 It pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barbados and other Islands in the West Indies, which as it proved gainful, so the commodities we had in exchange there for our cattle and provisions, as sugar, cotton, tobacco, and indigo, were a good help...  Bulletin of the Essex Institute - Page 6by Essex Institute - 1882Full view - About this book
 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 452 pages
...connived at the practice, so as our means of returns for English commodities were grown very short. It pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barbados...exchange there for our cattle and provisions, as sugar, cotlon, tobacco and indigo, were a good help to discharge our engagements in England. And this summer... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1826 - 440 pages
...English commodities were grown very short. It pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barhados and other Islands in the West Indies, which as it...there for our cattle and provisions, as sugar, cotton, tohacco and indigo, were a good help to discharge our engagements in England. And this summer there... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1853 - 518 pages
...connived at the practice, so as our means of returns for English commodities were grown very short. It pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barbados...tobacco, and indigo, were a good help to discharge out engagements in England. And this summer there was so great a drouth, as their potatoes and corn,... | |
 | Bruce McLeod - 1999 - 304 pages
...Indies.2* The trade and mutual emigration began in the 1630s leading Governor Winthrop to proclaim: "it pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barbados and other Islands in the West Indies" (quoted in Dunn Sugar and Slaves 336). Even the most "socially primitive" colonies, especially the... | |
 | William Randolph Scott - 2000 - 486 pages
...1640, John Winthrop appreciated its importance. He wrote that the Massachusetts economy was saved when "it pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barbados and other Islands in the West Indies." Although a relatively small number of New Englanders owned black slaves, the region was equally implicated... | |
 | Suk Hi Kim - 2010 - 232 pages
...1640, John Winthrop appreciated its importance. He wrote that the Massachusetts economy was saved when "it pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barbados and other Islands in the West Indies." Although a relatively small number of New Englanders owned black slaves, the region was equally implicated... | |
 | Richard B. Sheridan - 1994 - 572 pages
...Atlantic islands.14 But large-scale trading began in June 1647, when John Winthrop recorded in his diary: 'it pleased the Lord to open to us a trade with Barbados and the other Islands in the West Indies . . .'. Grain, beef, bread, fish, live cattle, and horses were... | |
 | Francis J. Bremer - 2003 - 520 pages
...economy. By the end of the decade Winthrop could record with pride that "it pleased the Lord to open us a trade with Barbados and other islands in the West Indies, which . . . proved gainful."42 Efforts were also undertaken to free the colonies of their dependence on English... | |
 | Francis J. Bremer - 2005 - 516 pages
...economy. By the end of the decade Winthrop could record with pride that "it pleased the Lord to open us a trade with Barbados and other islands in the West Indies, which . . . proved gainful."42 Efforts were also undertaken to free the colonies of their dependence on English... | |
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