puncheon 'made of puncheons' 1689

[Joel S. Berson]

In his diary, Samuel Sewall lists the various containers and other
individual items he lades aboard the ship taking him back from
England to New England.  1689 Aug. 13:

"Number S.S. 2 Punchin Books: No. 3 Punchin Cordage; 4 Barrel Cheese;
5. Barrel Pease; 6. 7. 8 Three small Trunks ..."

In _The Diary of Samuel Sewall_, ed. M. Halsey Thomas (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1973), vol. 1, p. 235.

puncheon OED3 n.1 sense 5.b 'made of puncheons' [split logs with one
smoothed surface] antedates 1754-.

Joel

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