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Truckhouse - Wikipedia

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A truckhouse or truck-house was a type of trading post established by legislation in the colonies of British America to regulate the North American fur trade. Truckhouses were maintained in the early to mid-18th century.

Truckhouses in the province of Massachusetts Bay held a monopoly on trade with Indigenous peoples along the Nashua, Merrimack, and Piscataqua rivers.^[1] Leach argues that truckhouses "completely dominated" trade in the eastern colonies between 1726 and the 1740s, when King George's War erupted.^[2] Despite its dominance, however, the system did not generally turn a profit.^[3] Truckhouses sold goods to Indigenous buyers at low prices.^[3] The aim of the truckhouse system was to disrupt French diplomatic influence in the area, not primarily to supplement government revenue.^[3]^[4] It also served as a means of regulating settlers' trade with Indigenous peoples.^[5]

The Massachusetts General Court, legislature of the province of Massachusetts Bay, established truckhouses by statute in 1699.^[1]^[6] An earlier statute creating truckhouses had been passed in 1694, but the system was disrupted when King William's War—in which many Indigenous groups sided with the French—broke out.^[7] The 1699 statute was reenacted every year until 1703.^[8] A later statute, passed in 1726, used the truckhouse system to implement terms of the Treaty of Falmouth which followed Dummer's War.^[9] 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".^[10] The 1731 statute continued, with modifications, until 1742.^[11]

During the American Revolutionary War, there were truckhouses on the Saint John, Penobscot, and Machias rivers.^[12] The Saint John truckhouse was destroyed by the British in 1777.^[12] Another truckhouse on the Kennebec was closed before the war ended.^[13]

Truckhouse officials, known as truckmasters, included:^[14] Samuel Moody (1675–1747), a minister;^[15] Joseph Heath, a military official;^[16] Joseph Kellogg (1691–1756), a militiaman and trader;^[17] Thomas Smith, an Indian agent and father of a cleric of the same name;^[18] John Noyes; and Jabez Bradbury, a militiaman.^[19]^[20]

The province of Pennsylvania passed a truckhouse statute in 1758 which was based on the Massachusetts law.^[21] The Halifax Treaties, concluded in 1760–1 between the Miꞌkmaq and the British Crown, included provisions establishing truckhouses in Nova Scotia.^[22]

References

^ ^a ^b Leach 1966, p. 147.
^ Leach 1966, p. 148.
^ ^a ^b ^c Leach 1966, p. 149.
^ MacFarlane 1938, p. 48.
^ Leamon 1993, p. 4.
^ Massachusetts General Court (July 17, 1699). "An Act for Giving Necessary Supplies to the Eastern Indians, and for Regulating of Trade with Them". State Library of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/118892. OCLC 01696853.
^ MacFarlane 1938, p. 49.
^ MacFarlane 1938, p. 50.
^ MacFarlane 1938, p. 55.
^ MacFarlane 1938, pp. 56–57.
^ MacFarlane 1938, p. 57.
^ ^a ^b Leamon 1993, p. 97.
^ Leamon 1993, p. 218.
^ MacFarlane 1938, p. 51.
^ Bailey, Alfred G. (1974). "Moody, Samuel". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
^ Ghere, David L. (1993). "The "Disappearance" of the Abenaki in Western Maine: Political Organization and Ethnocentric Assumptions". American Indian Quarterly. 17 (2): 196. doi:10.2307/1185527. JSTOR 1185527.
^ Stearns, Raymond P. (1974). "Kellogg, Joseph". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
^ Saxine, Ian (April 23, 2019). Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier. Vol. 9. New York University Press. p. 111. doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479860524.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4798-3212-5. JSTOR j.ctv12pnnh2. OCLC 1090728635. S2CID 250101964.
^ Ghere, David L.; Morrison, Alvin H. (2001). "Searching for Justice on the Maine Frontier: Legal Concepts, Treaties, and the 1749 Wiscasset Incident". American Indian Quarterly. 25 (3): 388. doi:10.1353/aiq.2001.0044. ISSN 0095-182X. JSTOR 1185858. S2CID 159989309.
^ Gill, Eliza M. (1906). "The Bradburys of Medford and Their Ancestry". Medford Historical Register. Vol. 9. Medford Historical Society. OCLC 656758234.
^ Leach 1966, p. 162.
^ Patterson 1993, p. 55.

Sources

Leach, Douglas Edward (1966). The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1607–1763. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. OCLC 1036800156.
Leamon, James S. (1993). Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-0-585-15510-4. OCLC 1151155432.
MacFarlane, Ronald Oliver (March 1938). "The Massachusetts Bay Truck-Houses in Diplomacy with the Indians". The New England Quarterly. 11 (1): 48–65. doi:10.2307/360560. JSTOR 360560.
Patterson, Stephen E. (1993). "Indian-White Relations in Nova Scotia, 1749–61: A Study in Political Interaction". Acadiensis. 23 (1): 23–59. JSTOR 30303469.

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