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The Hon the Council of Safety of Maryland
Capt Tibbit brought in for our Accot 9 Half Bbls Gunpowder which was delivered into your Magazine & which we intended the Province Should have had at the usual Price, but as we with Some others in this Town have fitted out a Privateer we Shall have Occasion for our Powder & will be much oblig'd if you'll Send an Order to the Commissary of Stores...
Date: 11 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We wrote you the 29t Ulto Copy of which you have above. we hope Capt [William] Frost will have arriv'd Ere this goes to Hand. ー2
A few Days more & Oppty to write will not be for England3 we therefore take the Liberty to inclose you Invoices of the diff[eren]t Cargoes of produce we Shipp'd in which we were Concern'd, except Such as are already Settled for & must beg...
Date: 8 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We wrote you the 9t Ulto Since which are without your favours. we are inform'd by a Brig who left Bristol the 26t June2 that Wheat was at a Stand ther[e], which has prevented us from Speculating on the New Wheat. Numbers have but we fear will Suffer from its not being Sufficiently dry. we were yesterday offer'd a Cargo at 3/10 Stg on Board but the above advices deterr'd us from doing...
Date: 8 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Yours of the l0t 14t & 30t June & 3d July lays now before us. we Note what you have done in Regard of the Snow Betsey2 are well pleas'd with her Sale. altho: it would been more profitable to us had She retum'd as we could have loaded her for England before the 10th Inst at which time we Stop our ports against an[y] Export to any of the Dominions of G.B., our J.S. Junr expected...
Date: 8 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
This will be handed you by Mr Robt Buchanan who goes to See Florida, & will most probably visit your place. perhaps his Stay may be longer than he now intends, & will, if So, have Occasion for more Money than he Carries with him. Should he, you'll please Supply him with as far as £ 100 Stg & take his draft on us for the Arnot or on Messr Mildred & Roberts of London, which you may...
Date: 8 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Yours of the 10t June lays now before us, we are Sorry the Bristol Market was glutted Capt R carried the Cargo of Corn & flour must have arriv'd at that time there. yours of the 6t April we never recd 'twas impossible it Should arrive in time but 'tis extraordinary it Should have miscarried. Hope your friends may have order'd it to Lisbon where it would have Yielded a Handsome profit. we...
Date: 8 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We inclose you Invoice & B.L. [Bill of Lading] of 132 Bbls flour Shipp'd by us in the Sloop Industry Stephen Pearce Master which you'll please Sell in any part of the West Indies & at what time you may think will be most to our Interest & [in]Vest the Nt proceeds in Cotton, Rum & Coffee, procure us for our Use, one Bble of the best pick'd Coffee. We wish you Success in your Voyage...
Date: 11 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Inclos'd you have Bill Lading for 21 Hhds flaxseed which Mr John Kearns of Alexandria has desir'd us to address to Some of our friends. we therefore take the Liberty to trouble you to pay the fr[eigh]t & reship it to any port in Ireland you may think best & order the proceeds into your own Hand, you have also Bill Lading of 60 Hhd Shipp'd in the Snow Baltimore Capt James Clark for Derry...
Date: 12 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
At the Recommendation of Mr Hugh Young we inclose you Bill Lading for 60 Hhds flaxseed, Shipp'd in his Snow the Baltimore Capt [James] Clark, if She discharges in Derry, you'll please Sell it to the best advantage. (we would not wish you to hasten the Sale), & remit the Nt proceeds to Mr James White in London for Accot of J. K. [John Kearns]. We are Gent [&c.]
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We inclose you B.L. [Bill of Lading] for 60 Hhds flaxseed, Shipp'd in the Snow Baltimore Capt [James] Clark. She touches at Derry. if Her Wheat is Sold there the flaxseed will also be Sold there, if not the Flaxseed will go to your Address in Cork you'll please to Sell it when you think it will be most to Advantage & remit the Nt proceeds to Mr James White in London for Accot of J. K. [John...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We wrote you the 8t Inst inclosing Sundry Bills Amotg to £533.1.8 Stg which Hope will all be duly honour'd, even give a little time for Some of them rather than to return them, (if made Secure). We now inclose you Hugh Young's draft on John Brown of Liverpool for £350 Stg which when pd pass to our Credit. Bills are not to be had now or Should have made a much larger Remittance ー We recd a Letter...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Your 21st & 27t June & 13t July now lays before us, & are very Sorry your Market was So much glutted. Hope that it will take an advantagios Turn, altho: we think it improbable as immense Quantities of the New Wheat has been Shipp'd, at present every kind of Business is at an End here. not a Grain of any kind Shipping nor will there be any, the People are turning to Industry. Spinning...
Date: 22 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Above you have triplicate of our Last Via London, & now have before us yours of the 3d June. Note its Contents. are Surpriz'd that the Cargo was not in good Order for by our Letters from Gib[raltar] it was good when leaving that port, we observe the Trouble you were like to have with Murray who from every Accot is a very great Rascal. Hope you have been able to make good the Plea of [Joshua]...
Date: 22 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Yours of the 17th July lays now before us. it not a little astonishes us that your friends think we charge more than the real Cost of the Corn, however they are unacquainted with us, perhaps if they were not, they would think otherwise. to Satisfy them we inclose you Mr [Jonathan] Hudson's Accot of the Corn & Mess Vanbibber & Crockets Coroboration [Sic] of the then existing prices. as to...
Date: 25 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We wrote you the 14t Inst inclosing H[ugh] Y[oung]'s drafts on J. Brown of Liverpool we now Send you Henry Kelly's two Bills on Woldridge & Shelly of London for £200 Stg which when pd pass to our Credit Business of every Kind is now at a Stand, & every Body making ready to receive the worst. we have laid a great Stock of Amunition & very Soon will have a Sufficiency of Arms. we expect...
Date: 26 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We wrote you the 26th Ulto inclosing Henry Kellys Bill on Wooldridge & Kelly of London for £ 200 Stg since which and indeed for Several Months Past are without any of your favours, which is very disagreeable. hope you'l in future be more Punctual. ー
Our Ship Sidney the other day Arrived from Nice. and it seems the Young man Who took the Command of her after Capt [Thomas] Drysdale's Death has...
Date: 28 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We inclose you a Paragraph from our Paper which informs us that the Snow in which we Shipp'd 60 Hhds flaxseed for Mr John Kearns of Alexandria & on which we order'd you to make £100 Stg Insurance, founder'd at Sea.2 this is therefore to desire you will immediately you recover it pay £100 Stg to Mildred & Roberts for our Accot & pay yourself for your Com: Prem &c out of...
Date: 4 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We wrote p the James Packet & now must beg you'll apply to Mr James White for £100 Stg being a Loss he is to recover on the Snow Baltimore Capt Clark, & when received pass it to our Credit We are Sirs [&c.]
Date: 4 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
John Smith & Sons of Balte Town, Beg they may be permitted to load their Ship the Sidney (a remarkable fast Sailer) Burthen abt 2500 Bbbs flour. they intend her for the foreign W.I. Islands & will engage to bring back warlike Stores if to be procur'd there. if they cannot be found in any of the Said Islands they hope they may be permitted to go to any part of Europe that may be thought...
Date: 4 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Since ours as above we recd your much esteem'd favrs of 22nd & 24 July 10t & 16t August & 5t Septr last, also J. R. & S. Letters of 22nd July & 9t August & 5 Septr are Sorry you have Seperated the Accots as it will make it difficult for us to Settle our Books we having kept all our Accots under your firm. You'll please excuse Us from answering particularly So many Letters...
Date: 6 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2