[Williamsburg] [18 June 1778]1
Memorandum of Goods Shipped by Rawleigh Colston Esqr.2 at Cape François, on board the Polly, Captn. Trapp3 to the care of Captn Peter Singleton near the North Landing,4 Consigned to Thomas Smith, Agent State at Williamsburg.—
LB, Vi, Thomas Smith Letterbook, vol. 3: 73.
1. The place was taken from Smith’s location as given in the text of the memorandum; the date was taken from a letter Smith wrote Peter Singleton that follows this memorandum in the letterbook and refers to it. Ibid.
2. Colston was Virginia’s agent in St. Domingue.
3. Probably Edward Trapp.
4. Singleton was a merchant; North Landing is in present-day Virginia Beach, Virginia. In his letter to Singleton of 18 June, Smith wrote that he had sent several letters to Singleton concerning the goods shipped from St. Domingue but had not received a reply and that Virginia State trading schooner Mayflower was “bound up James River” and could pick-up and carry the goods to Williamsburg. Ibid.
5. Jesuits’ bark, also called Peruvian bark, was from several species of the genus Cinchona; it was used to treat malaria. OED.
