A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation . JjiMAHOA wImMS,. COLONIES—COLONY TKADE 349 whose commerce should be confined entirely to anexchange of their raw products for our manufac-tured goods. There is, however, no truth in theseassertions. On the contrary, the charters grantedto the founders of the settlement in Virginia dis-tinctly empoiver the colonists to carry on a directintercourse with foreign states. Nor were theyslow to avail themselves of this permission; forthey had, so early as 1G20, established tobaccowarehouses in Middleburg and F
A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation . JjiMAHOA wImMS,. COLONIES—COLONY TKADE 349 whose commerce should be confined entirely to anexchange of their raw products for our manufac-tured goods. There is, however, no truth in theseassertions. On the contrary, the charters grantedto the founders of the settlement in Virginia dis-tinctly empoiver the colonists to carry on a directintercourse with foreign states. Nor were theyslow to avail themselves of this permission; forthey had, so early as 1G20, established tobaccowarehouses in Middleburg and Flushing (Robert-sons America, book ix. p. 104) ; and the subse-quent proceedings of the British Government,depriving them of this freedom of commerce, werethe chief cause of those disputes which broke outin 1676, in an open rebellion of ominous andthreatening import. (Robertsons America, ) It was not until the colonists had sur-mounted the difficulties and hardships incident totheir first establishment, and had begun to in-crease rapidly in wealth, that their commercebecame an object of importan
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