1750 -- SECOND WAVE OF
              IMMIGRATION COMMENCES

Owing to the grave risk perceived to be inherent in the Commonwealth's 1748 decision to establish an alliance with the Twightwee Indians, an act that tested the resolve of the French by formally introducing an Indian buffer zone between the Colony and the French in Ohio, merchant Dupui opted to deny all credit-based transactions at his store throughout the following year (1749).  Thereafter, once the risk was deemed to have finally abated, Dupui restored credit terms, welcoming a second wave of area settlers that began to arrive in droves throughout the early 1750s.

These new homesteaders were more than sufficiently affluent, and to Dupui's delight, were steady consumers of flour, rye, wheat, hempseed, flax seed, oats, corn and "midlins," (often purchasing up to 150 lbs. at a time).  As to how these new settlers would pay for these purchases, the methods were indeed numerous:

by 2 months work, by work done by Rebecca, by cash, by 34 lbs. of butter, by 1 years work,

by 22 legs of venison, by weaving of 26 yards of cloth, by shoeing a pony, by 4 horse collars, by making a coffin for the Negro wench

Clearly, Dupui's grist mill operation was kept busy.  Additionally, repeated sales of pork, hogs, scythes and pitchforks were also recorded, as were sales of horse fodder and tobacco.

Most intriguing during this particular time frame was a transactional entry found in the account of Hugh Pugh, who paid for his merchandise:  "By 7 days work at your new house".  Merchant Nicholas Dupui finally had himself a new home!  Owing to an assiduous focus on business, Dupui now had a brand new house to show for his efforts.  Kudos!

...and yet prosperity often finds itself in the company of aggravation.  This new batch of settlers brought with them a rather unique set of aggravations, with the ledger noting, for the first time, entries such as:  "By Cash in ye Suit of Kennady against Pearce," or "By Cash in ye Suit of Robert Longshore."  Not all was smooth sailing on calm waters (as one observes multiple entries that also addressed the myriad legal costs associated with "an action").  Apparently, the age of litigiousness had commenced. 

As such, this most recent wave of settlers has to be regarded as a decidedly different set of area inhabitants.  The character of the neighborhood was most certainly changing.