(AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1779) Loring Daniel Letter describing

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"PEOPLE SUFFERING HERE CAN NOT GET THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE " (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) Loring, Daniel. Letter describing the lack of food on the home front due to profiteering. Autograph Letter Signed to Brigadier General John Nixon in North River. 2 pages, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet, with address panel on verso of final page, no postal markings other than the inscription "On publick service"; moderate dampstaining and wear, loss of 2 words at seal tear, 2-inch area of restoration at inner margin without loss of text. Sudbury, MA, 15 June 1779

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Daniel Loring (1752-1823) of Sudbury, MA had served as a sergeant in Massachusetts regiments since early in the war, and was at this point in charge of the artillery magazine in Sudbury. Here he writes to John Nixon (1726-1815), who had commanded Sudbury's minutemen at Lexington, and was soon promoted to Brigadier General. "The air is full of news this way, from the southerd & from the North River, but no accts authenticated. Therefore no person can tell what to believe, one day defeated, the next all victory. . . . I may just inform you that every necessary of life is about three times as dear as when Your Honor left this quarter. People suffering here can not get the necessities of life because they can not get enough for them. Indian corn will not do at 35 dollars per bushell because they can have 45 or 50 doll's per bush'l at Boston and they are oblig'd to go to Boston." He describes the attitude of merchants as "It will not cost much to carry it down, . . . therefore I will carry it altho my neighbor starves."