New Castle, historic and picturesque . being men andsix women. All the industries and prosperity in New Castledepended on the fisheries for more than two hundred j^ of the principal town officers was the Culler of fish andstaves. Both being exported were subject to inspection; thestaves to a double inspection, for they returned hooped andfilled Avith SAveetness and potations, or as Poins says, SirJohn Sack and sugar. The course of trade in this proAince Avas in this order: first,furs, or peltry; then lumber; and thirdly, fish.* And it mustalways be remembered that Ncav Hampshire and Ma
New Castle, historic and picturesque . being men andsix women. All the industries and prosperity in New Castledepended on the fisheries for more than two hundred j^ of the principal town officers was the Culler of fish andstaves. Both being exported were subject to inspection; thestaves to a double inspection, for they returned hooped andfilled Avith SAveetness and potations, or as Poins says, SirJohn Sack and sugar. The course of trade in this proAince Avas in this order: first,furs, or peltry; then lumber; and thirdly, fish.* And it mustalways be remembered that Ncav Hampshire and Maine OAvedtheir first discovery and settlement to the trade in these products. * The first seal adopted by New Hampshire, iu 177G, represented two, if notall three, of these resources of the State. Why this seal, which is of exquisiteworkmanship, and probably by Paul Revere, should have been exchant^ed forthe ugly thing now in use, is difficult to understand. Its motto was, and to be, most appropriate — Vis Unita rtft. John //.y.^-^ HISTOBIC AND PIC TUBES QUE < 41 and not to the desire for civil or religious freedom. Thecolonists here were sent out by the merchant adventurers ofEngland in search of commodities, not places to worship Godafter their own fashion. This fact has always given to thepeople of this region a different character from that of Plymouthand Massachusetts Bay, where alone could the declaration ofJohn Higginson of Salem, Mass., in 1663, be heard and believed:Let merchants, and such as are increasing cent per cent,remember this, that worldly gain was not the end and design ofthe people of New England, but religion. And if any manamong us make religion as twelve, and the world as thirteen,such an one hath not the spirit of a true New England manner of conducting the fishing business in New Castlewas extremely simple; it was essentially barter; that is, theowner of vessels usually kept a store, from which he fittedthem out, from w
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