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- W137111170 abstract "With few exceptions, relatively little is known of the economic affairs of major eighteenth-century agriculturalists of the North Eastern seaboard. The article which follows is a contribution to our knowledge of this little-known subject. By concentrating on the activities of two leading members of the New Jersey gentry (Jacob Spicer and Aaron Learning), it shows that engaging in a variety of enterprises was crucial to their economic strategy. The author's two subjects undertook a varied array of business pursuits in addition to agriculture that included retailing, shipping, lumbering, milling, money lending, and even the encouragement of small-scale cottage industries. The profits of these supplementary activities grew until they exceeded the income received from producing foodstuffs. In addition, they managed to operate and improve their plantations without using gangs of unfree laborers. The careers of these two individuals suggest that continuing to view the northern, rural elite as a group whose basic economic orientation concerned the raising of foodstuffs for export will only distort the sweep of their economic activities.A l’exception de quelques faits, nous ne savons a peu pres rien de la condition economique des gros cultivateurs de la cote nord-est des Etats-Unis durant le XVIIe siecle. L’article qui suit apporte sur ce sujet des elements tres interessants. Portant son attention sur les activites de deux notables de la « gentry » du New Jersey (Jacob Spicer and Aaron Learning), l’auteur demontre que, pour mener a bien leur strategie, il etait capital qu’ils diversifient leurs entreprises. Les deux individus sur lesquels a porte l’enquete ont en effet des interets dans d’autres domaines que l’agriculture : la vente au detail, le transport maritime, l’industrie forestiere, l’exploitation de moulins, le pret d’argent, ou meme l’artisanat local. Les profits tires de ces activites crurent a un point tel dans leurs cas qu’ils excederent ceux venant de la production de denrees agricoles. En outre, ils reussirent a augmenter la productivite de leurs plantations sans avoir recours aux services des esclaves ou engages. L’examen de ces deux cas tend a demontrer qu’il n’est plus possible de continuer a voir les notables du Nord-est colonial comme un groupe dont la seule orientation etait de cultiver des produits alimentaires en vue de l’exportation, cette vision des choses ne correspondant pas du tout a la realite." @default.
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- W137111170 title "Economic Diversification and Labour Utilization Among the Rural Elite of the British Mid-Atlantic Colonies: A Case Study from the Delaware Valley" @default.
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