Early in the seventeenth century a ship was built at New Amsterdam, and by the middle of that century shipyards were scattered along the New England coast at Newburyport, Salem, New Bedford, Newport, Providence, New London, and New Haven.
十七世纪早期, 新阿姆斯特丹建造了一艘船,到那个世纪中叶, 造船厂散布在新英格兰海岸的纽伯里波特、塞勒姆、新贝德福德、纽波特、普罗维登斯、新伦敦和纽黑文。