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Title Proposals for New England: For the Encouragement of Merchants Inhabiting and Residing in New England and other... Plantations in Those Parts of America…
Reference Eg 2395
Library The British Library
Date ca. 1664
Description A document outlining the various rules, regulations and customs payable for those commodities harvested and shipped from New England and other settlements in America. The commodities discussed include a variety of furs, animal skins, meat and tobacco.
Document Type Manuscript, Report
Primary Commodity Fur
Sub-commodity Tobacco
Theme Trade and Commerce; Transportation
Keywords fur, deerskin, meat, beef, pork, corn, fish, taxation, shipping, importation, exportation, colony, plantation
Region North America, Europe
Places England; USA
Additional Information Please note that these folios are from the following collection: Miscellaneous official papers relating to the English settlements in America and the West Indies, chiefly documents submitted to, or, issuing from, the Council of Trade and Plantations, with a few original letters; 1627-1699. A large part of the collection appears to have been formed by Thomas Povey, Secretary to the Council
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