to be brought in the House of Commons for a total Repeal, I set about providing your orders, all which I hope to have hiped on board the Charlotte, Captain Brown, by the latter end of this month. no doubt you'll wonder at not hearing from me oftener of late. I have the best excuse that ever I had for not writing, even a serving my Country, which I have been doing day and night. I am no Politician, but in this matter of America, and its Trade, I embarked Body and Soul. I have been in London with all the great Men in the Kingdom. The Stamp and Sugar Acts were my two objects. I think you American Gentlemen will have all your wishes gratified, but more of this in my next. I only claim a share of the merit, if all comes to pass that I expect. see the P. S. of the Letter to my Father. I will be very punctual in future to make amends for my past silence; have patience, and you'll reap the advantages. Dear Sir, I have now before me your esteem'd favours of 4th September, 25th and 31st October, 8th November and 2d December, with their several copies, which I will not attempt to reply to this present writing, my time being in great demand, but have read them over frequently with much pleasure and attention; and shall be very full and explicit by the Charlotte, Brown, whom I hope to dispatch by the latter end of this month with all your Goods. Brown had a tedious passage, put into Ireland by contrary winds, and did not arrive here untill the 1st February, one while I gave her over for lost; he is now discharged. if the Oak Boards by him had been 11 In. thick, shou'd have rec'd on them a Bounty of 20/ per Hundred Boards, as they were not, got nothing. this for your future guidance. London is glutted with Oil, and so is this Market. Yesterday I sold about 160 Barrels of your's to be taken to, in ten days, the White at £22, the Brown at £20 per ton. it is very low, yet nothing but its being of an Extra Quality got it a preference to some other Parcells which wou'd fetch only £21 and £19 per ton. The Logwood per Charlotte I sold at £6 per ton, in my next I shall be more particular. All the Friendship's Cargo is sold but the Mahogany and Oak Boards. the Newport Packet's Logwood is sold at £8 per ton the Whale fins for £265 per ton. I feel hurt when I tell you how small a sum I sold the Friendship for, after putting her up three or four times in vain to Auction, it was for only seven hundred Guineas, say £735 Stg, and the Person who bought her told me, he had done me a favour, as he might buy several other Vessels quite as cheap. her Sails were much against her, they were mildued and rotted, the Purchasers were at the Expence of a new suit, the Canvas is of a bad quality, too much Paste or Flour and Water in it, in order to make them feel thick and look shining to the eye. Your two Sloops are arrived at Cork, and I suppose will be with you long before this. inclosed is an account of Insurance on them, also an account of £500 additional on the Newport Packet and £900 and £250 on the Charlotte, cost of which being £110.13.0 is to your Debit in A/C. Messrs. Lane & Co. of Cork wrote to know if I wou'd honor their Draft on me (Your Account) for £200 Stg. I wrote them I would and shall debit your Account for the same. her Masts I cannot get £500 for the Newport Packet, are two foot too short, Rigging Sails etc. in proportion, which depreciates her at least £100 on that account, and I will say £50 more, because People conclude she is crank, and that you were obliged to undermast her more of this in my next. Thus have I given you, Dear Sir, a diffusive and pretty perfect account of the state of your affairs in my hands which are entitled to a great share of my attention, and never shall suffer for want of that; notwithstanding this letter is wrote in so great a hurry, not so particular as I cou'd wish it to be, but the Confusion of the times now begins to be rectified and like Mud in troubled Waters to subside. I hope soon to see things fall into order, and their old channel of Regularity; of late all seems to have been floating on an Ocean of Scepticism. two days ago the Owner of this vessel assured me she wou'd not sail this 3 weeks, to day he told me, she wou'd certainly sail to morrow which precipitates me to conclude, tho' with the utmost Respect and Regard, Dear Sir, Yours etc. 1 2 Hen: Cruger, Jr. When you send any more Plank let the Quality be as follows 2 and Inch Plank, full sawed and square edged; 2 Inch