MEMORIES OF THE 



receipts to correspond, made out in days' labor, money not be- 

 ing mentioned in either. Entries are often found specifying the 

 kind of goods in which payment is to be made. For instance, 

 ''Truman Webb, one calf, to be paid in salt." How much salt 

 it took to liquidate a calf in those days we must guess. 



Legal work in the surrogate's court came cheap, as shown 

 by the charge, "Alfred Webb, to appraising your father's prop- 

 erty, with Elijah Fox, fifty cents." 



That they supplied themselves with salmon from Salmon 

 River in very early times, appears by several charges for a " team 

 to Richland to fetch back fish." 



When exchanges or trades were made, the difference was 

 called '' boot," and was stated in the account, as in the follow- 

 ing: *' Luther Stedman, boot in cattle, three dollars and fifty 

 cents." 



Although many of these old accounts seem to have been 

 made with men of extreme poverty, many charges of six or 

 eight items aggregating less than a dollar, with three or four 

 exceptions all appear balanced and paid. Orders given on the 

 store and other people in trade, or upon one another, and due- 

 bills given in settlement of accounts, seemed to pass around as 

 currency, instead of being liquidated when due, and some of 

 them are shown to have passed through several hands without 

 liquidation. 



And so they went on from year to year, trading, traffick- 

 ing and dealing in all kinds of property, presumably making 

 money but never seeing it. 



BARTER NOTE. 

 i^^Benjm. Wise Note, 32 Sheep, payable June 5, 1828") 

 "Value received. Four years from this date I promise to pay 



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