1760

 
May 5, 1760. Boston Evening-Post. (Boston, Massachusetts)
Entred in,
Ford from Maryland, Stilson from Philadelphia, Sharad from Barbados and London, Johnson and Hall from Rhode-Island, Freeman from Connecticut, and Hinkley from Halifax.
Cleared out.
Dennin for Louisbourg, Phillips and Ashburn for N. Carolina, Hayman for Newfoundland, Easterbrooks for West Indies, Rogers, Harris, Chadwick, Warner and Punchard for Connecticut, Bartlet and White for Quebec, Dingley and Homer for Philadelphia, and Edwards and Rinnals for Albany.
Outward bound,
Ingraham for West Indies, Hosner andSimonton for Louisbourg, Thompson for Nova-Scotia, and Freeman for Connecticut.

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July 1760 Andrew Burnaby.  Travels through the middle settlements in North-America, in the years 1759 and 1760.  London, 1775. 
 (p. 60)  On Wednesday, the 9th of July, [1760], I crossed over to Staten Island, in the province of New York; and travelled upon it about nine miles to the point which is opposite New York City.
In my way I had an opportunity of seeing the method of making wampum.  This, I an persuaded the reader knows is the current money amongst the Indians.  It is made of the clam-shell; a shell consisting within of two colours, purple and white; and in form not unlike a thick oyster shell.  The process of manufacturing it is very simple.  It is first clipped to a proper size, which is that of a small oblong parallelpiped, then drilled, and afterward ground to a round smooth surface. and polished.  The purple wampum is much more valuable than the white; a very small part of the shell being of that colour.
At the point I embarked for New York; and, after a pleasant passage over the bay, which is three leagues wide, and various (p. 61) delightful prospects of rivers, islands, fields, hills, woods, the Narrows, New-York city, vessels sailing to and fro, and innumerable porpoises playing upon the surface of the water, in an evening so serene that the hemisphere was not ruffled by a single cloud, arrived there about the setting of the sun.
This city is situated upon the point of a small island, lying open to the bay on one side, and on the others included between the North and East rivers, and commands a fine prospect of water, the Jerseys, Long Island, Staten Island, and several others, which lie scattered in the bay.  It contains between 2 and 3000 houses, and 16 or 17,000 inhabitants, is tolerably well built, and as several good houses.  The streets are paved, and very clean, but in general they are narrow; there are two or three, indeed, which are spacious and airy, particularly the Broad Way.  The houses in this street have most of them a row of trees before them; which form an agreeable shade, and produce a pretty effect.  ***  The situation is, I believe, esteemed healthy; but it is subject to one great inconvenience, which is the want of fresh water, so that the inhabitants are obliged to have it brought from springs at some distance out of town.  There are several public buildings, though but few that deserve attention.  ***
(p. 62)  The province of New York is situated between the 40th and 45th degree of north latitude, and about 75 degrees west latitude.  It lies in a fine climate, and enjoys a very wholesome air.  The soil of most parts of it is extremely good, particularly of Long Island: and it has the advantages of a fine harbour, and fine rivers.  The bay has a communication with Newark bay, the Sound, Amboy river, and several others: it receives also Hudson's or North river, one of the largest in (p. 63) North America, it being navigable for sloops as far as Albany, above 150 miles: from whence, by the Mohock, and other rivers, running through the country of the Six Nations, there is a communication . . . with lake Ontario; and another with the river St. Laurence, through the lakes George, Champlain, and the river Sorel; so that this river seems to merit the greatest attention.  ***  It is divided into ten counties, and has some few towns, but none of any size, except Albany and Schenectady, the former of which is a very considerable place.  The number of inhabitants amounts to near 100,000; 15 or 20,000 of which are supposed to be capable of bearing arms, and of serving in the militia; but I believe this number is exaggerated, as a considerable part of the 100,000 are Negroes, which are imported more frequently into this province than into Pensylvania.  The people carry on an extensive trade, and there are said to be cleared out annually from New York, near [blank in text] ton of shipping.  ***

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August 4, 1780 New York Mercury
​To be sold, a well-built Albany Sloop, now lying in the Great-Dock. Her frame is of the best red cedar. For farther particulars enquire of Derick Schuyler, in New-York.

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December 1, 1760. New York Gazette
On Wednesday night the 26th instant, the cabbin of the Sloop John and Robert, John Smith, Master, was broke open, and Twenty Dollars taken out of a chest, which was also broke open, a pistol half-flock’d, and a Quarter Waggoner; three blankets half worn, one new ditto, two rugs, one blue twilt, and a new Quadrant call’d Davis’s, with the name of Robert Dingle on it, made by Anthony Lamb; with sundry other Things also stolen. Any Person that will apprehend the thief or thieves, so that he or they may be brought o Justice, shall have Forty Shillings reward, paid by John Smith, or the Printer hereof.
N.B. If any of the above things are offer’d for sale, pray stop them, with the person who offers.

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