Colonial Food by Ann Chandonnet

Author:Ann Chandonnet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Colonial Food
ISBN: 9780747813798
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

New foods affected not only diet and health but also trade, and trade between Old and New Worlds was significant. A letter of November 5, 1626 to the “High and Mighty Lords” controlling the West India Company, from their representative Pieter Schaghan, reported the arrival in Amsterdam of a ship from New Netherland with a cargo of 7,246 beaver skins, as well as the skins of otter, mink, lynx, and muskrat, plus nutwood and oak timbers.

Shortly after the founding of Boston, New England exported cattle, wool, tobacco and provisions to Virginia, Maryland and the West Indies as well as to Spain, Portugal and Britain. For beaver, moose and deer skins, England sent ironwares, horses, cheese, cotton and linen. Barbados traded in beef, pork, sugar, butter, salt, flour and indigo.

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