| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Leggs, Hyde & Co., 1756 |
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| ID | 5510 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/267 |
| Year | 1756 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Recipient | Leggs, Hyde & Co. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 295 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To Leggs, Hyde & Co., Belfast 31 December 1756 Gentlemen: Your kind favour of the 11th September is now before us. We have nigh compleated your orders for one Thousand Pounds Sterling of French Prize sugar, & we are in hops on terms that will give you great content. The price we paid is from 2d to 6d per pound & a Hogshead or two 61/4 & 61/2 per pound. We are convinced they must answer for you, as all the Sugar Houses supplys themselves from the Prizes, tho they have such choice of other Sugars, & we think them very reasonable. We are in great hops the Ross will soon appear, or that we will have directions what to do with them. The balance our WC is due you is £415.10.4 Currency of which we have laid out £270 in French Indigoe, & the remainder we expect to lay out by the next days Sale in the same article & shall ship the whole by the ship William & George, Captain Robert McCalmont, who we expect to Sail for your place about the 10th January which your to govern your self by if you see proper to Insure. Your Accounts will goe by her. We are sory for the Loss of your Ship the Molly. The Meat of her is now here. We have drawn three Bills at 40 days sight on William Clark of London for £518.13.4 Sterling £300 at 81V: per Cent & £218.13.4 at 84 per Cent is to your Credit. G&C Exchange to London, 821/2 per Cent Logwood, £11 per ton French Coffee, 7d to 87: per pound ditto Cotton, 16 to 17 per pound ditto Cocoa, 7 to 8 per pound per Capt. Moor Via Dublin & Capt. Blair |
