| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Van Yzendoorn, Herman, 1757 |
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| ID | 5531 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/288 |
| Year | 1757 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Recipient | Van Yzendoorn, Herman |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 673 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To Herman Van Yzendoorn, Rotterdam 13 January 1757 Sir: We wrote you the 2nd Ultimo by the Packet, Captain Bonnell, & by Captain Mund for Amsterdam, Inclosing you Two Bills for £313.4.71/2 Sterling being the balance of your account with WC, the several Sales of your goods being then enclosed, all which we hope will give you content. We also enclosed you at same time account of Freight made by the Prince of Wales from Rotterdam, your Fourth being £108.18.8, which we give you credit for & Debitted your account with the One Fourth disbursements on her amounting to £94.8.7 & the One Fourth amounts of her Cargoe for Cadiz £150.4.2. We have now to answer your favour of the 9th October which came Q hand the 2nd Instant. You cant be surprized that WC thinks you used him 111 in your Letter of the 26th May. In the first of it, you say had any misfortune happened the Prince of Wales in her passage to Rotterdam, that no Insurance could be recovered occasioned by his imprudence in not filling up the Bills of Lading as they ought to be done, & he thinks in his Letter to you in answer to it he has cleared himself. But in your answer to his Letter your not so kind to own your Error but lays the affair to Bills of Lading that was signed in Rotterdam, which he knew nothing about. Our reason for not sending the Prince of Wales to Rotterdam was that the Season was too far advanced, & that we did not think your trade would answer, at least to be concerned with you, from whom We could have no Peace after we received your goods 10 [he accounts were closed, which can't be done in as short time here. AM we will pretend to say in our own favour is that we wish you contentment from you present Friend here, & that we doubt not but by the time other accounts are closed to you, You'l think better of ours & perhaps wish you had continued with us. who did at all times our utmost to serve your Interest. We must now beg leave to inform you that Captain Nealson, nor no man or thing but your own conduct, could alter us from you, which we did not approve of, & we have already wrote you so, & your Letter in answer dis not alter Our mind. As you put our sending the Prince of Wales to Cadiz on a footing we did not expect, we have wrote our Mr. Thomas Greg to agree for your part with you when she begun to fit out for that Voyage, & if you accept of the sum we offer, as soon as you advise of it, your money shall be remitted, She arrived safe Four days agoe. How the Voyage will turn out is uncertain, as what she has brought is chiefly Fruit which is a very uncertain Sale. We cant see what you are affraid of being wronged in. We shall in all things act agreeable to the Character of Merchants. If Captain Nealson approves of the sum charged him, your account will be as stated by you. Your advice is false. Tea was noi higher then 6s per pound, & from that to 5s since the Prince of Wales arrived, & it is just as False about Powder. The price is now, & has been for Six Months past, from £10 to £12 per Hundredweight. We shall remmit your money as you direct, as we come in Cash. We shall give Mr. Greg advice how we imploy the Prince of Wales that if you & he dis not agree, he may advise you. Annexed you have the prices of goods. G&C Martinico 1st Clayed Sugars, 66 per pound St. Domingo ditto, 51/2 per pound ditto Coffee, 81/2 per pound lartinico ditto, 9 per pound Martinico Cotton, 17 per pound ditto Cocoa, 8 per pound per Capt. Cunningham per Capt. McCalmont |
