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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from
the Balance Sheets, Income Statements and Statements of Cash Flows of
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation for the fiscal year 1997 and is
qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
<RESTATED> 
       
                                                                                            
<PERIOD-TYPE>                   3-MOS                   6-MOS                   9-MOS                   12-MOS
<FISCAL-YEAR-END>                          DEC-31-1997             DEC-31-1997             DEC-31-1997             DEC-31-1997
<PERIOD-END>                               MAR-31-1997             JUN-30-1997             SEP-30-1997             DEC-31-1997
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