| Title: | Cunningham, Waddell to Barber, William, 1757 |
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| ID | 5568 |
| Collection | Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-1757 [T. Truxes] |
| File | gc/325 |
| Year | 1757 |
| Sender | Cunningham, Waddell |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | London, England |
| Recipient | Barber, William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 378 |
| Genre | business |
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| Transcript | To William Barber, London 18 January 1757 Sir: We are favourd with yours of the 9th October & observe the Contents. The Season was so far advanced when your goods arrived that one half of your Chints and Caligoes lyes on hand. We shall miss no opportunity to put them off in the Spring & close the sales as soon as in our power. What is sold is from 125 to 140 per Cent advance on your Invoice. There is not at present any Gum Seneca at market. French prise Indigo sells from 8/6 to 9s per pound & Bees Wax from 2/2 to 2/3 per pound, so that we coud not think it your Interest to Remit you in any of these Articles, which induces us to order our Thomas Greg of Belfast to remitt you in a bill of Exchange £140 Sterling. The present Exchange is 827; per Cent, £255 10s Curensy, to the Debt of your Account. This is all we are at Present in cash as expects to be soon on your account, but if from the prices of goods here you see any Article that has a prospect to answer, we wold be glad you wold advise and we shall ship it. You may ship on our Accounts by first Vessel bound here one hundred peces of Dark ground Chinee Catlicoes, the same you Charged al 2is per & Lett them be charged as cheap as you can and gett the Cost insured by good men. We dont chuse to take any Dry goods on Commission for these reasons, that the sale of them is verry uncertain & our Remittances must be slow, as we have no Customers that pays punctualy. This we know Cant be agreeable to Merchants at home who are not acquainted with things of the sort. We shall be glad to render you every Service in our Power. Exchange to London, 82V; per Cent 2[nd Martinico Clayed Sugars], 4 to 57: 1st Clayed St. Domingo Sugars, 5 to 6 2nd ditto, 4 to 5 Muscavado, 2 to 41/2 Cotton French, 16 to 17 ditto our islelanands,1 15 to 161/2 Cocoa, 9 Coffee Martinico. 81/2 ditto St. Domingo, 8 Log Wood, £12 per Ton per Capt. Callwell per Capt. Stewart |
