Record revealed
Request for compensation for the Boston Tea Party
On 16 December 1773, 340 chests of tea were thrown into Boston harbour by protesting colonists. This letter from the East India Company requests reimbursement.
Series
Board of Stamps: Legacy Duty Office and successors: Selected Death Duty Accounts
Catalogue reference: IR 59
What's it about?
IR 59
These records of the Board of Stamps, Board of Stamps and Taxes, and Board of Inland Revenue supplement the material in the death duty registers. The series is confined to the accounts of well known persons and others prominent in national life....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- IR 59
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Stamps: Legacy Duty Office and successors: Selected Death Duty Accounts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1805-2004
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Description (What the record is about)
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These records of the Board of Stamps, Board of Stamps and Taxes, and Board of Inland Revenue supplement the material in the death duty registers. The series is confined to the accounts of well known persons and others prominent in national life. These records have been separated from the specimens of death duty accounts are in IR 19
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1405 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1977 Board of Inland Revenue
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Taxation
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9397/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
373,334 records
Within the department: IR
Records of the Boards of Stamps, Taxes, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, and Inland Revenue
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Board of Stamps: Legacy Duty Office and successors: Selected Death Duty Accounts
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