Travels Through North America 



15. — An Account of the Number of Ships and Brigs 

 built in the Ports of the United States, in the Year 

 1772, compared with the like Vessels building in the said 

 States in 1789.* 



States. 



New Hampshire 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



Total of the N. England Provinces 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Maryland 



Virginia 



North Carolina 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



Total 



* In the account of ships and brigs built in the ports of the 

 United States in the year 1772, there is no specification of the num- 

 bers built in each of the New England provinces, but a total only 

 of the number and tonnage of vessels built in all these provinces; 

 nor was any account given of the tonnage of the eleven vessels 

 building in the provinces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts 

 Bay in 1789. So that it is not possible to make a comparison of the 

 quantity of tonnage of which the vessels in the foregoing table con- 

 sists. 



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