| 1714 | 8 | ½ |
| 1715 | 9 | ⅙ |
| 1716-17 | 12 | |
| 1721 | 13 | |
| 1722 | 14 | |
| 1724-25 | 16 | |
| 1725-26 | 15 | ½ |
| 1730 | 18 | |
| 1731 | 19 | |
| 1733 | 21 | |
| 1734 | 25 | |
| 1737 | 26 | ½ |
| 1738 | 27 | |
| 1739 | 28 | ½ |
| 1744 | 30 | |
| 1745 | 36 | |
| 1746 | 36, 38, 40, 41 | |
| 1747 | 50, 55, 60 |
Felt (p. 83) begins his table in 1710-1711, at 8; for 1712-13 he gives 8½; and (p. 135) he puts the value in 1746-48 at 37, 38, 40; and in 1749-52 at 60. Cf. table in Judd’s Hadley, ch. xxvii.
[418] Admiral Warren was authorized to receive the money. Mass. Archives, xx. 500, 508.
[419] See a humorous contemporary ballad on the Death of Old Tenor, in 1750, reprinted in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xx. p. 30. It is ascribed to Joseph Green in the Brinley Catal., no. 1,459. Cf. Some observations relating to the present circumstances of the Province of the Mass. Bay; humbly offered to the consideration of the General Assembly, Boston, 1750. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 934; Brinley, i. no. 1,457.) Hutchinson’s plan was opposed in A Word in Season to all true lovers of their liberty and their country, by Mylo Freeman, Boston, 1748. (Brinley, i. no. 1,456.) Cf. Minot’s Massachusetts, i. ch. v.
[420] Judge H. B. Staples in his Province Laws of Mass., Worcester, 1884 (p. 13, etc.), gives a synopsis of Massachusetts legislation on the subject of paper money during the whole period; but Ames and Goodell’s ed. of the Laws is the prime source.
[421] Stephen Hopkins was the chairman of the committee reporting to the assembly on the paper-money question, Feb. 27, 1749 (R. I. Col. Rec., v. 283, and R. I. Hist. tracts, viii. 182; and June 17, 1751, R. I. Col. Rec., v. 130).
[422] Brinley, i. 1,493; ii. 2,655.
[423] Harv. Col. Lib., no. 16352.7; Brinley, ii. 2,656.
[424] Thomas, Hist. of Printing, i. 129; Minot, i. 208; Drake’s Boston, p. 635; Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 404.
[425] Nos. 1,494-95.