ABSTRACT
While Blackwell returned to London later sales of land and papers of the Board of Trade for New England indicate that he retained interests in America. Blackwell was consulted by administrators working for William III, no doubt eager for a firsthand account of affairs in America from a recent arrival and given the need to pin down the relationship between the new monarch and New England states. Blackwell, on his return to London, also involved himself in the rapidly developing financial responses to war by the new regime. Indeed, while negatively, Daniel Defore in 1700, made a direct link between those interested in projecting in America and financiers. Defoe, specifically referring to Penn and Cox, linked such ventures with ‘Stock-Jobbing’ as ‘Exchange-Brokers’ who ‘got the business into their hands, it became a Trade’ and ‘Thus Stock-Jobbing nurs’d ‘Projecting’. Blackwell, now returned to London, engaged once more with the financial developments of the 1690s that were further transforming the capital.
