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years set out a vineyard should pay to Ricliards five 

 shillings for every acre of vines so set out. We have 

 been unable, however, to find any account of his suc- 

 cess or failure, and the probability is, that after a 

 short time the enterprise was abandoned. A gentle- 

 man in Hoboken, also, had a fine vineyard which 

 after a little time fell into decay. 



Beauchamp Plantagenet, in his "Description of 

 the Province of New Albion," published in London 

 in 1648, states that the English settlers in Uvedale 

 (now Delaware) had vines running on mulberry and 

 sassafras trees, and that there were four kinds of 

 grapes. "The first is the Tholouse Muscat, sweet 

 scented ; the second, the great fox and thick grape, 

 after five moneths reaped, being boyled, and salted, 

 and well -fined is a strong red Xeres; the third, a 

 light claret ; the fourth, a white grape, creeps on the 

 land maketh a pure, gold-colored wine. Tennis Pale, 

 the Frenchmen, of these four made eight sorts of ex- 

 cellent wine ; and of the Muscat, acute boyled, that 

 the second draught will fox (intoxicate) a reasonable 

 pate four moneths old ; and here may be gathered 

 and made two hundred tun in the vintage moneth, 

 and replanted will mend." 



In 1683, William Penn attempted to establish a 

 vineyard near Philadelphia, but without success. 

 The same result attended the efforts of Andrew Dore 



