Box MSS VF 39
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Assessment, certificates, licenses, circa 1783-1797 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Vertical file collection on finance – collection and care of funds
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Series:
Series II. Taxation - revenue collection (folder B)
Item — Box: MSS VF 39, Folder: 12Identifier: Mss:92 1671-1896 File
Scope and Contents:
Contains American customs certificates and retail and shipping licenses, dated 1795-1797 and an unattributed assessment on the “Value of the Produce of the Islands of Granada and the Grenadines,” circa 1783. The document list duties on slave labor, and sugar, rum, cotton, indigo produced in the islands in 1779-1780, and the expenses related to enslavement of 1,000 people on the public works for 312 working days. The authors include an appeal to the British government for tax relief for the...