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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC04309.02 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of four items relating to the second Bank of the United States |
Title | Jonathan Roberts to Tobias Sellers discussing local politics, a trial and the possibility of taxing the Second Bank of the United States |
Date | 16 January 1818 |
Author | Roberts, Jonathan (1771-1854) |
Recipient | Sellers, Tobias |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Discusses local Pennsylvania politics and governmental appointments. Mentions that he disagrees with a movement to tax the second Bank of the United States and its branches because he believes it will effect the bank's credit. Reports that the trial of John Anderson is over and he has been discharged. Addressed to Doctor Tobias Sellers of the Assembly, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |
Subjects | Politics Government and Civics Taxes or Taxation Finance Bank of the US Banking Law Judiciary |
People | Roberts, Jonathan (1771-1854) Sellers, Tobias (fl. 1818) |
Place written | Washington, D.C. |
Theme | Banking & Economics; Government & Politics; Law |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
Additional Information | Roberts was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania 1811-1814, and a United States Senator 1814-1821. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |