Paper-mill : In compliance with the foregoing resolve, and to encourage the paper manufactory. We now propose to give three coppers per pound, for all white linnen [sic], and cotton and linnen rags, suitable for making writing paper, at the paper mill now erecting at Amesbury

Paper-mill : In compliance with the foregoing resolve, and to encourage the paper manufactory. We now propose to give three coppers per pound, for all white linnen [sic], and cotton and linnen rags, suitable for making writing paper, at the paper mill now erecting at Amesbury.

Author/creator	Jordan, Richard, 1733 or 1734-1801
Other author/creator	Massachusetts. General Court In the House of Representatives, February 16, 1776. Whereas this colony cannot be supplied with a sufficient quantity of paper.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Newburyport, Mass.] : Printed [by John Mycall] at the printing-office in Newbury-port, [1776]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 34+ x 32 cm
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Papermaking--Massachusetts. Paper mills--Massachusetts --Amesbury. Rags--Prices --Massachusetts.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49306. ^A478749
General note	Signed: Richard Jordan. ... Amesbury, July 9, 1776.
General note	John Mycall was the sole proprietor of the printing office in Newburyport, Mass., at this time.
General note	The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, lacks the upper portion of the sheet, containing "the foregoing resolve" referred to in the title. The resolve is presumably that passed by the Massachusetts General Court on Feb. 16, 1776, for encouraging domestic paper manufacture, and which prompted the paper manufacturer Hugh McLean and Co. of Milton, Mass., to also offer three coppers per pound for white linen. Cf. Bristol B4243.
General note	Jordan apparently never completed the paper-mill at Amesbury, but in 1777 erected the first paper-mill at Exeter, N.H.
General note	Printed area measures 23.4+ x 20.2 cm.
General note	Not in Evans or Bristol.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49306).
Genre/form	Broadsides.

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