| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Capt. William Beekman, 1756 |
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| ID | 5322 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/79 |
| Year | 1756 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Snow Melling of Liverpool |
| Recipient | Capt. William Beekman |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 414 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To Capt. William Beekman, Master of the snow Melling of Liverpool 20 June 1756 Sir: I am favoured with yours of 10th April & observe the contents. I wrote your Owners that you disaved me about the burthen of your Vessel, which you did.1 For when you told me Freight of Naval Stores offered, I disired you would let me know how many Barrels your Vessel would cary, which you did when Captain Sayers2 was present & insisted she would cary 950 Barrels at least. You well know I made A calculation of an Irish Freight & the one to Liverpool & found it more for the Owners Interest to let her proceed to Liverpool if she woud cary 900 Barrels, & you further know, when you had 550 Barrels of Naval Stores in, you told me the Vessel would cary the quantity you mentioned, & I do assure you, had you then told me the truth about your Vessels Burthen, which I think you then must have known, the Cargoe should have gon out, & you stood the Consequence. But you never let me into the secret till you had 700 Barrels in & things were gone too far to draw Back, & now I assure you I believe you disaved me to answer your own Ends. If this was not the Case, you are not fit to be Master of A Vessel to be so much out in your calculation. What I have now wrote, I can prove. So if you choose to deny any part of it, you may. I suppose you was ashamed of the disbursments on your Vessel that you give your Owners the trouble to write me about some Bills I choose lo pay as the trades men were due me money. I paid you 99.16.0 William Kippen, Block Makers, Bill 1.9.6 R. Cmmelme/ ship Chandler, Bill 5.0.2 3/2 Francis Morscolick5 bill 5.15.6 Paid charges at the Custom house 6.10.0 A Coil of Riging I Deliverd your mate by your order 0.3.0, at 65 per Cent 2.8.9 / 120.19.11 3/4 my Commission, 5 per Cent 6.0.11 ¼ 127.0.11 the sum I deliverd your owners, & all this you had account of, so I think you used me very 111 about it. I received £3 from Mr. Cortland, but as I have brought it to Messrs. Melling & Co. credit, I must have an order from them be Cor I pay it to any Person. WC per Capt. Cunningham |
