| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to William Snell & Co., 1756 |
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| ID | 5288 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/45 |
| Year | 1756 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | London, England |
| Recipient | William Snell & Co. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 428 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To William Snell & Co., London 14 June 1756 Gentlemen: We wrote 22nd Past Via Bristol to which please be refered. We have now before us your favour of 20th March & observe the contents. Annexed you have A list of Sundry goods which please ship us by first Vessel for this Place. After you receive this, we must request you to get the amounts Insured by good men & have A particular regard to the order. Should A war Break out, there will be great Room for Speculation in Price goods from this. We shall then go a Half concerned with you in any quantity of Sugar, Indigoe, Cotton, &c, that you think will answer, to be brought here & shiped to your place. We are not yet resolved about shiping the Logwood on our joint account. £3.10.0 per ton Freight is demanded for it. It now sell at £10 pr Ton. A Snow of ours touched in Douglas coming from Liverpool here. There was some goods of yours which your Friend there wanted to ship, but Captain Cunningham would not take them in if he would not consign them to Mr. Torrans or us. Should he touch there again, we have orderd him to take them in. He is to sail for Liverpol about the 20th Instant. There can be no judgement formed yet how the Crop of Flaxseed will turn out. P.S. Write your Friend in Petersburg to know the Prices of all goods exported from that here & the price of unchiped Logwood, Nicorago Wood, Rice, Sarsaperilla, & all other goods thats to be got from these parts. 46 To Maurice Melting, Liverpool 16 June 1756 We have thought of sending a Vessel there next Spring & to clear her Cargoe As she comes out of the Orkneys. Do you know a good house there to apply to to clear the Cargoe We expect your answer to this this Fall, & if you would choose to be A part concerned in the sheme, you may. 12 Pieces of Black China Taffaties 80 Pieces of Lowest priced Bandannoes 20 Pieces of Silk Romalls 20 Pieces of Black Persians, low priced 60 Pieces of Cambricks sorted from 15 to 36 a Piece 10 Pieces of Lawns from 30 to 40 A Piece 10 1b. of Coloured Silk 10 ib. Black ditto, the same sort you sent Mr. Torrans 5 Ib. Scarlet ditto 5 Ib. Blew ditto 8 Pieces of English Taffities 40 Dozen of Hogs Shoes 50 Pieces of Nankeen per Capt. Seymor & Capt. Cunningham |
