| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Greg, Thomas, 1756 |
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| ID | 5254 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/11 |
| 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 | 2165 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To Thomas Greg, Belfast10 May 1756 Dear Sir: Herewith you have Copy of my Letter by the Dispatch, Samuel Livingston, Master, who I hope is safe arrived with you long ere this. I have to answer your favours of 27th December & 4th February. What Letters you wrote me between (hem dates are not yet come to hand. Captain Wilkenson is safe arrived in the Sound2 from Rotterdam. Your goods were landed at Stanford, about 60 Miles from this place. I have since sent A Sloop to carry them to Philadelphia, as there was no possibility of getting them here safe, occasioned by our officers being resolved to stop all counter/band trade. Since yours has been landed, there has been three Hondred Bolts of Russia Duck Seized that was a landing nigh this place. You need not be under any concern about what goods we have coming. You may depend I shall take such precautions as will keep them safe, & that I am on such a footing with the officers here that if any Person can have favours, I will. I received a Parcel of goods by Wilkenson from the Messrs. I & Z Hope with orders to assist Wilkenson to purchase A Vessel for them. I have given them A full reply by this oppertunity [to] let them know the circumstances the trade from their parts were under & advised them of Our Partnership in the trade carried on here from the 1st Instant. It was impossible it should commence sooner, as I did not receive your Letter agreeing to it to 20th April. Beside[s], on the 1st May is the best time to balance our Books yearly, as it is between the old & the new bussiness, & further there was no transactions of consequence from the 1st March to 1st May. What goods came by Witkenson comes into our Company Books, which are the first this spring. Number 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 Bales of Manchester goods7 received by the Molly were unopened the 1st May, so have made an Invoice of them in the Company Books, & your to expect Sales of them from us. I promise to close of[f] what goods were opened the 1st May in my own Books & take account of what I sell after that date & what commission arrises from them to charge my particular Account with & credit Profit & Loss for. You as well as all men in trade runs risks, but I think from our present prospect, it will be very hard if we dont clear very largely in our Partnership. I long for the bookkeeper you propose to send, as more of my time is spent within doors then is for our Interest. Whatever goods arrives here now, whether shiped for your account or mine, is to be brought to the Company account. What I have ordered I have ordered Insurance on, with precautions I hope you have taken. I by no means choose you should send any goods on your particular account. What ever will answer you shall have advice of, & I hope we shall be able from our Stock to do what is necessary on our own account. I believe I shall be able to put in the sum proposed, £2,000 Currency, but the whole of that cant be this Eight or ten Months. I think it would be best to bring the Prince of Wales to our Stock account. I have had occasion to write by this oppertunity to Messrs. Isaac & Zach Hope; Mr. Herman Vanyzendoorn; Mr. Peter Cocqueet; Messrs. Porter & Mierop; Messrs. William Snell & Co.; Messrs. Haliday & Dunbar; Messrs. Melling, McQuoid & Haliday; Messrs. Hyde & Hamilton; Messrs. George & William Ware of Bristol; Mr. George Dunlope, & advised them of our Partnership from the 1st May & the Firm of our House. I must now request you i advise the following Gentlemen of it with whom I have Corresponded. As I have no particular business to write them, I think it woud be puting them to A Needless expence to advise them of it by the Packet, & we have now no better opportunity. In Cork: Messrs. Paul & James Benson, Mr. John Lawton,& Mr. Perry, the last dis bussiness often here on his own account. Dublin:" Messrs. Bartrand & Thompson, Mr. Oliver Mathews," Mr. John Hawkins, Messrs. Smyth & Knox, & Hugh McNeily." Newry: Mr. David Carlile, Mr. Hugh Hamilton, Messrs. Edward & Isaac Curry, Mr. Adam Meatland & Mr. Samuei McGeough. Belfast: Mr. John Greg [Sear.], Mr. John Hyde, Mr. Samuel Hyde, Mr. James Ross, Messrs. Leggs, Hyde & Co., Mr. John Henderson, Mr. James Henderson, Mr. James McQuatters, Mr. John Potts, Mr. Hugh Donaldson, Mr. James Park, Mr. John Brown, Mr. Samuel MaTees, Messrs. John Gordon & John Calwell. Mr. Robert Calwell, Mr. Robert Gordon, Messrs. Blow & Cunningham, Mr. John Campbell. Colerain: Mr. Robert Given. Ballycastle: Mr. John McCalister, Mr. John McNeal. Londonderry:Captain James Falls. I would by all means advise on receipt of this you take A Ride to Newry, Derry, Colerain, & Ballycastle & do what you can to get bussiness to our House. You may depend you cant get too much in (he Flaxseed Shiping. I have opened A New set of Books, but don't propose to write in Either journal or Ledger to the Bookeeper comes over. I by all means agree in case of my Death that the Person sent Over should lake the affairs in hand & manage them as no such Misfortune had happened, & this trust that may fall on him requires he shoud have the good qualitys you mention. All the Tea by the Haiequin is sold, but the Muslins & Cambricks are much too fine for this Market. I have been obliged to bring your Butter from Albanny. You shall have Sales of it & many other parcels of goods by first oppertunity. As to my Brother affair, I think of him as I always did, Daniel Expenus. I have A Letter from him that will