U.S. Treasurer records of taxes and duties, 1789-1817.

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United States. Dept. of the Treasury. U.S. Treasurer records of taxes and duties, 1789-1817.

U.S. Treasurer records of taxes and duties, 1789-1817.

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Records of taxes assessed on most individual towns in Connecticut for the 1798 Direct Tax, and for federal taxes for 1813, 1814, 1815, and 1816; non-resident taxes assessed in 1810-1815; taxes on carriages, wagons and chaises in 1816; duties for stamps, licenses, merchandise, etc., 1813-1815; a cash book recording cash receipts on taxes or duties on licenses, stamps, carriages and distilleries, 1813-1817; circulars to collectors of revenue, 1813-1815, addressed to John T. Peters; abstracts of Treasury notes, 1814-1816; and bonds redeemed and sold, 1814-1817. Specific to the 4th Collecting District in Hartford, Connecticut, headed by John T. Peters, are an account of bonds given by distillers, 1815-1816, statement of duties arising on licenses, 1814-1816, an account of fines, penalties and forfeitures, 1814, and a book of forms for keeping accounts. Of particular interest are a collection of drafts of letters to superintendents of lighthouses, 1792-1796, ad statements of foreign trade tonnage, 1789-1794, and statements of foreign trade, 1794-1799.

6.0 linear feet (188 volumes, 2 boxes).

Connecticut Historical Society