1II. Jefferson’s Notes on Coxe’s Commercial System for the United States, [ca. 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
...articles of iron, bricks, tiles, potters ware, millstones, cabinet work, corn fans, Windsor chairs, carriages, sadlery, shoes, boots, coarse linens, hats, a few coarse woollens, linseed oil, Wares of gold, silver, tin and copper, some braziery, wool cards, worms and stills.
2Memorandum Books, 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
14f8—tin vessels 1f4.tin vessels 4f4 map 1f16.
3Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 19 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
...Sent you a Tea urn, it is packd in a Box with one for Sister Cranch. you will find an Iron calld a heater. This when the water is boild, you heat red hot & put in the tin middle peice which keeps the water hot during the whole process of tea making. I have also sent you a little contrivence for lighting a candle when your fire is out, the directions for useing are round the case...
4Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 16 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
...Heater, & the Iron which you put it in with, is to be packed in the Box by the Side of them. whilst your water is boiling, you heat the Iron & put it in to the little tin inclosure always minding that the water is first put in. this keeps it hot as long as you want to use it.— how are English Goods now? cheeper I suppose than I can buy them here, and...
5William Stephens Smith to Abigail Adams Smith, 26 April 1787 (Adams Papers)
...: what was to be done in this case? Some would attempt an answer here, but I, like Will-o-the-Wisp, am above this, and proceed to tell you what I did—I took out my little tin case, and with a match
6V. Estimate of American Imports, [1785–1786?] (Jefferson Papers)
Silver, copper, brass, tin, pewter, lead, steel, iron, in every form.
7To John Jay from Samuel Shaw, 31 December 1786 (Jay Papers)
. in return for which they receive pepper, block tin and spices. The proceeds of these, with the silver and other articles they bring from India, are about one third carried back in such Merchandize as will suit the India markets; and the remainder, either in cash......quantities of salt petre. In return those that come to Canton take pepper and block tin and such as go back to the coast...
8From George Washington to Theodorick Bland, 28 December 1786 (Washington Papers)
...ground as well as the harrow to prevent the waste of seed. A small bag, containing about a peck of the seed you are sowing, is hung to the nails on the right handle, & with a small tin cup the barrel is replenished with convenience whenever it is necessary without loss of time, or waiting to come up with the seed bag at the end of the row. I had almost forgot to tell you, that... ...tin,...
9Thomas Barclay to the American Commissioners, with Enclosure, 10 September 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...Holland the trade is more general and comprehends not only the same kind of Goods, but a variety of others such as Iron ware of various sorts, including tools made use of by Workmen, Tin ware, Steel, Iron in bars, Copper Utencils, Ship Chandlery, and Cordage for the repairing Dificiencies in merchant Vessels; Wine and Spirituous Liquors for the use of the Christians may be Imported from...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, with Enclosure, 17 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Silver. Copper. Brass. Tin. Pewter. Lead. Steel.
Iron, in every form.