| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Haliday & Dunbar, 1756 |
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| ID | 5403 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/160 |
| Year | 1756 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Liverpool, England |
| Recipient | Haliday & Dunbar |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 400 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To Haliday & Dunbar, Liverpool 13 October 1756 Gentlemen: We are favoured with yours of 12th & 21 May & 8th June to our WC since we wrote you by the last Packet. You have Credit with WC for the Insurance on the Prince [of] wales & Cargoe & Thomas White, & he returns you thanks for the methods you took for their Interest in the sale of Dispatch,1 which the[y] hope to hear the Event of soon. We propose if the Johnson arrives safe here to send her Directly to your place with Prise goods. Logwood, & what Freight may offer. We shall ship in her about 20,000 pounds Prise Cotton for account of Hide & Hamilton. In Case you find Any Other Vessel sett up for this Place, advertise her as we must have her or some Other out Early in the spring. We beg you may advise us by all Opportunitys the prices of Prise Goods. Is French Prise Sugar to be Exported from England or may it be made use of there? It might be started into English Hogsheads & Cleared out here as the produce of our Islands. We beg your Particular reply to this. We shall have out from this Port by the 1st Nov. 20 Privateers, & if war Continues to the 1st March, about Ten more. So we have great reason to Expect Prise goods of all sorts will be sold low. We have had Nine Prises brought in here, mostly from Martinico bound to France. Their Cargoes sold at the Annexed Prices. We have bought some Sugar, Coffee, & Logwood which we hope to ship in the Johnson on account of the Owners if your advices by her Incourage it. We would be obliged to you to advise the Premims of Insurance with you when you write us. Mr. Haliday may Expect to hear the Event of his Action with Aspinwall & Doughty shortly after this. The Courl comes on the 19th Instant. We are affraid the Company Action wont be Tryed before next Court, but this is Uncertain. G&C Exchange to London, 85 per Cent Logwood, at £12 per Ton Martinico Coffee, to 7 to 7 1/3 d Ditto Sugar, 2 to 7d per pound Ditto Cotton, 15d to 16d per pound Ditto Cocoa, to 8d to 9d per pound per the Packet, Capt. Radford & by ditto, Capt. Lutwich |
