Back to top

(No. 8.) Your province tax. Lawful money. :
A tax assessment form., Printed area measures 8.0 x 10.4 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol; Ford, W.C. Broadsides., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Mr. Willm. Fisher, assessment total £12.3.0; Sampson Salter, collector., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.

Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] :
Three bills of lading printed one above the other on a single half sheet; each of the three blank forms begins with an ornamental letter S., Printed area measures 32.1 x 15.6 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. in triplicate for Nathaniel West Dandridge, shipping eight hogsheads of tocabbo to Messrs. Farrel & Jones, Bristol, England, aboard the ship Realto, at anchor in York River, John Thomas, master; dated Aug. 30, 1762 and signed by John Thomas., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.

Shipped by the grace of God in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] :
A bill of lading form., Ornamental initial letter S shows a ship under full sail; the woodcut initial is unsigned., Printed area measures 9.3 x 19.4 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Jonathan Belcher, shipping sugar, molasses, rum, 12 oak tables, 5 dozens chairs, and 6 dozen pails from Boston to "Nansymum in Virginia or So. Carolina" (i.e. Nansemond, Va.), aboard the ship Dove, William Winter, master; dated Boston, Sept. 12, 1723, and signed by Winter., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.