1Session of Virginia Council of State, 7 April 1778 (Madison Papers)
...it may be impossible to provide these Articles in the exhausted part of America where the Army is at present fixed, do advise the Governor to direct the Commissary of Stores to procure a Stock of good rum, wine, Sugar & such other Articles as his Excellency may think needful & send them on to head Quarters, to be charged either to the Continent, or to be considered as a present from this...
2William Ellery and JM to the Committee of Congress at Washington’s Headquarters, 5 May 1780 (Madison Papers)
...kind, or mention of such a message, has been found in the Papers of the Continental Congress or in its printed journal. “New England,” in the letter’s second paragraph, was often used as a synonym of rum.
3From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1780 (Madison Papers)
...City who have already subscribed nearly £3,000,000 and will very soon complete that sum, the immediate object of which is to procure and transport to the Army 3,000,000,000 of rations and 300 Hhds of rum.
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 23 June 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
...subscribed nearly £3,000,000 and will very soon complete that sum, the immediate object of which is to procure and transport to the Army 3,000,000,000 of rations and 300 Hhds of rum. Congress for the support of this bank and for the security and indemnification of the Subscribers, have pledged the faith of the United States and agreed to deposit Bills of Exchange in Europe to the Amount...
5From James Madison to Joseph Jones, 17 October 1780 (Madison Papers)
The Saratoga has returned. She parted a few days before she got in with several of her prizes containing about 1000 Hhds. of rum & several hundred do. of sugar, which having been not since heard of we begin to fear have fallen back into the possession of the Enemy....September 1780 a captured vessel with a cargo of “234 Puncheons of Rum.” Young was then ordered to join the frigates “Trumbull”...
6From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 17 October 1780 (Madison Papers)
The Saratoga a Continental Vessel of 16 guns is just returned from a cruise in which she took several Jamaica prizes with a prodigious quantity of rum & sugar on board. She parted from them in a fog near the coast, and as they have not yet been heard of it is feared they have fallen back into the possession of the Enemy
7From James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, 7 November 1780 (Madison Papers)
, XVIII, 1011–18). The “specific articles” comprised meat, flour, salt, and rum. By “new emissions” JM meant the paper money issued by states in accordance with the resolutions of Congress of 18 March 1780.
8Notes on Debates, 29 January 1783 (Madison Papers)
On 6 April 1781 the legislature of Pennsylvania extended for another decade the ten-year excise law of 1 March 1772, and amended that law by stipulating that after 30 May 1781 the tax on “Wine, Rum, Brandy and other Spirits” would be doubled to a rate of 8
9Notes on Debates, 27 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
...valorem, the States be requested to enable Congs. to collect a duty of ⅛ of a dollar perbushel on salt imported, of 6/90 per Gallon on all wines do. and of 3/90 per Gallon on all rum & brandy do.the duty was too inconsiderable to be felt in the cost of fish & that as the rum used in the N. E. States being in a great degree manufactured at home,
10Report on Restoring Public Credit, [6 March] 1783 (Madison Papers)
...Also to levy a duty of ⅛ of a dollar per Bushel on all Salt imported as aforesaid after the war. 1/15 of a dollar per Gallon on all wines 1/30 of a dollar per Gallon on all rum & brandy 2/3 of a dollar per 112 lbs. on all brown sugars, 1 dollar per 112 lbs. on all powdered, lump & clayed