Found 7 collections related to United States. Bureau of Customs

Several letters written by Continental Army officer and Delaware statesman Allan McLane pertaining to his service in the Continental Army, and to his work as Collector of the Port of Wilmington. An undated essay or statement by McLane titled "A Hard Case" describes his financial struggles due to depreciation of loans made to the Continental Congress in 1779 and depreciation of his Army pay in 1783, and the attempts of political rivals to have him removed from his position in the Customs Bureau; and a manuscript copy of a 1791 letter from George Washington commends McLane's military service. less

Jedediah Huntington was an American general in the Continental Army during the American revolution. The collection consists largely of letters written to Huntington during his tenure as collector of customs at New London, Connecticut from Gabriel Duval, Albert Gallatin, Richard Rush, John Steele, Oliver Wolcott, and other officials of the Comptroller's Office of the U.S. Treasury Department less

Henry Packer Dering (d. 1822) was a collector of customs, postmaster and military storekeeper in Sag Harbor, Long Island. He also traded at Aux Cayes, Haiti, as an agent of Nat Gardinier, during the 1780's. Collection consists of correspondence, diary, legal records, sermons, and other papers. Correspondence concerns family and business affairs, seafaring, United States Customs, and military stores; diary, 1787-1788, relates to sales at Aux Cayes, Haiti, of cargoes of fish and horses from the sloop Polly, of Sag Harbor, N.Y.; and deeds and other documents pertain to land on Long Island. Includes probated wills; a volume containing sermons, 1692-1694; cash accounts of contributions for preaching, 1791-1795; stud records, 1790, of the stallion Young Figure at Sag Harbor; and letters of Dering's father, Thomas Dering, and of his children and business associates. Also, drafts of eighteen letters, 1787, written from Aux Cayes, Haiti, while Dering was agent for Nat Gardinier, addressed to Gardinier and to relatives and friends in Sag Harbor concerning trade, local conditions, wages of ship captains while in port, and other topics. less

Collection consists of correspondence, diary, deeds, and other papers of Alexander, John, Mark, Sylvester J., and William Dennett, of Kittery, Maine; of Benjamin, John and Joseph Kingsbury, of York County, Maine; and of the Remick family. Includes materials relating to family members, politics, temperance, militia, local taxes, the customs service, and the trial of Admiral George Dewey. less

The papers consist of correspondence, circular letters, clippings, U.S. Customs accounts of distilled spirits, a sworn statement of Bowen's abolitionist beliefs, and other personal and professional papers belonging to Henry C. Bowen, a collector for the Internal Revenue Service. and founder of the Independent, an abolitionist magazine. Correspondence is predominantly outgoing and discusses both personal matters and professional issues relating to the Independent and his work for the Internal Revenue Service. Notable recipients include Gordon Lester Ford, and his wife, Emily Fowler Ford less

Theophilus Carey Callicot (1826-1920) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician. The papers relate mainly to Callicot's stint as Customs Collector in Brooklyn, 1865-1868, and his subsequent arrest for traffic in illegal liquor. Material includes canceled checks drawn on the Nassau National Bank (Brooklyn) to various parties signed by Callicot; an IRS "Collector's Certificate to Tobbaconist" issued by Callicot in 1867, marked as having been surrendered in 1868; a report of cigars assessed; and an 1869 letter to Gordon Lester Ford congratulating him on his appointment Collector of Internal Revenue for the third collection district, and thanking him for a visit during his "injust imprisonment." also included are several letters written by Callicot as editor of the Albany Times, including one to Paul Leicester Ford less

Henry W. Edwards (1779-1847) was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut, and later Governor of Connecticut. The papers consist largely of letters from Edwards to Jedidiah Huntington and Thomas U. Cushing during their service as collectors of customs at New London, Connecticut, pertaining to official matters. Also present are letters to his brother, Ogden Edwards, frequently discussing political issues, such possible presidential candidates; and several letters pertaining to gubernatorial business less