New York State Treasurer's Office Treasurer's Daybook

Entries in the daybook are recorded chronologically.

This series consists of one disbound daybook in which the State Treasurer recorded the state's daily financial receipts and expenditures. Given the date span of the series, many of the recorded transactions document Revolutionary War activities of the new state government and its citizens. Transactions document payments to regimental and company commanders; financial support of delegates to the Continental Congress; payments to citizens who provided food, clothing, supplies, or equipment for military units; payments to express riders; payments to citizens for transporting supplies by land or by sea; payments to citizens for recruiting soldiers to serve in military units; and payments to individuals who served on various state committees or in other public roles.

The entries in this daybook duplicate entries recorded in the Treasurer's Journal Vols. 1 and 2, which comprise Series A3200. The reason for duplicate recording is not known.

A0005Series A0005, Journals, Ledgers, and Registers of Receipts and Payments by the State, 1775-1951

A3200Series A3200, Treasurer's Journal, 1775-1784

A3201Series A3201, Auditor's Journal, 1775-1793 and

A3203Series A3203, Treasurer's Ledger of Financial Transactions, 1775-1782 contain related financial records from the Revolutionary War period.

This series suffered moderate burn damage in the New York State Capitol building fire of 1911. Records are fragile and should be handled carefully under supervision of State Archives staff.