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they are very delicate fruit, & hang almost like our onions
that are tied on ropes. Vol. I. p. 153.

He speaks of wild fruits but evidently the peaches he
saw were not wild.  Stacy lived somewhere in "West New Jersey"
probably not far from Burlington.*  He was a member of the
assembly in 1682, Gawen Lawrie, ariving [arriving] Deputy Governor
of East Jersey, under Robert Barclay, writes thus from
Elizabethtown, to the proprietors at London, viz.

* * "All things very plenty; land very good as ever I 
saw: vines, walnuts, peaches, strawberries, and many other
things plenty in the woods." Vol. I, p. 155.

Wm. Penn, Proprietor and Governor of Pennsylvania, first
landed in America, October, 1682.  On Aug. 16, 1683, hw
wrote a long letter from Philadelphia "To the Committee of
the Free Society of Traders, of that province, residing in
London, containing a general description of said province"
from which I quote:

"The fruits that I find in the woods are the white and
black mulberry, chestnut, walnut, plums, strawberries, cranberries,
hurtleberries, and grapes of divers [diverse] sorts. * * *

*Stacy's letter was written from "Falls of the Delaware",
April 26, <s>17</s> 1680, to his brother Revell and others
in England - see History of New Jersey by Jno. O.
Raum - p. 108.
        