Abstract
THE most striking innovation in the conduct of the fur trade in colonial New England was the establishment of truck-houses owned and operated by the Province of Massachusetts. Like their neighbors to the south, all the New England colonies realized the importance of trade in maintaining friendly relations with the natives. None could afford to allow commercial contacts with the Indians to go unregulated. Restrictions on the sale of liquors, firearms, and ammunition were general, and many of the colonies licensed all persons engaged in barter. But Massachusetts was the first government to go the full distance in regulation: that is, to assume complete responsibility for the conduct of the trade. The public truck-houses were established to win the friendship of the Indians, rather than to earn a profit for the colony. This end was to be achieved by protecting the tribes from abuses which were all too common in their relations with
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