A Journal of the Chippeway River Outfit Prairie - University of ...

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December 1848
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Colton arrived with the pony tonight
nothing else occurred.
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Sold 2 bunches seed beads – 3 yd blk ribbon #5
2 dress skins – La Gard & Lasart arrived
[Editor’s note: illegible.]
12 th
Sold 5 ½ yds callico @ 1/6 – sold to indians 4 bars lead
say 6# flour – 3 gal corn meal – got of indians
meat 5# green skine – Edward arrived yesterday
returns as follows with indian credits &c –
78# green deer skin – 20 # blue 2 martins – 4 fishers –
2 coons 2 bears – 2 pr moccassins – 1 ¾ # dress
leather – 26 pr sinews – havin sold 9 gal whiskey
10 pr ear bobs – 4 skns worsted 1 pk cards 1 farth scarlet
1 farthom S.L. cloth – 1 vermillione – ½ seed beads
3 yds callico – 2 looking glasses – thread
Lent J.E. 1 bay comb
13 th
Sold on a/c 1 pr socks white – 1 madrass hdkf –
1 yellow covered looking glass – sold 1 doz pipes
fro Belisle for Trappania cash $4 00
sold on a/c 1 ½ qt whiskeys – gave to a woman
to dry – 5 green deer skins & 1 pr snow
shoes to lace Solde to indians on a/c 1½ pt
blanket 1 farth G.L. cloth – 8 bars lead –
got of same 1 sm he bear skine
20 S.L. cloth – According to
“Wools in the Fur Trade,” the
S.L. refers to save list. (This is
confirmed by the inventory list
at the end of the journal.) Save
list meant that the selvedge was
not dyed with the rest of the
cloth.
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