. A history of Pennsylvania. CRESS, paf\\^cd at Phi-| \busin.^ ladelphia ^iFebruary 17, 1776 §One Sixth of a ^Printed by Hall & Sellers,^ in Philadelphia. 1776. § P^ace Back Reduced Facsimile of Continental Currency which is the least creditable period in the history of the State. In addition to other troubles, the condition of the financesof the State was deplorable. Continental currency had sunkso low in value that prices were absurd. Peas were thirtydollars a half-peck, butter eight to twelve dollars a pound, asuit of clothes cost $1600. An attempt was made to fixthe prices of arti
. A history of Pennsylvania. CRESS, paf\\^cd at Phi-| \busin.^ ladelphia ^iFebruary 17, 1776 §One Sixth of a ^Printed by Hall & Sellers,^ in Philadelphia. 1776. § P^ace Back Reduced Facsimile of Continental Currency which is the least creditable period in the history of the State. In addition to other troubles, the condition of the financesof the State was deplorable. Continental currency had sunkso low in value that prices were absurd. Peas were thirtydollars a half-peck, butter eight to twelve dollars a pound, asuit of clothes cost $1600. An attempt was made to fixthe prices of articles, but it was not successful. Purchase of Proprietary Interests; Slavery Abolished. —The times and men were not, however, wholly bad, for therewere some praiseworthy acts. In 1779 the Assembly bought PENNSYLVANIA IN THE REVOLUTION 157 out the interest of the Penns in Pennsylvania for I1,^0, that the Penns were LoyaHsts, and thai alltheir private estates and their manors were excepted, thissum might be thought Hberal.^ Another act, still more praiseworthy, was that which pro-vided for the
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