| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Kimble, Samuel, 1756 |
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| ID | 5434 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/191 |
| Year | 1756 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA |
| Recipient | Kimble, Samuel |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 410 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To Samuel Kimble, New Brunsick 16 November 1756 Sir: I have been told that you said to some Gentlemen here that Mr. William Haliday or Messrs. Haliday & Dunbar, Merchants in Liverpool, sent you a Bale of goods that was Invoiced about 25 per Cent more then they cost, and that the way you came to find out this Villany was from the makers Bill of Parcel being Packed in the Bale. My reason for mentioning this to you is that these Gentlemen are my very particular Friends. That from very large and frequent transactions, I found them to be Merchants which I look upon to include Men of Honour and Honesty, as well as being very capable of business, and must beg leave to add a little further in their favour that they have done A great deal of business for a number of principal Merchants on this continent, and I can convince you by very satisfactory proofs that they have given very general content. These reasons with the Character they bare in Europe of being Men of Honour and Fortune induces me to think they never put it in your power to take this Liberty. [If] you had prudence anough not to mention it, as well with the circumstances you told the story, ihey might be able to clear up their character. You know that of a Merchant ought not to be touched in so Publick a way. I must beg that you would give me a real state of the affair and their answer to your letter, as you no doubt wrote on finding it out. These Gentlemen did business some time for Messrs. Aspenwall & Doughty of this City, but in the end a differance arose which I am now selling for them by Law by order of Court. Their disputes are left to Arbitration and the arbitrators are William Walton, Philip Livingston, and John Watts, Esquires. I find what I now mention to you is dayly told to all the arbitrators, and is made a handle of by A&D, so that I am not able to clear up this charge. I meet these Judges under the greatest disadvantages and [it] must be of the worst consequence to my very worthy Friends. I hope you'l excuse this liberty I have taken. You must see the great occasion I have to do it, which I doubt not will apologize for me. I must request your speedy answer. |
