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constituting a part of an estate.[1] The references to wampumpeke are comparatively few.[2] The use of beaver as a currency appears to have been most common on the Eastern Shore, where eight pounds in 1687 was valued at one hundred and sixty pounds of tobacco. It was also the subject of specialty.[3]
- ↑ Records of Rappahannock County, vol. 1677-1682, p. 44; Ibid., vol. 1656-1664, p. 57, Va. State Library.
- ↑ Records of Accomac County, original vol. 1632-1640, pp. 19, 95.
- ↑ Ibid., p. 24. Beaver and moose skins were legal tender in Canada about 1669 and 1674. See Weeden’s Social and Economic History of New England, vol. I. p. 325. Rhode Island at one time made wool a standard of value. Ibid., vol. I, p. 328.
