Know Ye that James Wilson & Son James Miller John Wallace James Brown William Sterling & Sons and Alexander Taylor have this day entered outwards with us to be shipped on Board the Countess of Eglinton of Irvine Robert Reid Master for Antigua Fifty Seven Bales, one hundred and ten Boxes, Thirty four Casks, two Chests and five Trunks containing one thousand four hundred and fifty pounds Haberdashery, three Hundred & sixty eight Square Yards of printed Linnen Excise Duty paid P Cert[ificate]: one thousand two hundred & twenty three Pounds wrought tanned leather Shoes Nine Dozen & Six pairs Womens Callimanco Shoes containing thirty eight Pounds wrought tanned leather, four thousand five hundred & thirteen Pounds Green Glass bottles Excise Duty paid Pr two Certificates, Thirty nine Barrells and two firkins Strong Ale Excise Duty paid Pr Cert: six thousand seven hundred & ninety seven Pounds Tallow Candles Excise Duty paid Pr Cert. Twenty four hundred Weight refined Sugar British Manifacture, One thousand one hundred peices containing Sixty seven thousand and twenty eight Yards British Bounty Linnen Two hundred and thirty two peices Containing seven thousand four hundred and twenty one Yards Irish Bounty Linnen, three hundred & thirty nine Peices containing Four thousand four hundred & eighty eight yards British Striptd & Check'd linnen Two hundred & seven firkins Containing one hundred & three Hundred Weight Irish salted Butter Imported here Duty free pr Affidavite one hundred & twenty six Gallons Portugal Wine Duties Inwards paid at Aberdeen as unfitted for Sale by William Brebner & Co the 7th 16th & 21st August 1775 out of the Thetis of Aberdeen William Spark Mastr from Oporto Pr Certificate from Aberdeen Dated 24th Ultimo Loose Two Hundred & ten Bundles Iron Hoops containing one thousand Pounds Wrought Iron Britishー2
Given at the Custom House under our hands & Seals of Office this eighteenth September 1776 and in the sixteenth Year of his Majestys Reign
Ed Penman D Coan
Pollock Campbell D Comptr
1. Records of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, No. 9, the Countess of Eglington, Jones, Claimant v. Babcock, NA.
2, Since this ship was captured by American privateers in November, 1776, the cargo is of particular interest.
