11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your request , I here inclose you the premiums at present given on Vessells, sailing under American Colours, own’d by Subjects of the United States From America to England or Ireland 4 Guineas From ditto to Bilboa 5 Guineas From do. to Lisbon 6 Gs.
12To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, 2 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d with a Letter, adviseing me of your success in the reduction of the duties on Whale Spermacoeti Oil, which was the Object of my pursuit last Winter at Paris, and left undetermined, under your care and vigilance to perfect and carry to the happy issue, its now arrived at. Mr. Garvey who favors me with this inteligence, does not say, whether the Oil I had in the Diana, and paid this...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Boylston, 18 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just received Advice of an Edict being publishd in France, forbiding the importation of foreign Sparmacitæ Oil I beg leave to apply to you for your Assistance respecting the American Ship Diana Capt. from Boston, with a Cargo of Sparmacitæ Oil purchasd there, and Ship’d for Have de Grace, to the Address of Mess. Homberg & Homberg freres of that City. This Cargo, was purchased, by Vertue...