The Dupui ledger supports the contention that Indian 
							corn was a staple food product in the area, being 
							sold some 23 times, in pecks, skippels and bushels, 
							to area residents over the course of 41 years.  
							
							Pricing of the commodity appears to have remained 
							rather consistent at 3 shillings per bushel for 
							multiple decades, until the price suddenly jumped 
							after the Revolutionary War to a rate of 5 and half 
							shillings per bushel.
							
							The second of the three sisters, beans, makes only a 
							rare appearance -- 2 bushels, sold twice (ten years 
							apart), at a rate of a shilling and and half per 
							bushel, and the third sister, squash, only makes its 
							appearance by way of a single entry related to "the 
							hauling of your Pumpkins."
							
							As these three types of food items, typically 
							associated with colonial gardens, in the aggregate 
							have a rather spotty record of sales at Dupui's 
							store, one can hazard the guess that perhaps they 
							were being sold elsewhere in the area, perhaps at 
							local summer faires.  That, of course, would 
							imply that throngs of folk gathered at some other 
							locale on certain days, leaving Dupui's store 
							without a sufficiency of customers on those 
							occasions.  
							
							This is an implication that can quantitatively be 
							assessed.  We begin with the assumption that a 
							local 
re-occurring "faire" likely had set 
							calendar dates that probably would have coincided 
							with the last day of each month during the harvest 
							season, namely July, August, September and October.  
							We then examine the Dupui ledger for activity on a 
							sampling of those dates:
							 
							
							
								
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									 | 
									
									 
									Total 
									Entries in the Dupui Ledger per date:  
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 
									Year 
									 | 
									
									 
									31 
									July 
									 | 
									
									 
									31 
									August 
									 | 
									
									 
									30 
									September 
									 | 
									
									 
									31 
									October 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1744 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1745 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1746 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1753 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1754 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1755 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 1 
									customer 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1781 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1782 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 1 
									customer 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
								
									| 
									 1783 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 1 
									customer 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
									
									 NO 
									ENTRIES 
									 | 
								
							
							
							
							By way of these ledger entries, one can 
							tentatively conclude that area market fairs (in 
							which produce such as corn, beans and pumpkins were 
							sold), perhaps became an end-of-month local summer 
							harvest tradition.