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" ... hogsheads, every hogshead holding seven bushels of London measure, and every bushel was by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much beaver as was worth... "
Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society - Page 81
by Danvers Historical Society - 1919
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Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin ..., Volume 1

Peter Force - Bermuda Islands - 1836 - 436 pages
...encrease of it 52 Hogsheads, euerie Hogshead holding seuen Bushels of London measure, ami euerie Bushell was by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much Beauer as was worth 18 shillings ; and so of this 13 Gallons of Corne which was worth 6 shillings 8...
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Chronicles of the first planters of the colony of Massachusetts bay ...

Alexander Young - 1846 - 612 pages
...planters have had by our Indian corn. Credible persons have assured me, and the party himself avouched the truth of it to me, that of the setting of thirteen...by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much 1 Probably the meadow spear * They had at this time in the grass (poanervata), or the foul mea- Plantation...
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Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volume 3

New England - 1847 - 340 pages
...avouched the truth of it to me, that of the setting of 13 gallons of corne hee hath had encrease of it 52 hogsheads, every hogshead holding seven bushels of...by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much beaver as was worth 13 shillings ; and so of this 13 gallons of corne, which was worth 6 shillings...
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Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volume 3

New England - 1847 - 366 pages
...encrease of it 52 hogsheads, every hogshead holding seven bushels of London measure, and every bushell was by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much beaver as was worth 13 shillings; and so of this 13 gallons of corne, which was worth 6 shillings 8...
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The New England Farmer, Volume 4

Agriculture - 1852 - 598 pages
...planters have had by our Indian corn. Credible persons have assured me, and the party hiinealf avouched the truth of it to me, that of the setting of thirteen...to the Indians, for so much a beaver, as was worth eighdivided by six, would give us eight and two-thirds of an acre to be planted. The amount of corn...
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A History of Natick, from Its First Settlement in 1651 to the Present Time ...

Oliver N. Bacon - Natick (Mass.) - 1856 - 304 pages
...increase of it 52 hogsheads, every hogshead holding seven bushels of London measure, and every bushell was by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much beaver as was worth 13 shillings ; and so of this 13 gallons of corne, which was worth 6 shillings...
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Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 4

American Antiquarian Society - Roanoke Colony - 1860 - 378 pages
...have had by our Indian corne. Credible persons have assured me, — and the partie himselfe avouched the truth of it to me, — that, of the setting of thirteen gallons of corne, hee hath had encrease of it 52 hogsheads; every hogshead holding seven bushels, of London measure:...
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Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the ..., Volume 4

American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1860 - 378 pages
...have had by our Indian corne. Credible persons have assured me, — and the partie himselfe avouched the truth of it to me, — that, of the setting of thirteen gallons of corne, hee hath had encrease of it 52 hogsheads ; every hogshead holding seven bushels, of London measure:...
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New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and ...

John Josselyn - Botany - 1865 - 186 pages
...them, for then their Cods fent ftrongeft. thirteen gallons of corne, hee hath had encrease of it 52 hogsheads ; every hogshead holding seven bushels,...by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much beaver as was worth 18 shillings. And so, of this 13 gallons of corne, which was worth 6 shillings...
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New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and ...

John Josselyn - Botany - 1865 - 190 pages
...encrease of it 52 hogsheads; every hogshead holding seven bushels, of London measure : and every bushell was by him sold and trusted to the Indians for so much beaver as was worth 18 shillings. And so, of this 13 gallons of corne, which was worth 6 shillings...
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