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182524840United States of America: Not Published 1825. 12 ledger style pages loose. Entries all written in a strong legible hand in ink and signed Paul Langdon presumably acting as supercargo on these vessels. Brig Diomede: In account with Paul Langdon ".Disbursements in Charleston as per bills.by My draft on Mrs. Ann Shaipley."; the following three pages with list of disbursements for Diomede at Liverpool October 1825 very detailed including payments for various foods repairs on the brig services from harbor personnel and more and a page on accounts for salt carried cash to Timothy Wiggin & freight discount.Schooner William: at Miragoane Hayti sic with similar payments as above provisions coffee commissions fresh beef yams coffee marketing crew wages duties; with accounts noted to George Moody W.E. Rogers. Schooner Milo: two pages regarding salt & shingles shipped on board charges on account customs cash account totals of Spanish dollars & gold doubloons; sale of sundries shipped by N. & Arthur Folsom and noted at Wilmington Feb 1 1827. Ship Newport: two pages with attached list of 15 names including William E. Putnam Edward A. Bragdon Charles O. Emerson John B. Fernald J.P. Moody Joseph Bragdon Jr. Stephen Grant Henry Hill Frederick Williams Jeremiah Brooks Charles Moody Henry S. Thompson Joseph Sewall Alexander Demuth William H. Sewell at bottom of page is an un-numbered name as if the compiler John B. Tercel. Accounting for cash received of Lindsay & Haven and disbursements for the ship at Charleston paid by Paul Langdon: men employed at the rigging cash for marketing cabin boom knifes & spoons mending timber dogs heaving the ship off stevedores blacksmiths wood "cash paid Woman cook 29 days." advanced wages for Mr. Hill Libby Woodson and "Cash paid for knife for the Italian Sailor" dated July 1835.Miscellaneous: One of the pages headed Elizabeth Sewall with 3-line entries for 1833 & 1835 regarding the payment of services for ".labour & superintending her Farm." during those years; another page with the date of December of 1859 with short entries for the entire month detail weather farming woodcutting & fishing activities some community information names of McIntire Hutchins Lucas Wilson in a somewhat more spidery hand and with a note at the side "All above is from my best recollections." Approx. 8" x 12 1/2" size some light edgewear little spotting;in very good condition; interesting maritime trade history. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
181025380New York City NY: Not Published 1810. One page letter dated New York 18th December 1810 and being given to James Thomson Grocer New York. ".Sir - As I am going to Havannah in the Brig Galen Capt. Annes it is My wish that if any accident Should happen to prevent me returning in the vessel you will See to and take possession of what property of mine may be in her and in case of My Death that by virtue of my power of attorney you collect my estate together as much as in your power and after paying my just and lawful debts remit the remainder to my brother John Gann Goodestone near Wingham County of Kent England. Yours William Gann" Approx. 8" x 13" size; ink handwriting very legible. Light wear dustiness split at one section at old fold lines; in very good condition and interesting early 19th century New York City business history law ephemera. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published paperback books
1816WRCAM39129London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 1816. 2pp. plus docket title printed on verso of second leaf. Folio. Early horizontal folds. Near fine untrimmed. Official Parliamentary draft printing of a commercial agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States passed just over a year after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. The convention of commerce establishes that the same import and export duties be applied to goods carried by American and British ships in direct British- American commerce. Duties on and bounties for prize ships and goods are also put on the same terms. This version of the bill would have been printed while the question was being considered by Parliament. Not in Kress or TPL and not listed on OCLC. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed unknown books
1803WRCAM14111Stockholm 1803. 4pp. Small quarto. Plain wrappers. Neat old bookplate else good. Regulates the tobacco trade. BELL S646. unknown books
185120015London: n. p. 1851. Folio printed on blue paper 10.81 x 8.63 inches 4 pages. Addressed in ink autograph to Messrs. Smith and Dove Andover Mass. with a canceled three cent U.S. stamp and a red round stamp for Boston 20 December. <br /><br />"The prospects for contract business during the approaching season may be considered favorable since the reports from the Interior respecting the crops are in every instance satisfactory." <br /><br />A detailed prospectus for Russian flax futures contracts and various other export goods with a list of goods exported from Archangel in 1851 from the merchant bankers Brandt & Sons which had agencies in Archangel Riga and London. <br /><br />The mailing address of this copy of the circular gives some idea of the international markets of New England textile mills; Smith and Dove ran an industrial spinning mill for linen thread in Andover. Prices are quoted in Roubles and Pounds Sterling at an exchange rate of 38d per Silver Rouble. <br /><br />A few small separations along old creases with loss of a letter or two; some light soiling and wear; in very good condition. n. p. books
