Mennonites in West Prussia, 1776-1789:

Also, for the rest of Prussia, 1772 was also a difficult year: “In the kingdom of Prussia, the price of cereals approximately doubled from 1768-1770 to 1771-1772. . . . In Prussia, the death rate peaked at 42.3 per 1000 in 1772, some 40 percent higher than the average of 1768-1771.” The cereal harvests improved in 1772 and Prussia … ................
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