Volume 28: U.S. Postal History /repositories/5/archival_objects/1191285 1 box 1755-1864 April 18 Scope and Contents

Includes: Stamps connected to Fairs (Sanitary Commission, etc.), British revenue stamps for America, Federal issues of embossed revenue stamps, State revenue stamps, other revenue stamps (for collecting taxes on photographs, tobacco, liquor, bottles, cigars, potato tax, metal cotton tax stamp which was affixed to each bale of cotton), Revenue stamped paper (insurance policy, bank draft for gold, etc.), Custom House stamps

 Letters Removed /repositories/5/archival_objects/1191358 1 box 1755-1864 April 18 D (partial) depicting the Schooner stamp Leaf 5 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1191668 1 folder 1755-1757 4 47 Scope and Contents

The Schooner stamp is one of the embossed revenues for Colonial use. This Four Penny stamp was used mostly on real Estate transactions for more than twenty pounds, and is now seldom found.

 DS by Joshua Peirce, Eastham, to Mr. William Newcomb Leaf 7 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1191669 1 folder 1756 4 48 Scope and Contents

This document is impressed with the Codfish Revenue stamp that was first used in 1755 and mostly used on Real Estate deeds as in this case.

 DS (writ) by Joseph Bowditch, Clerk, to the Sheriff of Essex(?) County, Rob. Hale, regarding Peter Grove of Beverly Leaf 6 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1191670 1 folder 1757 March 14-15 4 49 Scope and Contents

Example of the II (Two) Penny Colonial Embossed Revenue stamp for Massachusetts, known as the Pine Tree Revenue.

 DS (bottom right corner torn off) by Peter J. Stryker and Garret R. Garretson Leaf 12 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1191671 1 folder 1801 May 1 4 50 Scope and Contents

This document shows the twenty-five cent value of the embossed revenue stamp, Second Federal Issue. The design of the eagle and the shield, seen on the two stamps, differ with each value of the stamps.

 DS by John S. Tyson Jr., Commissioner of Pennsylvania Leaf 15 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1191672 1 folder 1864 April 18 4 51 Scope and Contents

This indenture concerns the sale of a lot of land, corner of 20th and Coates Streets, Philadelphia, reserving a ground rent of $240 per annum. It is made out on vellum and duly stamped with a $5 Internal Revenue conveyance stamp, which is further secured to the document with two metal eyelets, very like the old English custom.