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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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New York General Assembly resolves on Feb. 21, 1759, to raise £100,000 via taxes and bills of credit to fund 2,680 men for invading Canada with allied forces during the French and Indian War.
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Die Mercurij, 3b. P. M. the 21st Feb. 1759.
Resolved, That it is the Opinion of the Committee, That for levying, paying and cloathing Two Thousand six Hundred and Eighty effective Men, to act in Conjunction with the Forces of the neighbouring Colonies, and a Body of His Majesty's Regular Troops, for making an Irruption into Canada, there being allowed the Sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds.
Resolved, That it is the Opinion of the Committee, That the Sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds, be raised by a Tax on all Estates real and personal within this Colony, in nine Years, to commence this present Year, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty nine; the Committee conceiving it impracticable to raise it in a less Time, by Reason of the great and heavy Burden of Taxes now laying on this Colony.
Resolved, That it is the Opinion of the Committee, That for making immediate Payment for the aforesaid Service, Bills of Credit to the Amount of the aforesaid Sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds, be emitted on the Credit of the aforesaid Tax, to be sunk and cancelled in nine Years, to wit, Twelve Thousand Pounds in this present Year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Fifty nine, and Eleven Thousand Pounds in each of the eight succeeding Years.
And the aforesaid Resolutions being read a second Time; were agreed to by the House.
Ordered, That a Bill be brought in pursuant to the said Resolutions, and to the Resolutions of this House of this Morning; and that Capt. Livingston and Col. Seaman, prepare and bring in the same.
[A Bill was accordingly brought in, entitled,
An Act for raising a Supply of One Hundred Thousand Pounds, for levying, paying, and cloathing, Two thousand six hundred and eighty effective Men, Officers included, for forming with the Forces of the neighbouring Colonies, an Army of Twenty thousand Men, to invade, in Conjunction with a Body of His Majesty's Regular Troops, the French Possessions in Canada; for emitting Bills of Credit for the like Sum; and for sinking and cancelling the said Bills in short Periods.]
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Colony Of New York
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1759 02 21
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resolutions agreed to by the house; bill ordered to be brought in for raising one hundred thousand pounds by tax and bills of credit.
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The General Assembly resolved to levy, pay, and clothe 2,680 effective men for an irruption into Canada in conjunction with neighboring colonies and British regular troops, funding it with One Hundred Thousand Pounds raised by tax on estates over nine years starting 1759, and issuing bills of credit to be sunk in nine years.