4. Colony Region Economic activity Massachusetts New England Shipbuilding, shipping, fishing, lumber, rum, meat New Hampshire New England Ship masts, lumber, fishing, trade, shipping, livestock, foodstuffs Connecticut New England Rum, iron foundries, shipbuilding Rhode Island New England Snuff, livestock New York Middle Furs, wheat, glass, shoes, livestock, shipping, shipbuilding, rum, beer, snuff Delaware Middle Trade, foodstuffs New Jersey Middle Trade, foodstuffs, copper Pennsylvania Middle Flax, shipbuilding Virginia Southern Tobacco, wheat, cattle, iron Maryland Southern Tobacco, wheat, snuff North Carolina Southern Naval supplies, tobacco, furs South Carolina Southern Rice, indigo, silk Georgia Southern Indigo, rice, naval supplies, lumber