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his lading on my account. you may depend on my study for retaliations of these favors, but misfortunes will happen to the most carefull. I am with due respect, Sir,

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Mr. Z. Bourryan being absent.

Herewith you have sundry accounts sales for 62 hhds. of Sugar for which is

credit given in your account current.

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Sir,

per the Success.

JOHN CAHOONE, JR. TO AYRAULT?1

Anamabo,2 OctobTM the 27th, 1736.

AFTER My Respects to you: these may Inform how it is with me at present. I bles god I Injoy my health very well as yett: but am like to have a long and trublesom Voyge of it, for there never was so much Rum on the Coast at one time before, Nor the Like of the french shipen never seen before for no. for the hole Coast is full of them. for my part I can give no guess when I shall get away, for I purchest but 27 Slaves since I have bin hear, for slaves is Very Scarce. we have had Nineteen sail of us at one time in the Rhoad: so that these ships that are said to Cary prime Slaves off is now forced to take any that Comes.

1 Original in the possession of Mr. George C. Mason, in Reminiscences, II. 104. 1 Anamaboe, or Anamabu, was an English fort on the coast of Guinea. It now lies in the Gold Coast, about eleven miles east of Cape Coast Castle. This neighborhood was much divided among the European powers, and the French, Dutch, Portuguese and English had forts within a few miles of one another, stations for obtaining slaves from the interior. As late as 1764 it was stated with truth that the Europeans knew nothing of the river courses or of the interior country.

heair is 7 sail of us Rume men that we are Ready to Devur one another; for our Case is Despart: So, I begg that you will exist my family in what they shall want for I no not when I shall git home: to them myself. I have had the misfortune to Bury my Chefe Mate on ye 21st of September, and one man more; and lost the Negro man, primus, and Adam Over board on my pasedge one three weeks after another: that makes me now Very weak handed: for out of what is left theair is two that is good for nothing - Cap Hamond hath bin heair six months and has but 60 Slaves on bord -my harty sevice to yr Spouse and family -I am y's to Com, JOHN CAHOONE, Jr. This day we are Informed Capt Handy heth cast away his Sconer to windward.

SNOW "GRAY HOUND"1

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To all People to Whom these Presents shall come: John Tillinghast and Nathaniel Potter, both of Newport in the County of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island, etc., Merchants, send Greeting: Whereas Nathan Bull of said Newport, Mariner, by One Charter Party bearing Date the Second Day of August, A.D. 1740, did Demise, Grant, and Lett unto Peter Bourse,2 George Goulding, and Joseph Whipple, all of s'd Newport, Merchants (a Com'tee appointed by Act of Assembly,) the Snow Gray Hound, burthen about one hundred and eight Tuns, in order to transport therein some of the Soldiers raised to go against the Spaniards into some part of the West Indies; which said Snow was to be fitted, tackled, and apparelled as in and by said Charter Party is expressed, and then to be appraised by two indifferent Men to be chosen by both Parties. Now Know Ye That we, the said John Tillinghast and Nathaniel Potter,

1 The original is in the Newport Historical Society.

2 Peter Bours, died September 20, 1761, aged fifty-six years. He is frequently mentioned in Mason, Annals of Trinity Church, Newport.

3 George Goulding married Mary (Ayrault) Cranston, a daughter of Daniel Ayrault.

♣ Rhode Island Col. Rec., IV. 574.

being chosen by both Parties, have view'd said Snow, examin'd the Accounts of Charges and Disbursments, etc., when fitted as aboves'd ready for sailing, and maturely considered the same. We are of Opinion, and it is our sincere Judgement That said Snow, when she went to Sea, with all her Appurtenances and fitted as aforesaid, was justly and honestly worth the sum of Two Thousand Eight Hundred Pounds in good and passable Bills of Publick Credit of the Colony of Rhode Island. In Witness whereof We have hereunto set our Hands and Seals, the Eighth Day of October, in the fourteenth Year of his Majesties Reign Anno Dom: 1740.

