Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713

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Jewish merchants in, 119, 141–45; maturity, 1689–1733, 179–213; at midcentury, 47–83; as regular part of British colonists’ commercial system, 5–6, 11, 13; religious, cultural, and political ties in, 29–30; size of, 13; West Indian colonists turn away from, 215–21. See also trade centers and commodities by name Anglo-Dutch Wars: First, 47, 69, 73; Second, 87, 92–93, 98–100, 101, 113, 126, 136, 155; Third, 98, 146, 160–61, 167 Anglo-French trade, 199–200 Anglo-French wars: Anglo-French trade during, 199; Anglo-French War of 1666–67, 98, 126, 136; Dutch Republic affected by, 200; English freight rates rise during, 188; fail to disrupt trajectory of colonial development, 215; New York City trade affected by, 183, 201–2; no long-term dislocations caused by, 184 Anguilla, 24, 138, 194–95, 216 Antigua, 25; agents of Dutch merchants reside in, 140; annual produce of British Leeward Islands, 1724, 218; bans importation of foreign sugar products, Abondana (Abendana), Sara, 207 Albertson, Albert, 63–64, 66–67 Allerton, Isaac, 43 Amsterdam: Barbadians in, 67; Barbados trade, 1640–1660, 72; credit and insurance markets, 20; Experiment voyage from Barbados to, 117–19, 133; as fur market, 203; Jewish merchants in, 141, 142; lobbying for relaxation of embargo of 1650, 69; merchant population in, 19; merchants residing in Barbados, 66; Navarro family, 143; Navigation Act of 1651 prohibits direct trade from, 59; New York City trade, 111, 113–16, 151, 152, 153, 156, 175, 176; as sugar market, 22, 60, 118; as tobacco market, 35, 37, 126; Virginia trade, 73 Andros, Edmund, 167–71, 173, 176 Anglo-Dutch trade: achieving stability, 1660–1689, 85–178; attempts to secure trade in 1650s, 69–71; colonial weaknesses spur, 8, 33–34; distinguishing legal from illegal, 118–19, 144–45; diverging interests of West Indian and North American colonists, 215–27; early, 17–46; in English West Indies, 117–50; evolution of intracolonial networks, 181–213; Index Page numbers in italic refer to figures, maps, or tables. 286 / index trade with, 206, 207; Philipse’s trade with, 165; population of, 33, 89; predisposition to Dutch collaboration in, 9–10, 68, 132, 250n67, 266n54; prosecution for trade violators sought by, 104–5; separation of administration from Leeward Islands, 122; settlement of, 28; slaves imports, 56–57, 58, 89, 127, 131–32, 185, 198; smuggling in, 121, 124, 125, 191; strategies for avoiding Restoration regulations, 133–45; Stuyvesant visits, 69, 111, 251n71; sugar production, 9, 10, 49, 54–56, 60, 63, 89, 95–96, 97, 126, 129–31, 133, 188, 216, 217; taxation of foreign vessels in, 34, 61; tobacco production, 32, 37, 38, 49, 50, 54, 55, 100, 194 Barrentson, Herman, 64 Barscoe, Aaron, 118 Bayard, Anna Stuyvesant, 77 Bayard, Nicholas, 166, 175, 207 Beck, Matthias, 70, 109, 251n77 Bellomont, Governor Lord, 203, 204, 205 Blackall, John, 203, 209 Bolting Act, 210–12 Boot, Nicholaes, 76 Boshman, John and Peter, 140 Bradford, William, 41–42, 43 Brazil, 21, 22, 23, 44, 55, 142 Bridgetown (Barbados), 1, 3, 33, 66, 100, 129, 142, 143 Brise, Samuel, 181–82, 191, 201 British Atlantic: colonists’ trade with Dutch merchants, 5–7, 8–10; creation as negotiated effort, 224; Dutch merchants begin to turn away from Atlantic, 201; Dutch merchants in carrying trade in, 4–7, 10, 20, 21–23; English conquest of New Netherland strengthens, 107; English voyages of sixteenth century, 25–27; European wars affect trade in, 11, 182; map of, 21; official representations versus actual behavior, 1–3; Restoration government moves to remove Dutch trade from, 93; slavery binds it together, 183. See also North America; West Indies Brockholls, Anthony, 171–72 Broeck, Mattijs Ten, 167 Brooke, Childey, 204 Bueno de Mesquita, Joseph, 192, 207 219; Commonwealth rejected in, 57; Dirrickson resides in, 67; discrepancy in shipping between Leeward Islands and, 125; early difficulties on, 29; elite planters consolidate control, 216; foreign merchants supported in, 68; free trade supported in, 104, 105; French invasion of, 93, 99; in intracolonial networks, 194–95; New Amsterdam trade with, 80; New York City trade with, 207; planters’ debts to Dutch merchants, 1654/65, 53; runaway slaves in, 101; settlement of, 28; slave imports, 127, 217; smuggling in, 124, 135; tobacco production, 51, 188 Articles of Capitulation (1664), 108, 111, 112–13, 161 Atkins, Sir Jonathan, 101, 146–48 Ayscue, George, 59–60, 61 Bank of England, 184 Barasse, Abraham, 118 Barbados, 31–33; Anglo-Dutch trade after 1660, 129–33; attempts to maintain...