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The American accountant; or, A complete system of practical arithmetic Containing, I. Whole numbers, particularly adapted to the American and British commerce. II. Vulgar fractions; in which the rules are so simple and the contractions so obvious as to render the operations remarkable short and easy. III. Decimals, with concise methods of managing all kinds of simple and compound repetends; the extraction of roots: interest, annuities, &c. &c. IV. Duodecimals; or multiplication of feet and inches. V. Curious, useful and entertaining questions, with their solutions; &c. &c. : The whole calculated to ease the teacher and assist the pupil; it will be found likewise extremely useful to American merchants, &c. general rules and compact tables being given to change the currencies, Sterling, French and Dutch monies into each other.

Author(s):Milns, William, 1761-1801

Published:New-York: : Printed by J.S. Mott, for the author, and sold by him no. 29 Gold-Street, sold also by C. Smith, no. 51 Maiden-Lane, and by the principal booksellers of the United States., 1797. (Copy-right secured.)

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The American calculator, or Counting-house companion: containing a variety of useful coin tables, calculated for the convenience of the merchants in the United States.

Author(s):Healy, Francis

Published:New-York, : Printed by Thomas Greenleaf, at his printing-office, no. 25, Water-Street., M,DCC,LXXX,VII. [1787]

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Anno sexto Annae Reginae An act of Parliament for ascertaining the rates of forreign coyns in Her Majesties plantations in America

Author(s):Great Britain

Published:[New York] : Re-printed by William Bradford in New-York,, 1709

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By the United States in Congress assembled, April 21st, 1787 On the report of a committee to whom was referred a report of the Board of Treasury on certain proposals for coining copper, resolved, that the Board of Treasury be, and they are hereby authorised to contract for three hundred tons of copper coin .

Author(s):United States. Continental Congress

Published:[New York : s.n., 1787]

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By the United States in Congress assembled. August 8, 1786 On a report of the Board of Treasury: resolved, that the standard of the United States of America, for gold and silver, shall be eleven parts fine and one part alloy. .

Author(s):United States. Continental Congress

Published:[New York : s.n., 1786]

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By the United States in Congress assembled. September 18, 1786 The committee, consisting of Mr. Pinckney, Mr. St. Clair, and Mr. Harrison, to whom was referred a letter of the 12th from the Board of Treasury ... having reported,--"That it appears ... the state of Rhode-Island, by an act passed at their last session, have made the paper currency of that state receivable on all arrears of taxes due to the United States ..."

Author(s):United States. Continental Congress

Published:[New York : s.n., 1786]

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A caveat against injustice, or An enquiry into the evil consequences of a fluctuating medium of exchange wherein is considered, whether the bills of credit on the neighboring governments, are a legal tender in payments of money, in the colony of Connecticut, for debts due by book, and otherwise, where the contract mentions only old-tenor money.

Author(s):Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793

Published:New-York. : Printed by Henry de Foreest in King-Street., 1752

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The Intercourse of nations: being a collection of short, correct and easy rules for reducing thirteen different coins and currencies into each other, with a concise method of calculating federal money. : To which is prefixed, a complete system of vulgar and decimal fractions, &c. : [Two lines of quotations]

Published:New-York: : Printed for the author, by G. Forman, no. 46, Wall-Street, opposite the Post-Office,, in the 20th year of American independence. [1795]

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Letter, addressed to the legislators of the several states, composing the federal union; recommending an uniform continental currency With rules for calculating in dollars and cents; also, a table shewing the weight and value of sundry coins, &c. in the same.

Author(s):Author of The stranger's assistant, and The intercourse of nations

Published:New-York, : Printed for the author, by Mott & Lyon,, in the 21st year of American independence [i.e., 1797?]

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Propositions respecting the coinage of gold, silver, and copper

Author(s):United States. Continental Congress

Published:[New York? : s.n., 1785?]

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The ready reckoner, or, The trader's useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail Shewing, at one view, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise, from half a farthing to 20s. either by the long or short hundred, half hundred, or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c.--In so plain and easy a manner, that a person, quite unacquainted with arithmetick, may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever.--To the most ready in figures it will be equally useful, by casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. : To which is added, a table of simple and compound interest.

Author(s):Fenning, Daniel

Published:Printed at Newburyport, [Mass.] : 1794, by Edmund M. Blunt, and sold by Messrs. Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larkin, W.P. Blake, J. West, J.W. Folsom, and by other booksellers in Boston--and by Mr. Thomas Allen, New-York., [1794]

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The stranger's assistant and school-boy's instructor Containing many useful and valuable rules in arithmetic, with explanations adapted to the most common capacities; : to which is added, a complete system of reduction of coins and currencies; with four large tables. : Also--the duties on imports and tonnage; together with the bounties on exports--custom-house regulations, and penalties annexed to each offence, against the revenue-laws of the United States.

Author(s):Citizen

Published:New-York : --Printed by George Forman, for the author, and sold by Berry, Rogers & Berry, no. 128, Pearl-Street., --1795. (Copy-right secured.)

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The Stranger's assistant being a collection of short, correct and easy rules for reducing thirteen different coins, and currencies into each other, with a concise method of calculating Federal money. : To which is prefixed, a complete system of vulgar and decimal fractions. &c. : [Two lines of verse]

Published:New York: : Printed for the author, by G. Forman, no. 46 Wall-Street, opposite the post-office, in the twentieth year of American independence., [1795]

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