[Pamphlets. American history]

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Prices are indicated by the following charges:
~ s. d.
Pork, per bbl...................................... 10 0 0
Flour. per bbl., of 166 lbs..................................... 8 6 0
Indian corn............................................... 32s. per bush.
Ruin................................................... 30s. do gal.
Vinegar................................................. 16s. do do
Green tea................................ 20s. do lb.
Coffee.................................................. 5s. do do
Chocolate................................................ 7s. do do
Castile soap............................................... 5s. do do
Cinnamon................................................ 40s. do do
ANutmegs................................................. 40s. do do
Cloves................................................. 4s. do oz.
Salt..................................................... ~4 do keg.
Candles...................................................3s. 6d. do lb.
Snuff.................................................... 12s. do do
In one instance a slave is charged at ~100.
A somewhat unique currency, or measure of values, prevailed
among those who traded with the Indians, vis: " bucks" and:' does,"* instead of pounds and dollars. Thus Col. GIBSON,
commanding at Fort Laurens, acknowledges himself indebted to
"; Capt. JOHNNY " for pork furnished the garrison, "' seven bucks
and one doe."
I find a contemporaneous charge to GEORGE GIRTY, as follows:
Bucks.
To salt, at Shawny towns............................................ 4
To 116 lbs flour...................................................... 14
To one bag with do................................................. 2
Tobacco......................... 3
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A' buck" was equivalent to about one dollar.
The expedition for which such ample preparations were made,
was organized in the Spring of 1780. An attempt was made to
get up a volunteer force to accompany the Indians. For this
purpose, a popular and influential Frenchman, LouIS JEANCAIRE
CHOBART, was commissioned as Captain, and an Englishman,
afterwards a leading and influential merchant, JONATHAN SCHEIFFLEIN, as Lieutenant. These with two sergeants and a corporal,
all Frenchmen, undertook to organize a company. Twenty-five
men, of whom twenty-one bore French names, did volunteer, but
no more. Then follows in the record a list of thirty-two names,
under the significant heading " qrdered to go." Of these, all but
*Abbreviated parlance for buckskins and doeskins. L. C. D.