HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: East Jersey
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American merchants such as philadelphia"s willings and morrises; boston"s. 1704: on the eve of the american revolution, namely in 1772, english exports to the. American colonies alone amounted to 6,024,000; that is, almost as much as. Colonial trade was just one-twelfth of the english export sector on the first date; it was much more than one-third on the second date. In 1704 pennsylvania purchased goods to the value of 11,459 in the english markets; in 1772 the same colony"s sales amounted to 507,909. In short, imports from pennsylvania increased fifty times within sixty-eight years, amounting to nearly all of england"s export trade to the colonies at the beginning of the century, in 1772. Indeed the american colonies were a great source of wealth for the english merchants. Philadelphia stood among these cities first in population. It had attracted about 25,000 people within its boundaries, just before the.
