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To Robin the tidier 0 ]2 I)

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To tunis Teahut for a spad stolen 1) 7 o

To Mr Alexander for Chease, to John Wright .... 2 id 10

To Zenger A Golett 2 5 0

To .\ngeneta Adolph 5 0 I)

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To Mr. Ale.xander 1 <) 73^

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Van Horne .^g 0 7

£72 5 2 "

speak, were subject to the competition set uj) by the smugglers, whose illicit tratlc in the harbor and for a long distance up the Hudson had much to do with stocking the bars of the tapsters and the cellars of the manorial lords, besides furnishing the Indians and slaves with the cheap licpiors that incited them to riot, " whereby," says the ordinance of October 26, IG/it), " almost all the calamities occur." This omnibus enactment proceeded after the smugglers with a stinging thong. Five hundred guilders was the fine fixed for the first offense, and the forfeiture of the " banjue, yacht, boat or canoe " the owner whereof attempted to evade the custom officers, for the second. Still the rewards of the jirohibited trade were so tempting, that the many seamen engaged in it continued to run the gauntlet. They brought their cargoes to the numerous secure nooks on the river-shore in Westchester County, and wIumi the contraband goods were once unloaded and run into the back-country, they might defy- detection.