Because there were no towns and no stores in the early North Carolina colony, the settlers there had to rely on trading to get supplies they couldn't grow or produce themselves. The

Earthenware Olive Jar

North Carolina colonists traded with the Virginia colony, as well as with England, Holland, New England, and the Caribbean Islands. Animal furs, turpentine, tar, tobacco, and wood used in boat building were exchanged by North Carolina settlers for manufactured goods such as cloth and pottery, and for foodstuffs like wine, rum, sugar, and salt. Much of the pottery called delftware found on seventeenth-century North Carolina sites was probably made in Holland. Other pottery found on the site was made by colonists living in New England.