New York State Treasurer's Office Treasurer's Ledger of Financial Transactions A3203

New York State Treasurer's Office Treasurer's Ledger of Financial Transactions

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

This series consists of a single accounting ledger in which the State Treasurer recorded the state's daily financial receipts and expenditures. Given the date span of the series, many of the recorded transactions document Revolutionary War activities of the new state government and its citizens. Virtually every type of expenditure involved in supporting the state's war effort is noted in the ledger.

Creator:

New York (State). Treasurer's Office

Title:

Treasurer's ledger of financial transactions

Quantity:

0.5 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:

1775-1782

Series Number:

A3203

Arrangement

Entries are grouped according to account in this ledger volume. Sets of account groupings are arranged chronologically through the volume as a whole.

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of a single accounting ledger in which the State Treasurer recorded the state's financial receipts and expenditures. Given the date span of the series, many of the recorded transactions document Revolutionary War activities of the new state government and its citizens. Transactions document payments to regimental and company commanders; financial support of delegates to the Continental Congress; payments to citizens who provided food, clothing, supplies, or equipment for military units; payments to express riders; payments to citizens for transporting supplies by land or by sea; payments to citizens for recruiting soldiers to serve in military units; and payments to individuals who served on various state committees or in other public roles.

This ledger corresponds to Treasurer's Journal Vol. 1, which is found in Series A3200. The major difference between the two volumes is that transactions appear in chronological order in the journal volume, whereas entries are grouped according to account in the ledger volume.

Related Material

A0005 Journals, Ledgers, and Registers of Receipts and Payments by the State, 1775-1951

A3200 Treasurer's Journal, 1775-1784

A3201 Auditor's Journal, 1775-1793 and

A3205 Treasurer's Daybook, 1778-1784 contain related financial records from the Revolutionary War period.

Other Finding Aids

Available at Repository

A handwritten index of accounts in page number order and a partial handwritten alphabetical index of accounts are housed with this volume.

Access Restrictions

This series suffered moderate burn damage in the New York State Capitol building fire of 1911. Records are fragile and should be handled carefully under supervision of State Archives staff.