To George Washington from Manufacturers of Snuff and Refined Sugar, December 1795
From Manufacturers of Snuff and Refined Sugar
[December 1795]
sir
The Manufacturers of Snuff, & refin’d Sugar, having prepar’d a Pamphlet; stating the general inconvenience of an Excise system and the particular grievances which they suffer from the Excise impos’d upon their Manufactures present with great deference a copy of the work for your information and consideration.1
Thomas Leiper
Gavin Hamilton
Jacob Morgan
LS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. This letter is docketed in part “Decr ’95.” Gavin Hamilton (c.1717–1800) was a tobacconist at 13 S. Second St. in Philadelphia.
1. The manufacturers enclosed A Short History of the Nature and Consequences of Excise Laws; Including Some Account of the Recent Interruption to the Manufactories of Snuff and Refined Sugar (Philadelphia, 1795), written by James Thomson Callender and printed with a date of 7 December. The pamphlet was in GW’s library at the time of his death ( 40).