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Excerpt from A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long-Island: With Their Political Condition to the End of the American Revolution
In 1664 the town of Southampton voted that no timber should be made into pipe slaves, to be carried out of the town, under the penalty of twenty shillings a tree.
In 1668 the town of Newtown voted that no one should carry any timber to the water side for transportation, under the penalty of ten shillings a load.
The trees in the woods were so thin and Sparse, that they abounded with feed and the settlers depended on them for pasture for such cattle as were not needed for domestic pur poses.
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