outthrive

Updated: May 7, 2025

Bellomont in 1700 ascribed the superior trade of Massachusetts to the fact that Fletcher had corruptly sold the best lands in New York province and had thus brought on bad conditions. Had it not been for this, he wrote, New York "would outthrive the Massachusetts Province and quickly outdoe them in people and trade."

Myers Gustavus - History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I: Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times