You might try contacting Historic St. Mary's City in Maryland (www.stmaryscity.org).  They have done a great deal of research on such things.

Keni Sturgeon
Jensen Arctic Museum


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nickson, Matthew" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 4:55 pm
Subject: Re: Cost of 18th Century Tobacco Question

> Hi,
> 
> have a look at the first volume of Daniel Boorstin´s award-winning 
> trilogy,The Americans
> This has an extensive bibliography re the period and the use of 
> tobacco as
> legal currency.
> 
> regards
> 
> Matthew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erin Spahr [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, 6 June 2003 1:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Cost of 18th Century Tobacco Question
> 
> 
> Hi all- I'm currently a graduate student in History at George Mason
> University in Fairfax, Virginia doing an internship at George 
> Washington'sMount Vernon.
> 
> I am currently in search of the cost of 18th century tobacco- 
> first, the
> cost of tobacco if you were to walk in to a general store and buy 
> a "pouch"
> of it, and second, how much did the English merchants (who bought the
> tobacco from Virginians) turn around and sell the tobacco for to the
> manufacturers.
> 
> If anybody has any of this information and can share their sources 
> with me,
> or can give me some suggestions as to where to look for this 
> information I'd
> really appreciate it. I'm a little stuck, and I need the 
> information for a
> future exhibit.
> 
> Thanks so much for your help,
> Erin Spahr
> 
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