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1725/07/08
Van Horne, Johanna
to Robert Livingston re: slow trade
Joanna apoligizes for her father's poor returns on flour, and notes how slow trade the trade is. Docketed on address leaf.
GLC03107.01655
1712/06/12
Lords of Trade
to Governor Hunter re: decision to reprimand the Assembly
The Justices wrote the letter in response to a dispute between the Councill and the Assembly of New York regarding the "amending of money Bills." In the letter, the Justices find in favor of the Councill, as they charge the Assembly with "a...
GLC03107.00917
1714/04/05
Schuyler, Phillip
to Robert Livingston re: falling prices of provisions
Schuyler informs Livingston that Hugh Saills will pay him a visit in order to tell him what has happened to his sloop. Schuyler also mentions that the prices of provisions have fallen, and that Livingston's bellows remain unsold. Docketed on address...
GLC03107.01057
1717
Unknown
"Proposal of ways & means to raise 12000 [pounds] to pay the Debts of the . . .
. . . Government." List of various ways to raise money, including printing more money, and raising and creating taxes.
GLC03107.01157
17 March 1777
Whipple, William (1730-1785)
to Josiah Bartlett
Discusses Continental troop movements, specifically regarding Fort Ticonderoga and New Jersey. Also, rising cost of living and collapsing currency, taxation, Franklin's reception at Versailles, and New Hampshire politics.
GLC05878
11 June 1781
Morris, Robert (1734-1806)
to William Whipple
Discusses the state of financial affairs and the need for a national bank to stop depreciation of the currency and reduced powers of the government. Writes that he "must apply or support to Gentlemen of your Character and Zeal for the service of...
GLC05898
1833
Gouge, William M.
A Short history of paper money and banking in the United States, including an account of provincial and continental paper-money.
Title continues: "To which is prefixed an inquiry into the principles of the system, with considerations of its effects on morals and happiness. The whole intended as a plain exposition of the way in which paper money and money corporations, affect...
GLC05953
10 December 1862
Clisby, Joseph (fl. 1862)
Macon daily telegraph. [no. 881 (December 10, 1862)]
Subjects include Confederate War Debt, Lincoln's Emancipation Policy, Article on Compensated Emancipation. Includes general advertisements and land sale advertisements.
GLC05959.04
July 1861
Redmond, Dennis (fl. 1856-1865)
Southern cultivator. [Vol. 19, no. 7 (July, 1861)]
Negro Mechanics, Reform Under Our New Government, Supplies Stopped - Let Us Make Our Own, The Richmond Factory. An editorial criticizes the Yankees for not seeing the value of Southern agriculture, particularly the supply and demand of food in terms...
GLC05959.11.02
January 1862
Southern cultivator. [Vol. 20, no. 1 (January, 1862)]
The Private Soldier, Financial Crash in the North, Their Loss of National Position by the Craven Surrender of Mason & Slidell. A shift in agriculture requires corn to be an important Southern crop, while another editorial suggested that provisions be...
GLC05959.11.03
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