Transactions were accomplished chiefly by the primeval method of barter.

Accordingly, this backwoods Legislature legalized the payment of taxes and salaries in kind, and set a standard of values.

The dollar was declared equal to six shillings, and a scale of prices was established.

Among the articles which were enumerated as being lawfully payable for taxes were bacon at six pence a pound, rye whiskey at two shillings and six pence a gallon, peach or apple brandy at three shillings per gallon, and country-made sugar at one shilling per pound.

Skins, however, formed the ordinary currency; otter, beaver, and deer being worth six shillings apiece, and raccoon and fox one shilling and three pence.