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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
. . . our harbour has Continued open all this Winter so that we have not had A Ship detained one day & we are well Satisfyed that there never was so much Wheat & Flour Ship'd any one Winter as there was this & Chiefly for England & Ireland but mostly for England, as our Roads have been very bad these four Weeks past, on Which Acct Produce has been kept back from Market, we think...
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
We had the pleasure of writing you under the 8th of last Decem a Copy of which you have Annaxed; to which plase be Referd. since then have Recvd Sundry Copys of your orders for Wheat to our G. Salmon, and note the Contents. we find it Impossible as yet to get a Vessel for your port. had it been in our power, we would had one of your Cargoes of Wheat well on the Way to you however if any Vessel...
Date: 1 March 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
By Sundry favrs of Mr Jas Forde of Dro[g]heda In which we have Recvd order for Wheat, he Requests our Informing you what we are doing for him. We can now Inform you that the Brig Henry & Joseph2
Henry Tickell Master is Arrived here from Liverpool with a Cargo of White Salt for Acct of Mr Jas Forde & the Restrictions on our trade from England hindering us to Even...
Date: 11 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We had the pleasure of writing you under the 1st Inst since then have not had the pleasure of hearing from you. we have now in our possession Yr Sundry favours to our G. Salmon which shall be Carefully attended to, and yr Interist we shall consult as if our own. we can now Inform you that tickell2 arrived here the 10th Inst his Salt in good order no doubt ere this you are Satisfyed it...
Date: 19 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
We can assure the Public, that the Salt imported in the Brig Sally, Capt. [William] Moat, was thrown overboard and destroyed, in Consequence of a Resolve of the Committee of the county, that it should not be landed but in Nova Scotia or Georgia1
Date: 29 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
we have already wrote you that we sent 3660 bushells of yr Salt to Hallifax the Remndr we put on Board a Sloop for Georgia & when on board we sold it for 10d pence this Money p bushell say for 2500 bushells (this we though[t] would be more to yr advantage in the End tho we are obliged to give Six Months Credit) than to have shipped on your own Acct & we are sure that your salt will tum...
Date: 3 April 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
We wrote you the 11th last Month Informing you of the Arrival of the Brig Henry & Joseph with Salt for Jas Forde Esqr in Dro[g]heda, & of our Intentions of sending the Salt to Hallifax & Loading the Vessel acct of Mr Forde. we Shipped 3660 bushells of the Salt for Hallifax on board the Schooner Betsy Isaac Snow Mastr the Remndr we Shipped for Georgia & Sold after it was Shipped....
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