Appendix^ iV° 2 



N° 3. America. 



1772 to 1773. 



N° Tons. 



5 Ships 700 



46 Brigantines . . 3,856 



I Snow 160 



139 Sloops 6,503 



80 Schooners . . . 3,899 



271 15, "8 



1773 to 1774. 

 N° Tons. 



6 Ships 860 



28 Brigantines . . 2,224 



135 Sloops 5,876 



81 Schooners ... 3,962 



250 



12,922 



1774 to 1775. 



N" Tons. 



7 Ships 902 



30 Brigantines . . 2,576 



I Snow 80 



130 Sloops 5*843 



78 Schooners . . . 4,025 



246 



13,426 



12, — A Table, shewing what Proportion the Tonnage of 

 Great Britain employed out of the Port of Philadel- 

 phia bore to the Tonnage employed out of that Port, 

 and owned therein, upon an Average of three Years 

 antecedent to the War, and what Proportion the Ton- 

 nage of Great Britain so employed then bore to the Ton- 

 nage of Philadelphia, united with the Tonnage of the 

 other twelve American Colonies so employed. — Shew- 

 ing also, what Proportion the British Tonnage now em- 

 ployed in the Trade of Philadelphia bears to the Ton- 

 nage of all the United States employed out of that Port, 

 upon an Average of the last two Years. 



Total 

 Tons. 



30,508 



'-3.538 

 41,466 

 165,004 



British 



Philadelphia 



American 



Philadelphia and American combined. 



By the foregoing table it appears, that the tonnage of 

 Great Britain employed out of the port of Philadelphia in 

 the above years was not equal to i-4th part of the tonnage 

 employed out of and owned in the port of Philadelphia; — 



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