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1777 Revolutionary War MA. Tax Assessment Transmittal to Henry Gardner Esq. Treasurer from Cape Elizabeth, Mass.

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March 10, 1777-Dated Revolutionary War Period, Cape Elizabeth (Massachusetts), Tax Assessment, Integral Transmittal Cover to: “The Honorable Henry Gardner Esq. Treasurer of the State of the Massachusetts Bay in Boston.”, Choice Very Fine.

This March 10, 1777 Autographed Document is Signed by three “Assessors of Said Town,” 1 page, measuring about 6.5” x 8” with a red Wax Seal at left. Entirely handwritten, “Agreeable to your Warrant dated Feby 7, 1777.” Clean and well written on watermarked laid period paper on both face and back. An interesting legal Document being for 432 in Tax assessments signed as Committed to “Collector of this Town” by Ebenezer Sawyer, Patrick Maxwell, and David Strout. With Integral Transmittal Cover addressed to: “The Honorable Henry Gardner Esq. Treasurer of the State of the Massachusetts Bay in Boston.” (Note: Cape Elizabeth was originally located in Colonial Massachusetts before Maine became a State in 1820.) A historical Tax document providing funds to the Massachusetts State Treasurer during the American Revolutionary War.
Keywords: Colonial Currency, Historic Paper Money, Early Paper Money of America, Revolutionary War Money, Colonial America, Printing Paper Money, Revolutionary War, George Washington, Continental Congress, Independence Hall, Fiat Currency, War Taxes, Benjamin Franklin
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