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Colonies being appealed to for a remedy recommended to the separate governments to suppress this poor "peage" by law.

Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward

"peage" should still "remagne pawable from man to man, according to the law in force."

Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward

These Indian beads were known under a variety of names among the early colonists, and were called, _wampum_, _wampom-peage_, or _wampeage_, frequently _peage_ or _peake_ only, and in some localities _sewan_ or

Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward

_Peage_ or _peake_ signified simply "strung beads," and _wampom-peage_ accordingly signified "strings of white beads."

Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward

Even our pious forefathers were not always quite honest in their church contributions, and had to be publicly warned, as the records show, that they must deposit "wampum without break or deforming spots," or "passable peage without breaches."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Accordingly in 1648, the general courte of Connecticut ordered "that no peage, white or black, be paid or received, but what is strung and in some measure strung suitably, and not small and great, uncomely and disorderly mixt, as formerly it hath beene." [

Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Ashbel Woodward