JOHN TILLINGHAST
NATH'LL POTTER

These are to certify, the Hon'ble the Principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy, That the Greyhound, Robert Oliver, Master, burthened One hundred and eight Tons, belonging to North America, was employed as a Transport in the Service of this Expedition to the seventeenth day of May last, at which time he was discharged from the said Service; and in passing his victualling Account to that time with the Commissary for Stores, it appears he is Debtor One Pound fifteen shillings and seven pence half penny Sterling, which he hath paid to the said Commissary, and that the said Master hath conformed to the Terms of his Agreement made with Colo. Gooch dated on board of the Vere Transport this Twelfth of June, 1741.

Sir,

WILLIAM FURNEL TO ABRAHAM REDWOOD

Antigua, October 13th, 1742.

I AM not a little supprised (although at same time ought not to be) to find that per letter from Mr. Stephen Bayard, a man of good character, and would not write a wrong thing, although you have done to your Brother Dan’el Lawrance, that your Attorneys had paid the money, due said Lawrance unto his Attorneys, how could you have the face or assur

ance to write any such false thing when was not paid. I cant gett the money due from your own Estate due to me and Comp[any], and dont see how can pay others. this may be practable in you to keep your own C'n and imagine to hunt others: in that case you are mistaken. no I cant get the Money due from your own Estate, about one hundred and sixty pounds due long enough, but will sue next year, and then law will give it me. and further that the Debt was dis'd. its not many I owe to (but if any) but thats oweing to such long winded Gentlemen as you, as keeps one out of their money year after year. I fancy I shall not give you that oppertunity, and find men of a more generous temper then to study to write what is not just. Mr. Thomas Shephard of this Island made me a payment 15th May last and not before, which your Attorneys knows perfectly well was not before, of one hundred and ninety three pounds one shilling and four pence, which I have transferred neat proceeds unto Mr. Stephen Bayard to pay a Sterling bill for what in my hands, but I expect❜d to have paid it to Maj'r Martin but would not meddle, but chuse I should remitt it, as have done per this Conveyance, as I think you could have the least Reason to be guilty of such ungenerous action to your Abused Humble Servant, WM. FURNEL

ROBERT MORRIS TO GODFREY MALBONE1 AND

Gentlemen,

SAMUEL VERNON

New Providence,2 March 18th, 1744/5.

My last was from St. Anns,3 January the 25th; the 26 about 10 in the Morning sailed, the 14th of February about 12 saw a Sail of Cape Antons, which we took in about six

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1 Godfrey Malbone is said to have been a native of Virginia, who came to Newport about 1700. After some years at sea he inherited sufficient property to become independent, and engaged in commerce and privateering. He died February 22, 1768. Mason, Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, 54 n.

The most important of the Bahama Islands, having Nassau, the seat of government of the islands.

Probably Jamaica.

hours. She belongd to Nanz, came from Logan,1 and designed to touch at the Havana. her Cargo is by the Manifest about 250 Hhds. of Sugar, some Indigo, some Hides and Tobaco. the Captain says she is richer then we expect. She was taken in Concort with the Brigantine. She must be condem'd here, but dont propose discharging the Cargo, as the officers will compute the Duties, by the weight of a few Casks; and as I have appl'd to Major Stewart am in hopes the Duties will be very moderate, of which he'l advise. as I am now bound on a Cruse, in Concort with a Snow and Sloop, as you'l see by the inclosed, to intercept if possible a Fleet of 16 Sail bound from Cape François.2 The Company was for dividing here, but put them off. this is short and goes by way of Boston, but shall write more fully by way of Carolina Disr (?) Youl excuse heaste. I am, Gentlemen,

Your Humb":" "Few. Pla beeb Morris

Robeb

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[Endorsed,] Capt. Godfrey Malbone and Mr. Sam'l Vernon, Merchants in Newport, Rhode Island.

Sir,

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JOHN THOMLINSON TO ABRAHAM REDWOOD

London, the 18 March, 1744 [1745.]

SINCE my last to you I have sold your Sugars that were then comed to hand this year vizt. 38 Casks. they were

1 Léogane, Hayti.

2 Now Cape Haytien, a seaport town on the north coast of Hayti. Before Louisburg the English ships were said to have taken in July of this year three French ships from the East Indies, prizes valued at £800,000. Law Papers, 11. 5.

3 John Thomlinson was a merchant in London, who served as agent of New Hampshire for some years. See Belcher Papers and New Hampshire Provincial Papers.

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