One i>air black worsted stockings 0 4 0
One i>air gray worsted stockings 0 5 0
One coat lined with red serge 1 15 0
Two old coats 1 10 0
One fine black hat, one old gray hat, one black hat. . . 1 10
One black gros-grained suit 1 17 0
Mrs. De Lange was a fashionable lady, well -known to the families along the Hudson in 1685. Here is the appraisement of her costumes and their accessories :
Valuation.
£ «. d.
One under petticoat, with a body red-bay 0 17 0
One under petticoat, scarlet 1 15 0
One red cloth petticoat, with black lace 2 15 0
One 8tri|)«d stuff petticoat 1 8 0
One colored drugget petticoat, with red lining 0 16 0
One colored drugget petticoat, with gray lining .... 0 16 0
One do do do do .... 0 6 0
One do do do white lining 0 10 0
One do do do do .... 0 8 0 One do do do do with pointed
lace 0 8 0
One black silk petticoat, with ash gray silk lining ... 1 00
One black pottofoo petticoat, with black silk lining. . . 2 15 0
One black pottofoo petticoat, with taffeta lining. . . .1 13 0
One black silk potoso-a-samare, with lace 3 0 0
One black tartanel saniare, with a tucker 1 10 0
> Silver buttons and buckles marked every gentleman's costume. The plate silver buttons, made of Spanish dollars and smaller coins, which flourished in England in the days of Qiieen Anne, were worn in America. Wl full dress for gentlemen required knee and shoe-buckles, which were of silver or, for great occasions, of paste, artistically set in blue enamel and gold, and costing one hundred dollars the pair.