Enclosure: Packing List from John Barnes, 7 March 1809
Enclosure
Packing List from John Barnes
The following packages on Board the Sloop Rebecca for Richmond Jno Hall Master.
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One | Barrel Muscovado Sugar | Nt | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 2— | one | Ditto 15 loaves Single refd |  |
lbs | ozs | ||
| loaf Sugar | 219 | 13 | |||||
| 3— | one | Ditto 16 loaves Do Nt Wt | |||||
| 4— | one | Ditto containg tea Chest | |||||
| lbs | |||||||
| young Hyson tea | 13 | – | |||||
| one Bag fresh Rice | 25 | .– | |||||
| pearl Barley | 25 | .– | |||||
| Superfine Chocolate | 25 | .– | |||||
| Cloves | – | .4 oz | |||||
| Cinnamon | – | .4 oz | |||||
| Nutmegs | – | .4 oz | |||||
| Alspice | – | .8 oz | |||||
| peper | 1 | .– | |||||
| Mustard Bottles | 6 | – | |||||
| Water Crackers | 20 | ℔ | |||||
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lbs | ||||||
| 5 | one | half Cask fine cheese | 29½ | ||||
| ordinary do | 35 | ||||||
| 6 | Sqr Box Water Crackers | 22 ℔— | |||||
| George Town 7t March 1809. |
| J. Barnes. |
MS (ViU: TJP); in a clerk’s hand, with dateline and signature written lengthwise by Barnes in left margin; endorsed by TJ: “Barnes John groceries Mar. 09.”
A statement of account from Barnes to TJ, Georgetown, 3 Mar. 1809 (ViU: TJP), charged $152.91 for these goods, a lined keg, and one bushel of clover seed. The tea chest was there described as being “small Japoned.”
Index Entries
- allspice search
- barley; sent to TJ search
- Barnes, John; ships goods to TJ search
- cheese; fine search
- cheese; ordinary search
- chocolate search
- cinnamon search
- clover; seed search
- cloves search
- crackers search
- food; barley search
- food; cheese search
- food; chocolate search
- food; crackers search
- food; mustard search
- groceries; purchased by TJ search
- Hall, John (master of Rebecca) search
- household articles; tea chests search
- muscovado sugar search
- mustard; prepared search
- nutmeg search
- pepper; black search
- Rebecca (sloop); transports goods to Richmond search
- rice; TJ orders search
- spices; allspice search
- spices; black pepper search
- spices; cinnamon search
- spices; cloves search
- spices; nutmeg search
- sugar; loaf search
- sugar; muscovado search
- tea; chest search
- tea; Hyson search