1677.] 



HISTORY OP DELAWARE COUNTY. 



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rye & barley at four, and Indian corn at three gilders per 

 Scipple;^ tobacco and pork at eight stivers, and bacon at six- 

 teen stivers per lb., or else wampum or skins at the courant 

 price." 



The list of the Tydable persons presented to the Court on this 

 occasion, in giving us at this distant day some idea of the num- 

 ber and places of residence of these early settlers, forms a most 

 important and highly interesting part of the record. No apo- 

 logy will be needed for inserting the list at length. 



A LIST OF THE TYDABLE P^'SONS. 



* Scipple (Schepel) is three pecks, English. Van der Donck's Hist. N. Netherlands, 

 in N. Y. Hist. Col. N. S. i. 158. 



