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

Includes copies of correspondence from William Wildman Barrington and General Thomas Gage. Materials touch on estimates of annual expenses for Fort Amherst and the Army as well as abstract of bills, the List of Officers of the Northern Department of Indian Affairs, matters relating to Gibraltar, and troops at Senegal and Senegambia with the 86th Regiment.

With material relating to the Foundling Hospital; the Faseley-Bridge Road Bill; malt distilleries; qualifications for House of Commons members; the Pennsylvania Land Company; fish markets; cases of Francis Watkins, Francis Dalby, Proprietors of Sulgrave, and about the will of John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury.

With material on prize cases heard before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals relating to De Resolutie vs. Defiance, Den Amstel vs Vanguard and Isis, De Vriendschap vs. Hercules, De Constantia vs. Fox, and De Juffrow Maria vs. St. Andrew.

Papers relating to London hatmakers and leather manufactories such as duties on foreign hats and importation of hides; exportation of bark, hides, and leather; bounties and duties on hides. With material relating to Irish markets.

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.