. Tracts relating to the currency of the Massachusetts Bay, 1682-1720; . ion to, or nfccd ofconcerning himfclf in merchantile Affairs: Nor came he intoNew-England with a thought to meddle therewith. as is wellknown to many, i That he {hould concern himfelf to pro-mote Trade for others, and that in this Land, a place not de-figned by the firft Planters, for Commerce-^ being better acquain-led with cteleftiaiDealings^ than the polities oi mundane affairs3 That he (hould amongft fuch a People clTay to promoteaDcfigrienot known in the day thereof (if yet) to)in any part of the worldCalthough Unce
. Tracts relating to the currency of the Massachusetts Bay, 1682-1720; . ion to, or nfccd ofconcerning himfclf in merchantile Affairs: Nor came he intoNew-England with a thought to meddle therewith. as is wellknown to many, i That he {hould concern himfelf to pro-mote Trade for others, and that in this Land, a place not de-figned by the firft Planters, for Commerce-^ being better acquain-led with cteleftiaiDealings^ than the polities oi mundane affairs3 That he (hould amongft fuch a People clTay to promoteaDcfigrienot known in the day thereof (if yet) to)in any part of the worldCalthough Unce in agitation .and then furely ftrange here, where the name ofbenefit thereby, was hardly heard of, 4 Thath TRACTS RELATING TOTHE CURRENCY OF THEMASSACHUSETTS BAY 1682-1720 EDITED BY ANDREW McFARLAND DAVIS, A. M. Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society; American AntiquarianSociety; Colonial Society of Massachusetts; and American Acad-emy of Arts and Sciences. Corresponding Member Cali-fornia Historical Society, and Honorary Mem-ber Old Colony Historical Society,. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY (Stl^e flitoetisibe ^xt^^^ Cambridfle 1902 Published October, igos. t INTRODUCTION While prosecuting the examination of authoritieswhich preceded the publication of the two vol-umes entitled Currency and Banking in the Pro-vince of the Massachusetts Bay, I turned the leavesof between forty and fifty contemporaneous pam- phlets which were issued by our local press and de-?- voted to the discussion of the topics suggested by the£ titles of these volumes. The greater part of thesetracts were rare, even the most common of thembeing found only in libraries which have for years[]| had a department specially devoted to ; The collections in the immediate vicinity of Bostoncontain nearly all of them, but if one would see Severals relating to the Fund, he must go to the\ Watkinson Library at Hartford. If he would see^ Some Proposals to benefit the Province, he
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