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). > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial 1250 Red Hill Road Brookneal, Virginia 24528 www.redhill.org Phone 434-376-2044 or 800-514-7463 Fax 434-376-2647 - M. Lynn Davis, Office Manager - Karen Gorham-Smith, Associate Curator - Edith Poindexter, Curator To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html