Object OS Vol. 87

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries consists mostly of receipts of payments to policyholders, the two main types being payments for losses and payments of deposits and dividends upon the expiration of seven-year policies. (“Receipts for Despotism, 1812-1818,” is the exception, recording the Society’s receipt of deposit upon issuance of policy. Presumably the actual issuance of a policy was receipt enough, thus the short-livedness of this type of record.) Initially, receipts for all transactions were recorded...