WAGES in MASSACHUSETTS
Recommended reading: Colonial Currency in History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928.
1600s
WAGES in CONNECTICUT
Recommended reading: Colonial Currency in History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928.
WAGES in MARYLAND
Recommended reading: Colonial Currency in History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928.
WAGES in NEW HAMPSHIRE
Recommended reading: explanation of early money in the Introduction to the book History of old Chester from 1719 to 1869 by Benjamin Chase.
WAGES in PENNSYLVANIA
Recommended reading: Colonial Currency in History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928.
WAGES in RHODE ISLAND
Recommended reading: Colonial Currency in History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928.
WAGES in SOUTH CAROLINA
Recommended reading: Colonial Currency in History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928.
WAGES in VIRGINIA
Recommended reading: Colonial Currency in History of Wages in the United States from Colonial Times to 1928.
PRICES for HOUSING and LAND, up through 1779
PRICE of BUILDING MATERIALS
See food prices by colony below.
Prices of items for FARM and HOME, up through 1779
PRICES for OCEAN PASSAGE, up through 1779
PRICES for OVERLAND TRAVEL, up through 1779
PRICES for CLOTHING and SHOES, up through 1779
PRICES for SERVICES, up through 1779
PRICES for HEALTH CARE, up through 1779
Funeral charges - Ranged from £1 to £5
Fees "for physick" - From 1s. 9d. to 3s. for one doctor; 2s. 6d. for another
A single visit - 10s.
Sickness and funeral charges - £4
Midwifery - £1
Rum for lying in - 3s.
Physick in sickness - 3s.
Cutting off an arm - 500 lbs tobacco
Antispasmodick julep - 2s. 6d.
Blisters - 3s.
Stomach decoction - 2s. 6d.
Pectoral mixture - 2s. 6d.
Emetic tincture - 2s. 6d.
Purging powder - 1s. 6d.
Paragorick draught - 1s. 6d.
Purging pills - 2s.
Oil of sweet almond - 1s. 6d.
Restringent tincture - 1s. 6d.
A visit - £1 - £5 for one doctor; 10s. for another
Saline julep - 8s.
A "mixture" - 10s.
Amputating an arm or a leg - £7 10s.
A "guaranteed cure" - £12 - £15
One doctor advertised his charges as "a visit in town in the day five shillings; an emetic, two shillings, six pence; either in commodities that he needs or in Tobacco at twenty shillings per hundred weight, or money."
PRICES for TOBACCO, up through 1779
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University of Missouri, Columbia
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