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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mansons2005, post: 255131, member: 121&quot;]When we donated our house on Long Island, we donated a mass of letters and papers regarding the house as well. One of the more interesting was a draft of a letter written circa 1750 in which an ancestor noted that he had just had a certain amount of silver coins melted and recast as tankards and a chocolate pot - because he didn&#039;t need the money right now, and was &quot;saving&quot; it until he did. </p><p><br /></p><p>There were other instances of this as well in our family. And that would explain the horror over the silver that the British forces looted from the house during the War of Independence. It wasn&#039;t just the fact that the spoons and forks were gone - it was that fact that the table silver was actually part of their net financial worth. It equaled money in the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Samuel Pepys also makes reference to this practice in his diary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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