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From: "Tom Apple" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Dutch trade in early Virginia


> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:28:58 +0000, Emily Rose wrote
>> I have recently read in a scholarly work that Dale and Gates were
>> paid by the Dutch to promote trade in Virginia (no citation). It
>> also said that the colonists were afraid that the Dutch were
>> inciting the Indians. While it is well known that they were paid, I
>> have not seen the commercial justification. Any references?
>
> I've heard of Dale and Gates being on leave to Virginia while in the 
> employ of
> the Dutch, but my understanding is that their relationship with the Dutch 
> was
> a military one rather than commercial. It would seem odd that they'd 
> promote
> Dutch trade while the Colony was still under Virginia Company control.
>
> There is some discussion of early Dutch trade in Phillip A. Bruce's 
> "Economic
> History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the 
> Material
> Condition of the People, Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records."
>
> Chapter 15: http://www.dinsdoc.com/bruce-1-15.htm
>
> Start on page 292 for some discussion (with footnotes) on Dutch trade.
>
> The index for the document is: http://www.dinsdoc.com/bruce-1-0a.htm
>
> The Classics of American Colonial History website has some interesting
> articles and publications online.
> http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-3.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom A.
>
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