Sentence:  According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more <WSD>reliable</WSD>, being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy