There is a good article on the early Bland family's trading enterprises in
VHMB - regret that I was unable to locate full citation online today.

Robert Paul Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change,
Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653 (Princeton
University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1993) identified a host
of 'interloping' traders who had significant commercial links to the group
I described long ago as the Mathews-Claiborne faction in my disseration
and AHR article April 1985.

jk

I wonder whether
> these men (and others)helped to jump-start the development of the colony
using capital they had already accumulated and their trade connections
to
> augment their fortunes. I have yet to find a detailed, comprehensible
account of how wealth was created during the early Virginia years
(1630-1689).
>
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