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The economy was based mostly off of the fur trade and and the export of several agricultural products, such as wheat (that's a big one), pitch, tar, wood products (boats and stuff), and livestock.

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I don't know but I'm trying to find out. I think it was rich in farming and trading.

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In the early 1600s in New Jersey, first European settlements were established by the Dutch. The industrial history of New Jersey began in 1676 at Shrewsbury with the opening of an ironworks.

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Farming wheat, copper,lorn, and trading

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it is base on royal colony

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Tobacco.

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