Note 408 — Chapter II · (continued 2)
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Bennett, an English traveller, who was in New England at this time, gives an account of the currency in vogue, and he says that the merchants informed him that “the balance of trade with England is so much against them that they cannot keep any money [coin] amongst them.” Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1860-62, pp. 123-24.