Jacob Smyser A.L.S., York town [Pa.], August 5th 1783 : to John Dickinson Esq.r Presd. of the Supreme Executive Council, Philadelphia
1783
MSS L1985.7
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Jacob Smyser A.L.S., York town [Pa.], August 5th 1783 : to John Dickinson Esq.r Presd. of the Supreme Executive Council, Philadelphia
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York Town [Pa.] 1783
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[4] p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
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MSS L1985.7
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"A letter from Council dated May the 20th very lately come to our hands, which urged us to sue a number of collectors, but [I] am made sensible of the distresses of our inhabitants."
"The letter of July the 24th seems very feeling and threatening, and if closely pursued ruinous to our county."
Enumerates the challenges countermanding the Council's orders: "upwards of two hundred head of cattle have perished last spring"; "mildew and hail hath distroyed many fields of grain"; and "collectors have already brought goods to town upwards of twenty miles ... and met with little encouragement of the sale."
Docketed on p. [3]: 1783 5th August. From Jacob Smysen - / Commissioner of taxes - York County.
Transcription of letter pubished in Pennsylvania Archives, vol. X (1854), p. 77.
For background on problems created by extreme punishments threatened in attempts to collect taxes in arrears, see Roger H. Brown. Redeeming the Republic (1993),chapter 5, especially p. 61, which quotes portions of this Smyser letter.
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Page [2] is blank; p. [4] is address leaf.
"The letter of July the 24th seems very feeling and threatening, and if closely pursued ruinous to our county."
Enumerates the challenges countermanding the Council's orders: "upwards of two hundred head of cattle have perished last spring"; "mildew and hail hath distroyed many fields of grain"; and "collectors have already brought goods to town upwards of twenty miles ... and met with little encouragement of the sale."
Docketed on p. [3]: 1783 5th August. From Jacob Smysen - / Commissioner of taxes - York County.
Transcription of letter pubished in Pennsylvania Archives, vol. X (1854), p. 77.
For background on problems created by extreme punishments threatened in attempts to collect taxes in arrears, see Roger H. Brown. Redeeming the Republic (1993),chapter 5, especially p. 61, which quotes portions of this Smyser letter.
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Page [2] is blank; p. [4] is address leaf.
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