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Definition of Peage
1. n. See Paage.
Definition of Peage
1. peag [n -S] - See also: peag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peage
Literary usage of Peage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the Century by Edward Field (1902)
"Rhode Island seems to have followed the precedent set by Massachusetts in declaring
peage a legal tender, and the early government of Newport and Portsmouth ..."
2. The Lands of Rhode Island: As They Were Known to Caunounicus and Miantunnomu by Sidney Smith Rider (1904)
"This £12, los. was to be paid in peage. at four or eight the penny, ... Thus, if
the white man paid the Indian in white peage. he gave him 24.000 pieces, ..."
3. Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society by Rhode Island Historical Society (1900)
"The payment was due Sometime in Aprill 1661. The Sachems gave possession of the
land in 1662, wch They would not have don, if their peage had beene ready to ..."
4. The Records of the Proprietors of the Narragansett: Otherwise Called the by James Newell Arnold, John Fones (1894)
"... the snme of Eleven pounds in goods and peage at eight y, penny and is in lieu
of what was promise from ye last time we were at ..."
5. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England by New Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts General Court, Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, David Pulsifer (1859)
"... the endians wch best vnderstand the quality and defect of peage will not
willingly take backe ... that noe peage neither whitte or blacke bee payed or ..."
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