This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...stagnation of business ensued. And at the very time, when your affair was under consideration, we had rumours that many hundreds of people were coming to the General Court with a petition for making more. ords. 1 Mass. Archives--Colonial, vol. iv. 1751. paper money, and about three hundred men were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ...stagnation of business ensued. And at the very time, when your affair was under consideration, we had rumours that many hundreds of people were coming to the General Court with a petition for making more. ords. 1 Mass. Archives--Colonial, vol. iv. 1751. paper money, and about three hundred men were actually v""--assembled within less than three miles of the town. However, all the effect of it was, the passing a good wholesome law against riots, which could never before be obtained." Another passage in this letter, marked over with lines of ink, shows the public feeling as to another topic. It follows: --Many " are dissatisfied with the present remarkable decay of Trade, which is supposed to arise from the breaking off our correspondence in a great measure with our neighboring Colonies, by interdicting the passing of their bills among us, and their receiving our silver in exchange for the Massachusetts bills in their hands, for we are now gotten within a few weeks of the very crisis of this great affair, when by law, bills of credit are no longer to pass among us." April 1 To put down the various demonstrations of opposition 12' to the plan for exchanging the paper currency, both Houses give their immediate attention, as in the ensuing case: --Robert Howland of Duxborough, and Fobes Little of Little Compton, " are suspected of publishing and dispersing a printed paper, containing sundry expressions, tending to bring into contempt and subvert the constitution of this government." From depositions in reference to this subject, Ahese persons were concerned in having verses printed in Rhode Island, " containing a lamentation for the death of old tenor, having very hard reflections on the General...
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