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United States. Board of Treasury. Resolution : whereas in consequence of certain intelligence that a combination of numerous tribes of hostile Indians had actually commenced war on the western frontier ..., 1786 Nov. 23.

Title: Resolution : whereas in consequence of certain intelligence that a combination of numerous tribes of hostile Indians had actually commenced war on the western frontier ..., 1786 Nov. 23.

Resolution dated Nov. 23, 1786 by the Commissioners of the Board of Treasury (Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, and Arthur Lee) requesting the states pay $530,000 to the federal treasury.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 sheet folded (4 p.)) ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40472079 View

United States. Board of Treasury. Exchequer bill, 1781 June 21, Paris, pay to William Bradford / F. Hopkinson.

Title: Exchequer bill, 1781 June 21, Paris, pay to William Bradford / F. Hopkinson.

Printed form with ms. inserts, signed. Payment to William Bradford for interest due on money borrowed by the United States for $36 in 180 livres tournois signed by Francis Hopkinson as Treasurer of Loans, countersigned by Jos. Clarke, Commissioner of the Continental Loan-Office in the State of Rhode Island.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 10 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8570862 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Reports of the Board of Treasury, 1785-1787

Title: Reports of the Board of Treasury 1785-1787

This collection consists of one volume containing the official records on the auditing of claims and other matters of the U. S. Board of Treasury from April 25, 1785 to September 28, 1787, mostly in the handwriting of Walter Livingston, one of the commissioners. The volume contains 488 pages

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 volume)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3105 View

Nelson, Thomas, 1738-1789. Letter to an unidentified correspondent, 1776 August 14.

Title: Letter to an unidentified correspondent, 1776 August 14.

Nelson, writing on behalf of the Treasury Board, explains that the accounts of Price and Haywood have been approved by Congress and must be paid in gold and silver. Congress had sent $22,000 to Canada for use of the Army and with the Army retreating now directs that the sum be applied to Price and Haywood's balance. If his recipient has the balance he should hold it pending additional orders.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55230349 View

Revolutionary War papers, 1774-1784.

Title: Revolutionary War papers, 1774-1784.

Papers, largely military, concern the American Revolution, especially in the Hudson Valley, and include Revolutionary pledges and proceedings of local meetings against British rule, 1774-1776; orders and letters relating to the expedition against Canada, 1775-1776; order book of Gen. Burgoyne, June to October, 1777, with articles of convention between Burgoyne and Gen. H. Gates; minutes, arrest warrants, and a letter from Robert Benson relating to affairs of the Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies, 1777; items relating to Claudius Smith, Orange County Tory, consisting of the confession of band member William Cole and execution orders for Smith and others, 1779; orderly books kept by Capt. Nathan Strong, Valley Forge, 1777, Gen. John Brooks at Dobb's Ferry, 1781, and Lt. Col. Josiah Harmar of the First American Regiment, 1784; military returns, payrolls, commissions, passes, warrants, discharges, and other records, 1775-1781; proceedings of a meeting of army officers concerning compensation for losses, 1792; several letters of William Denning, a commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Board, 1780-1781; and miscellaneous letters, 1775-1784, concerning appointments, election riot in Philadelphia (1775), Loan Office business, need for supplies, military news, and the life of soldiers.

ArchivalResource: ca. 150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155525000 View

Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821. AL (draft), 1780 May 20, Philadelphia, to the Board of Treasury.

Title: AL (draft), 1780 May 20, Philadelphia, to the Board of Treasury.

Requests recompense for personal money expended as Commissary General of Prisoners.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122365123 View

Duer, William, 1747-1799. Secretary of the Board of Treasury accounts, 1785-1789.

Title: Secretary of the Board of Treasury accounts, 1785-1789.

Accounts between the Secretary of the Board and the Treasurer of the Board of Treasury Michael Hillegas. The Board was the precursor to the Treasury Department.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496137169 View

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Records of the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, 1775-1890 (bulk 1790-1850).

Title: Records of the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, 1775-1890 (bulk 1790-1850).

Chiefly accounting records but also correspondence, letterbooks, circulars, daybooks, digest of laws, reports, indexes, newspapers, printed material, and other records produced by various offices of the Dept. of the Treasury reflecting a portion of the activities of the department. Subjects include military pay and pensions from the American Revolution and War of 1812, the Civil War, customs collection, property assessment in Washington, D.C. (1835), claims for losses to Indian property, claims resulting from hostilities with Spain in Florida, financial accounts of diplomatic agents to the Barbary States, a loan made by U.S. Congress in 1790, a direct tax levied on the states in 1798, the U.S. Commissioner of Insolvency. Of note is record of hire of the brigantine Ranger by the Continental Navy. Correspondents include Chester A. Arthur, Salmon P. Chase, John A. Dix, William Pitt Fessenden, John Mason, Hugh McCulloch, Stephen Pleasonton, and Richard Rush.

ArchivalResource: 975 items.9 containers plus 28 oversize.8 microfilm reels.12 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71174631 View

United States. Board of Treasury. Letter : New York, N.Y., to Thomas Smith, 1787 May 15.

