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I have just time to inform You that the Brig Hope is Arrived2 & Also that I shall do My Best to give her dispatch for Dublin tho Wheat Flour & Flaxseed is Scarce & high. Flour 18/ Wheat 7/ Flaxseed 14/ & none of this last Article to be got. I shall write Messrs Robinson & Sandwith soon. I think there is about 12 of the Schooners Servants dead with a Bad fever. there...
Date: 4 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote You the 4th Instant (Copy) of Which You now have to Which refer. I shall be a good dale Pushed for money to get the Hope loaded I am in Advance for [Benjamin] Fleming & raise very little out of the Schooners Servants & have yet nineteen of them on hands, the Schooner is Sailed this Evening for Ant[igua]2 Mostly on fright I shall Soon write about her to You. I have this day wrote...
Date: 12 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 12 Inst Since then I Have Recvd yours of the 1st November Inclosing Fords order.2 but shall not write him untill I find whither I can get a Vessell or not wheat can be got but not less than 7/2 a 7/3 as we cannot go on the Road to Purchase for Want of the Necessary, on Rect of this You will find how our Friends have disapointed themselves by Limmiting us I have rec'd a...
Date: 21 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Annexed you have a Coppy of what we wrote you the 7th Inst since then (we have the pleasure to Inform you) our River Still has kept so free of Ice that Ships may Depart and we flatter our Selves that we will be able to get your Brig2 Away in Eight Days from this as we only wait for a little wheat in the After hold to be able to Complete her load there is now on board one hundred &...
Date: 21 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote to you the 21st Inst to which Refer. I have not Yet got a Vessel for [James] Forde, but have some hopes of Getting one soon. the Hope is Full save 150 bals. which I hope to get in for her to Sail on Sunday I have not drawn a bill yet and only 60 Hhds on board on freight 50 bbls Bread 50 Do Flour 50 Hhds Seed & 1500 bushels wheat for the owner. the rest for our Selfs. which will go...
Date: 25 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . we now Inclose you bill of Loading. and Invoice for what we Shipped for yr Accts on board the Brig Hope2 Amt one thousand and thirty two pounds 4s 2d Currency. to your Debit we also inclose you Disbursements on the Vessel Amt to your Debt One Hundred & Sixteen pounds 6s 6d Currency. and Likewise your Acct Courent. . . . We hope our Behaviour in the present business will...
Date: 28 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I Refer you to many letters I have wrote both you and G[eorge] Darley lately. this goes by Capt [George] Robinson who sales this day if the Winds permit. I Refer you to a Coppy of all the letters I have wrote Robinson & Sandwith which I now Indose you. by which you will see how I have transacted their business & hope to their Satisfaction. I have Shipped on our own Acct 11 £78 Currency...
Date: 29 January 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Your Esteemed favour of the 27th of Decemr & 4th January are now beforfe us and Contents Noted . . .
Your Sloop is now discharged but your soon [sic! son]2 thinks we had not better be in a hurry to purchase as he wants to hear from you first ー and also as Flour is high, and is Expected lower, if the Roads will get good. therefore we hope that either he or us will Soon hear from you...
Date: 4 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Annexed you have Copy of what I wrote you the 29th Janry to which be Referd, Since then have Recvd yours of the 16th and 25th November and note the Contents it is not in my power in this paper to Answer you fully. I have not been able to get a Vessel to ship a Grean of Wheat for ford,2 and as the Schooner will not be with you till may3 perhaps you Could get a Vessel to...
Date: 7 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I tremble for the Salt that you say is Coming out, and am fearful it must be hove overboard if it arrives, as it will not pay a freight home, and you no doubt Ere this must see, that ,I have Reason to tremble about it, however you may Assure Mr [James] Ford[e] I will do all in my power for his Interest . . . . if the Salt comes & Should get liberty to land and Sell it (which I do not Expect)...
Date: 11 February 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Since writing you the 2d Instant none of yours ー and little Alteration Save the Price of Wheat is down to 6/ & Flour to 15/ no acct of the Brig from Liverpool & no Vessel to be got for Drogheda. Doctor Stephenson has a Brig arrived with Salt2 I shall be able to Inform you soon What will be done with it, You may be Assured that if Tichel3 comes & brings any he...
Date: 7 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
You will find long ere this as your son Jos2 did not receive a letter from you as soon as he Expected that he was dispatched without loss of time & we hope to your Satisfaction & we think that he was only two weeks here . . . We wish Sincerely that matters were settled between England & this Continent & from the last accts we have Reason to hope a tum to our advantage...
Date: 4 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 3d Inst since then none of your favrs this goes by [Henry] Tickell who is now Loaded & will Sail tomorrow his Cargo amts to 2426-17s-O . . . I hardly think that I shall ship any more for Mr [James] Forde unless a Vessell comes out for it as the high price & low Exchange will prevent me on acct of his Interest. Tickell would not allow the Plank &c. for Lineing his...
Date: 12 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
. . . was our troubles settled I would not make the least doubt of our getting business Enough. but troubles sams to Come Heavyer for the troops & people in N. England have had an Engagement in which we think the troops are worsted the best acct we have yet here I now Inclose you but have not mentiond it to any person on yr side but yr self.2 how matters will now end God knows. but...
Date: 28 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you already by this Conveyance of the brig Mary Carrol for Cork & yrs port Loaded with wheat & flour2 Since then have Recvd yrs by Norwood Yesterday,3 Kenne[d]y also arrivd here Yasterday4 & I believe shall get a Good freight for him, G[eorge] D[arley] has Rubed me a little about not being more particular about Vessells that are Loading here to...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 26 Inst since then have Recvd yrs by [John] Norwood who arrived yasterday & shall answer them soon2 [Alexander] Kennedy also Arrived Yesterday3 & I think shall get him a freight for England as I cannot Complete the orders for him from [John] Wright.4 I observe what you say about my not Giving G[eorge] S[almon] proper Information. & am...
Date: 30 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I wrote you the 30th last month to which be Referd I can now tell you I have Sold the Servants by [Alexander] Kennedy & Charterd the Ship for Falmouth the Schooner will sail in a few days for Dublin this goes by a Ship Captn Brown for Bristol2 flour Loaded the Hercules is Loading for Bristol also a Nother large Ship & four Brigs & Snows for London & other parts of...
Date: 4 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Could a Vessell be got at present for your port we would ship your Seacond Cargo of Wheat, for two reasons. the first is from the letters we formerly wrote you Quoting the prices will prevent your Chartering a Vessell ー the Seacond is the Certainty of our ports being shut here (by our own Consent) soon. will prevent the supplys going to you that otherwise would & of Course a Seacond Cargo...
Date: 11 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The most particular acct. we can hear of the Late Unhappy affair at Boston is that their are Upwards of 300 of the troops Killed Missing & Wounded. Amongst the last is Lord Piercy & GI. [Frederick] Haldiman & Since the Engagement Piercy is dead,2 amongst the Country 40 odd Killed in which is one Colonell Gardner,3 it seems the troops lost their Old English...
Date: 12 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We never had Such a fine appearance for a Crop of Wheat at this Season as at Present & I make no doubt if the Weather is Seasonable but that there will be One third more this Year than Ever was any One Year before however there is no Probabillity of Getting it Shipped therefore we must Sit down & Eat & be merry & thank God for Plenty. You have Inclosed a list of Ships &c...
Date: 17 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1