 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Massachusetts - 1857 - 372 pages
...THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS. > The Captain John Hull aforesaid was the mintmaster of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...a man wanted to buy a coat, he perhaps exchanged a bear skin for it. If he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...the chair to have successively passed.] CAPTAIN JOHN HULL was the mint master of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...barter their commodities instead of selling them. shells ; and this strange sort of specie was likewise taken in payment of debts by the English settlers.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1861 - 346 pages
...the chair to have successively passed.] CAPTAIN JOHN HULL was the mint master of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...a man wanted to buy a coat, he perhaps exchanged a bear skin for it. If he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...chair to have suceessively pMscil.] 1. CAPTAIN JOHN HULL was the mint-master of Massa~ chusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...barter their commodities instead of selling them. 2. For instance, if a man wanted to buy a coat, he perhaps exchanged a bear-skin for it. If he wished... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Massachusetts - 1866 - 372 pages
...and THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS. The Captain John Hull aforesaid was the mintmaster of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...a man wanted to buy a coat, he perhaps exchanged a bear skin for it. If he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1866 - 412 pages
...PINE-TREE SHILLINGS, NATHANIKL HAWTHORNI:. 1. CAPTAIN JOHN HULL was the mint-master of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...and silver money of England, Portugal, and Spain. 2. These coins being scarce, the people were often forced to barter their commodities, instead of selling... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers - 1868 - 314 pages
...XX. i. 72. THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS. /CAPTAIN JOHN' HULL was the mint-master of MassaVy chusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...and Spain. These coins being scarce, the people were 6ften forced to barter their commodities, instead of selling them. For instance, if a man wanted to... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Massachusetts - 1873 - 384 pages
...and THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS. The Captain John Hull aforesaid was the mintmaster of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...a man wanted to buy a coat, he perhaps exchanged a bear skin for it. If he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Mythology, Classical - 1876 - 536 pages
...and THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS. The Captain John Hull aforesaid was the mintmaster of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there. This was...a man wanted to buy a coat, he perhaps exchanged a bear skin for it. If he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it with a pile of pine boards.... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1876 - 348 pages
...JOHN HULL wa§ the mint-master of MassaV_/ chusetts, and coined all the money that was made th6re. This was a new line of business ; for, in the earlier...and Spain. These coins being scarce, the people were 6Ken forced to barter their commodities, instead of selling them. For instance, if a man wanted to... | |
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When they had all sufficiently examined the broken leg, Grandfather told them a story about Captain John Hull and THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS. The Captain John Hull aforesaid was the mintmaster of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made there.... 
