Excerpt from Tracts and Other Papers, Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America, Vol. 2: From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776
The Publick Emergencies had occasion'd the Stamping the aforesaid Sum of in Bills of Credit, to pay their Sol diers, and other Charges the Country was forced to be at; and it was Enacted by the Assembly, They should be Current in all Payments between Man and Man. But the precarious State the Province was in by the Indian 1war, and the Danger it was exposed to, by being a Frontier, to the French and Spaniards, gave the Merchants in England who Traded thither, and to whom the Inhabitants were considerably Indebted, so great an Alarm, that they writ to their Correspondents, to make them Returns at any Rate, for fear of losing the Whole.
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