description of the Georgia Western Territory
Year: 1797 (1790s)
Authors: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826 John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL) Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner
Subjects: Geography America -- Gazetteers Amérique -- Répertoires géographiques United States -- Gazetteers Georgia -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, and sold by E. Larkin, and the other booksellers in Boston by Gaine & Ten Eyck, and S. Campbell, New-York M. Carey, and W. Young, Philadelphia by Messrs. Websters, and Thomas, Andrews & Pennyman, Albany and Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ry, 1795, ap-pointed a cornnnttee, to inquire intothe prai^licability of, and to report aplan fm, the eftablifliment of fchools iuthe different parts of the State. Sincethe revolution, by which all denomina-tions v/cre put (>n an equal footing, therehave been no dilputes between differ-ent religious fefts. They all agree todiffer. The upper parts of this Stateare fettled chiefly by Prefbyterians, Bap-tilb and Mcthodif^s. From the moftprobable calculations, it is fuppofed thatthe religious denominations of this State,as to numbers, may he ranked as fol-lows: Prefbyterians, including the Con-gregational and Independent churchc;,Epifcopalians, Eapiifts, Methodifts, &c.Th(* little attention that has been paidto manufailare?,^ occafions a vafl con-fumption cf foreign imported articles;bv.t the quantity and value of their ex-ports generally lc;ive a balance in favourof the State, except when there havebe« Irirgeimportationsof negroes. Theamount of exports from the port ofCharleflon,
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sou sou Charlcflon, in the year ending Nov.J787, was then eftimated, from authen-tic documents, 31/^505,279 119:5 %Jing money. Ilie number of veflclscleared from the curtorn-houf« the iame^ear, was 947, meafuring 6z,ii8 tons ;7.^5 of thcie, meafuring 415531 ^■^»were American ; the others belonged toOreat-Bi itain, Spain, France, the UnitedNetherlands, and Ireland. The princi-pal articles exported from this State,arc rice, indigo, tobacco, Ikins of variouskinds, beef, pork, cotton, pitch, tar, ro-fin, turpentine, myrtle wax, lumber, na-val ftores, cork, leather, pink root, fnakeroot, ginfeng, &c. In the moil fuccelT-ful feafons, tliere have been as many as140,000 barrels of rice, and 1,300,000poands ot indigo ex potted in a year.From the 15th Dec, 1791, to Sept. 1792,108,567 tierces of rice, averaging 55olb.nett weight each, were exported troniCharlefton. In the year ending Sept.30, 1791, the amount of exports fromthis State was 2,693,167 dolls. 97 cents,and the year ending Sep

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