Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia
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Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia is by Cerinda W. Evans, Librarian Emeritus. An epigraph from The Trades Increase, London, 1615, says of ships that they are our Weapons, our Armaments, our Strength, our Pleasures, our Defence and our Profit. A section headed The Dugout Canoe says various types of watercraft used in Colonial Virginia have been mentioned in the records.
A section on Virginia-built pinnaces says the smallest of the three vessels that reached Virginia in April, 1607, was the little pinnace Discovery, and that the first English vessel known to have been built in the New World was a pinnace. The text says one of the first public ferries on record was started as a private enterprise in 1636, by Adam Thoroughgood. Dated shipping entries record vessels such as the brig Robert and John of Virginia, John Cooke, cleared out of James river for Madeira with 5400 bu. wheat on March 8, 1739.
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- Cerinda W. Evans
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- Pages
- 85
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- American History
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