New Orleans market at $5 per hogshead for ordinary 

 grades. He went on to say, 



The Bri<i in wliich I soiled was loaded with 

 tobacco purchased at .^5 to $10 per hogshead 

 which I afterwards satv selling, for four and 

 five dollars per cwt. in Philadelphia. 

 It was in late 1791 that Wilkinson, "disgusted by dis- 

 appointment and misfortunes, the effect of my ignorance 

 of commerce," abandoned his export trade and reentered 

 tlie United States Army. 



T 



he first western state 



Kentuck)' became a State of the Union in 1792 and 

 Frankfort, still a busy tobacco town though its popula- 

 tion was under 500, was named its capital. Immigration 

 into Kentucky had continued unabated. An estimate of 

 residents in the year it achieved statehood was close to 

 100,000. That meant an important consumer market at 

 the tobacco farmer's doorsteps. 



At the first meeting of Kentucky's General Assembly 

 in 1792 it was enacted that all fees of officials payable in 

 tobacco sliould in future be collected in the currency of 

 the state. Later in the same year the legislators adopted 

 the Virginia system of warehouse inspection and allowed 

 the issuance of assignable and negotiable notes for use 

 in paying public and private debts. Court fees, fines and 

 forfeitures were, however, recoverable only in currency 

 at tlie rate of one penny for each pound of tobacco. 



A 



II old Spanisli custom 



Kentuckians and other Americans hampered by 

 Spain's restrictive (and volatile) policies were becoming 



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