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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A traveler reports excellent crop yields of corn, oats, rye, and especially wheat in new settlements along the Connecticut River from Portsmouth to Walpole and the College, predicting low prices not exceeding 2s per bushel. Abundant hay and recent rains promise exceptional cattle feed. A gentleman near the College offers 50 tons of new flour at two dollars per hundred, highlighting fertile land encouraging settlement in new towns.
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Messieurs Fowles,
In travelling through the Province from Portsmouth to Walpole, along Connecticut River, to the College, I was informed they have fine Crops of Corn, Oats, Rye, and more especially WHEAT, on the new Settlements, so that it is likely, it will not exceed 2s per Bushel, Corn and Rye in proportion--.-There is Hay in plenty; and by the late Rains, a Prospect of the most extraordinary Feed for the Cattle that has been known for many Years--.-One Gentleman near the College, who has a plentiful Crop this Year of Grain, Offered to engage fifty Ton of new Flour at two Dollars per Hundred----So fertile is the Land in the new Towns, which is great Encouragement to press on to those lately granted.
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New Settlements Along Connecticut River
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predicted low grain prices (wheat not exceeding 2s per bushel); offer of 50 tons of flour at two dollars per hundred; encouragement for settlement in new towns
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Traveler informed of fine crops of corn, oats, rye, and wheat in new settlements from Portsmouth to Walpole along Connecticut River to the College; plenty of hay; late rains promising extraordinary cattle feed; fertile land in new towns