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The New England colonies would trade for a living.

Most of the trading was done by New Englanders because the farming was bad there and so that was a good way to earn a living. Some of the objects that were trading are fish, whale products, ships, timber products, furs, maple syrup, copper, livestock products, and rum. The people that traded were called merchants and they would deliver the objects to other parts of the 13 colonies and some of them would deliver to England and China too.