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Old 06-26-2006, 08:45 PM   #1
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Since the 230th anniversary if our independence from England and George III is upon us, I wondered what tobacco was like in 1776. Pretty rough, or not so bad?


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Since the 230th anniversary if our independence from England and George III is upon us, I wondered what tobacco was like in 1776. Pretty rough, or not so bad?


http://www.earlyamerica.com/music/YankeeDoodle.midi

OK Tiger since no one responded I did a little google search....Very interesting..Tobacco was used as currency and more valuable than Gold or Silver!! ....SEE BELOW..

http://www.tobacco.org/History/colonialtobacco.html

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OK Tiger since no one responded I did a little google search....Very interesting..Tobacco was used as currency and more valuable than Gold or Silver!! ....SEE BELOW..
Kind of like how it is in Prison
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Old 06-29-2006, 09:02 PM   #4
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Fascinating, Drrgill. I knew it was valuable, but I had no clue it was like that. Does anyone hve a clue asto how it smoked or how it ws treated?
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Fascinating, Drrgill. I knew it was valuable, but I had no clue it was like that. Does anyone hve a clue asto how it smoked or how it ws treated?
Since they used it for money...Roll up a 20 and see how it tastes....No I bet the actual tobacco was simmilar to our Virgina of today but we have all the blends now....not sure but I bet more people back then smoked pipes like people smoke Cigs today....Also I wonder if they had any Aromatics??

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And from what I hear, some of the descendent's of those revolutionary war families have been aging some of the tobacco for the last 200+ years...must be some good chit buried away somewhere...sorta like all that pre-embargo Cuban stuff they use in the Pinars...
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