. Industries of New had a saw-mill in 1682, and the demand for lumber for building wasso great that quite a number of saw-mills went up in this and the ensuing year. We have no record of theyear when brick-making was begun, but hi 1683 the provincial assembly passed an act presenting the size andquality of bricks, so that the manufacture must have t^een already one of considerable extent. The working of the iron mines of the province led to the early establishment of iron-works ; the firstrecord is of the sale of a works already in operation near (Monmouth County), by Jame
. Industries of New had a saw-mill in 1682, and the demand for lumber for building wasso great that quite a number of saw-mills went up in this and the ensuing year. We have no record of theyear when brick-making was begun, but hi 1683 the provincial assembly passed an act presenting the size andquality of bricks, so that the manufacture must have t^een already one of considerable extent. The working of the iron mines of the province led to the early establishment of iron-works ; the firstrecord is of the sale of a works already in operation near (Monmouth County), by James Groverto Lewis Morris, October 25th, 1676. Others followed rapidly. The first steel manufactory of which we findmention was founded in 1769, on the Assanpink Creek, and seven years later another was built on the samestream; before 1775 sheet-iron was made at Mount Holly. A nail factory was established at Burlingtonbefore 1797, and the first rolling-mill was erected at Dover (Morris County), in 1792. Eight years before the. last date, there were in New Jersey at least eight furnacesand seventy-nme forges for working up iron. Iron-worksof all kinds, and steel-works, are now very numerous in theState, many of them on a very extensive scale. Though never largely interested m maritime enterprises,New Jersey has always been quite largely engaged inship and boat building ; it began as early as 1683, and soon grew into an important interest. The first paper-mill in the province and the second on the continent was erected at Elizabeth in orprobably before 1728 ; in 1756 a large one was built in Trenton, and as early as 1787 there were a number ofmanufactories of paper hangings. The manufacture of glass was begun before 1748, but the first notice we have of an extensi\-e establishmentwas in that year at Freasburg (or Friesburg, Salem County); and in 1765 an extensive works was in operationnear Allowaystown, in the same county. In 1780, a large works was established near Malaga (thenGlo
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