Box MSS VF 39
Container
Contains 27 Results:
Certificates, letters, notices, 1815-1865
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 IV. Government financial services, miscellaneous
Item — Box: MSS VF 39, Folder: 22Identifier: Mss:92 1671-1896 File
Scope and Contents:
The Vertical file collection on finance – care and collection of funds consists of unbound manuscripts of less than a volume in size and includes material related to revenue collection at the local, state, and federal level, and public finance, dated 1671-1896. Records concern financing the Continental Army, assignment of expelled Acadians in Massachusetts, duties on goods imported from the West Indies to Boston and other ports, international voyages of American vessels, and...
William Vans letters, 1792-1794 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 V. Revenue Collection - W. Vans, Salem, Mass.
Item — Box: MSS VF 39, Folder: 25Identifier: Mss:92 1671-1896 File
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),...