Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport.

  • Charles McLean Andrews
Date:
1908
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Credit: Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f. 141. Account of amount of bounties paid on hemp, flax and wood imported from America, 1771-1775. ff. 160-165. Indigo statistics, 1771-1775. ff. 177-179. Naval stores statistics, 1771-1775. ff. 194-195. Plantation rum statistics, 1770-1779. f. 280. Essence of spruce from Canada, 1778-1782. fif. 283-302. Many sugar statistics, 1770-1779. f. 309ff. Many tea statistics. (See also ff. 316, 326, 341.) f. 35off. Many tobacco statistics. (See also ff. 355, 363, 364.) 8133C. Volume, similar to 8133B, containing the following papers: ff. 1-4. Small printed book containing lists of the “ commissions of the customs and successors of the commissioners ” from 1672 to 1785, with dates of letters patent, number of commissioners and their salaries, names of new commissioners with dates when they died or were superseded, names of commissioners who had died or were superseded with dates of their first appointments. This book is followed by many papers relating to the consolidation of customs duties in 1777, none of which, however, relate directly to the colonies. f. 85. Report of September 16, 1763, concerning what further checks and restraints may be necessary to be imposed by Parliament for preventing frauds in the colonies by the Commissioners of Cus¬ toms, with “ list of seizures to be sued for in any court of record, [though if] made by admirals or commanders at sea to be delivered into the court of admiralty there to be proceded against ff. 89-94. Agreement of the West Indian and North American mer¬ chants, March 10, 1766, regarding opening the island of Dominica. Proposals for indemnifying purchasers at Dominica, f. 96. Negroes and cattle in Jamaica. 1768. f. 97. Regarding St. Lucia and Dominica, present state, products and commercial advantages, by Jno. Geo. Felton, f. 131. In the list of customs officers at the port of London discon¬ tinued, 1771-1782, are “ assistant plantation clerk in the secretary’s office ”, £80, and “ assistant to the husband of the Four and a half per cent duty ”, £20. f. 140. Annual amount of salaries paid to officers in the plantations out of the revenue of customs, 1766-1778. f. 149. “ The underwritten articles are entitled to bounty on im¬ portations from the British plantations in America.” November 6, 1781. ff. 163-168. In accounts of bounties paid at London and the outports are figures for “ American raw silk ”, 1770-1775, and “ Newfound¬ land fishery ”. f. 179. Account of the value of exports from England to North American colonies, 1763-1767, distinguishing each colony. (See also ff. 181, 182, 183.) f. 202. “ Plan for the better examining and passing the accounts of the several plantation collectors, whereby their respective debts to the Crown may be the more speedily recovered ”, by Mr. Felton.