History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . NINETY LADIES IN THE CASE. days. The enterprises of agriculture were ignored and pro-vision for sustenance forgotten for the nonce. Even thestreets of the settlement were ploughed under to grow theplant, which in the form of the dried leaf sold at an extrava-gant price and became current as money. Food and free-dom from harrowing debt continued to be the crying need of Virginia. One may smile in our day at thevarious non-metallic substances whichwere used as currency in the earlycolonial days—tobac
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . NINETY LADIES IN THE CASE. days. The enterprises of agriculture were ignored and pro-vision for sustenance forgotten for the nonce. Even thestreets of the settlement were ploughed under to grow theplant, which in the form of the dried leaf sold at an extrava-gant price and became current as money. Food and free-dom from harrowing debt continued to be the crying need of Virginia. One may smile in our day at thevarious non-metallic substances whichwere used as currency in the earlycolonial days—tobacco, shell money,beaver—which passed at the value andhad the name of coins. Later a Chin-ese invention, paper money, came tosupersede at times all these tokens ofvalue. Still later, the symbol of thePillars of Hercules on the Spanishmilled dollar in abbreviated form became that in scriptwhich passed for the dollar ($) mark. It was a momentous landing, that at Jamestown in. ^./ a Z^^y>t S^M^ THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 215
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