Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Elias Hasket Derby

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Elias Hasket Derby was a Colonial American merchant and owner of a fleet of privateers. It took over 150 prizes during the American Revolution, and his large, swift Grand Turk was the first New England vessel to trade directly with China, making him not only one of the wealthiest and most celebrated traders of post-Revolutionary in Salem, Massachusetts, but at one point the richest man in the United States.

American - Business person | August 16, 1739 - September 8, 1799

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Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.

Elias Hasket Derby

When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.

Elias Hasket Derby

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

Elias Hasket Derby

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