Enclosure: Invoice for Wine, 1 May 1805
Enclosure
Invoice for Wine
Postscriptum
at the moment of the departure of the vessel I have receiv’d the Note of the wine.—
| Pavolis. | |||||
| The Cost of the wine together with the transportation 120 miles by land |  |
642– | |||
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| the transportation from florence by the Arno, with porterage, bottling, Cases, Straw, Corks, ropes, transporting on board &ca. &ca. | |
.– | 241– | ||
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| for 473. black bottles | 243– | ||||
| Pavolis.– | 1126– | ||||
| Dollars | |||||
| N:B. 9. pavolis and a half make a Spanish dollar. the amt. in dollars.— | |
118.½– | |||
| which is precisely one quarter of a dollar each, including the bottle. | |
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RC (MHi); undated. FC (Lb in MB: Thomas Appleton Account Book); dated 6 Apr. 1805; with additional details, including the information that the wine was Montepulciano obtained from Chevalier Bucelli of Florence; notation at foot of text: “Cr. By a bill of excha. drawn by James Madison and endors’d to me by the President for 250. Doll on Liverpool, which I having sent for payment produced 260 Doll: 95 Cents.”
Pavolis: paolis were silver coins produced in Tuscany from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries ().