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because they needed some way of obtaining fresh water from so they could drink it, and use it to grow crops. it was much quicker, when you were near by.

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the most important river in the middle colonies were the Delaware and the new York.

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in the absence of good roads, railroads and canals, rivers were important to travel on. And travel was important to trade.

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Hudson river, and the Delaware river

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