Studies in American History 
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Imported from Rotterdam by Balck, Burger, Schouten; Delfware, 
glass ware, lead, white lead, cordage, sail duck, ironmongery, frying- 
pans, gridirons, iron pots, gin, Rhenish wine, bedticken, silks, silk stock- 
ings, writing paper, teas, gunpowder. 
In the same paper for March 28, 1788: 
Imported in late vessels from Holland and for sale at moderate 
prices by Adrian Valck, German steel in faggots and cags, cutting- 
knives of superior quality, sithes, Milander whetstones, vinegar in 
tierces. Pearl barley in bags of 30 lbs., Cologne millstones of convenient 
size, also gunpowder in quarter casks, gunflints, nails and spikes, gin 
in cases and quart bottles, Bohea tea. Hyson-skin tea, ticklenburgs, 
Oznaburgs, Hessians, Brittanias, and other German linnens, ravens- 
duck, Russia and Hollands duck, cordage, bunting, fine and second 
broadcloth, bedticks, checks, sundry other drygoods. Securities of 
United States and adjacent states taken as payment. 
This is repeated on April 11 and several times thereafter. 
In the same paper for April 11, 1788 : 
F. Delaporte has imported from Holland, oznaburgs, Russia sheet- 
ing, nutmegs, cloves, mace, cinamon, black peper. Sold for tobacco, 
rice, wax, or country produce. 
Another advertisement in the same issue enumerates: 
ticklenburgs, German ozmaburgs, German dowlas, German stripes 
and writing paper. 
Another advertisement repeats the goods of Adrian Volck 
already enumerated above. Not one advertisement in this 
issue claims that any of its goods have come from London 
or England. 
As has been said before, goods from Holland seem to have 
been popular in some localities. When merchants were par- 
ticular to specify in their advertisements that certain-named 
goods had just been imported in a certain-named ship from 
Holland, one may infer that their customers preferred that 
kind of goods. Or again if merchants were particular to use 
certain trade names like Holland duck, English or Sheffield 
iron, they must have done it for a purpose. At first in the 
Boston Gazette almost all goods at Boston were called “Eng- 
lish goods” or the paper stated that they were imported in 
latest ships “from London”. The words “English goods” or 
“from London” occurred at the head of almost every adver- 
tisement in the Massachusetts papers. 
There was much bitter writing in the Massachusetts Cen- 
tinel, Boston Gazette, and Salem Gazette against English goods 
