Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 5

4. On 7 Feb. the General Court forbade exportation from the state of a long list of products, to take effect in Suffolk and Middlesex cos. on 8 Feb., in Essex, Plymouth, and Bristol cos. on 9 Feb., and in all other counties on the 11th. The list enumerated rum, sugar, molasses, and “provision of all and every sort”; wool, flax, and linen, woolen, and cotton goods of all kinds; and leather of all sorts (Mass., Province Laws , 19:808–810; Boston Gazette, 10 Feb.).