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 […]

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