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Excerpt from The Life and Surprising Adventures of John Nutting, Cambridge Loyalist: And His Strange Connection With the Penobscot Expedition of 1779
But the year 1770 marks a sudden check in John Nutting's pros perous financial career, and somehow puts him in a hole from which he never completely extricated himself. He had been borrowing small sums from his father-in-law for a good while, and now had to mortgage his Cambridge property to him for £93? Some of his Penobscot lands he had taken for bad debts,8 and there may have been other sums owing to him not so well secured. At any rate he could not raise ready cash to meet his local creditors, and their suits when once begun came thick and fast.4 Nathaniel Coolidge of Watertown brought suit against him in that year for lumber sold. In February, 1771, Kidder sued him for the cash expended to the Eastward. In May the executor of Francis Dizer, marriner of Charlestown, sued him for promissory notes, probably on the same subject. In July Abijah Steadman, housewright, sued him on another note. In August John Smith, taylor, sued him for eight pair of breeches, sundry lambskins and buttons. (the babies were evidently growing up.) In September Nathaniel Pren tice, chaisemaker, sued him on an agreement which is so charac teristic of the business methods of that day that it may stand repetition.
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