John Nelson, Merchant Adventurer: A Life Between Empires.

Business History | April 1, 1994| | Copyright

With some notable exceptions, much of the recent literature on the first British Empire has focused on the American plantation colonies and their trade with the mother country. In his biography of John Nelson, Richard Johnson draws our attention back to the northern colonial frontier and the Anglo-French struggle for control of Nova Scotia or Acadia. Born in 1653 into a London legal family and related on his mother's side to the well-connected Temple family, Nelson followed his uncle, Thomas Temple, in pursuing a career in Boston, Massachusetts from about 1670 onward. Over the ...

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