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Updated: May 14, 2025

Fraudulent substitution was an active factor in many, if not all, of the shipping fortunes. The shippers and merchants practiced the grossest frauds upon the unsophisticated people. Walter Barrett, that pseudonymic merchant, who took part in them himself, and who writes glibly of them as fine tricks of trade, gives many instances in his volumes dealing with the merchants of that time.

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