Box MSS VF 39

Scope and Contents: Contains tax bills and receipts to New England residents, dated 1757-1800, such as Samuel Langdon and Captain Edward Sargent of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Gideon Thayer of Boston. Included is a bill to the Freetown, Massachusetts, assessors from Captain George Chase for assessing Isaac Hathaway and his in his class granting a warrant for which Hathaway is also taxed, in 1781; and a receipt from the Treasury office in Boston for deposit of taxes collected by Benjamin Henderson for...

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...

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Primarily certificates to Boston merchant William Dodd for the excise on tea, as well as a New York port certificate and letter from Joseph Nourse of the Register’s Office at the U.S. Treasury Department to Samuel R. Gerry, collector of customs at Marblehead, Massachusetts, regarding transmittal of copies of registers issued from Gerry’s office, dated 1785-1796.

Scope and Contents: Memoranda book in several hands containing duties collected coffee, rice, Havana sugar, rum, Hyson tea, and other commodities imported to Boston, dated 1800-1806. The volume was created by custom house officer John N. Welch in pen, and continued in pencil by an unknown person. Names referenced include merchant Nehemiah Parsons, S. Gibson & Co., and Captain Samuel Topliff. There are also records of labor payment. Both Welch's name and the initials S.H.W., Long Wharf, Boston, are inscribed...

Scope and Contents: Contains records related to public finance and borrowing in New England, dated 1749-1791. Included are a bond of farmer Richard Aldrich with Rhode Island for bills of public credit; account of charges from Stoughton, Massachusetts, for expenses related to three expelled Acadians assigned to the town by the General Court in 1755; a Massachusetts loan certificate to John Danley to fund the state quota due the Continental Army, dated 1781 and signed by state treasurer Henry Gardner, Thomas...

Scope and Contents: Draft letters from William Vans, dated from 1792 to 1794, primarily addressing collection of taxes and related activities and accounts, debts, and other business and property transactions. The copies may have been removed from a letter book. Other topics are trade of goods like sugar and starch, lawsuits, and insurance on ships including the snow Grand Sachem, on a return voyage from India. Recipients included Mr. Bulfinch, possibly architect Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844; Harvard AB 1781),...