Title: Letter : New York, N.Y., to Thomas Smith, 1787 May 15.

Directs Smith as commissioner of the Loan Office for Pennsylvania to publish an advertisement (not present) of a sale of public lands in the Western Territory. Written and signed by Treasury commissioner Samuel Osgood and signed by two other commissioners, Walter Livingston and Arthur Lee.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122525195 View

Field-Osgood Family Papers, 1702-1938, (bulk 1780-1930)

Title: Field-Osgood Family Papers 1702-1938 (bulk 1780-1930)

Correspondence, speeches and writings, household financial accounts, legal papers, genealogical material, printed matter, photographs, lithographs, and engravings pertaining to the families of Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) and his daughter, Susan Osgood Field, of Massachusetts and New York.

ArchivalResource: 1,600 items; 7 containers plus 3 oversize; 7 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007044 View

United States. Board of Treasury. Document, [ca. 1777].

Title: Document, [ca. 1777].

Refers an officer's wife to the Commissary General of Prisoners for assistance in obtaining his pay.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 16 x 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122626016 View

Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01783/catalog View

Documents relating to Charles Sumner, 1828-1912.

Title: Documents relating to Charles Sumner, 1828-1912.

Letters and other documents relating to Charles Sumner, largelyfrom Sumner's own archive of correspondence, but excluding original letters to andfrom him.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01963/catalog View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838

Portraits, prints, letters, documents, and manuscripts (with printed version) tipped into Volume 12 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72 ++ 1898) Portraits: Washington Irving (2, 1 with autograph), George Washington, Cornwallis, Lafayette (2, 1 in color), Count de Grasse, Richard Henry Lee, William White, John Brooks, Napoleon, James Madison, John Adams (2), Samuel Osgood (2, 1 with autograph), Walter Livingston (with autograph), George Washington Parke Custis (with autograph), Mrs. Washington, Edmund Randolph, James Wilson (with autograph), John Blair, Robert Hanson Harrison, Fisher Ames, Thomas Jefferson (2), Louis 16th, Governeur Morris. Prints: Ende der Feindseeligkeiten. Die Engländer räumen den Americanern Neu Yorck ein.--1783; Mt Vernon, Residence of Washington; Early Days of Washington; [Martha Washington, Miss Custis, servant]; General Putnam's Escape from the British at Horse-neck; Washington Presiding in the Convention 1787; [Two men, a woman, and a baby in a boat fishing]; East View of Baltimore, Maryland; Sunnyside. Residence of Washington Irving; Inaugeration of Washington at the Old City Hall 1789; Fraunces' Tavern; Washington Taking Leave of His Mother; The First Cabinet. Letters: ALS, John Trumbull to John Taliaferro, May 24, 1838; AL[draft], John Trumbull to the Editors of the American [in defense of Benjamin West], [n.d.]; A[aman.]LS, Henry Knox to Benjamin Lincoln, May 25, 1790; ALS, Tobias Lear to Messers. Adam Stewart & Co., March 19, 1790; AL, Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hare, June 27 [1789]; ALS, Tobias Lear to William Pierce, October 6, 1795; A[aman.]LS, John Jay to William Carmichael, December 1, 1786; ALS, William Pierce to Edward Telfair, Governor of Georgia, January 29, 1786; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to John Trumbull, May 16, 1800; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Mifflin to John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia, April 21-22, 1784; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to Stephen van Rensselaer, March 6, 1810; ALS, Sam Nicholson to Arthur Lee, January 9-10, 1778; A[aman.]LS, George Clinton to Aaron Burr, March 27, 1790; ALS, U.S. Board of Treasury to Philip Schuyler [signed by Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, and Arthur Lee], July 17, 1788; ALS, Samuel Osgood to Samuel Holten, May 14, 1782; ALS, Arthur Lee to [?], August 4, 1769; ALS, James Madison Jr. to Auditors of the Public Accounts, Virginia, September 25, 1780; ALS, Henry Knox to William Hull, May 6, 1792; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, October 20, 1795; ALS, Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth, June 11, 1791; ALS, David Humphreys to Samuel Parker, September 2, 1803; ALS, Samuel Bard to Judge Thomson, February 6, 1812; A[aman.]LS, Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, May 13, 1790. Letters (continued): ALS, Edmund Randolph to Charles Simms, February 6, 1791; ALS, John Rutledge to Henry Lanney, July 18, 1778; ALS, [Virginia. Commission to treat with the Ohio Indians] to Edmond Pendleton [signed by Thomas Walker, Andrew Lewis, James Wood, Adam Stephen, J. Walker], October 20, 1775; ALS, Governeur Morris to Jonathan Dayton, July 8, 1807. Documents: D[printed]S, U.S. Board of Commissioner of the Federal city, Warrant [entitling Samuel Blodget, Jr. to share #319 of loan to City of Washington, signed by Thomas Johnson, David Stuart, and Daniel Carroll], May 18, 1792. Manuscripts: AM[draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM[final draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM, [advertisement for a print of "General Washington Resigning his Commission..."], [n.d.] Printed: "General Washington."

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (74 items).

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/6048497 View