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Re: Tobacco Terminology
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Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:03:15 -0400
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Sounds as though Ball wants Chinn to grow sweet-scented tobacco for market
and have it carefully prepared, but pay his overseers in orinoco.  Best
explanation of the distinction, growing areas, and London vs European
market preferences etc. is Lorena S. Walsh, Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and
Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763 (Chapel
Hill, 2010)

Jon Kukla
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Craig Kilby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Keith,
>
>

> Joseph Ball
> >> of Stratford on Bow nigh London, instructs Chinn to grow "right sweet
> true
> >> Townsend" tobacco "clean, stemmed and laid straight" and ... later ...
> he calls it "real
> >> true Townsend" and that says that he knows how to make money from it,
> and
> >> that the overseers are to be paid for growing it in Aranoko tobacco.
>

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