Price of Trade Goods in the Southeast [1763-1766]
2 yds of Strouds--8 lbs. leather
1 Blanket--8 do
1 do Shag end-- 6 "
1 Snaffle Bridle-- 4 ditto
1 White Shirt-- 3 "
1 Check do-- 4 "
1 Fringed Housing-- 10 "
1 Laced ditto-- 6 "
1 Pr Gartering-- 4 "
1 do Dutch pretties-- 2 "
3 yds Quality binding-- 1 "
2 do Silk ferret-- 1 "
1 do Indian Callico-- 4 "
1 Trading Gun-- 16 "
10 flints--1 "
10 Hawk Bells-- 1 "
1/2 Pint Gun Powder-- 1 "
40 Bullets-- 1 "
1 Romall handkf.--2 lbs.
Saddles according to Quality
5 Strands Barley Corn Beads--1 "
20 Strands Common do-- 1 "
1 Pr Trading Scissars-- 1 "
1 Knife-- 1 "
1 Cutteau-- 3 "
1 Trading Rasor-- 2 "
1 Oz, Vermillion-- 1 "
3 Spans Brass Wire-- 1 "
1 Pr Ear Bobs-- 2"
1 Large Silk Bengall-- 4 "
1 Small ditto-- 3 "
12 Pea Buttons-- 1 "
Brass & Tin Kettles no fixed price
From the Mississippi Provincial Archives, 1763-1766, English Dominion, Volume I, by Dunbar Rowland, Brandon Printing Co., Nashville, 1911, page 215.
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