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The term "maritime fur trade" has been used by historians from the 1880s onwards [16] to distinguish the coastal ship-based fur trade from the continental land-based fur trade of, for example, the North West Company (1779–1821) of Montreal and the American Fur Company (1808–1847). [17]
John Campbell of the Bank, cashier of the Royal Bank of Scotland, c. 1749.A banknote can be seen on the table. Scottish trade in the early modern era includes all forms of economic exchange within Scotland and between the country and locations outwith its boundaries, between the early sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth.
Almost a century passed between the original Spanish exploration and the next wave of European immigration, [100] which allowed the survivors of the European diseases to organize into new tribes. [101] Most Spanish trade was limited with Indians on the coast until expeditions inland in the beginning of the 17th century. [96]
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The Virginia and Massachusetts charters were given to business corporations. Regular meetings of company officers and stockholders were the only governmental institutions required. The Virginia charter, issued in 1606, and revised in 1609 and 1612, was revoked upon bankruptcy of the sponsoring and organizing Virginia Company of London in 1624.
They are not therefore truly 'common' land in the sense that anyone can use them, and this distinction meant that it was often very easy for commonties to be divided between landowners after a series of Acts permitting this were passed by the Parliament of Scotland in the 17th century, most notably the 1695 Act for the Division of Commonties ...
These two provinces were also heavily involved in maritime operations and productions. For most of the 16th century, these lands were considered more rural than those of the southern Netherlands. They focused on slaughter cattle as a large means of trade. [12] At the end of the 16th century the Dutch had vastly expanded their maritime explorations.