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Show 8 PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC Mill fs now completed, those who have Rags by them, are requested t & 2 & bring them in, and all Persons who wants t be supplied with Paper o thisManufacture are desired tosend thefrorderstoJohn Keating, whi shall be completed as fastas possible" (page 89). An advertisement in th August 17, 1769, iste of "The New-York Chroncle" further heralde It 15 posstble that the British mil lwrights, Thomas Shawand Nathan lost g3 3 R g £ 2 # i S QiE German, Dominicus Andler, constructed the Joh 2 S 3 5 2 g 5 fel Sedgfteld, or th No watermarks used by this establishment have been discovered infact, it has not been posstble to find any paper that could definitel be catalogued as having been made fn John Keating's mill During the early years of Amerfcan papermaking, many noticesaF peared fn contemporary newspapersand almanacs fmploring the pu‘;'; feations the collectio of rags were in the interest of self-preservation ich to write and print, the colonfsts ha fosteringthefr trade oreven preserving thefr very existen een fmposedby Great Britain in 1765, b Keuppcsmono"h colonsts beca orous that the proceeds fro the duty were 1 than the cost of collection. The Ac was therefore repeale the folloWing year. Great Britatn not only restricted the manufacture of a)!fiii‘ the colonfes, but also placed duties on paper imported from England Digitalimag © 2004 Marriott Library, University of Utah. All ights reserved |