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General Court against Samuel Onsteen for one hundred and twenty-seven pounds sterling, and four years later the same factor brought suit against William Drummond and Samuel Austin for the payment of a somewhat smaller amount.[1] In 1697, Benjamin Harrison shipped a cargo of tobacco directly to Scotland, but it is worthy of note that the name of the vessel was illegally changed in order to enter the port of its destination.[2]

  1. Records of General Court, pp. 5, 173.
  2. British State Papers, Colonial, Virginia B. T., vol. II, B. 3.