104 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



for partly in cash and partly in objects of 

 barter. 1 



Ship-building was essentially a Northern, 

 it might almost be said a New England, in- 

 dustry and of the New England states 

 Massachusetts stood easily first. In 1811 

 twelve thousand tons, nearly one twelfth of 

 the entire new tonnage of the United States, 

 was built on the Merrimac River in Massa- 

 chusetts. 2 



From 1800 to 1812 ship-building was 

 active all along the Maine and New Hamp- 

 shire coast. In Massachusetts James and 



1 The " Archelaus," 500 tons, was built at Exeter, N. H., 

 by Col. Ladd about 1800. She was three years in pro- 

 cess of construction and was largely paid for in merchan- 

 dise of different kinds. Among other things her builder 

 received a cord of buttons, which were hard to dispose of, 

 until the War of 1812 opened up a lucrative market and 

 he sold them for the soldiers' coats. BREWSTER, History 

 of Portsmouth, p. 229. 



" Many of the vessels built in Boston are loaded with 

 tobacco for Scotch parties who send them to Scotland 

 and pay for ship and cargo in Scotch goods." Mass. 

 Hist. Coll., vol. Ill, p. 287. 



2 Smith, History of Newburyport, p. 262. 



