Trade with New England

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There is evidence that a commercial intercourse between Virginia and New England began about 1640 when the General Court sitting at New Haven laid down the scale of prices to be used in the purchase of commodities from the Southern Colony. As a result, a lawsuit was brought in New Haven in 1645 by Richard Catchman, as attorney for Florentine Payne of Virginia against Thomas Hart, who was largely indebted to Payne. About the same time, John Thompson was engaged in transporting supplies to the plantations on the James and York rivers and Mr. Evance was also the owner of a vessel employed in the same trade. In 1655, complaint was entered in the court at New Haven that the badness of the biscut and flour made at Milford had brought discredit in the Southern Colony upon all goods imported from the north.
Similar complaints continued. The owners of ships in New England frequently hired themselves to persons in Virginia who wished to export goods from the North.  All sorts of issues occurred, like ship leakage, spoiled goods, and duties charged by the New England States.  As soon as the hostilities broke out between England and Holland in 1672, the ships employed in the trade with New England were in special danger, since being principally ketches, they had little ability to resist an attack of the enemy.

Source: New Haven Colonial Records, vol. 1648-59, p. 35, 170, 239.

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