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0 7 Women at meate and drinke: 0 4 Men reapeing corne per diem, findeing themselves: 1 2 Men reapinge corne at meate and drinke: 0 8 Moweing an acre of grasse, findeing themselves: 1 2 Moweing an acre of grasse to hay: 1 6 Moweing an acre of barley: 1 1 Reapeinge and bindeinge an acre of wheate: 3 0 Cuttinge and bindeinge an acre of beanes and hookinge: 2 0 The shilling is about 24 cents and the penny 2 cents. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS.--The following is the list of names appended to that famous document, with the colony which each represented in Congress: New Hampshire--Josiah Bartlett; William Whipple, Matthew Thornton. Massachusetts--John Hancock, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine. Rhode Island--Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery. Connecticut--Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott. New York--William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. New Jersey--Richard Hockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. Pennsylvania--Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross. Delaware--Caesar Rodney, George Reed, Thomas McKean. Maryland--Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, William Paca, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Virginia--George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina--William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina--Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. Georgia--Button Gwinntet, Lyman Hall, George Walton. LIFE OF ETHAN ALLEN.--Colonel Ethan Allan was captured in an attack upon Montreal, September 25, 1775. He was sent as prisoner to Great Britain, ostensibly for trial, but in a few months was sent back to America, and confined in prison ships and jails at Halifax and New York till May 3, 1778, when he was exchanged. During most of his captivity he was treated as a felon and kept heavily ironed, but during 1777 was allowed restricted liberty on parole. After his exchange he again offered his services to the patriot army, but because of trouble
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