Interestingly by comparison ₤10 8s. 4d was around 14 days work (using the 1752 Massachusetts wage for agricultural workers from [1], which is the earliest I cou

Interestingly by comparison ₤10 8s. 4d was around 14 days work (using the 1752 Massachusetts wage for agricultural workers from [1], which is the earliest I could find). Now the current minimum agricultural is Massachusetts is $8/hour. $8 * 8 * 14 = $896, which is pretty close to that $851 number (especially considering that was 1735 and I'm using 1752 wages). [1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293006308070&seq=55 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293006308070&se...