POST OFFICE ACCOUNT New York, November 29th 1773. AT Ten Days sight pay to Messrs. Beekman Son and Goold Three Hundred and Thirty one Dollars and one Quarter or Current Money equal to that in your Province for Value rec'd and place it to Acct. of Money remitted in part of the Sum due from you to the Gen'l Post Office without farther advice from your humble Servant 331 Dollars. JOHN FOXCROFT To Thomas Vernon Esqr. Post master at New Port. Rec'd the Amount of this Draft with the Interest to this Date in Behalf of Nicholas Brown & Co. Sir, Per GEO: BENSON NATHANIEL RUSSELL TO CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN Charlestown, Ist December, 1773. You have herewith Account Sales of your Negro sent me by Earl, Nett Proceeds £296.15. which I would have sent you by this opportunity but cannot possibly get it chang'd into hard money. Bills of Exchange has been so very scarce that all the Dollars and Heavy Gold has been sent to Great Britain for Remittance. if you can draw on me or order it in produce, if that will not suit you, I will desire Capt. Durfee to pay it you when he is in Cash on my Account. I am with Respect Your most Humble Servant, NATH'L RUSSELL Sales of a Negro man received per the Nancy, Capt. Earl, on Account of Mr. Christopher Champlin of Newport. 1773. August 1. By Wm. Johnson for I Negro man 1773. To Cash paid his passage Charges. To my Commission 5 per Ct. £325.0.- £12. 16. 5 296.15 325.- Errors Excepted. NATH'L RUSSELL. [Endorsed,] Per Capt. Munro. THOMAS DOLBEARE TO RIVERA AND Lopez Gentlemen, Kingston, Jamaica, 7 December, 1773. HERE with you have the Account Sales of Brigantine Ann's Cargoe with the 29 of the Ship Cleopatra's Disbursments, etc. as I could not determine the proportion of Disbursements due from the Ship Cleopatra I have carried the whole to the Debit of the Brig Ann; leaving the proportion to be settled by you. when I wrote you via Hispañola, my meaning of the Negroes averaging £63 the first Sale, clear of Duty, was, clear of the Sale Duty of 20/ the Import Duty of 10/ per head youll find debitted in the Account of Sales. the inclosed is Captain Einglish's Receipt for the £800, and the Bills of Exchange for £1983.5.11 Sterling or £2776.12.4 Currency. your directions to me were to send Spanish Doubleloons of 131⁄2 dwts and Johannes to the Mole, but, a few days since, receiving a letter from Mr. John Dupuy of Mole Cape Nichola that no Money but Johannes and Dollars would answer, there being Difficulty in passing Doubleloons, I concluded on sending Dollars, as 21⁄2 Currency was to be gained, Dollars passing here at 6/8 and there at II Bitts or 6/10, which noncomplyence I hope youll not construe to an inatention to your Interest, but a disposition towards it. The restriction under which you laid me with respect to the Security and which I cant but think any more than a prudent Act, obliged me to gett Messrs. Peatts & Westmoreland of the place to draw the Bills giving them half the advantage, which they did on the Condition of this Cargo of Negroes being carried on under the Firme of T. D. & Co. which is the reason of the Accounts being under that Signature. Negroes continue at £64 and Duty for Men, Women at £62 and Duty of 20/. two Ships have arrived this week with 700 Negroes from Annamaboe. endeavours on my part have been that this Voyage should be successfull. how far I have been an Instrument towards it doubtless youll form a Judgement. I can only say that if my hearty good Wishes wou'd have avail'd I think they were not wanting. I shall allways esteem myself with the truest Sincerity, Gentlemen, Your most Obliged Obedient Servant, T. DOLBEARE P. S. this day two Months the Brig arrived in the Harbour. [Endorsed], Per the Brig Ann Capt. Wm. Einglish. Q. D. C. THOMAS DOLBEARE TO AARON LOPEZ My good Sir, Kingston, Jamaica, 9th December, 1773. PER this conveyance I have wrote you in Copartnership with Mr. Rivera. your letter to Mr. Cox I delivered, and he appears amazed at the Trevetts atrocious conduct, indeed I have often lamented my troubling you with so trifling affair, and as it has turned out, with such scandalous Fellows. The prodigious trouble you have had really pains me. however to make amends in some degree, I must desire, that in whatever commands you may lay me under in future, you'll never think you are troubling me. about six weeks since I remited between two and three hundred pound Currency to Messrs. Hayley and Hopkins. Mr. Cox having been very ill prevented his giving me the Bills for the remainder. he is now recovered and promises them per the sailing of the first Vessell that sails for England. the Man you bo't the Alewives of must have deceived you, for there were not 10 bbs. of good in the whole, and as I bo't them I have sufferd by them, tho' I took em at 20/. they were not above half full and they were mostly decayed. Markets here very low, best Fish 12/6, Alewives 17/6, Sper. Candles 3/1, Carolina Staves £7 and £8, and all the outports gluted. at Savanna la Mer, common Boards are at £7, and scarce. I remain, Dear Sir, I RECEIVED your letter by Capt. Anthoney and am verry sorry to hear the ship has cosst so much money more than you expected. I am allmost loaded and shall sail in 2 days and you may rely on my making all the despatch that is in my power and shall do all that is in my power to employ the ship in the parting way for as long a time as you shall think proper. If I think it for your interest and by what I have learnt from Capt. Bulkley, a brother of Mr. Bulkley in Lisbone that there is freight to be got from Ireland. My frenchman is run away and has taken several jackets and shoes from the people, likewise a pr. of silver buckles from the boy, and five dollars from the black boy, notwithstanding all the men on board in their cabins. I did all my endeavour to catch him again but could not. If he should come that way and you can take him I hope you can punish him according to the law, he was not worth his vittles on board the ship. I have been detained sumwat longer than I expected on account of the flower was on the [1] I have been informed by Mr. Morton which I make no doubt but he has alreddy informed you by the post. I should have wrote by the post but Capt. Whitman is going so soon and I thought it would save the postage. I shall observe your instructions in every degree and shall do nothing without first counselling with Mess (1) It will make little ods with me how long the ship is out if I can get good employment for him, only on my family's account, and if I should stay longer from home than I expected when I left it and they should want anything I hop that you'l please to let them have it. My mate is well, and the people and likewise myself, and hoping that this will find you in the same good health as when I left you and remain, sir, your most humble sevt. 1 Copy supplied by Mr. John H. Storer. |