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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.

Friday 19 July 2013

Early Trade Goods. Land Purchase.

The consideration of the deed for these lands, dated October
11th, 1736, was 500 pounds of powder, 600 pounds of lead, 45
guns, 100 blankets, 200 yards of cloth, 100 shirts, 40 hats, 40
pairs of shoes and buckles, 40 pairs of stockings, 100 hatchets,
500 knives, 100 hoes, 100 tobacco tongs, 100 scissors, 500 awls,
120 combs 2000 needles, 1000 flints, 20 looking glasses, 2 pounds
of Vermillion, 100 tin pots, 25 gallons of rum, 200 pounds of
tobacco, 1000 pipes, and 24 dozens of garters. That part of these
goods which represented the consideration for the lands on the
east side of the Susquehanna, was delivered, but that which rep-
resented the consideration for the lands on the west side of the
river, was, at the Indians' desire, retained, and was finally

delivered in 1742. 

"The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania," 

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