46 Industrial Experiments in Colonial America. 



set them to work on the stores according to Mr. Bridger's 

 directions.^ 



But instead of applying themselves industriously to produc- 

 ing stores for the royal navy, in gratitude for the asylum and 

 subsistence so generously afforded by the Queen, the Palatines, 

 contrary to the sanguine expectations of Governor Hunter, 

 began to show signs of restlessness and discontent. Along with 

 rumors of the expected conquest of Canada, they heard reports 

 of broad, rich lands on the frontier and in Nova Scotia, which 

 they persisted in believing to be the land referred to in the con- 

 tract which had been read to them in High Dutch before they 

 left England. They grew to regard their present location as 

 merely temporary, and continually spoke of the " land of 

 Canaan " to which they looked forward. Such an attitude of 

 mind was fatal to any design for the regular production of sup- 

 plies for the navy. Mr. Cast, who seems to have been the chief 

 superintendent, overheard a conversation of some of the Pala- 

 tines which revealed a point of view quite different from that 

 of the promoters of the undertaking. The present site, they 

 said, was well enough chosen for present purposes, but it was a 



October, 1710, to March 25, 1711, as given in Doct. Hist, of New 

 York, Vol. Ill, p. 657. 



Year and Month. 



1710 

 October. . . 



November ... 

 December,.. . 

 1711 



January 



February 



March 



Date. 



6 



9 



12 



14 

 16 



25 



27 



I 



No. of Persons 

 Subsisted. 



213 



III 



118 



72 



50 



703 



999 



1,484 



1,455 



1,434 

 1,435 

 1,437 



No. of Days. 



26 



23 

 20 

 18 

 16 

 7 

 5 

 30 

 31 



31 

 28 



25 



At 6d Per Diem. 



/ s. 



138 9 



63 16 



59 •• 



32 8 



20 . . 



123 .. 



12 7 



1,113 .. 



1,127 12 



1,111 7 . 



1,004 10 . 



898 2 6 



Somma, /5.703 ^3 ^ 



iDoct. Hist, of New York, Vol. Ill, p. 654. 



