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ransplanted tobacco 



If the English customs records at ports of entry were 

 to be taken as evidence, enormous quantities of tobacco 

 "of the growth of New England" were being shipped out 

 of Boston harbor before 1650. This gave the impression 

 in that period that Massachusetts and contiguous areas 

 held vast plantations of tobacco fields. 



But the tobacco was not grown in New England. It 

 was a product chiefly of Virginia and Maryland. British 

 colonial policy dictated that tobacco grown in southern 

 Anglo-American settlements be sent directly to England 

 where it was dutiable, and be carried only in English 

 ships. As there was then no entry duty on New England 



Boston from City Point near Sea Street, 1832 



From the I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection, 

 New York Public Library 



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