Information on tlic turrint tuljatfo ai^ntuiture of Massacliusetts was 

 olitaincd horn Prof. W. C. Colby, College of Agriculture, University of 

 Massacliusetts; Economic Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

 and publications of the Agricultural Marketing Service; and by the 

 Shade Tolxicco Crouers Agricultural Association. Data on tobacco 

 commerce and economics were provided by the Dept. of Commerce, 

 Massachusetts; the Cigar Manufacturers A.s.sociation; various com- 

 pilations of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, and the Internal Revenue 

 Service, and from tlie National Association of Tobacco Distributors' 

 Coordinator, 1971. ilu- annual issues of the Tobacco Tax Council 

 were the source for nnich of the data relating to cigarette taxation, 

 supplemented by information from Dr. William Stauffer, the Council's 

 economist. 



For material on earlier periods the works used chiefly were Publi- 

 ccitions of the Colonial Society of Massacliusetts (various dates); 

 Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings (various dates); "Re- 

 port on Tobacco," J. B. Killebrew, and "Statistics of Manufactures of 

 Tobacco," J. R. Dodge, both in the Tenth Census, 1880 (1883); 

 Economic and Social Historij of New England, W. B. Weeden ( 1890); 

 The Historii of Tobacco Production in the Connecticut Valley, Eliza- 

 beth Ramsey, in Smith College Studies in History, XV (1930); A 

 History of Tobacco Productioii in New England, Clarence I. Hendrick- 

 soii, Storrs Agricultural ICxpcriment Station, Connecticut Agricultural 

 ColK u( Oil !<)'! «, 7//.' Economic Development of the Cigar Jndus- 

 tnj, \\ . \. liad I ! j;., i, Hampden County, 1636-1936, C. Johnson 

 ( 1936), and the following sources of cpioted matter. 



The ([notations on p. 16, and those from Court orders on pp. 17 and 

 18 are from Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachu- 

 setts Bay, ed. N. Shurtleff ( 1853); that on p. 18 appears in Mass. Hist. 

 Soc. Proceedings, Sec. 2, vol. IV (1889); those from Roger Williams' 

 writings on pp. 18-19 come from his Keif into the Language of the 

 Indians (1643), History of Northfield, Mass., |. H. Temple and G. 

 Sheldon (1875), and Commonwealth History of Massacliusetts, ed. 

 Albert B. Hart (1927), and that on pp. 27-28 is from E. Ramsey's 

 History, listed above. 



The library of the Tobacco Merchants Association of the U.S. was 

 an in\aluable source for general material. 



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