Yeah. Black Plague is native to Central America and is in Denver right now. They find sick rats all the time. The furs would have been moved overland to Rhode Island and sold at the trading post to traders going back to Europe.
30 posted on 06/01/2007 2:54:07 PM PDT by RightWhale
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I know there is plague in New Mexico and Colorado but it was furs coming from central American that surprised me. A warm climate doesn’t produce good furs.