| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Greg, Thomas, 1756 |
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| ID | 5266 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/23 |
| Year | 1756 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Recipient | Greg, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business partners |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 208 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To Thomas Greg, Belfast 22 May 1756 Dear Sir: I am just now favoured with Allen & Smellies of the 6th March with Invoice of Sundry goods. They are arrived at Boston. We shall credit their accounts for their cost. You’l please order from them the same assortment of Threads & Handkerchiefs to be here in the fall, but bind them to Pack up no Handkerchiefs but what are Blue & White. They order me to lay out the Proceeds of some Lawns they have consigned in Flaxseed. Pray encourage them to join with some of their Friends & send out a Vessel to load with it. They may send out in her Coals, some Barley, Servants &c. I have no news from Europe yet. We dayly look for many Vessels which I hope will soon arrive. £140 Sterling Bayly Elwarthy & Bayly on Drake & at 60 days sight f 100 ditto Thomas Saul on William Baker at 30 days sight £17 ditto George Pennington on Henry Taylor at 10 days sight £9 ditto Samuel Strings on John Calcraft at 40 days sight £266 Sterling Exchange 80 per Cent is f 478 Currency to your debit per the Olive Branch. Capl. Hugh McCullum Capt. Troy, Via Philadelphia |
