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1631 "Of such value was the trade in peltry, to the first planters, that each colony claimed and maintained an exclusive right of trading with the Indians, within the limits of its own patent. Hence arose serious contests between the colonies. In 1631, a small pinnace from Salem, bound to Boston, was driven into Plymouth by adverse winds, and the governor of Plymouth was so much alarmed with the fear the people should open a trade with the natives, that he forbad them and threatened to oppose them by force. A similar jealousy caused a contest between the Plymouth traders at Kennebec, and a trading boat from Pascataqua, in which two men were killed. This trade also was a principal cause of the controversy between the English and the Dutch, concerning the right to Connecticut river. And so valuable was the trade, that the English even planted maize for the Indians, the better to enable them to spend their time in collecting beaver." Webster's U.S. p. 175