492 A. D. 1769. 



Tobacco - 214,210 pounds o 15 o per cwt. 1,606. 6 6 



Indigo - 380,570 036'- 66,599 15 o 



Hemp - 290,095 X 3 o per cwt. 3,^36 2 6 



Indian corn - 65,751 bufhc-ls 020 - 6,c75 2 o 



Peas - - 11,680 020 - 1,168 o o 



Flour - 2,754 barrels i 17 6 - 5.163 15 o 



Ship bread - 898 160 - 1,167 14 o 



Staves - 229,500 5 o o per M, 1,147 10 o 



Planks and boards 678,350 feet 070 per C. 2,374 4 6 



Shingles - 1,987,000 o 14 6 per M 1.440 ii 6 



Deer fkins - 184,22.1 pounds 020 - 18,422 2 o 

 Raw filk - 1,014 106 - ',039 7 o 



Befides thefe there were a variety of other articles, none of which 

 amounted to £1000 flcrling *. 



The Turks iflands ufed to be reforted to in the proper feafon by- 

 people from Jamaica and Bermuda for raking (or colleding) the fait, 

 the only produce of thofe iflands ; and veflels from North America ufed. 

 to call there with money and provifions to purchafe cargoes of fait: and. 

 no other trade \va.s carried on there. 



But after the eftablifhment of an agent fome people from Bermuda 

 fettled on the iflands, and took upon them by regulations of their own 

 to exclude all others from the benefit of the fak-ponds. The Turks 

 iflands foon became not merely a port for the fait trade, but alfo an 

 cntre-port, where veflels from the northern colonies, St. Euiiathius, 

 Cura<joa, Hifpaniola, and Cuba, met, and, as there was no curtomS 

 houfe, carried on an uncontrouled trade in their feveral commodities 

 and the manufactures of their refpedive mother countries, and alfo car- 

 ried off the rough materials of manufadures produced in the Bahama 

 iflands (which were illegally carried to that rendezvous), to the great 

 prejudice of the revenue and fair trade of Great Britain. 



Such was the report made to the governor of the Bnhama iflands by 

 Mr. Brown, an old officer of the government at New-Providence. The 

 report of the arrivals of veflels made by Mr. Symer, the agent for Turks 

 iflands, has only feven from Boflon and one from Pifcataqua, loaded 

 with lumber, fifii, fpermaceti candles, beef, pork, onions, potatoes, &c. f 

 But it appears by his lift of arrivals from 2' March to 15'" November 

 1769, that 110 veflels came to the iflands in that time from various 

 parts of America :j: and the Weft-India iflands, foreign as well as Bri- 

 tifli, which carried on a free and uncoucrouled trade in Bntifh and fo- 



* .'\mong tViefe there were 39 barrels of bittcr-fweet oranges, (a fpecies now neglecfted) and ico 

 gallons of orange juice. 



f If Mr. Brown's account of the trade is corrcft, the illicit arrivals of the foreign vefTels had hi- 

 thcito been fiippriffed in the agent's report. 



J It 18 woithy of being noted, that, tven at this time, one of thefc vedels was named The fra 

 if^,tritan. 



