Although the colomes depended on the mother country for many of their manufactured products, they engaged in a substantial amount of manufacturing and processing activities themselves By the 1760s the colonial economy had become large and diversified

Food a n d related products Wheat flour
Tobacco
Animal products
Meatpacking
Leather goods Shoes
Whale products
Lighting Oil
Candles
Fermented and distilled beverages
Refined sugar

Other food products

Textiles and textile products
Woolen
Cotton
Linen
Other textile goods

Forest products
Sawmill products
Casks and other wooden containers
Masts, spars, and other ship timbers
Pitch, tar, and turpentine
Furniture
Other forest products

Paper and printed materials:
Paper
Newspaper and other periodicals
Books
Other paper products

Chemicals and allied substances:
Industrial chemicals
Consumer chemicals:
Salt

Other chemical products
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Construction materials
Domestic utensils
Other stone, clay, and glass products

Metals:
Precious...