This book looks at the economic, legal, and popular cultures to provide a view of the city's urban development by going into homes, workshops, taverns, courtrooms, and public spaces.

This book presents a useful picture of the Philadelphia business climate through its specific focus on Quaker businesses and people. There is a particularly extensive bibliographic essay.

Covering the time period beginning in 1720 (start date/coverage may vary depending on the commodity) and ending with 1775. Monthly and annual presentation on: wheat and flower; bread/ corn; tobacco; rice; beef and pork; staves; pitch, tar, and turpentine; iron; sugar; molasses and rum; indigo; cotton; Madeira; salt as well as information on Sterling trade, additional commodities, rate of exchange. There are also Appendix table that correspond. Available via De Gruyter for those with a subscription.

This book is by a noted professor and historian and looks at the growth of Britain’s foreign trade in the eighteenth century through an investigation of the investment patterns and credit institutions that financed that expansion. Concentrating on the trade between Britain and the Chesapeake tobacco colonies of Virginia and Maryland. A digital version is available via De Gruyter.

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Family members include Charles Carroll (1702-1782), landowner, of Annapolis, Md., and his son, Charles Carroll, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and U.S. senator, of Carrollton, Md. Correspondence, deeds, bills, accounts, and account books of Charles Carroll of Annapolis, Md.; correspondence addressed chiefly to William Gibbons, overseer; legal papers, financial papers.

This brief pamphlet is a contemporary perspective on the relations between English merchants and the tobacco planters in the Maryland and Virginia colonies. Related titles include: The Case of the planters of tobacco in Virginia, as represented by themselves signed by the president of the council, and speaker of the House of Burgesses; to which is added a vindication of the said representation External and "A Reply to the Vindication of the Representation of the Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia." The NYPL Digitial Collection Tobacco, its history and associations: including an account of the plant and its manufacture; with its modes of use in all ages and countries External contains an image of one page of this as well as other material collected by George Arents, Jr.

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This title is organized into three major parts – staple products and chief exports, imports, and trade routes and illicit trade. In the staple products and chief exports section a large part is devoted to information related to tobacco. In the imports section there is general information including information on the importation of manufactured goods as well as the importation of white servants and slaves and imports from other countries.

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Marylander Daniel Carroll was a landowner and businessman. Included are correspondence, financial and legal records, plat surveys, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Carroll's business interests and real estate holdings in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md. Correspondence, financial and legal documents, surveys of plats, newspaper clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to Carroll's business interests and to his real estate holdings in what later became the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. Includes material on land surveying and sales in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.; collection of rents; Carroll's holdings in Baltimore Iron Works and Hockley Forge.

This book looks at the Carroll family an important Catholic family in the history of Maryland, from dispossession in Ireland to prosperity and prominence in America.

The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance had a long lasting influence on Anglo-Indian interactions in the Virginia colony and had a long lasting influenc the colony's history.

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This title was originally published in 1895. The 1935 edition has two volumes. Volume one covers the reasons for establishing the colony as well as the Indian economy, agricultural development broken into a few time periods, as well as acquisition of land and labor system. Volume two continues with labor systems particularly with slavery and moves on to the planters and their estates, and domestic and international manufacturing supplies.

This is a two volume set that was the work of the Virginia Colonial Records Project. The project was established in the 1950s by the Virginia Historical Society, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the University of Virginia Library, and Library of Virginia to reconstitute the archive of Virginia's colonial history. Most of the documents surveyed were created between 1607 and 1783. Included are approximately 15,000 correspondence between British officials and colonial officers, customs records, business records, claims of British merchants concerning Virginia stores, log books, ships' cargo lists, Loyalists' claims, depositions, and chancery proceedings of British courts. Volume One covers the Public Record Office – looking specifically at various agencies of government including but not limited to – the Admiralty, Board of Trade, Chancery, Colonial Office, Board of Customs and Excise, Exchequer, Home office, Mint, etc. Volume Two looks at records outside of those in various locations in Greater London (British Library, Custom House, Guildhall Library, Lloyds of London, etc.), England generally (collections in Avon, Bedford, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Greater Manchester, Oxfordshire, etc.), Wales and Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and France. The Library of Virginia Catalog in the Images & Indexes tab give options to search a number of useful things including those from the Virginia Colonial Records Project.

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Includes images of many of those involved with the Virginia Company as well as a general history.

This title looks at the impact of the English commercial system on the economic development of Virginia. This title was originally presented as the author's thesis. Chapter one starts with the fluctuation in the tobacco trade from 1689-1720 and moves in chapter two to the great depression in the tobacco trade 1720-1729. Chapter three looks at rates of exchange, chapter four at conflict between planters and English merchants. Chapters five through eight look at the origins, development, failure, and aftermath of the excise scheme. Appendix A is a chart of rates of exchange between Virginia currency and sterling from 1706 to 1733 as pulled from several sources.