Cost of Powder Voyage of the New Hampshire Shooner Success, April 4, 1776

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Dr	The Schooner Success and Cargo—	Cr
1776	To Cash, paid off Portledge bill	£ 37.15. .0
March	To Cash paid John Seawar[d] for going round to return Schooner at Newbury Port p receipt	4.16. .3
	To Cash paid Natha Tracey Esqr for hire of Schooner three Months and a half as p Charter party Agreement 255½ dollars a 6/	76.13. .0
	To Cash paid Jeremiah Libbey for guarding Powder to Camb[r]idge and Horse hire as p Bill and rec[t]	7. .6. .0
Aprill	To Cash paid Major Gains as Express to Cambridge to give Information of the arrival of Powder as p rec[t]	4. .4. .0
	To Cash paid Samuel Hall for trucking Powder to Magazine p rec[t]	12.—
	To Cash paid Benjamin Birglow for Transporting powder to Cambr[i]dge	16. .9. .6
	To Cash paid Wm McIntyre for one of the Gunns	10.—
	To Cash paid Jos. Ayres for transporting powder to Cambr[i]dge	8.10. .6
	To Cash paid Capt Kinsman Peverly acct Current	51.15.16
	To Cash paid Thos Thompson & Supply Clap for a Negro sold at St Lucia	56. .0. .0
	~~To 6,250 weight of Powder sent to the Camp by Order of General Washington a 3/6~~	1093.15. .0
	To Cash paid Tobias Walther for one of the Guards p rec[t]	1.12. .6
	To Cash paid Christopher Goodwin for going round to return Schooner	8. .9
	To Cash paid James Hunt for ditto	10. .0
		£ 1212.12. .3
	Commis for receiving delivg & jusbanding the Vessell a 2½ p rec[t]	68. .0. .9
		£ 1280.13. .0
	Money	£ 1428.18. .9
1776	By 6.250 Weight of Powder being received from St Lucia for her Cargo — a 3/6	£ 1093.15. .0
Aprill

[Portsmouth, April 4, 1776]²

1. John Langdon Papers, HSP.

2. The date is approximated. One of the items indicates that Washington ordered the powder sent to Cambridge, and that the commander in chief was still in Cambridge on April 4, 1776.

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1776 April 4

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Volume 4

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American Theatre from February 19, 1776, to April 17, 1776

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

Cost of Powder Voyage of the New Hampshire Shooner Success, April 4, 1776

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