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Dutch cordage, German steel, Best Holland Geneva in cases of 12 bottles, 
best Dutch sealing wax; Swedish bar iron, Holland Gin in cases; Dutch I 
lace; Best Holland gunpowder and shot of all numbers; Flanders and ! 
Holland sheeting, Holland linen, Holland duck.^^ Fine Holland dry goods 
and linen; Dutch writing and Post-paper from Holland.^^ German 
dowlas and German sithes; Dutch powder, Spanish hides, etc/® 
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Even in the advertisements in which the merchants spe- ( 
cifically stated that the g'oods came from the Netherlands in 
certain-named ships, these trade names were used. Following [ 
is a list taken from such advertisements: j 
Petersbourg Hemp, Eussia Duck, Haerlem tapes,^^ Russia hemp.^*^ | 
German oznaburgs, German dowlas, German stripes and writing paper.^® | 
Dutch goods, Dutch calicoes, Braband sheeting, Flanders bed-ticken.” : 
Batavia Arack.’^^ Russia and Ravens duck, Russia sheeting, Harlem | 
bookeys, Silesia linen, German steel. Delf ware, Rhenish wine.®® Ger- ' 
man steel, Hessians, Russia, and Holland Duck.®^ Russia bedlinen, brown , 
Holland, German dowlas.®’ 
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Most of these names are repeated in the papers a good many > 
times. As a rule only one reference has here been given. 
Other sources for determining the kinds of goods imported 
into the United States from the Netherlands are the contem- 
porary writers. McHenry in the American Museum or Reposi- 
tory gives such a list.®^ He says : 
Under articles which American import cheaper from the Nether- 
lands than England are those articles that we can import directly from 
Northern Europe: Superfine broadcloth made at Leyden, kerseymers 
or caseymers, fabrics of coarse woolen, Russia sheeting, brown and 
white; drillings or drabs, brown white or colored; ravensduck, tick- 
lenburgs, oznaburgs, flaxen and hempen; dowlasses and creas, huckabacks 
and diapers, toweling (plain narrow linen), hessians and brown rolls; 
Silesia linens and Hollands, brown and white; long lawns cambricks and 
lawns, back hollands, tandem filefias, demask and diaper table cloths 
and napkins, trolly lace, thread lace and edging, fine and course; Dutch, 
Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, August 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 29 ; Septem- 
ber 2, 18, 19 ; October 9. 1786. 
Columbian Herald, August 7, 10, 14, 21, 1786. 
’3 Maryland Journal and Baltimoi'e Advertiser, March 7, April 15, 1788. 
’‘4 Massachusetts Centinel, July 16, 1785. 
'“'5 Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, September 15 and 20, 1786. 
Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, April, 1788. 
Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, September 14, 16, 21, 26, 1786. 
"‘^Ibid., September 12, 14, 21, 26, 1786. 
Maryland Journal and Baltimcrre Advertiser, November 11, 1783. 
Ibid., October 7, 1783. 
^^Ibid., March 28, 1788. 
Lancaster Zeitung, October 3, 1787. 
Carey, American Museum or Repository, V, 551. The articles which are here 
given are practically identical with those found in the advertisements. 
