ABSTRACT
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the British American colonies had achieved an unprecedented level of economic and political integration with Great Britain. J. H. Elliott, E. H. Koenigsberger have written about the complex nature of early modern states and monarchies, and early modern England was a decidedly composite state. In his essay “Political Development,” John M. Murrin explored the ways in which the British colonies became better integrated with the empire in the decades following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. While colonies as diverse as Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia each experienced the pull of integration with London, they did so through mechanisms that reflected their particular economic and social trajectories. First enacted in 1711, then again in 1722 and 1729, the White Pines Act required owners of these pines, abundant especially in New Hampshire, to meet the needs of the British navy before they could sell to other buyers.
