Bill of Lading for Flour, Corn, Wheat and Pig Iron on Board the Peggy Captain Wm Barron a[t] Maryland
Shipped in good Order and well conditioned by Archibald Buchanan in and upon the good Ship called the Peggy whereof is Master for the present Voyage Willm Barron and now riding at Anchor in the Harbour of Baltimore and bound for Cork for Orders, to Say, Thirteen hundred and Eighty Barrels of flour Three Hundred and forty five Bushels of Indian Com, Forty Bushels of Wheat in Sacks, and fifteen Tons of Pig Iron being marked and Numbered as in the Margin and are to be delivered in the like good Order and well Conditioned at the aforesaid Port of Cork (the Danger of the Seas only excepted) Or to the Order of Messrs Wallace, Davidson & Johnson or to their Assigns he or they paying freight for said Goods as P back of Bill of Lading, with Primage and Average Accustomed, In Witness Whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath Affirmed to three Bills of Lading all of this Tenor & Date the one of which three Bills being Accomplished the others to Stand Void Dated in Baltimore May 5th 1775.
[Endorsement on back of bill of lading]
It is agreed between the Master of the within mention'd Ship and the Freighter Archibald Buchanan that he shall proceed immediately to Cork to the Orders of Messrs Wallace Davidson and Johnson that if he discharges his Cargo there he shall receive for the Flour five Shillings Sterling p Bushell Freight for the wheat and Corn, One Shilling Sterling per Bushell and for the Pigg Iron Two Shillings and Six pence Sterling for Primage, (no freight to be paid for Iron); if he proceeds to Bristol or Liverpool an additional freight of 5d p Bushell and ld Sterling p Bushell if to London 9d Sterling p Bushell and 2d p Bushell if he should be ordered to any Part of the Streights, the Customary Freights the said Ship shall lay 40 Hours for orders in Cork any time she may be detained longer than that Day 50s Sterling p day for every day after and wherever she may discharge Twenty running Days to be allowed for that purpose, the above Demurrage for every day she may be detained after Witness our hand May 5th 1775
William Barron
Archibald Buchanan
[Endorsed]
Received May 6th 1775 from Archibald Buchanan, sixty one pounds Sixteen Shillings and ten pence Sterling in Part of the within freight
William Barron