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Comments By The Committee On Federal Taxation On The Following Pending Legislation H.R. 185 - Regarding The Cutoff Point For Stock And Securities Acquired By The Liquidating Corporation, 2. H.R. 411 - Regarding The Income Tax Treatment Of Installment Sales, Etc., 3. H.R. 823 - Regarding Foreign Corporations, 4. H.R. 4458 - Regarding Valuation Of Stock In An Open-End Investment Company For Estate And Gift Tax Purposes, 5. S. 614 - Identical With H.R. 185, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Committee On Federal Taxation

AICPA Committees

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Letter From Benjamin Franklin To Colonel George Croghan., Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

Benjamin Franklin Collection

A letter from Benjamin Franklin to Colonel George Croghan.

Rb 004 Guide To Cora And Webb Mading Collection On Public Health, John P. Mcgovern Historical Collections & Research Center

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The Cora and Webb Mading Collection focuses on public health and contains over 1,500 books and pamphlets on urban sanitation in the United States and communicable diseases. Two important aspects of the collection are the large number of early twentieth century city and state health department reports and the nineteenth century pamphlets on specific contagious diseases. See more at RB 004.

De Motu Rectilineo Trium Corporum Se Mutuo Attrahentium, Leonhard Euler

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Nachricht Von Einem Neuen Mittel Zur Vermehrung Des Getreides, Und Dem Großen Nutzen Desselben, Welcher In Einer Außerordentlichen Ersparung Des Saamens Besteht, Leonhard Euler

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Sur Les Rentes Viagères, Leonhard Euler

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Observationes Analyticae, Leonhard Euler

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An Act For Opening And Establishing Certain Ports In The Islands Of Jamaica And Dominica, For The More Free Importation And Exportatioin Of Certain Goods And Merchandizes...

British Parliamentary Acts

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Considerationes De Motu Corporum Coelestium, Leonhard Euler

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Peter Van Brugh Livingston With Samuel Nuttman, October 16, 1765, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Samuel Nuttman

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

Peter Van Brugh Livingston sold Samuel Nuttman lands near Wold Harbour, at the price decided by David Ogden. It was witnessed by James Nuttman. The verso noted that parts were sold by Ogden and Alexand [Alexander].

Order To Choose Juror For Grand Jury And Petit Jury, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1765., George William Frederick

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This record orders the selection of jurors from the "good and lawful men" of Worcester to serve on the Grand Jury and Petit Jury at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace. February 15, 1765. On the verso a handwritten notice enumerates the men chosen for each jury.

Theoria Motus Corporum Solidorum Seu Rigidorum, Leonhard Euler

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Peter Van Brugh Livingston And J. Stevens, Wolf Harbor, October 29, 1764, Peter Van Brugh Livingston

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

There are two hand-drawn surveys of land along the edge of Wolf Harbor swamp, in present-day Newark. The land was owned by Peter Van Brugh Livingston and John Stevens. A document is labeled Memorandum of Lands at Wolf Harbor - Raway [Rahway] River and Salt Meadow, October 29, 1964. Another is labeled Lands Near Newark and a Track on Raway [Rahway] River Belonging half to Peter V. Livingston and the other half to John Stevens, N. 36. All the documents are related to Wolf Harbor, but it's not known if they were created at the same time. Documents include the …

William Livingston With William Earle Of Stirling, March 22, 1764, William Livingston, William Alexander

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

This legal document, between William Livingston of New York City and William, Earle of Sterling (aka William Alexander, Lord Sterling), for land in the Orange County, NY, called Cheescocks. Names included: Anne Bridges, Henry Ten Eyck, Dirk Vanderburgh, John Cholwell, Christopher Denne, Major Lancaster Syms, and John Merit, as well as surveyor Charles Clinton. The indenture was signed by William Livingston ("Governor of New Jersey" written later in pencil) and was signed in the presence of Evert Bancker Jr. and Gerard Bancker.

William Norvell To Unknown Person, December 1, 1763, William Norvell

Liberty Hall Collection 1790s

William Norvell to Unknown Person, unaddressed. William Norvell requested a list of goods be sold to him. People included: Mr. Cooper.

Pat Henry To George Thomas, October 10, 1763, Pat Henry

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

Pat Henry wrote to George Thomas, unaddressed. Pat Henry asked George Thomas to let the bearer have two hundred nails.

