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ported, but simply name certain goods and state that they 
were recently imported from Holland. Of course such an ji 
advertisement may not be taken as final evidence that those | 
particular goods in every case came from Holland. It might [ 
mean that Holland goods of those descriptions were popular 
with the advertising merchant’s buyers and that he simply 
says that they were from Holland in order to make them sell. I 
Yet there is one thing certain, and that is that even if those 
particular goods did not come from Holland, such kinds of j 
goods as were named must, as a rule, have been imported from j 
Holland. That is, the people of those days knew that certain 1 
kinds of goods were ordinarily imported from Holland. The , 
merchant would not have advertised goods as coming from I 
Holland that people knew were ordinarily of Spanish or Irish ! 
export. 
A few such advertisements taken from the contemporary 
newspapers to illustrate the variety are here given. The 
Pennsylvania Packet for September 14, 1786, gives: 
Daniel Tyson, — Fresh assortment of Dutch goods just from Amster- 
dam — Boulting clothes, woolens, Dutch calicoes, Brabant sheetings, writ- 
ing paper, Flanders bed-ticken. 
This advertisement is repeated in almost every issue of the 
paper for about a month. In the Pennsylvania Packet for 
August 22, 24, September 7, 12, 21, and 24, 1786, appears 
the following: 
J. G. Koch imported from Amsterdam — Dry Goods, Nutmegs, Black 
peper in bales and bbls, gin in cases, Bordeaux claret, Batavia arack, 
boulting clothes; — constant supply kept. 
In the Pennsylvania Packet for September 30, 1786, one 
finds the following: 
Peter Cromwels, floriest and seedsman, from Haarlem in Holland 
a very large and elegant assortment of Bulbous flowers, fit for borders, 
pots and glasses. He also has garden seeds and flower glasses and pots. 
In the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser for No- 
vember 11, 1783, appears an advertisement: 
from Amsterdam, cordage, Hollands, Russian and Ravens duck, 
Russian sheeting, ticklenburge, oznaburgs, Harlem bookeys, silesia linen, 
calico, chintz, checks, stripes, Barcelona handkerchiefs, writing paper, 
mens hats, broad-cloth, cassimers, blankets, velvets, ruifels, moreens, 
German steel, window glass, gin in cases, table and tea China, Hyson tea. 
In the same paper for October 7, 1783 : 
