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93:. The 1726 statute continued until 1731, when a new statute was passed that prescribed trade with Indigenous peoples "at such easy rates and prices as may oblige them to a firm adherence to His Majesty's interest". The 1731 statute continued, with modifications, until 1742. 85:—in which many Indigenous groups sided with the French—broke out. The 1699 statute was reenacted every year until 1703. A later statute, passed in 1726, used the truckhouse system to implement terms of the 81:, legislature of the province of Massachusetts Bay, established truckhouses by statute in 1699. An earlier statute creating truckhouses had been passed in 1694, but the system was disrupted when 70:
erupted. Despite its dominance, however, the system did not generally turn a profit. Truckhouses sold goods to Indigenous buyers at low prices. The aim of the truckhouse system was to disrupt
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Ghere, David L.; Morrison, Alvin H. (2001). "Searching for Justice on the Maine Frontier: Legal Concepts, Treaties, and the 1749 Wiscasset Incident".
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in the area, not primarily to supplement government revenue. It also served as a means of regulating settlers' trade with Indigenous peoples.
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Ghere, David L. (1993). "The "Disappearance" of the Abenaki in Western Maine: Political Organization and Ethnocentric Assumptions".
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rivers. Leach argues that truckhouses "completely dominated" trade in the eastern colonies between 1726 and the 1740s, when
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MacFarlane, Ronald Oliver (March 1938). "The Massachusetts Bay Truck-Houses in Diplomacy with the Indians".
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rivers. The Saint John truckhouse was destroyed by the British in 1777. Another truckhouse on the
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Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier
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and father of a cleric of the same name; John Noyes; and Jabez Bradbury, a militiaman.
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passed a truckhouse statute in 1758 which was based on the Massachusetts law. The
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and the British Crown, included provisions establishing truckhouses in
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Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine
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Truckhouse officials, known as truckmasters, included:
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Index

trading post
British America
North American fur trade
province of Massachusetts Bay
monopoly
trade
Nashua
Merrimack
Piscataqua
King George's War
French diplomatic influence
Massachusetts General Court
King William's War
Treaty of Falmouth
Dummer's War
American Revolutionary War
Saint John
Penobscot
Machias
Kennebec
Samuel Moody
Joseph Kellogg
Indian agent
province of Pennsylvania
Halifax Treaties
Miꞌkmaq
Nova Scotia
R v Marshall

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