Legal Indenture Regarding Peter Van Brugh Livingston And His Wife, Mary Alexander, And, Robert Livingston, July 8, 1763, Peter Van Brugh Livingston

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

This legal document concerned a payment from Peter Van Brugh Livingston to Robert Livingston. It also concerned the will of Mary's father, James Alexander. He left her and her husband 1/6th payment of his lands, tenements, hereditaments, and real estate. The document outlined what would happen if Mary or Peter died first. It was signed by Peter Van Brugh Livingston in the presence of John V.D. Spiegel and Nicholas C. Bogart.

Memoir Of The Indian Wars, John Stuart

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A Short Account Of That Part Of Africa Inhabited By The Negroes, Anthony Benezet, Paul Royster , Ed.

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Anthony Benezet scoured the available English literature of colonial exploitation for evidence of the humanity of the trafficked Africans and the inhumanity of the European traders in human beings. He compiled and published this Short Account in 1762 to present the case for termination of the trans-Atlantic transportation of kidnapped Africans, for abolition of slavery and the slave trade, and for emancipation of the enslaved persons held in bondage in North America and elsewhere. Drawing on Scottish moral philosophy, British Whig ideology, and, most importantly, on New Testament gospel teachings, Benezet presented both reasoned and impassioned appeals for the recognition …

Lettre De M. Euler À M. De La Grange, Leonhard Euler

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Theoremata Circa Residua Ex Divisione Potestatum Relicta, Leonhard Euler

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French & Blake To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, September 23, 1760, French & Blake

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

French & Blake, of Madiera Island, wrote to Peter Van Brugh Livingston, no address. They informed Peter that Martha Captain Hunter was taken by a French Privateer. They asked if the boat was insured. French and Blake sold Madeira wine and hoped for future orders.

Names included: Snow Industry James Carman Master, Captain Carinan, Captain Elliot, and Francis Lewis & Company.

Cadwallader Colden Jr. To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, August 28, 1760, Cadwallader Colden Jr.

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

Cadwallader Colden Jr., addressed from Coldenham, an Estate along the Hudson, wrote to Peter Van Brugh Livingston, addressed to Merchant at New York. He explained that his brother, David Colden paid Mr. Alexander. He was afraid to go to town because of smallpox.

Thomas Walker To Unknown Person, May 8, 1760, Thomas Walker

Liberty Hall Collection 1790s

Thomas Walker to Unknown Person, unaddressed. The letter informs to the bearer to bring one loaf of sugar.

William Dabney To G. Marchant, April 1, 1760, William Dabney

Liberty Hall Collection 1760s

William Dabney wrote to G. Marchant, unaddressed. Dabney asked Marchant to let the barer have brown linen and a quarter pound of thread and to charge it to his account.

Demonstratio Theorematis Fermatiani Omnem Numerum Primum Formae 4N+1 Esse Summam Duorum Quadratorum, Leonhard Euler

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Peter Van Brugh Livingston For Mary Alexander To Moses Franks, July 17, 1759, Peter Van Brugh Livingston

Liberty Hall Collection 1750s

Peter Van Brugh Livingston, addressed from New York, NY, wrote to Moses Franks, Merchant in London, on behalf of Mary Alexander. The payment was for Messrs Sargent Aufrere & Company.

Religion: Scriptures, February 28, 1759

Liberty Hall Collection 1750s

The author and the date of the following document are unknown. The author of the manuscript noted that on February 28^th, 1759, Pope Clement XIII permitted the translation of the Holy Bible into all the languages of the Catholic States: but that was also granted by a Spanish Law enacted in the fourth century. The author noted “diffections” between the Old and New Testaments.

William Vanderspiegle To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, November 25, 1756, William Vanderspiegel

Liberty Hall Collection 1750s

William Vanderspiegle wrote from Philadelphia, PA, to Peter Van Brugh Livingston, no address. He sent a payment to Peter and expected Derek Brinkerhoof to send an additional sum.

List Of Cattle Sent By Robert Livingston, August 19, 1756, Petrus D. Witt

Liberty Hall Collection 1750s

An account of the purchase of oxen, stairs, and cows from Petrus D. Witt to Robert Livingston on June 15, which included travel expenses of the drivers and horses who delivered them to Livingston Manor. The initial debt was to Messrs Livingston and Morris.