all the colonies were exempted from all talliages except the excise, "provided their productions should be exported only in English bottoms."
[77] Hutchison.
[78] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[79] Hutchison.
[80] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[81] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[82] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[83] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[84] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[85] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[86] Virginia Laws. Chalmer.
[87] Virginia Laws. Chalmer.
[88] Chalmer.
[89] Chalmer. Trumbull.
[90] Hutchison. Chalmer.
[91] Idem.
[92] Hutchison. Chalmer.
[93] Hutchison. Chalmer.
[94] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[95] Chalmer. Smith.
[96] Chalmer. Smith.
[97] Hutchison.
[98] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[99] Chalmer. History of South Carolina and Georgia.
[100] Chalmer. Beverly.
[101] Idem.
[102] Chalmer. Beverly.
[103] Chalmer.
[104] From a paper in possession of the British administration, it appears that in 1673, New England was supposed to contain one hundred and twenty thousand souls, of whom sixteen thousand were able to bear arms. Three-fourths of the wealth and population of the country, were in Massachusetts and its dependencies. The town of Boston alone contained fifteen hundred families.
[105] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[106] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[107] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[108] Trumbull. Hutchison. Chalmer.
[109] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[110] Trumbull. Hutchison.
[111] Smith.
[112] Chalmer. Smith.
[113] Chalmer. Smith.
[114] History of Pennsylvania. Chalmer.
[115] Hutchison.
[116] Smith.
[117] Smith.
[118] See note No. I, at the end of the volume.
[119] Hutchison. Belknap.
[120] Belknap.
[121] The quotas assigned by the crown are as follows:
| To Massachusetts Bay | 350 |
| Rhode Island and Providence plantations | 48 |
| Connecticut | 120 |
| New York | 200 |
| Pennsylvania | 80 |
| Maryland | 160 |
| Virginia | 240 |
| ----- | |
| Total, 1,198 |
[122] Belknap.
[123] Belknap. Hutchison.
