sentences:  For example, while one of the earliest shipments of sassafras in 1602 weighed as much as a ton, by 1626, English colonists failed to meet their 30-pound quota.The gathering of sassafras bark brought European settlers and Native Americans into contact sometimes dangerous to both groups.Sassafras was such a desired commodity in England, that its importation was included in the Charter of the Colony of Virginia in 1610.