An edition of Almost a hero (2005)

Almost a hero

Andrew Elliot, the King's moneyman in New York, 1764-1776 : his middle years : the story of His Majesty's Collector of Customs for the Port of New York and Receiver General for the Province during the epic years leading to the Declaration of Independence

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Almost a hero
Edward H. Hart, Edward H. Hart
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An edition of Almost a hero (2005)

Almost a hero

Andrew Elliot, the King's moneyman in New York, 1764-1776 : his middle years : the story of His Majesty's Collector of Customs for the Port of New York and Receiver General for the Province during the epic years leading to the Declaration of Independence

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Royal Fireworks Press
Language
English
Pages
409

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Subjects

American loyalists, Biography, Colonial administrators, Customs administration, Economic conditions, History, Rent, Scots

People

Andrew Elliot (1728-1797)

Places

New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), United States

Times

18th century, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Almost a hero: Andrew Elliot, the King's moneyman in New York, 1764-1776 : his middle years : the story of His Majesty's Collector of Customs for the Port of New York and Receiver General for the Province during the epic years leading to the Declaration of Independence
2005, Royal Fireworks Press
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Table of Contents

The collector and his colleagues : August-October 1764
Collector without peace : September 1764-February 1765
Doing his duty : seizure of the Lark : March 1765-October 1765
The Stamp Act crisis : games people played : February 1765-September 1766
The Quitrent quagmire : November 1765-March 1767
Captain Brown and a debt of 4,168 : December 1763-August 1767
New masters at the helm : Commissioners for America : 1767-1768
Much ado about collecting Quitrents : 1767-1768
Commissioner Elliot and the disputed boundary : 1769
Boycott days and sundry matters : November 1768-April 1770
The "many parts" of Andrew : 1770-1771
Food for thought : 1772-1773
A scare for Quitrent delinquents : 1771-1773
Apprehensions over tea : 1772-1773
Picking a plum and laying low : 1774
The year of the Qui Tam : 1774
A short vacation for the collector : 1775
The indispensable collector : 1775
Sounding out the Congress : 1775-1776
Flight and return : 1776.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-388) and index.

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Unionville, NY
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
974.7/02/092, B
Library of Congress
E278.E45 H36 2005

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xix, 409 p. :
Number of pages
409

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OL3398314M
ISBN 13
9780880929752, 9780880929769
LCCN
2005011671
OCLC/WorldCat
60189709
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6362580

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