oblige him to pay it & the Charge of £50 I make. In my account is A Bill of Henry Pattersons on him, which I Remitted himself, & I defy him to show in the account An article I cant Properly support. The Bill he drew on me he is not obliged to pay, as it was neither Protested, nor presented regularly, so that he ought to send them to me for payment of it, & if he woud do so, he woud be due me £80.19.8 Irish, which would enable me to help my Friends Creditors of HP. But he has no sence of Feeling, or the Letters I wrote him would make him know how to act. You may plainly see I would have taken care that such A man as this should not fall in my Debt on Settlement, but by taking from his Credit & placing to Mr. VanYzendoorns credit the proceeds of the Tea made it so, tho surely this is the cause of lossing money by my Brother. Yet I choose Mr. VanYzendoorn should be paid fully, as I would much rather suffer by A Brothers Bad Conduct, nor any other Person Else should, when I am able to bare it. Every Sales of Dry Goods since the Nancy's has advanced a Little, & they are rising by degrees dayly. You may depend I have & shall do the most I can for our Interest. Annexed you have a List of Bills. Those on London are enclosed to Messrs. Porter & Mierop to get accepted & forward you. The whole Amounts is £947.5.9 Currency [and] is to your Debit. I beg whenever I remit A Bill that Proves bad, you take care to return it immediately, as 1 always take care to have good Drawers, or indorsers, & the Damages is 20 per Cent. I am this moment favoured with yours of the 24th February & observe the contents. Shall examine the Sales of the Flaxseed & place the proceeds to your debit. It gives me great pleasure to hear my Brother behaved well in Newry. He will be A Compteat Captain or I mistake him much. I bought Twenty Tons of Logwood at £10 per Ton & [have] taken Freight in the Snow Magog, John Sheldon Master. It goes to Mr. VanYzendoorn address, as dis the Snow by my desire. This is our first Transaction on our account. I have ordered Mr. Yzendoorn to Insure £120 Sterling on it & to ship as much Bohea Tea by the Brigg Brantford, John Wallace Master, as he thinks it [will] produce. I have bought on our account 25 Tons of Logwood at £9 per Ton, but have not resolved what to do with this Parcel yet. I am A small part concerned in the Brigg Brantford & in A Schooner in the Bay of Hondoras. As soon as they come in, shall sell my parts, as I think it is not prudent for us to be concerned in more Vessels, except one very larg one to go constantly between this & your place, which if you see proper to fix on the trade, we to hold A third or A half in. I am content I woud choose my Brother shoud go in her or William Greg. Dont let your past bad opinion of the last hinder you, for I am sure he will turn out well. The 8th part of the Brigg Brantford and Cargoe out, which is my concern in her, I think it best to come on our joint account. So let Mr. Yzendoorn advise how the Exchange is when it is shiped that I may fix it properly in our Books, & if you have any goods shiped before the Prince of Wales comes out, advise what they cost Sterling, as I think they ought to be on the Company account. As to goods, I can form little Judgement till the Spring Vessels arrives. So in my next you may expect to hear fully on that head. I think it would be prudent you would immediately order one Hundred & Fifty Pieces of Irish Linnen from lOd to 20d per Yard where they can be got cheapest. Would choose we should have out Four Hundred Firkins of Butter on our joint account. I shall ship the 25 Tons of Logwood to some place or other to help to pay for it. I woud by all means recommend to you to be watchfull if the Linnen Board proposes to have any Flaxseed from this to apply for us, & the greatest service that can be done us is to be strongly recommended to the Commanding officers in the Army here & the Captains of men a war. So that I must beg you'l never mis an opportunity in that way. I have now A Scheme to [offer] you, & after considering it, proceed in it as you see proper. I imagin Fruit will be very much wanted here next Winter. I think if you could Freight a Vessel that would carry from 800 to 1600 Hogsheads of Flaxseed at 10s per Hogshead if Peace, 14s per Hogshead if limes are as they were last Fall, & 20s per Hogshead if war is declared & for being Insured this Freight. She must proceed to Cadiz & take in A Load of Salt & Fruit & bring it to us Freight free. You would most likely get such a Vessel at white haven. The Quantity of Fruit proper for this Market is 150 Boxes of Lemons, 50 Boxes of Grangers. Sixty Casks of Raisons, 100 Trails of Figgs, Ten Casks of Currants, & about 2,000 pounds of Almonds. A little Wine might also do. If you cant get such A Vessel as I propose, give any of fheFlaxseed Vessels bound out £100 this Currency for touching in there & do you pay the charge there. I have Underwrote here this Twelve Months past. It has turned out very well. Our Premium are about 70 per Cent more then are paid in London. I am going since 1st May on our Company account. I have not at present to add but my sincear wishes attends you, your Family, & all our Friends well fare. WC £31.18.0 Brinish Ster, Thos Ellington on Jos Diedorice* in Dublin Exch 82V> per Cent £57.9.9 21.0.0 ditto John Cope" on Doctor Cope" in Dromore5* 80 37.16.0 30. 0.0 Irish Ster Alex'r McMullion"1 on James Dunn61 in Dublin Exch 65 49.10.0 30. 0.0 Brinish Ster George Ingoldesby" on John Calcraft in London Exch 82'/> 54.15.0 15.0.0 ditto John Galland" on Henry Bullock" in ditto Exch 85 27.15.0 300. 0.0 ditto Livingston & Alexander05 on Thomlinson & Hanbury'6 Exch 80 540. 0.0 100.0.0 ditto ditto ditto ditto 180. 0.0 £527. 0.0 £947. 5.9 per 2d & 3d Packet Capt. McCullum |
