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" Taster or two, which so charms them, that for no perswasions that their imployers can use will they go out to Sea, although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days, nay sometimes a whole week till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore... "
The History of Portland, from 1632 to 1864: With a Notice of Previous ... - Page 40
by William Willis - 1865 - 928 pages
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Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1833 - 776 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days, nay sometimes a whole week till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum to drink off when the Merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come where they are roystering...
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society. [1st Ser.̈, Volume 4

Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1856 - 446 pages
...bark laden with the legitimate blood of the rich grape, which they bring from Phial, Madeira and the Canaries; and after they get a taster or two, they will not go to sea again till they get wearied with drinking." The human nature of that day, 200 years ago, was very like that...
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volume 1

Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1865 - 582 pages
...plantation was pursued with great activity until the death of Trelawny, which took place in 1644.* They employed the ship Agnes, the bark Richmond, the...merchant 1 York Court Records. 2 Winthrop, vol. ip 157. 3 Jordan's Claim, York Records, is gone." " They often," he adds, " have to run in debt for their...
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1865 - 584 pages
...the bark Richmond, the ships Hercules and Margery, and one other, whose name is not mentioned. Ill 1638, Mr. Trelawny sent a ship of three hundred tons...hogsheads of wine and rum, to drink when the merchant l York Court Records. 2 Winthrop, vol. ip 157. 3 Jordan's Claim, York Records. *[Robert Trelawny was...
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the isles of shoals an historical sketch

john sribner jenness - 1873 - 194 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days, nay, sometimes a whole week, till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum, to drink off when the merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come, where they are roystering...
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The Isles of Shoals: An Historical Sketch

John Scribner Jenness - Isles of Shoals (Me. and N.H.) - 1875 - 252 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three clays, nay, sometimes a whole week, till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum, to drink off when the merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come, where they are roystering...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 558 pages
...fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days — nay, sometimes a whole week — till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three hogsheads of wine and rum to drink off when the merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come where they are roistering and gulling...
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American History Told by Contemporaries..., Volume 1

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1910 - 636 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days, nay sometimes a whole week till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum to drink off when the Merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come where they are roystering...
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