Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

With content relating to Flanders, Cape Breton, Cadiz, Ireland; matters relating to seamen, horse guards; convictions for retailing liquor; plantation rum, wines, spirits; customs, duties, imports (including on windows, lights, glassware, wine, beaver skins, Liverpool slave trade, etc.); list of regiments disbanded; Chelsea Hospital pensioners; Transport Service; victualling expenses; Ways, Means, and Supplies; Jamaican trade; debts and surpluses; amount of ships; and more. Printed items, includingThe Case of the British Northern Colonies;Lying-in Hospital for Married Women; and A Case of His Grace Peregrine Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven...

Includes draft "Bill for the better Recruiting of his Majesty's Forces in North America and the better Regulation of the Army and preventing Desertion there;" Jamaican trade, fortification, and laws; Minutes of Council of War at Oswego, 1755; Report on customs of British goods imported to Spain, 1714; Census of the residents of Halifax, Dartmouth, and environs, 1755; James Johnstone memorial regarding the office of Collector of Jamaica; Report on conduct of Governor Shirley; material relating to the boundaries of Georgia.

Many documents from the War Office, including expense estimate for maintaining the army in North America and for various forts, including those in Nova Scotia, Albany, Louisburg, St. Augustine, and Georgia. Also includes a list of the officers of the Northern Department of Indian Affairs and correspondence between Sir Henry Moore and Shelburne along with other documents regarding the quartering of troops, with a focus on New York.

With content relating to treaties between Britain and Russia, Prussia, Spain, and Hesse.

Financial papers on trade (including in the Levant Seas, Turkey, and Russia), imports and exports, pawnbrokers, hatters, beaver, expenses of Nova Scotia colony, and more. Also present is a partial copy of Benjamin Franklin's examination about taxation before the House of Commons in February 1766. Includes material relating to naturalization, like a printed bill, "An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalized by Parliament." Folders 21-36 relate to David Crichton's financial accounts for expenses incurred between 1747 and 1748 while attending to the release of William Ansah Sessarakoo, son of John Corrantee of Annamaboe, from enslavement in Barbadoes.

With notes, memoranda, and estimates about the cost of the British establishment in North America, including lists of forts abandoned, costs of provisions for various forts on the lakes and the importance of armed vessels in the area, and matters relating to quartering. Other papers relate to paper currency, establishing a "Board of Revenue" in the American colonies, duties on various goods, and quit rents. A petition from New York merchants protested trade restrictions.

Includes Hedon, York; Colchester; St. Michaels, Cornwall; Haslemere, Surry; Reading; and Wareham, Dorset.

Printed set of proposals from the East India Company Court of Directors to the General Court.

With extracts of correspondence relating to proposed legislation, copies of treaties, narrative of transactions in Bengal. Miscellaneous items include items relating to the Frame Work Knitters Co., the African Company, other companies (South Sea Company, Hudson's Bay Company, York Buildings Company, Levant Company, and Russia Company), and a letter from Joseph Reed to Townshend about his theatrical plays.

With copies of treaties.