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The Freeman's Journal, Or, New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract of a letter from a Grenada planter dated June 28 describes gloomy economic prospects in the Sugar Islands: provisions for enslaved people unavailable, sugar commodities triple last year's prices, while Dutch and French islands abound; calamity ongoing.
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Extract of a letter from a Planter in Grenada to his friend in London, dated June 28, found on board the Ship Friendship, lately taken by the Diamond Privateer, of this port.
"All things in the Sugar Islands, at this juncture, afford a most gloomy prospect. Provisions for the Negroes are not to be purchased, and all sorts of commodities for the manufacture of sugar are at three times the price they were last year; while at the same time the Dutch and French Islands abound with every thing. In short calamity is our present lot, and God only knows when it will end."
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Grenada
Event Date
June 28
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provisions unavailable, commodities at three times last year's price, calamity ongoing
Event Details
All things in the Sugar Islands afford a most gloomy prospect. Provisions for the Negroes are not to be purchased, and all sorts of commodities for the manufacture of sugar are at three times the price they were last year; while at the same time the Dutch and French Islands abound with every thing.