23d the colonists were prohibited from exporting hats and hatters were limited to a specific number of apprentices-"that Hatting may be better encouraged in Great Britain."
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
My name is Walter Dibble; I carry on Hatting extensively in Danbury; I came to Grassy Plain to buy fur, and have purchased some 'beaver' and 'cony,' and now it seems I am to be called 'crazy' and a 'poor man,' because I want to buy a little 'Russia' to make up my assortment.
"The-Life-of-Phineas-T-Barnum"
Benton, Joel