said Court steady since my arrival and this is the first opportunity I had of writing to you — I hope therefore that you will not impute any neglect to me But ever consider me unalterably thine — My Lovely Girl, write every Opportunity to
Ys
Alexd Scammell
Write to me every Opportunity.
Miss Naby Bishop.
PS — I long for the time when through you I can send my dutiful Regards to your Hond Parents by the tender Name of Father & Mother — June 23d 1777.
I congratulate you upon the Cause of your Fear being remov'd as Burgoyne is going to attack Ticonderoga & not Boston. I hope we shall be able to keep him off.
To
Miss Abigail Bishop
at
Mistick.
From the MS. in the possession of Mrs. Mary Putnam Hart of Cambridge.
163. Regulation of Prices (1777)
Huntington was a member of Congress and governor of Connecticut. The family letters, of which this is one, are an entertaining source of knowledge as to the daily life of the period. — On the regulation of prices, see Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, VII, 15, 69; Channing and Hart, Guide, § 133; ch. xxxiii below.
HARTFORD May 29th 1777
Mrs HUNTINGTON
I TAKE this Opportunity to Convey a Line which have more Leisure to Write than I had to Answer yours by John Stockwell
It is with Concern that I hear of any Difficulty you Meet with in your (Widowhood) but hope you will not Surfer among a Civil People Especially when you are able to Pay for all the Favours & Supplies you want — we Read that "the full fed Soul Loatheth the Honey Comb, when we are put to Distress for an Article for the Support of Life we know better
