ALS, 1778 January 26 : New Haven, to Elbridge Gerry.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

ALS, 1778 January 26 : New Haven, to Elbridge Gerry.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13814428

Serving as a Commissioner of Congress to regulate prices, Paine sends a lengthy report on progress and problems. "Regulation of prices is really a very unnatural measure, & nothing but Extremity can justify & Execute it ... That great Engine Taxation must be Studied & practiced ..."

6 p. ; 24 x 18 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6823017

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h23t24 (person)

Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He served as the state's first attorney general, and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court. Paine was also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and had always opposed slavery. ...

Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64z5z6w (person)

Elbridge Thomas Gerry (July 17, 1744 (OS July 6, 1744) – November 23, 1814) was an American politician and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he served as the fifth vice president of the United States under President James Madison from March 1813 until his death in November 1814. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after Gerry. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally opposed British colonial policy in the 1760s and was active in the early stages of organizing the re...