Ditto, all the length above 20 feet, and 12 Inches wide. White Oak, Red Oak don't answer. I just now reced a letter from Messrs. Lane, Bensons & Vaughan, of Cork, abstract of which you have herewith. Sir, Cork, 18th February, 1766. We are now to advise you that the 3 Sallys, Capt. Peters, is cleared out and ready to sail. The Cargo we have ship'd on her amounts to £598.10.7 Irish and the Disbursements on the Sloop to £59.2.7 which sums with the Value of the Sloop, you will please to have insured, at and from Cork to Rhode Island, for account of our said Friend. we cou'd not obtain within £100 of the price limitted for the Industry, therefore she is also to return, but what the amount of her Cargo will be cannot yet say, but you shall have timely notice thereof. 6 March 1766. This Bearer being detained longer than was expected gives me an opportunity of rendering you Account of Insurance on the Three Sallys cost as per account £26.16.0 to your Debit. MR. AARON Lopez TO HENRY CRUGER JR. Dr. Bristol, Xber 13th, 1765. £500 added on Goods per Newport Packet, John Heffernan, Master £900 on the Charlotte, Thomas Brown, Master, at and from Rhode Island to Bristol (£400 on Ship £500 on Goods) at £3 per Ct. and two Ship £100 William Reeve Policys 16/ £50 Lambert Schimmelpennig £50 George Champion 27.16. o £50 Samuel Davies £50 Thomas Easton, Junior £850 on the Industry, John Peters, Master, at and from Rhode Island to Cork (£350 on Ship and £500 on Goods) at £3 per Ct. and two Ship £100 William Reeve £50 Samuel Davies £100 Thomas Griffiths £100 James Laroche Junior Goods £100 Thomas Whitehead Policys 16/ £50 Lambert Schimmelpennig £50 George Champion £50 Thomas Easton Junior £50 Edward Nicholas £50 Samuel Munckley £50 Robert Gordon £850 on the 3 Sallys from Rhode Island to Cork (£350 on Ship £500 on Goods) at £3 per Ct. and two Policys 16/.. Underwrote per the same Person's as the Industry To Comm. on £3100 at 1/2 per Ct. To the Debit of Mr. Aaron Lopez . 26. 6. o Also, Cost of £250 additional on the Charlotte from Rhode Island to £50 John Watkins £100 John Gill CAPT. SEARS deliverd me your favor of the 24 ulto. for which I am obliged. he is at present uncertain whether or not he loads here. if he does, I shall send you the 30 Bbs. Midlings agreeable to your Order. I had some conversation with your Brother Capt. George on the subject of sending a Vessell, and did propose doing it this Spring, but our demand for Flour has been so constant that I have not yet had it in my Power. I shoud have been glad you had men 1 William Lux, son of Darby Lux, had been long prominent in public affairs of Baltimore, a leading merchant, and later a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1774, and vice chairman of the Committee of Observation, 1775. During the War of Independence he was concerned in privateers. tioned the Prices of Flour, Midlings, Bread Stuff, Bread, Pork, Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Loaf Sugar, Train Oil, and any other articles that you generally send this way. And I now request you'l do it by the very first Post, as it may be a guidance to me, as I shall probably send a small Vessell when your Markets are encourageing. I shoud also be glad to know whether you coud not remit Cash or Bills of Exchange, as your Commodities will not always answer. I am lately concerned in a small Rope Walk. woud Cordage suit you, and of what size, and the price. Our produce is at this time high, and consequently scarce. I am very respectfully, JOHN AND WILLIAM POWELL TO CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN 1 Boston, 31 March, 1766. Dear Sir, WEE have your favors of the 14th per Mr. Bell and 27. per Post. The Hall'x Packet sailed from hence the day Mr. Bell got here. The Vessell he goes in may sail in all this week. wee have passed to your C[redit] Williams £20 Bill, and paid Mr. Bell your order for the same sum. wee are greatly obliged to you for your continued good offices, especially in keeping of the Beer affair. wee have not heard from Mr. Mumford sometime since, tho' expect Certificates for the Provisions bo't for her on her first arrival there. wee expect Butter from Hall'x by the Packet, (tho' will cost 6d Sterling per li.) and shall send you 20 firkins, with 1 Cask Oatmeal which is all there is on the Continent by what learn from Hall'x and New York. its a vexatious thing to want that article as the Pursers are so 1 The original is in the Newport Historical Society. ; |