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Articles. Quantity. Price in dollars. Am. in dollars.




 Tobacco   55,000 hhds. of 1000 lb.   at 30 d. per hhd. 1,650,000  
 Wheat  800,000 buſhels  at 5/6 d. per buſhel. 666,666⅔ 
 Indian corn  600,000 buſhels  at ⅓. d. per buſhel.  200,000  
 Shipping 100,000  
 Masts, planks, ſcantling, ſhingles, ſtaves  66,666⅔ 
 Tar, pitch, turpentine,   30,000 barrels  at 1⅓ d. per bar. 40,000  
 Peltry,[1]      180 hhds. of 600 lb.  at 5/12 d. per lb. 42,000  
 Pork    4,000 barrels  at 10 d. per bar. 40,000  
 Flaxſeed, hemp, cotton 8,000  
 Pit-coal, pig-iron 6,666⅔ 
 Peas    5,000 buſhels  at d. per buſhel.  3,333⅓ 
 Beef    1,000 barrels  at 3⅓ d. per bar. 3,333⅓ 
 Sturgeon, white ſhad, herring 3,333⅓ 
 Brandy[2] & whiskey 1,666⅔ 
 Horſes 1,666⅔ 


This ſum is equal to 850,000l. Virginia money, 607,142 guineas.  2,833,333⅓ Dols. 


  1. viz. ſkins of deer, beavers, otters, muſkrats, raccoons, foxes
  2. from peaches & apples