Four cornet caps, with lace, one without lace 3 0 0

One black silk rain cloth 0 10 0

One yellow love-hood 0 10 0

One black plush mask 0 16

One embroidered purse with a silver bugle and chain

to the girdle, a silver hook and eye 1 4 0

Five small East India boxes 0 1 6

Five hair curlings 0 7 0

Four yellow love drowlas 0 2 0

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One silver thread wrought small trunk 3 0 0

wherein are the following:

One pair black pendants, with gold hooks 0 10 0

One gold lioat, wherein thirteen diamonds to one white

coral chain 16 0 0

One pair gold stiicks or pendants, in each ten diamonds 25 0 0

Two diamond rings 24 0 0

One gold ring, with a clap beck 0 12 0

One gold ring, or hoop, bound round with diamonds . 2 10 0

Mr. Samuel Leete, clerk of the Court of Mayor and Aldermen in 1679, who is styled " a literary gentleman," was worth £23 10s. in garments and furniture. Cornelius Steenwyck, " one of the principal merchants and leading citizens of New Amsterdam," who died in 1686, kept the following enviable total of chattels in

the " great chamber " of his house :

Valuation .

£ ». ((.

Pl.ite of all kinds, 723 ounces 216 0 0

Different species of money 300 0 0

Gold chain, gold metal, gold child's whistle 49 0 0

One cloth coat, silver buttons 4 15 0