Aptucxet Trading Post

Aptucxet Trading Post was set up in 1627 to by the Plymouth Colony where the Dutch and Native Indians traded furs of beaver, otter, and muskrat. They also traded linen, wool blankets, and tobacco, lumber, hatchets, corn, trinkets, and knives and used wampum as a currency as well. The location was on the Scusett River that provided easy access to the post. The post is to consider being the first business trading establishment in the New World. The Aptucxet Trading Post was originally an English trading post that Isaack De Rasieres in the Original Narratives of Early American History: Narratives of the New Netherland 1609-1664, and describes it as a six hour walk through the woods.