4. COMMERCE OF THE BRITISH AMERICAN COLONIES. Value of Imports and Exports to and from Great Britain and her American Colonies. The first year is from 25 December 1700 to 25 December 1701; and the succeeding years are correspondent. Average value of Imports from the Colonies to Great Britain, and of Exports from Great Britain to the Colonies, now United States. Value of Imports into England from the United States, and of Exports to the United States from England, taken from the Custom-house books. 670,128 16 03 708,943 9 01 802,691 6 10 1,044,591 17 471,342 11 10 660,136 11 812,647 13 1,577,419 14 21 Years. 1785 1790 Imports to England. Exports to U. States. £2,308,023 3,431,778 6. BRITISH GOVERNORS OF THE COLONIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION. Nova Scotia, Francis Legge. Canada, Lieutenant General Sir Guy Carleton. New Hampshire, John Wentworth. Massachnsetts, Thomas Hutchinson. Rhode Island, Joseph Wanton. Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull. New York, Major General William Tryon. New Jersey, William Franklin. Pennsylvania, John Penn. Maryland, Sir Robert Eden. North Carolina, Josiah Martin. South Carolina, Lord William Camp- Georgia, Sir James Wright. 7. DATES OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE SEVERAL COLONIES. 1. EXPENSE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. As the commerce of the United States was interrupted during the revolution, no revenue was raised from this branch of industry to sustain the great and pressing demands of the nation. Nor, indeed, had Congress power to levy a general tax on commerce, this being the prerogative of the several states. The country itself, moreover, in the midst of an oppressive war, was not in a condition to contribute pecuniary aid to the general cause, and the necessary resort of Congress was to loans and paper money. It is not possible to ascertain with certainty the expenses of the revolutionary war. estimate was made in 1790, by the Register of the Treasury, and furnished to a committee of Congress. The following general abstract will show the results. The estimated amount of the expenditures of 1775 and 1776 is, in specie, 1777. 1778 1779. 1780 1781 . 1782 1783. To Nov. 1st, 1784 Forming an amount total of An Dolls. 90ths. 20,064,666 66 24,986,646 85 24,289,438 26 10,794,620 65 3,000,000 00 1,942,465 30 3,632,745 85 3,226,583 45 548,525 63 $92,485,693 15 The foregoing estimates, being confined to actual Treasury payments, are exclusive of the debts of the United States, which were incurred at various periods for the support of the war, and should be taken into a general view of the expense thereof, viz. Army debt, upon commissioners' certifi cates For supplies furnished by the citizens of the several states, and for which certificates were issued by the commissioners For supplies furnished in the quartermaster, commissary, hospital, clothing, and marine departments, exclusive of the foraging For supplies, on accounts settled at the Treasury, and for which certificates were issued by the Register NOTE. The loan-office debt formed a part of the Treasury expenditures. The foreign expenditures, civil, military, naval, and contingencies, amount, by computation, to the sum of The expenditures of the several states, from the commencement of the war, to the establishment of peace, cannot be stated with any degree of certainty, because the accounts thereof remain to be settled. But as the U. States have granted certain sums for the relief of the several states, to be funded by the general government, therefore, estimate the total amount of said assumption Dolls. 90ths. 11,080,576 1 3,723,625 20 1,159,170 5 744,638 49 $16,708,009 75 $5,000,000 00 21,000,000 00 Estimated expense of the war, specie $135,193,703 00 2. EMISSIONS OF CONTINENTAL MONEY. The advances made from the Treasury were principally in a paper medium, which was called Continental Money, and which in a short time depreciated; the specie value of it is given in the foregoing estimate. The advances made at the |
