Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Treasury certificate. [Boston, Massachusetts]

Published/Created:

[Boston, Massachusetts]
1782 January 1

Physical Description:

1 folder (1 l.) : b&w illustrations ; 18 cm.

Abstract:

Correspondence, accounts, receipts, checks, printed currency, circular letters, printed forms filled out in manuscript, and other printed material related to American finance, currency and lotteries during and after the Revolutionary War. Series I, Currency and Public Debt Documents, includes letters by Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville; Albert Gallatin; John Gibson; Alexander Hamilton; Gouverneur Morris; Robert Morris; and Thomas Willing. There is a small group of letters between Gouverneur Morris and the London bankers Sir Francis Baring, Edmund Boehm, and Thomas Henchman concerning their possible investment in the "new American funds" in 1790 and 1791. Printed material includes Thomas Paine's Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance (Philadelphia, 1796) as well as circular letters and debt payment tables. Other contents include reports on Revolutionary War loans and other contemporary financial matters; receipts issued by several states, particularly Connecticut and Massachusetts, between 1780 and 1789; and samples of state and Continental Congress paper money. Series II, United States Lottery Documents, contains letters by state agents for the Continental Lottery; accounts and account logs for the lottery; memoranda; and a printed lottery ticket from 1779.

Topics:

Debts, Public--Law and legislation--United States
Debts, Public--United States
Debts, Public--United States--States
Finance, Public--United States
Finance, Public--United States--States
Lotteries--United States
Paper money--United States

Topics:

United States--Politics and government--1783-1789
United States--Politics and government--1789-1797
United States--Politics and government--1797-1801
United States--Politics and government--1801-1815

Topics:

Baring, Francis,--Sir,--1740-1810
Boehm, Edmund
Brissot de Warville, J.-P.--(Jacques-Pierre),--1754-1793
Gallatin, Albert,--1761-1849
Gibson, John,--1729-1782
Hamilton, Alexander,--1757-1804
Henchman, Thomas
Morris, Gouverneur,--1752-1816
Morris, Robert,--1734-1806
Reed, Joseph,--1741-1785
United States.--Board of Treasury
United States.--Congress
United States.--Continental Congress
United States.--Department of the Treasury
Willing, Thomas,--1731-1821

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations
Autographs
Engravings
financial records (AAT)
illustrations (AAT)
paper money (AAT)

Format:

Text

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Source Creator:

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Decline and fall of the English system of finance

Source Title:

American historical financial documents collection

Source Created:

1734-1874 (bulk 1777-1790)

Source Note:

Series I. Currency and Public Debt Documents.

Call Number:

GEN MSS 1081

Box:

Box 1

Folder:

Folder 13

Orbis Record:

11922288

Orbis Barcode:

39002099449952

Finding Aid:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.amhisfin

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

12034192

Citation:

American Historical Financial Documents Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11874644

PID:

digcoll:4007553