. Historical sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne Co., ad, nee-dles, pins, calico, muslin and cambric (in small quan-tities), to the most opulent; and these made the bulkof the necessaries. The luxuries may be summed upin rum, whisky, tobacco and snuff. The old settlers of that day generally smokedtheir tobacco in pipes. The charges of pipes, atthree-pence a piece, are numerous. The only entry Ifind of cigars are several charges to John Turner, atthe very moderate price of three-pence a dozen. The accounts embrace the names of the peoplegenerally of the town—Calvin and Noah Wadhams,Benjamin E

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. Historical sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne Co., ad, nee-dles, pins, calico, muslin and cambric (in small quan-tities), to the most opulent; and these made the bulkof the necessaries. The luxuries may be summed upin rum, whisky, tobacco and snuff. The old settlers of that day generally smokedtheir tobacco in pipes. The charges of pipes, atthree-pence a piece, are numerous. The only entry Ifind of cigars are several charges to John Turner, atthe very moderate price of three-pence a dozen. The accounts embrace the names of the peoplegenerally of the town—Calvin and Noah Wadhams,Benjamin Eeynolds, Abraham and James Nesbitt,Samuel and James Pringle, Thomas Davenport, Wil-liam Currie, George P. Ransom, Mrs. Rosannah Har-vey, Abraham, Nicholas and Stephen Yanloon, Hez-ekiah Roberts, Joshua Pugli, Jonah and Joel Rogers,Charles Barney, John and Daniel Turner, Jesse Cole-man, Moses Atherton, Jacob and Peter Gould andPhilip Andrus. These, with names already given,and a few others, were the principal customers atJoseph Wrights store in

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