1670's

Updated: May 14, 2025

In the 1670's prices climbed to one and one-half pence, but a tremendous crop in 1680 glutted the market again. The crop was said to have been so large that it would have supplied the demand for the next two years, even if none were produced in 1681.

G. Melvin Herndon - Tobacco in Colonial Virginia: "The Sovereign Remedy"