11To Thomas Jefferson from James Yard, 5 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
St. Croix, 5 Oct. 1791. He encloses an account of the annual imports and exports of St. Croix and St. Thomas and a list of duties on imports from America. The former is not entirely accurate. The quantity of imported Indian meal is probably one fourth and that of imported lumber one third less than the figures given in the enclosed account, “as permission to export Sugars is granted only to...