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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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London reports receive important but disagreeable news from North America: colonies claim poverty and inability to support government, yet private letters reveal growing wealth, with carriages in New York rising from 5 to 70 in four years, high rents, a popular playhouse in Philadelphia frequented by Quakers, and widespread expensive diversions like cock-fighting and horse racing.
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ADVICES of great importance are arrived from North-America. They are said to be very disagreeable in their tendency. The Colonies plead their poverty, with what truth we may judge from private letters received from those parts, Some of which give us to understand, that the number of carriages kept in New-York has, in about four years encreased from five to 70.--Some houses are let there for 200 l. per annum. At Philadelphia a play-house is built, and as much frequented by the Quakers, as by those who have fewer external marks of religion. Cock-fighting, fox-hunting, horse racing, and every other expensive diversion, are in great vogue in the Colonies, yet the Colonists pretend they are not able to pay towards the support of their Government.
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Advices from North-America indicate the colonies plead poverty and inability to support their government, but private letters reveal signs of wealth: carriages in New-York increased from five to 70 in four years, houses let for 200 l. per annum, a play-house built and frequented in Philadelphia by Quakers and others, and popular expensive diversions like cock-fighting, fox-hunting, and horse racing.