. Colonial times on Buzzard's Bay . sixty-nine sil-ver dollars and one hundred and thirty dollarsas mileage money. In 1781 it held a lot-tery to raise two hundred and eighty hard 140 COLONIAL TIMES ON BUZZARDS BAY, dollars to raise soldiers with ; at the sametime it sent nearly ten thousand pounds ofbeef to the Continental army. On the nthof February, 1784, its war record was closedby ordering its British colors to be sold, andby voting that the five years Pay grantedto the Continental officers is Unjust andOught Not to be Paid them. This opinionwas universal with the rural population ofMassac
. Colonial times on Buzzard's Bay . sixty-nine sil-ver dollars and one hundred and thirty dollarsas mileage money. In 1781 it held a lot-tery to raise two hundred and eighty hard 140 COLONIAL TIMES ON BUZZARDS BAY, dollars to raise soldiers with ; at the sametime it sent nearly ten thousand pounds ofbeef to the Continental army. On the nthof February, 1784, its war record was closedby ordering its British colors to be sold, andby voting that the five years Pay grantedto the Continental officers is Unjust andOught Not to be Paid them. This opinionwas universal with the rural population ofMassachusetts, which had been impoverishedby the war, and it found expression in manyresolves as bitter as those adopted by theneighboring town of Rochester; Thathowever the power of Congress may be wethink the Grant by them made to sd officerswas obtained by undue influence & if noNegative to sd Grant is yet to be admitted,notwithstanding all their good services weshall esteem them Public Nusances & Treatthem in that Curracter.*. XL TOWN LIFE AFTER THE WAR. EACE was welcomed by the town warrants ran nomore in His Majestys name, and theRevolution had effaced all marks of the royalauthority, the customs and manners of thepeople had suffered no change. Farmers at-tended again to their own business — ship-ping away timber and firewood cut on thedecrease of the moon, making salt by theevaporation of sea water, building vessels,increasing their flocks of sheep, gatheringiron ore from the bottoms of ponds, makingcharcoal for forges recently set up, and nailsfrom slit iron rods in their home those who had been induced to neglecttheir farms for the sake of the war, peacebrought many discouragements ; and whenstories came of fertile lands to be had inthe region known as the Ohio, the pressure 142 COLONIAL TIMES ON BUZZARDS BAY. of poverty, and perhaps of public opinionalso, caused an emigration thither, and to thedistrict of Maine, as well as to places lessrem
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