The Bay State Monthly — volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
The Bay State Monthly — volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
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Tucker was a stern, hardmaster, and he enforced vigorous measures to compel the people to workfor the company. The provisions and stores he issued in certainquantities, and paid each laborer a stated sum in brass coin, struck bythe proprietor for the purpose, having a hog on one side, incommemoration of the abundance of those animals found by the firstsettlers, and on the reverse a ship. Pieces of this curious hog money, as it is called, is frequently found, and it brings a high price. [Illustr...ation: HOG MONEY. ] Shortly after Governor Tucker arrived he sent to the West Indies forplants and fruit trees. The vessel returned with figs, pine-apples, sugar-cane, plantain and paw-paw, which were all planted and rapidlymultiplied. This vessel also brought the first slaves into the colony, an Indaian and a negro. The company dispatched a small bark, called the Hopewell, with suppliesfor the colony, under the command of Captain Powell. On his way he met aPortuguese vessel homeward bound from Brazil, with a cargo of sugar, and, as Smith adds, "liked the sugar and passengers so well" he made aprize of her.
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