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From: "Mary D. Taffet" <>
Subject: Re: relative money values
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:09:57 -0400 (EDT)


Sandra,

Thanks.

Anybody know how pounds would correlate to the dollars of back then (or
today....)?

Most of the tax lists and wills that I have seen use pounds and shillings,
rather than US dollars. That is something I have always wondered ....
what would 200 pounds be worth in 1786?

-- Mary

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Sandra Ferguson wrote:

> I cut this out of the newspaper....this will let you see how much your
> ancestors were worth, in today's money...pretty interesting!
>
> year actual money 1998 dollars
>
> 1798 $ 25,000 $ 294,000
> 1873 50,000 665,000
> 1909 75,000 1,330,000
> 1949 100,000 660,000
> 1966 200,000 915,000
>
> What this means is that the $25,000 of 1798 would be the same as having
> $294,000 today. It makes those $1000 legacies on my 1700s wills look
> pretty darn good.
> Sandra
>

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