(Rhode Island) Manuscript Document Signed “Jere'h Olney” as collector of the Custom House, Providence, Rhode Island, 7th November 1795.
(Rhode Island) Manuscript Document Signed “Jere'h Olney” as collector of the Custom House, Providence, Rhode Island, 7th November 1795.
Sir.
“The enclosed bond of Col John Cook,
for two hundred and forty-three dollars and nineteen cents, being due on the fourth instant, and not yet discharged, is transmitted to you to be put in suit as the law directs. Had there been a public conveyance thro Greenwich, it would have been forwarded on the Fifth.
I am Sir, respectfully,
Your Most Obed. Servant
Jere'h Cook.
Somebody has penciled in that Olney was a Col. in the Rev'y Army.
A document of importance inasmuch as Jeremiah Olney was a very active political person during and after the American Revolution.
JEREMIAH OLNEY (1749-1812) formed a company of infantry in Rhode Island at the start of the Revolutionary War. After serving as captain in 1776, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel at the beginning of 1777. Olney led a brigade in bitter fighting at Monmouth in June 1778. After the war, he helped found the Rhode Island chapter of The Society of the Cincinnati. After the war, he was rewarded with the position of collector of the Custom House in Providence Rhode Island. Olney was a staunch supporter of the Federalist Party. He argued for the adoption of the United States Constitution. For his political support, he was rewarded the lucrative position of Customs Collector by President George Washington. He held the post until 1809 when he resigned in annoyance at the Embargo Act’s diminution of his revenue.
Condition consistent with age. Quite readable and in very good condition.
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