The Testimonies for Robert Taaffe - Page 7 - Transcript
Considered it prior to the War as a valuable and saleable property
Knew Mr Flanagan and Mr Jones—both of them men
of Character—what Mr Clapham wrote to Mr Taafe was
at Flanagan’s ^desire and from his Information he not being himself
able to write—does not himself know the precise value—
Thinks Jones was a better Judge than Flanagan—but he was
a sanguine man in point of his Ideas of the value of Property
in and about Baltimore.
Believes Property never was higher in value prior to the
War as in 1774 & 1775—He cannot speak to particulars of the
value—but nobody knew it so well as Mr Alexander and Mr
Chalmers who resided in Baltimore
With respect to the value of Money—He says the
Continental Money was as low as 80 and above 100 for one
The Black money fluctuated sometimes as low as 7 ½ for one—
at other Times at par
George Chalmers Esqr—is called in – but declaring himself
unable to give any specific Evidence—was not sworn—
[Transcribed by Elizabeth Lilly]
