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

One stufl' coat, silver plate buttons 4 00

One black coat and breeches 2 00

One pair cloth breeches 0 10 0

One cloth coat, gimp buttons 2 10 0

One black cloth coat 2 10 0

One black velvet coat, old 3 0 0

One colored stuff coat and breeches 1 10 0

One silk coat, breeches and doublet 1 5 0

One silver cloth breeches and doublet 0 6 0

One old velvet waistcoat, with silver lace 0 15 0

One old coat, silver plate buttons 2 30

Six pieces of clothes, as coats, breeches and doublets .... 2 50

One buff coat and silk sleeves 1 10 0

One yellow silk scarf, with silver fringes 1 5 0

One light-colored gros green closk 1 00

One dark-coloreil gros green cloak, with lining 2 5 0

One cloth-colore<i cloak, with lining of bay, with wrought

silver buttons 2 10 0