New Jersey refuses to pay its assessed quota of federal taxes to the Fifth Confederation Congress.

       [restored 9/11/2021]  

Subsequent Events:

2/21/1787                   10/5/1787

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 38.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,190,276,558,466

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