Papers, 1780-1782.

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Papers, 1780-1782, are arranged chronologically and consist mainly of accounts, invoices, orders, receipts and vouchers, but also include correspondence, and other types of documents such as agreements, legislation, and resolutions. These papers are related to furnishing goods and military supplies. Goods and supplies include food items (beef, flax, flour, molasses, pork, salt, sugar); clothing and personal items (belts, blankets, breeches, buckles, buttons, flannel, linen, serge, shirts, shoes, stockings, thread), office supplies (account books, ink, quills, wafers, writing paper); spirits (brandy, rum, whiskey, wine); tools and building materials (nails, pocket knives, rope, twine) and other miscellaneous items such as furniture and lead. Goods were supplied to the Board of War, Clerks of Assembly, Clothier General, and Council, as well as to apothecaries, barracks, garrisons, hospitals, lead mines, officers, regiments, ships, surgeons). Also includes receipts and orders for hires (boats, wagons, horses), removal of public tobacco, repairs (saddles, bridles, buildings, ropewalk), shipping, shoeing horses, and travel expenses. (Accession 54345).

Papers of interest include: Agreement with George Harner for the hire of enslaved individuals, 1781 Feb; invoice of tobacco purchased by the order of David Ross for the use of the Commonwealth, 1781 Apr; Council order to impress negroes, wagons and boats to remove public tobacco, 1781 July; orders for supplies to lead mines and Point of Fork arsenal, 1781 July; correspondence and inventory related to printing press, 1781 July; correspondence and claims and an act to empower the Governor and Council to fix the value of provisions impressed for the use of the army, 1781 Aug; agreement regarding boats, 1781 Aug; prices of provisions, 1781 Aug; account of enslaved individuals hired of George Harner (includes names), 1781 Oct; correspondence and accounts Francois Joseph Paul, Count de Grasse and Jean-Baptiste de Cibon regarding the Royal Navy of France, 1781 Oct; correspondence and accounts regarding the impressment of the Schooner Game Cock, 1781 Oct; correspondence and travel expenses related to agents of the French army, 1781 Nov; hiring enslaved labor and repairing the ropewalk in Warwick, 1782 Feb; bill of lading for General Wayne, 1782 Apr; List of forfeited estates from Col. Davies, 1782 Apr; Council papers and correspondence between the Minister of France and the Speaker of the House related to supplies to be furnished to the Royal Navy of France, 1782 May; clothing for the Cherokee, 1782 May; shipping tobacco to France, 1782 May; repairing the lead mines, 1782 June; resolution of Count de Grasse, 1782 July; account with the ship Oliver Cromwell, 1782 July; correspondence and inventory of the lead mines (includes the names of enslaved laborers), 1782 Aug; quantity of pig and other iron at the Foundry at Westham, 1782 Oct; return of clothing for state negroes, articifers and wagoneers, 1782 Oct; inventory of goods on hand in the care of William Hay, Commercial Agent, 1782 Oct;

Also includes lists of tobacco received in payment of the two percent tax to raise the state's quota of troops to serve in the Continental Army, 1780-1781. Lists are in alphabetical order by locality. Frederick County list also includes the planter's name, river and warehouse, and the Orange County list also includes the name of the planter.

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