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What crops were grown in Massachusetts?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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They had poor soil so they were subsistence farmers producing enough food for their own needs. They grew wheat, barley and oats. The seaports were important and so was shipbuilding and fishing/whaling. The timber industry was also important and the people traded with the Natives as well.

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