1III. Replies to Queries: Connecticut, [June–July 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Memoir containing answers to questions respecting the government, commerce &c. of the State of Connecticut. Government Amount of taxes in Bills of the United States since May 1775: 13,906,649. 3. 2 Deduct amount of abatements £3,428,643.16 Do. for balance due the Treasury 1,365,275. 6. 4,793,919. 2 Total Amount paid in Continental Bills £9,112,730. 1. 2 Amount paid in State Bills since 1780...
2V. Replies to Queries: Massachusetts, July 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
Massachusets. Mr. Tracy. July. 1784 I. 1. About 30,000£ lawful 4. About 1,500,000£ lawful. 5. The interest is punctually paid. The principal stands on the public faith. There is an impost and excise appropriated to the paimt of the interest, but no tax is yet laid for paiment of the principal, except for a particular 30,000£ of it. 6. About 8/ in the pound. 7. They have been since 1782 about...
3VIII. Summary of Replies to Queries, 31 July 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
N. Hampshire Massachusets Rhode island Connecticut New York Whole Pennsylvania Shipping 10. M . ton 1. M .ton— 4. M . ton 4. M . ton
4VI. Replies to Queries: New Hampshire, June 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
New-Hampshire. June 1784. I. Government. The amount of the civil list is not yet fixed under the new constitution. The last year it was between three and four thousand pounds lawful. Their State debt is about 150,000 pounds lawful. The interest, and 10 or 15 per cent of the principal is paid by way of discount in taxes. The evidences of this debt sell at about one half their nominal value. The...
5VII. Miscellaneous Notes on Commerce, [ca. June 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Pennsylva. Virginia. Pennsylvania Freeport in English W. Indies. S. Carolina. Govr. Hopkins tells me that old Mr. Middleton at the first Congress informed him that state owed 800,000£ sterl. private debts to Gr. Brit. MS ( DLC ); entirely in TJ’s hand. These notes may have been set down during May-June 1784 as TJ traveled northward, or they may have been compiled later on the basis of replies...
6IV. Replies to Queries: Rhode Island, [ca. 18? June 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Govr. Bowen Rhodeisland. [ca. 18? June 1784] I. 1. About 4500 Doll. 4. About 130,000£ 5. There is an impost of 2 pr. cent on imports appropriated to this. It begins to be paid. 6. At one half their nominal sum. 7. About £20,000. 8. None but that mentioned no. 5. 9. About one twentieth. All born after a day past are free. The master if at any expence with them is to be paid by the public men....
7II. Replies to Queries: New York (1), [ca. 1–5 June 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
Answers to Govr. Jefferson’s Quæries Government. Price of Labour. Ship Building Navigation Fisheries. MS ( DLC ); in an unidentified hand; although there is no indication of the state for which these replies were made, they clearly relate to New York. In DLC : TJ Papers 11: 1916 (separated from the present MS ) there is the address leaf for these replies, reading: “The Honble Jefferson [sic]...
8II. Replies to Queries: New York (2), [ca. 1–5 June 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
New York. Mr. Lewis . I. 1. Under 100 ton. They have ½ ton privilege. Above that 1 ton. The use of the cabbin. 2. Before the war from 50/ to £3. The masters £6. a month. 4. In sloops 6. Topsail vessels 8. or 10. 5. Smallest vessel 50 ton. up to 400. II. Had one co. for whale fishing before war. Will revive it. No other. The British used to send several vessels to N. F.land. one or two for each...
9I. Queries concerning Government, Labor, Commerce, &c., [ca. 1 June 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DLC ); entirely in TJ’s hand. This query was originally framed by Hogendorp, but was employed by TJ only in New York and Connecticut; none of the replies for Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire contains an answer to it.
10IX. Abstracts of Gouverneur Morris’ Letters on Commerce, [May 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[May 1784] G. Morris to Genl. Chastellux. Oct. 7. 1783. France fought for the American commerce. Has she got it and will she hold it? That contest is only beginning. Her success in it will depend on her prudent management. The marine of a country depends on it’s commerce. Commerce depends on 2. pillars. 1. Navigation, which forms seamen. 2. Wealth, which supplies taxes. To pursue a marine at...
11Editorial Note: Notes on Commerce of the Northern States (Jefferson Papers)
Among Jefferson’s well-ordered archives at Monticello was one category labeled “Rough draughts, notes &c. while Member of Congress and Minister Plenipo. at Paris” (Vol. 1: xiii). The present series of documents must have been systematically arranged in that or a similar group, along with others pertaining to the same subject (see Neil Jamieson to TJ, 12 and 14 July 1784 ; Ralph Izard to TJ, 10...