HISTORICAL DATA-1785:

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•  (NO SPECIFIC DATE):     At some time during this year the British open the maritime trade of the northwest coast of North America. The trade is based upon the value of sea otter furs at Canton, China.  (SOURCE:  The Journals of Ledwis and Clark-Bernard de Voto, editor ((paperback)), pp. XXVI-XXVII).

• (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year some of the states comprising the new United States of America begin to yield to pressure from their indebted citizens and they begin to pass laws for "debtors' relief"; they also start to issue more paper money.  (Source:  The American Nation...to 1877-Volume I, Second Edition, John A. Garraty, page 187).     

• (FULL YEAR):    All during this year the settlers in western trans-Appalachian North Carolina continue to resist being put under the direct control of the federal government of the United States of America, and they maintain their extra-legal identity  as the "State of Franklin".  (SOURCE:  The American Nation...to 1877-Volume I, Second Edition, John A. Garraty, page 179).  

• (FULL YEAR):    All during this year the honoable Thomas Jones, formerly of Fort Neck, Queens County on Long Island in the Province of New York, continues to work in England-as time permits-on his history of events in New York  province during the recent Revolutionary War in America.  (Source:  History of New York During the Revolutionary War, by Thomas Jones, Edited by Edward Floyd de Lancey, Volume I ((1879)); reprinted by New York Times & Arno Press ((1968)), page XI).