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Growing Money

Brandon Plumlee // AMH 4110.0M01 – Colonial America, 1607-1763 Nowadays, we say that money doesn’t grow on trees. In colonial Virginia it didn’t grow on trees either, but it did grow on gold-green shrubs. As can be seen in the Glassford and Henderson accounts, clients to the Colchester store (1760-1761) overwhelmingly used tobacco to purchase their goods and […]

Paper Currency – Not a Modern Idea

Robyn Doran // AMH 4110.0M01 – Colonial America, 1607-1763 When one thinks of the world of the eighteenth century, especially related to trade and commerce, one may think of small stores with raw goods, the sale of tobacco, or gold and silver coins being scooped up by a store merchant. What one might not consider […]