Accounts of payments on bonds for New York lands (Brown purchase), 1788-1804.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Accounts of payments on bonds for New York lands (Brown purchase), 1788-1804.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82744088

Accounts include treasury documents and correspondence relating to payments to the treasurer on Samuel Brown's bond over an extended term, 1788-1804. Payments on principal and interest were made over time by a number of individuals, including Jonathan Edwards and Theodore Sedgwick, with a final payment of $198.37 on Feb. 27, 1804, for a total of $5778.14, principal and interest.

1 file folder (partial doc. box)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8288505

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Brown, Samuel, fl. 1786-1804.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt47gr (person)

Massachusetts. Treasury Office

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bs2qp8 (corporateBody)

Throughout the provincial period, Massachusetts towns were periodically assessed by the Treasury with taxes for the defraying of public charges and support of the government. This practice increased in importance and frequency during the Revolutionary War, as individual colonies became largely responsible for financial support of the war effort. Resolves 1777-78, c 398 (Oct. 9, 1777), dictated that all Massachusetts financial support of the war was thenceforth to be based on taxation only, with ...