. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . Campbells Black Wampum. Wampum Industry in Bergen County 31 twelve barrels at a time. They sold many of the blaek heartsto the farmers wives and daughters for miles around, whomade the wampum. The Campbells would purchase it fromthem direct or through the country store dealers, who ex-changed merchandise for it, and with whom the Campbellsmade contracts for all acquired, I went on many trips withmy father when a boy, said one of the descendants, oneplace being at Schraalenburgh to a general store kept by aman named Conklin. My
. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . Campbells Black Wampum. Wampum Industry in Bergen County 31 twelve barrels at a time. They sold many of the blaek heartsto the farmers wives and daughters for miles around, whomade the wampum. The Campbells would purchase it fromthem direct or through the country store dealers, who ex-changed merchandise for it, and with whom the Campbellsmade contracts for all acquired, I went on many trips withmy father when a boy, said one of the descendants, oneplace being at Schraalenburgh to a general store kept by aman named Conklin. My father would often pay him in cashas high as $500 for the wampum taken in trade. As this is -. > -T ?f-^ ^y-r-/--- -y-i **:-*?. *** to^M*Ur--.,fl ^.we^^j^. Unfinished Moons (From Old Site). only one instance as to the financial part of it, it shows some-what of the industry that was carried on in the homes. Jane Ann Hell, of New Milford, was an expert andworked for seven or eight years about 1850 for the Campbellshi her home. There were many that worked out the blanks,a* the unfinished work was called, the Campbells doing thepolishing and finishing at the mint. The finding of shell scrapheaps around the county is thus explained. John [>ross, an•Xpert on the black wampum and the last to work for theKttii, died March, 1917. The firm sold the black wampum beads for $5 per thou-KHffcl, every string twelve inches long and each string countedas fifty. Twenty strings equaling 1,000. 32 Wampum Industry in Bergen Count}) The white wampum beads were only half the value ofthe black. THE WAMPUM MOOXS. The conch shells, from which they were made, werebrought from the West Indian ports as ballast to the NewYork City do
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