| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Dunlope, George, 1757 |
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| ID | 5539 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/296 |
| Year | 1757 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Ballicastle, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Recipient | Dunlope, George |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 514 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To George Dunlope, Ballycastle 10 January 1757 Sir: Our last was the 24th past. Since are without any of your favours. Have now to enclose you Invoice & Bill of Lading for 60 Hogsheads & 66 half Hogsheads of Flaxseed, Eight Tons of Bar Iron, Four Hogsheads of Antigua Rum, Two Hogsheads of Best Jamaica Rum, & Fourteen Thousand Barrel Staves shiped in your Ship William & George, Robert McCalmont Master, amounting to £612.14.4 is to your Debit in account. The articles we hope will prove good & give content. We were obliged to Ship Two Hogsheads of Jamaica Rum, as we could not get them of so good common West India Rum as we choose to Ship you. The Flower we could not Ship, as it goes 5d per Hundredweight higher from this then from Philadelphia. We doubt not you'l plainly see we have done all we could for your Interest in dispatching the Vessel & procuring her the highest Freight going, Viz 22s/9 per Hogshead for Flaxseed & in proportion for other goods, & you'l see by the Manifest of the Cargoe that the Freight you engaged at home has been little or no help to the dispatch of your Vessel, We hope when you engage Freight for the time IO come, you'l make surer Of it. When you send out your Vessel here, get a Hospital Bill, or you'l be obliged to pay from the date of your Old one which is indeed Old. Had WC not a very good understanding with the Officers that would be the case now, but we got it put off. You see we saved you the most unjust charge of Tonage. You have enclosed your account Current with WC; balance due you £42.3.9 is to your credit with us, keeping you accountable to him if any Debts should prove bad. Your Beef yet lyes on hand, & we are affraid will be a very bad article. The Bale of goods we shant open till Spring, so you see we are very considerably in advance for you. We can by no means encourage you to send any dry goods here. They mostly are very bad articles. You better Ballast your Vessel with Coals & Potatoes. They will always bring some Freight. Them & Butter are the only articles we can advise you to. Sometimes Linnens from 8d to I s/6d per yard answers well. Captain McCalmont seems to be very carefull, & we believe has done as well as he could for your Interest, which we hope he will convince you of. We have got nothing done with the Power of Attorney. When we goe to Philadelphia, shall have the need full done about it. One of your Servants run away. He is Listed. We expect to be paid for him. The other we don't know what to do with. You may depend on observing your orders about Insureance. You may be assured that we can & will serve you in all your commands as well as any here. G&C per Capt. McCalmont per Capt. Boyd |
