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Port of Rhode Island Revenue Report, 1775.
Title
Port of Rhode Island Revenue Report, 1775.
Creator
Dudley, Charles
Abstract/Description
Charles Dudley Collector, his account of the revenue of that port at the time the custom house there was shut up in the month of November 1775. The son of an Anglican cleric from the western part of England, Charles Dudley succeeded John Robinson as Collector of the Customs in Rhode Island in the spring of 1768 when the latter was appointed to the newly-formed American Board of Customs in Boston. Headquartered in Newport, Dudley continually suffered considerable physical and verbal abuse from...
Show moreCharles Dudley Collector, his account of the revenue of that port at the time the custom house there was shut up in the month of November 1775. The son of an Anglican cleric from the western part of England, Charles Dudley succeeded John Robinson as Collector of the Customs in Rhode Island in the spring of 1768 when the latter was appointed to the newly-formed American Board of Customs in Boston. Headquartered in Newport, Dudley continually suffered considerable physical and verbal abuse from the populace and procedural harassment from government officials in attempting to execute the navigation acts. Predictably loyal to the crown, he fled the province on the 15th of November 1775.
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Subject Headings
Rhode Island -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Format
E-book
Proclamation by Charles I, 1638
Title
Proclamation by Charles I, 1638.
Abstract/Description
This Proclamation refers to disturbances in Scotland following the Introduction of the Service Book, Book of Canons, and High Commission.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f3
Subject Headings
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Receipt from Gerard Bankckes, 25 March 1797
Title
Receipt from Gerard Bankckes, 25 March 1797.
Abstract/Description
1797 receipt for 69 pounds and 12 shillings from Gerard Banckes treasurer for which Ezra L Hornnedieu shall account
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb2f47
Format
Document (PDF)
Receipt signed by Jonathan D. Sergeant
Title
Receipt signed by Jonathan D. Sergeant.
Creator
Sergeant, Jonathan D.
Abstract/Description
Land receipt signed by Sergeant who was an attorney in Princeton, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey at the Second Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f22_p
Format
Set of related objects
Receipt written by Metcalf Bowler to Joseph Clark Esq, General Treasures Newport, 1776
Title
Receipt written by Metcalf Bowler to Joseph Clark Esq, General Treasures Newport, 1776.
Creator
Bowler, Metcalf
Abstract/Description
Receipt from Metcalf Bowler to Joseph Clarke, Esq. General Treasurer at Newport for the sum of five hundred pounds
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb2f3
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Receipts for Costs and Damages, Bond
Title
Receipts for Costs and Damages, Bond.
Abstract/Description
A receipt for 100L given as bond for assurance of their good behavior. We the Subscribers agree to take up with the first proposal within mentioned. Witness our hands Nehemiah Webb, Thos. Smith Jr., Samuel Smith, Benjamin Bourne, Samuel Dillingham and John Jennings. [Bond for mob that attacked Nathaniel Freeman, Sandwich, MA].
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f51h_p
Format
Set of related objects
Recommendation for Isaac DeCow
Title
Recommendation for Isaac DeCow.
Creator
Dickinson, Philemon, Smith, Isaac
Abstract/Description
A handwritten recommendation for the promotion of Isaac DeCow from Captain to Second Major for the First Battalion of the Hunterdon Militia
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f14_p
Format
Set of related objects
Resolve for Organizing the militia in the county of Barnestable dated June 18, 1780
Title
Resolve for Organizing the militia in the county of Barnestable dated June 18, 1780.
Abstract/Description
A true copy of the Barnstable Resolves by Nathaniel Freemen dated June 18, 1780 mentions report by Brigadier Otis [Joseph Otis, 1726–1810]
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f51g_p
Format
Set of related objects
Sheriff Simeon Dwight Invoice, 1775
Title
Sheriff Simeon Dwight Invoice, 1775.
Abstract/Description
Invoiced services for the year 1775- 1776 of expenses for Worcester County to Sheriff Simeon Dwight
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb2f49
Format
Document (PDF)
Ship manifest, 1799
Title
Ship manifest, 1799.
Abstract/Description
Entry of merchandise intended to be exported by Arch Stewart on boar the Snow Eliza whereof William Bartlett is Master for the West Indies for the benefit of Drawback, which ere imported into the District of Philadelphia on the 23 Oct 1799 by Joseph S. Lewis in the ship Dispatch from St. Petersburg and brought into this District on the 15 Nov 1799 in the Sloop Samuel from French Town. Thomas Fraser, Nat Ramsay, J. Gregg.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb2f48
Format
Document (PDF)
Silvanus Baker, Sargent in Captain Joshua Grays Company stationed at Sandwich gives depositon before Joseph Otis
Title
Silvanus Baker, Sargent in Captain Joshua Grays Company stationed at Sandwich gives depositon before Joseph Otis.
Creator
Baker, Silvanus
Abstract/Description
Silvanus Baker, Sargent in Captain Joshua Grays Company stationed at Sandwich gives depositon before Joseph Otis that on about August 29, 1775 he heard [illegible] talk about cutting the Liberty pole and the door to the guardhouse.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f51j_p
Format
Set of related objects
Stamp Act = Debates sobre acto ... da America
Title
Stamp Act = Debates sobre acto ... da America.
Abstract/Description
Manuscript in an unidentified hand, undated, concerning the Parliamentary debates on the repeal of the Stamp Act of Great Britain. Parallel text in English and Spanish on opposite pages. Caption title of English text may be cutoff due to trimming. Fourth word of caption title of Spanish text mostly lost due to trimming. First and last pages blank. Bears watermark of a Fleur-de-lis and the letters "BDXXG" within. Has catchwords, side notes, tie-holes.
Date Issued
1765 - 1766
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f10
Format
E-book
Sworn testimony given January 1777 before Nathaniel Freeman regarding Moses Allen
Title
Sworn testimony given January 1777 before Nathaniel Freeman regarding Moses Allen.
Abstract/Description
Sworn testimony given January 1777 before Nathaniel Freeman regarding Moses Allen from Elijah Pope, Nathaniel [Basket], and Nathaniel Nowland who mentions Ed Bacon Jr. and P.J. Croker
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f51e
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 1679
Title
Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 1679.
Abstract/Description
A document that pays off and disbands the military forces raised by the King since September 29, 1677. Document also has signatures and marginalia.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwdlb1f5
Subject Headings
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.
Format
Image (JPEG2000)

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