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Documents Relating to Cases before the Debt Commission, 1799 January 11 - May 21
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Documents relating to the most prominent claims submitted to the Debt Commission, including those of the Rev. Charles Inglis, a Loyalist minister and the Bishop of Nova Scotia, who claimed to be owed some thirteen hundred pounds. Others relate to the claims of William Cunningham (owed more than a thousand pounds by Virginia merchants), Daniel Dulany, and Andrew Allen. The Inglis, Cunningham, Dulany, and Allen claims were the main cases considered by the Debt Commission, and the ones that led the board to dissolve in acrimony. Ultimately, the work of the commission broke down over disagreements on the requirements to be met by creditors and debtors, and the amounts of British claims, and those disagreements are fully vented in these and subsequent documents.
Collection History
- Custodial History
From the personal papers of Samuel Sitgreaves.
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No appraisal information is available.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
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- Credit this material:
Documents Relating to Cases before the Debt Commission; Jay's Treaty Collection, C1418, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss)
- Box 1
