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Subject:	Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: question
From:	Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:01:29 -0500
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Throughout most of the period 1650-1725 the value of tobacco was set for the Virginia colony - "price fixing", as we have tried many times - at 2p (two pence) per lb..  That would be equal to about $1.50 per lb. now. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: teresa stuart de rios 
  To: Paul Drake 
  Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 9:50 PM
  Subject: Re: [VA-SOUTHSIDE-L] Re: question

    Hi Paul, thanks for helping me out again.  Now, what was the cost of 500
  lbs of tobacco in SS VA in 1705.   I guess a better way to but it would be
  what was the cost of a lb tobacco in Surry CO VA 1705.
    Teresa

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