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1607-1644 |
On May 11, 2003 the Trading Party portrayed a trading post set up the banks of the James River on Jamestown Island representing trade with the local Indians during the first weeks of settlement in Virginia, circa May 1607. At Jamestown, a company clerk referred to as the "Cape Merchant" was responsible for governing trade with the Indians and setting the rates of exchange. The first cape merchant was Thomas Studley who died in August of 1607, Edward Maria Wingfield temporarily filled as cape merchant but became ill and those duties were taken over by Captain John Smith who found the accounts and inventory in shambles.
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The Seventeenth Century SiteRing This site owned by The Trading Party |
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