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New York was a middle colony and had rich farms with cash crops. By 1759 NY. was producing 80,000 barrels of flour a year. They traded corn, wheat, beef, pork. Large farms were built and manufacturing was in glass textiles, and paper. Shipyards and iron mine also were an industry. By 1770 they were producing 400 ships a year.

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