Marblehead Does NOT Want To Increase Debt

Autograph Letter Signed “Wm H. Crawford” 1pp quarto, Treasury Department, November 25, 1816, addressed to Joseph Wilson, Collector of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and reads in part: “...It being desirable the public debt should not be increased by reissuing of the small Treasury Notes, which have been or may hereafter be received in payment of the duties on Imports & Tonnage. I have to request that all notes of that description which are now in your possession or which shall in future be received by you as aforesaid, may be deposited in Bank to the credit of the Tresurer…” Very good condition.