Office of the Comptroller General, Report of the State Treasurer, John Nicholson, 1783 (A brief view of the accounts of the Treasury of Pennsylvania from the time of the Commencement of the Revolution to the October 1, 1781), This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Grouped chronologically according to the years which each treasurer held office and thereunder by each individual account. This volume contains reports of all the general accounts held by the Comptroller General from the commencement of the Revolution until October 1782. The purpose was to inform the General Assembly of the moneys in the Treasury at the beginning of the Revolution, the revenues and expenditures between then and 1782, and the current balance. Also in this report are county tax accounts from 1781 to October 1782 and their debts due to the state. Entries in this volume contain the name of the account holder, a brief description of the account, and the balance.
