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nary election feast, had a part of the dinner cooked in 

 the establishment of Baron Warner, on the hill, high 

 towering above the circumscribed premises of the little 

 colony. 



A good Turtle and a Barbacue were common appenda- 

 ges at election dinners, to which strangers and friends of 

 members were usually invited. This hospitable custom 

 is continued. 



A bill is before us, receipted by Caleb Cash to Governor 

 Stretch, October 5th 1757, for £ 7. 11. 8 1-2. in which a 

 Shoat is introduced, with a fine green Turtle, and the ap- 

 pendages for a Turtle feast, of a leg of veal and rich spices, 

 a large round of beef, perch, rock and grey squirrel^, 

 figure as usual, with punch and wine the ordinary beve- 

 rage, and seven shillings worth of pipes and tobacco. 



The Turtle commonly provided; it is presumed, were of 

 considerable weight, if the cost is any criterion in times 

 of comparatively cheap living, when bread was but three 

 pence a pound loaf, beef three and a half pence, and ma- 

 deira eight or ten shillings the gallon. We have before 

 us a receipt, for one of these exquisite shell fish of the 

 deep. 



Received Philada. 10th Octr. 1767, of Mr Joseph 

 Stiles, four pounds, ten shillings, in full for a turtle sold 

 to Mr. Davenport, for the use of the Schuylkill Fishing 

 Company. 



SAML: ROGERS. 



£ 4. 10. 0. 



