New England’s fisheries and the carrying trade to the West Indies demanded ships. By the end of the seventeenth century, the New English were building almost all of the vessels they employed, as well as growing numbers for English merchants.

The court later expressly adopted the tender years doctrine, which states that a child is incapable of contributory negligence if he is less than seven years old[…].

They were no idle scamperers on the mountains that made these wild recesses first known […]

Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.