[649]. The assumed debt is taken because the Ledgers of that debt are in excellent shape and apparently complete. They do not contain, however, half of the security holders in that state. Several of the towns that had no assumed debt-holders were represented in the convention by holders of other paper. See table, p. 267.
[650]. See above, p. 15.
[651]. State Papers: Finance, Vol. I, p. 423.
[652]. The sources for the information as to these securities are in the Treasury Department: Connecticut Loan Office, 1781–1783 (Register of Certificates); Connecticut Loan Office, Ledger B, Assumed Debt; Ledger C, 1790–1796; Ledger A, 1790–1797; Loan Office Certificates of 1779, etc.
[653]. No doubt a study of local economic interests in Connecticut would yield highly important data. See, for example, the early capitalist enterprises connected with the navigation of the Connecticut River. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1903–1904, p. 404. Such local histories as E. D. Larned, A History of Windham County, contain veritable mines of information on the economic interests of men prominent in local politics.
[654]. Libby, op. cit., p. 18. Libby here takes the vote in the New York convention, but that did not precisely represent the popular vote. Above, p. 244.
[655]. State Papers: Finance, Vol. I, p. 425.
[656]. Libby, op. cit., p. 59.
[657]. Those marked “C 6”, Ms. Treasury Department: New York, 6% Funds, 1790; “N. Y. 3” ibid., 3% Funds; “R,” New York Loan Office Receipts, Ms. Division, Library of Congress. Melancton Smith appears on the Ledgers of the Connecticut Loan Office; and N. Y. Loan Office, 1791, folio 138, for $10,000 worth of sixes and threes.
[658]. See above, p. 107.