muscovodo

Updated: May 10, 2025

In his stores were to be found duffels and cotton goods, window glass, lead and solder, pills, etc. At one time he ordered from Barbadoes 1,200 gallons of rum, 3,000 pounds of "muscovodo sugar," 200 pounds of white sugar, three tons of molasses, one cask of lime-juice and two-hundredweight of ginger. A handsome profit often came to him through the importing and sale of white servants.

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker - Patrician and Plebeian: Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion