Financier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Swan_(financier)" id="mwqw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Swan (financier)">James Swan</a> pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" id="mwrA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>.<sup about="#mwt51" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_9#cite_note-8" id="mwrQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwrg">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt48" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFSmall1898">Small, Herman Wesley (1898). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofswansis00smal/page/52" id="mwBxw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"A History of Swan's Island, Maine"</a>. <i id="mwBx0">Internet Archive</i>. <a href="./Ellsworth,_Maine" id="mwBx4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ellsworth, Maine">Ellsworth, Maine</a>: Hancock County Publishing Co. p.<span id="mwBx8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>52. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwByA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwByE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020004" id="mwByI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">1020004</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt48" class="Z3988" id="mwByM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Internet+Archive&amp;rft.atitle=A+History+of+Swan%27s+Island%2C+Maine&amp;rft.pages=52&amp;rft.date=1898&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1020004&amp;rft.aulast=Small&amp;rft.aufirst=Herman+Wesley&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoryofswansis00smal%2Fpage%2F52&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+9"></span></span>