"Estimate of the Loss on Income and Trade for the Town of Salem", April 30, 1776

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[Salem, April 30]²

Estimate of the Loss of Our Trade In Our Merchandises & Fishery Since April 1775

50 Sale of Fishing Vessels in April 1775 worth 300 £ Each Now worth 150 £	7500.00.00
Mat[eri]als for curing & Drying fish Flakg &c for 50 Sale Vessels at 50 Each Tottaly Destroyd	2500.00.00
To the [total] Loss of the Fishing 1 Year for 50 Sale at 100 £ Each	5000.00.00
6 Sale Costing Vessells at ½ Price	900.00.00
60 Sale of Shipping of which 10 Sale only are Improved at 400 Each and now Worth but 200 Each	12000.00.00
Loss On Our Mark[e]tell Trade
Rents of our Roall Grates Fell One third Part
50 Houses & Parts of Do Ha[d] no improvements
Our Stores & Warehouses [are so] going to Ruin & not Improv'd
the Extraordinary Price for wood By Reason of our Harbors being Blockt up By the Minsteriall Fleett
We were taxed for more than 100,000 £ trading Stock what is our Stock now
Many Seamen are yearly lost in all Seaport Towns, their places are supplied by strangers coming in, but that Class of People left us when our troubles Come on and left their wives & Children for us to support—
Half of thereabouts of our men are in the American Army, and we are obliged to support Many of their families as being Seamen chiefly are very improvident
The Town largely in Debt.
The Removall of 500 families into the Country & Back at 4 p Salem	2000..0..0

1. Mass. Arch., vol. 138, 349a.

2. An arbitrary date based upon the return for Cape Ann which was submitted at the end of April, 1776.

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