192 EARLY HISTORT OF CAPE MAT COUNTY. 



" The Stock article of the county is about £1200 



There is at least ten boats belonging to the county which carry oysters ; 

 and admit they make three trips fall and three trips spring, each, and 

 carry 100 bushels each trip, that makes 6000 bushels at what they 



neat 2s. per bushel, 600 



There is 14 pilots, which at J30 per annum, 420 



Mitten article for the present year, 500 



Cedar posts 300 



White Cedar lumbar 500 



Add for boards 200 



Pork and gammons, 200 



Deer skins and venison hams 120 



Furs and feathers, 100 



Hides and tallow, 12U 



Flax seed, neats' tongues, bees' wax, and myrtle, 80 



Tar, 60 



Coal, 30 



£4430 



Annual consumption of county, £4400 



Add public taxes 160 



For a Presbyterian minister, 60 



For a Baptist minister 40 



Education of youth 90 



Doctor for man and beast, 100 



4850 



£420 



In arear £420, to be paid by some uncertain fund, or left as a debt.'' 



It appears by the above statement, the mitten article of trade 

 in 1758 amounted to the sum of X500, ■which was quite a reward 

 to the female industry of the county. The manner in which the 

 mitten trade was first established, is related in a letter from Dr. 

 Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, dated Passy, July 26th, 1748, " on 

 the benefits and evils of luxury." 



"The skipper of the shallop employed between Cape May and 

 Philadelphia, had done us some service, for which he refused to be 



