While working on the proposed new alignment for Route 301 in central 
Delaware we have encountered numerous sites dating from the late 17th 
through mid-18th centuries associated with smuggling tobacco out of the 
Chesapeake Bay overland to the Delaware Bay to avoid paying customs 
duties.  These sites include landings, a network of cart routes, a ford, and 
numerous support sites, such as tenant farmers supplying provisions, 
intelligence, shelter, and fresh oxen.  Eight to ten ton shallops were drawn by 
oxen on sleds or in "great carts" eight miles overland.  This area of Delaware 
does not have the best soils for farming yet sites along the cart paths exhibit 
higher value than expected material culture.  Has anyone worked on sites of 
this nature elsewhere?