| John Britton, John Hodgson - 1812 - 1036 pages
...Hull, only ten or twelve from London, and very few from any other parts of the kingdom. At that period, the active and enterprising spirit of Mr. Standidge, a merchant of Hull, revived a branch of commerce which has since been prosecuted with extraordinary success. In 1766, he... | |
| John Bigland - 1815 - 1038 pages
...Hull, only ten or twelve from London, and very few from any other parts of the kingdom. At that period, the active and enterprising spirit of Mr. Standidge, a merchant of Hull, revived a branch of commerce which has since been prosecuted with extraordinary success. In 1766, he... | |
| Thomas Allen - 1828 - 488 pages
...declined until the year 1765, when it was almost wholly monopolized by the Dutch, BOOK iv. and was at that period reduced to such a languid condition...and send out to the Greenland seas a ship on his own account—an adventure which was thought extremely hazardous, and of which individual speculation did... | |
| Christopher Thomson - 1847 - 432 pages
...and was afterwards entirely monopolized by the Dutch. In about 1766, " the active and enterprizing spirit of Mr. Standidge, a merchant of Hull, induced...send out to the Greenland seas, a ship on his own account—an adventure which was thought extremely hazardous, and of which individual speculation did... | |
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