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Excerpt from The New Haven Convention of 1778; The Boundary Line Between Connecticut and New York; The Ecclesiastical Constitution of Yale College: Three Historical Papers Read Before the New Haven Colony Historical Society
Legislatures of the States represented, to pass laws, limiting certain maximum rates, which the Convention particularly specified, for wages, the necessaries of life, and indeed most ordinary articles of consumption. F arm hands were not to have over three shillings fourpence a day, in summer; for the best butter over ten pence a pound must not be asked; for potatoes (then beginning to come into common use), com mouly called Spanish potatoes, of the best sort, not over two shillings a bushel; and so on through a long list of prices, which then, doubtless seemed as high to our great-grand fathers, as they now seem low to 11s.
The minutes of their proceedings were transmitted to Con gross, and, being received on J an. 28th, 17 7 7, together with an explanatory letter from Gov. Trumbull of Connecticut, formed one of the principal subjects of discussion for several weeks.
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