Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 64

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
REQUESTING AN ACCOUNT OF "THE DEBTS CONTRACTED . . . DURING THE LATE WARS" SAMUEL OSGOOD. Letter Signed, as Commissioner of the Treasury, to NH Commissioner of the Loan Office Nathaniel Gilman, circular letter, requesting details concerning the Revolutionary War debt of New Hampshire. Additionally signed by Commissioner of the Treasury Walter Livingston. 1 page, 4to; address panel on verso, horizontal folds. "Board of Treasury" [New York], 25 February 1788

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"As it will probably soon become necessary to ascertain the present amount of the debts contracted by the respective States during the late wars, you will be pleased to obtain and transmit to this Office as accurate a statement as possible of the debt of the State in which you act, together with a detail of the provision already made . . . for the payment of the same."

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.