Boston March 22d. 1778 [i. e. 1777]
[Extract]
I dont know of any more Methods to be taken but what you have done to keep up the Credit of the Currency. ー I have heard you are About building some ships of 60. or 70. Guns, which will come to a very large some of money and when built must lay by the Walls. Whether such a sum that must be made for that purpose wont be a further means of lessening the Value of the money. Such a ship can never be got to see from hence iff we are to judge by the dispatch lesser Ones make. However I wish itt may prove the reverse. . . .
1. L. H. Butterfield, ed., The Adams Papers, Series II, Adams Family Correspondence (Cambridge, 1963), II, 182-83. Hereafter cited as Butterfield, ed., Adams Family Correspondence.
