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The Newport Gazette
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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Reports from the country describe widespread distress due to shortages of necessities like clothing. Farmers withhold produce because of depreciated currency. Soldiers complain that their low-value wages fail to provide comforts, leaving families starving at home. Excerpt from a recent New-Hampshire-Gazette provided as example.
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The Produce of the Country, is withheld by those who have it, owing to the depreciation of their Money, which is not looked upon as an Equivalent to it. Their Soldiers complain much that their Wages are of little Worth—that it will not procure for them the Comforts of Life, and they whilst they are engaged in fighting, their Families are at Home starving—as a Specimen of these Complaints, we have given our Readers the following from a late New-Hampshire-Gazette.
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New Hampshire
Outcome
families starving
Event Details
All accounts from the country report distress for lack of necessities, especially clothing. Produce is withheld due to money depreciation. Soldiers complain wages are worthless, cannot buy comforts, and families starve while they fight. Example from late New-Hampshire-Gazette.