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Draft:Collector of Customs for the District of Vermont

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Collector of the Port of Vermont
TypeCollector of import duties on foreign goods
Parent departmentUnited States Department of the Treasury

The Collector of the Port of Vermont

U.S. Collector of Customs for the District of Vermont

Reorganized in 1913?

Russell Niquette

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History

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The United States Congress organized a customs collection district for Vermont based in Alburgh on March 2, 1791.[1][2] Stephen Keyes was commissioned as the collector for the District of South Hero. South Hero was larger than Burlington at the time. Congress established Vermont as a single customs district on March 2, 1799.[3] Burlington became the port of entry for the district in 1822.[4]

Lake Memphremagog was broken off of the district of Vermont by an act of Congress on March 2, 1811, and formed the district of Memphremagog. The area was merged back into Vermont on May 7, 1822.[3]

The collectors rented private buildings for their offices for decades. Jabez Penniman conducted his work from Swanton. On August 4, 1854, the construction of a federal building for use as a custom house and post office in Burlington at the cost of $40,000 was ordered. The land for the building was purchased from John Norton Pomeroy for $7,500 and construction lasted from 1855 to 1857.[3]

Fanny Allen, the wife of Penniman, had U.S. Senator Stephen R. Bradley arrange for her husband's appointment as collector.[5] Penniman fought a group of smugglers and pirates who operated on the Winooski River from their boat Black Snake. On August 3, 1808, six of the smugglers and the state militia fought and this resulted in the deaths of three federal officials (Ellis Drake, Asa Marsh, and Jonathan Ormsby). The entire crew except for two men were captured. Cyrus Dean was sentenced to death. Dean was executed in Burlington on November 11, with around 10,000 people reported in attendance.[6][7][3]

List of collectors

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Portrait No. Collector Nominated by Confirmed Start date End date Comments References
? 1 Stephen Keyes George Washington March 4, 1791 March 21, 1791 ? [8][9]
? 2 David Russell George Washington ? January 26, 1797 ? [9]
? 3 Jabez Penniman Thomas Jefferson ? 1801 ? [9]
? 4 Samuel Buell James Madison ? March 16, 1811 ? [9]
5 Cornelius Van Ness James Madison ? January 28, 1813 ? [9]
6 James Fisk James Monroe ? December 29, 1817 ? [9]
7 Chalres Williams John Quincy Adams ? 1825 ? [3]
? 8 Archibald W. Hyde Andrew Jackson ? February 15, 1830 ? Special deputy under Van Ness, Fisk, and Williams[3] [9]
? 9 William P. Briggs John Tyler ? September 16, 1841 ? [9]
? 10 Archibald W. Hyde John Tyler ? May 20, 1844 ? Special deputy under Van Ness, Fisk, and Williams[3] [9]
? 11 Russell C. Hopkinson James K. Polk ? July 23, 1846 ? [9]
? 12 Albert L. Catlin Millard Fillmore ? August 29, 1850 ? [9]
? 13 David Allen Smalley Franklin Pierce ? April 8, 1853 ? [9]
? 14 Isaac B. Bowdish Franklin Pierce ? February 17, 1857 ? [9]
15 Charles Linsley James Buchanan ? July 6, 1860 ? [9]
? 16 Wiliam Clapp Abraham Lincoln ? March 30, 1861 ? [9]
17 George Stannard Andrew Johnson ? June 20, 1866 ? [9]
18 William Wells Ulysses S. Grant ? April 30, 1872 July 28, 1886 [9][10]
19 Bradley Smalley Grover Cleveland ? September 1, 1885 September 1, 1889 [11]
20 George Benedict Benjamin Harrison ? August 5, 1889 ? [9]
21 Bradley Smalley Grover Cleveland ? September 1, 1893 October 1, 1897 [11]

References

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  1. ^ Congress.
  2. ^ Congress 1791.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g List 2 1895.
  4. ^ Bassett 1958, p. 167.
  5. ^ Bushnell 2002.
  6. ^ Bushnell 2022.
  7. ^ CPB.
  8. ^ Washington 1791.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r List 1896.
  10. ^ NYT 1886.
  11. ^ a b Smalley 1909.

Works cited

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Journals

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  • Bassett, T. (1958). "The Leading Villages of Vermont In 1840" (PDF). Vermont History. 26 (3): 161–86.

Law

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Newspapers

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Web

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