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Title: John Capper, Co. Armagh to Joseph Searight, Philadelphia
ID509
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileCapper, John/65
Year1848
SenderCapper, John
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationlinen trader
Sender Religionunknown
OriginLurgan, Co. Armagh, N.Ireland
DestinationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
RecipientSearight, Joseph
Recipient Gendermale
Relationshipbusiness, friends
SourceD 2794/1/2/17: Presented by H H Montgomery, 4 Kensington Gardens, Belfast
ArchiveThe Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Doc. No.9601140
Date09/03/1848
Partial Date
Doc. TypeLET
LogDocument added by LT, 11:01:96.
Word Count513
Genre
Note
Transcript Lurgan 9th March 1848
Account of linens sold for Mr. Joseph Searight
by John Capper
Stock 1/8

Prices
1847 14ø 15ø 16ø 17ø 18ø
June 9[?] 43 33 45 43 4
Aug24[?] 2 2 6 4 0
45 35 51 47 4

= 182 Pieces

Yards
14ø 15ø 16ø 17ø 18ø
June 9[?] 2549 1948 9648 2515 219
Aug24[?] 117 118 350 235 -
2666 = 2066 = 2993 = 2750 = 219
Short 54 32 68 60« 2
yds 2612 = 2034 = 2930 = 2689«= 217


Stock 4/4
Prices
184% 14ø 15ø 16ø 17ø 18ø 19ø 20ø
June 9 3 9 5 13 9 9 9
July 15 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 [---?]
[---?]
6 = 2 = 10 = 6 = 6 = 6
= 36 Pieces
= 218 Pieces in all

Length in Yards
184% 14ø 15ø 16ø 17ø 18ø 19ø 20ø
June 9 174 518 284 737 509 508 506
July 15 174 191 170 170 172 169 168
=347 =114 =567 =337 =339 =338
Short 3 1 4 2 4 3
yrds =344 =113 =563 =335 =335 =335

7/8 Sold yds 4/4 Sold yds
14.00 2612 c6 65.6.0 15.00 344 c8 11.9.4
15.00 2034 c7 59.6.6 16.00 113 c9 4.4.9
16.00 2930 c8 99.13.4 17.00 563 c10 23.9.2
17.00 2689« c9 100.19.1 18.00 335 c11 15.9.1
18.00 217 c10 9.0.10 19.00 335 c12 16.15.0
= 332.3.9 20.00 335 c13 18.2.11
7«% 2«% 16.12.2 89.8.3
[dis?]&[comp?] 5% 2«% 3«% 5.9.4
nett = 315.11.7 [dis?]&[comp?]6%
4/4 nett 84.0.11 nett = 84.0.11
ammount nett = 399.12.6
in a/c [account?] 399.8.8 see left side
current as [furnished?]

difference of 3.10 to yr [your?] Credit in New a/c [account?]
The Error of 3/10 in a/c [account?] as Recd [Received?] arose
from charging commission on its amount of sales, before deducting
Short Measure.

(written on side of page)

( N.B. The 17« % Coms [commission] on 4/4 [returned?] amount 16/5
I did not charge, although I had [with?] them the
[ordinary?] trouble of a sale )

Lurgan 10th March 1848
Mr. Joseph Searight,
Philadelphia

Dear Sir
By yesterdays Post being
the latest for tomorrow [Devinport?] Packet I sent
forward a copy of your account [Earnest?] shewing a
balance in my favor of 73:12:5 less 3/10 Error
Noted on other side of this sheet. I had not the
particulars of the sales as given overleaf ready to
accompany the other document. I doubt not you will feel
disappointed in the result of your linens sales. But a
moment of reflection will probably suggest the fact
that it was utterly out of my power or that of any one
else to prevent the great reduction that has taken
place in the value of both [ C M ] and yours - yarns
nearly as good as T K Mulhollands 3/6 - and Mulhollands
3/7« P Bdle [per bundle?] though normally 3/9 - I know
a buyer who bought 5.5 & 60 c 3/4« have news of sales @
2/3 P [Per?] Bd [Bundle?] but [cannot?] vouch. In regard
to linens I believe I could have secured a lot of 7/8 some time
ago @ about 9d under [set?] and in regard to your own
[7/8?] after they were delivered the whole bargain was
nearly being upset unless I should submit to let them
be picked which I firmly resisted and carried my point,
though not without anxiety and trouble. As regards the
4/4 I sold them to a party not in the habit of buying,
and had it been in any other way I believe I should
not have done so well.
The short measure, which is worst in the 7/8 I
saw tried on service Webs before my eyes -
Webs taken at random measuring 1 3/4 yds short -
I think in general the longest lengths [crept?] in most.
But I fear you measured them too exact at first. The
former parcels of your cloth escaped, because
not measured in taking them from me - But the party
who [got?] [going?] before had charges against them for short
measure, but I suppose were unable to trace the
matter back to me having likely mixed them with other
goods of a similar kind. But in the present case
they measured them and took six pieces of each set for
the average, and let me see some of them measured
before taking them to account.
I mentioned Mr. [Macouns?] affair with - M - e in
my letter of yesterday - you must not as you value
peace here, hint at the matter, but knowing how the
case stands you can act fairly and accordingly. The
want of this Balc [balance?] due me I must feel after a
year of unprecedented loss to me, and some money of
which I had the use I must nay - do for me, I beg you
what you can, and soon Truly Yrs [Yours?]
J Capper

(written on side of page)

The party who got the 4/4 put in at the bargain
making that I should add 14.00 at the same
rate if required, and has since been asking me for
them This my own affair however.