. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. October I have scarce eatthree meals of salt meat, but supplied myfamily with fresh at the rate of one shilling toone shilling sixpence sterling the pound. Whatwood was to be got was obliged to give at therate of twenty dollars a cord, and coals, thoughgovernment had a plenty I could not procure(not being an addressor or an associate) thoughI offered so high as fifty dollars for a chaldronand that at a season when Nabby and John,the only help I had, were under inoculation forthe small-pox, that, if youll be
. Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city. October I have scarce eatthree meals of salt meat, but supplied myfamily with fresh at the rate of one shilling toone shilling sixpence sterling the pound. Whatwood was to be got was obliged to give at therate of twenty dollars a cord, and coals, thoughgovernment had a plenty I could not procure(not being an addressor or an associate) thoughI offered so high as fifty dollars for a chaldronand that at a season when Nabby and John,the only help I had, were under inoculation forthe small-pox, that, if youll believe me, Bill,I was necessitated to burn horse-dung. Many were the instances, he continues, of the inhabitants being confined to the pro-vost for purchasing fuel of the soldiers, when 174 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS no other means offered to keep them from per-ishing with cold, yet such was the inhumanityof our masters that they were even denied theprivilege of buying the surplusage of the sol-diers rations. Though you may think we hadplenty of cheese and porter yet we were obliged.
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