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Middle Class Squeeze, Colonial Style

Apr 3rd, 2008 by wintercow20

The daily wages of a mason paid in local currency without board furnished in Massachusetts in 1631: 2 shillings
The daily wages of a mason paid in local currency without board furnished in Massachusetts in 1670: 2 shillings

Two shillings in both 1631 and 1670 would have been worth approximately $12.00 in 2002 $US.

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