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Collection Reference Number GLC02437.04748
From Archive Folder The Henry Knox Papers [0097] October-December 1790 
Title George Tyler to Henry Knox about tax issues
Date 12 October 1790
Author Tyler, George (fl. 1790)  
Recipient Knox, Henry  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Reminds Knox of a meeting the two men had in Boston in which they discussed Tyler's "disagreeable circumstance of...being prosecuted by Mr. John Lee the collector of the United State's revenue for Penoscot district." Tyler asked Knox to speak to the Secretary of the Treasury (Alexander Hamilton). Tyler is fighting charges that he did not properly pay duties on rum and sugar. In order that Knox not forget the details of the case, Tyler relates the situation to him. "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.
Subjects Revolutionary War General  Waldo Patent  Taxes or Taxation  Finance  Government and Civics  Commerce  Alcohol  
People Tyler, George (fl. 1790)  
Theme Banking & Economics; Law; Agriculture; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection The Henry Knox Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859