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Child was born in about 1630-31, the second son of Richard Child, a London merchant of old family.
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Title: The importance of the sugar colonies to Great-Britain stated : and some objections against the sugar colony bill answer'd. Author: Child, Josiah, Sir Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04887800 CollectionID: CTRG04-B838 PublicationDate: 17310101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 40 p
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T090663 Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade. P. 262 misnumbered 232; the final recto containing an advertisement is unpaginated. London : printed for J. Hodges; W. Meadows; C. Corbet; J. Jackson; J. Stagg; and J. Bevill, 1745? 4,xlvi,232i.e.262p. ; 12°
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Child was born in about 1630-31, the second son of Richard Child, a London merchant of old family.
He was returned to parliament in 1659 for Petersfield; and in later years sat for Dartmouth (1673 - 1678) and for Ludlow (1685- 1687).
He was made a baronet in 1678.
In this latter capacity he was for a considerable time virtually the sole ruler of the company, and directed its policy as if it were his own private business.
He made various proposals for improving British trade by following Dutch example, and advocated a low rate of interest as the " causa causans of all the other causes of the riches of the Dutch people. "
Sir Josiah Child's eldest son, Richard, was created Viscount Castlemain in 1718 and earl of Tylney in 1731.
Child's ideas were translated into French in 1754 and contributed considerably to the growth of liberal economic influence on the Continent.
Child also advanced plans for the relief of poverty and unemployment in England.
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He and his brother have been credited with the change from unarmed to armed traffid; bift the actual renunciation of the Roe doctrine of unarmed traffic by the company was resolved upon in January 1686, under Governor Sir Joseph Ash, when Child was temporarily out of office.
Child died on 22 June 1699, and was buried at Wanstead, Essex. His will dated 22 February 1696 was proved on 6 July 1699.
He had the mercantilist partiality for a numerous population, and became prominent with a new scheme for the relief and employment of the poor; it is noteworthy also that he advocated the reservation by the mother country of the sole right of trade with her colonies.
In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Petersfield in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Dartmouth in 1673 in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament.