History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . is matter of Depreciation of the Currency was troub-ling the State authorities and after wrestling with the prob-lem some time the House of Representatives of Massachu-setts Bay finally passed the following preamble and resolu-tion, January 11, 1780, viz : Whereas the General Assembly of the State have engaged tomake good to the Officers and Soldiers of the States Quota of theContinental Army the wages first promised to them taking for ameasure the prices fixed to
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . is matter of Depreciation of the Currency was troub-ling the State authorities and after wrestling with the prob-lem some time the House of Representatives of Massachu-setts Bay finally passed the following preamble and resolu-tion, January 11, 1780, viz : Whereas the General Assembly of the State have engaged tomake good to the Officers and Soldiers of the States Quota of theContinental Army the wages first promised to them taking for ameasure the prices fixed to the necessaries of life in a Law of thisState intitled an Act to prevent Monopoly & Oppression made inthe year of our Lord 1777 Therefore, Resolved that the Committee of this Court who havebeen appointed to settle and adjust the Balance due to each officerand Soldier of this States Quota aforesaid respectively, Be and theyare hereby directed to take for their rate, in Ascertaining the value ordepreciation of the Current money of the several periods of the pay-ments which have been made them and of the Balance due to them. CQ (/) HISTORY OF SUNDERLAND. 133 respectively on the first day of this current January in currentMoney The committee also drew up a schedule calculated uponan average of the rates of depreciation as computed by theprices of Beef Indian Corn, Sheeps wool & Soal Leather theybeing the articles agreed upon by this Court and the Com-mittee of the Army to make said calculation upon. The schedule or table contained the prices of the four arti-cles of farm produce named above, for each month of thethree years from January i, 1777, to January i, 1780, and in-cluding the last named month, viz, January i, 1780. I willgive only the amount of depreciated currency that one dol-lar in silver or gold would buy on the first day of Januaryin each of the four years named, and including April, 1780,but will omit the prices given for the four articles of farmproduce named which a
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