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“Should I be proud of his achievement, a properous Tidewater North Carolina cotton and naval stores plantation at the heyday of King Cotton? Forty-six enslaved black people building, cooking, milking, digging, picking, gardening, raising his livestock, and waiting on his family hand and foot made this possible.”

Still known as naval stores, the industry began oozing forth from southern pine trees during the age of wooden ships.

By a short measure the Government were empowered to prohibit the exportation of arms or naval stores.

He fell back to Oswego Falls, where the naval stores had all been removed, destroying the bridges as he retired.

The vessels employed in these fisheries he knew were invariably supplied with naval stores, etc., and he resolved to live on them.