H&H_1778_830101

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Marginalia: January 1st 1783

Folio:

First Name	Last Name	Date	Dr/Cr	Entry	Same Entry	Names/Places	Journal Folio Reference	Folio Reference	Money Type 1	Colony_1	Pound_1	Shilling_1	Pence_1	Comments
	Charges of Merchandize [Merchandise]	1783-01-01	Debit	To Cash paid Thomas Ashford for bringing home a stray horse	false	true	272	304	Currency	Virginia	3
William	Hunter	1783-01-05	Debit	To Crop Tobacco, 11 hhds [hogsheads] visit last year 11603 Ntt [Net]	false	false	214	322
	Ship Genl [General] Washington	1783-01-05	Debit	To Cash paid Thomas Lawson for 818 lb [pound] Ball [Balance] omitted June 15th 1778 p [per] Rut [...] & _A..._	false	true	219	304	Currency	Virginia	8	3	7
	Merchandize [Merchandise]	1783-01-05	Debit	To Cash paid Uriah Blue for 10 Casks flour 2069 lb [pounds] @ [at] 12/ & Cask 2/ each	false	true	302	304	Currency	Virginia	13	6	7
	Cash	1783-01-05	Debit	To Merchanize [Merchandise], 1 ps [piece] Linnen [linen] sold L Zimmerman 20 Ells a [at] 3/6	false	true	304	302	Currency	Virginia	3	10
Thomas	Moxly [Moxley]	1783-01-07	Debit	To Cash	false	false	285	304	Currency	Virginia	5
	Cash	1783-01-07	Debit	To John Gretter	false	true	304	230	Currency	Virginia	2	9	4
	Allison & Ramsay	1783-01-07	Debit	P [per] M [Mister] W [William] Ramsay [Ramsey] To Merchandize [Merchandise], 1 Tierce 58 Gallons Mollasses at 6/ [per gallon]	false	true	275	302	Currency	Virginia	17	8
	Port Tobacco Store	1783-01-07	Debit	To Merchandize [Merchandise], 5 Tierces Mollases 490 Gallons a [at] 6/ [per gallon];	false	false	264	302	Currency	Virginia	147
	Port Tobacco Store	1783-01-07	Debit	[To Merchandise] 2 ditto [Tierces] _Taffia_ 111 Gallons a [at] 5/ [per gallon]	false	false	264	302	Currency	Virginia	27	15
	Port Tobacco Store	1783-01-07	Debit	[Subtotal]	false	false	264	302	Currency	Virginia	174	15
Thomas & Wm [William]	Clagett	1783-01-07	Debit	To Crop Tobacco, 18 hhds [hogsheads] Lent you 18,313 Ntt [Net]	false	false	130	322
	Warehouse & Wharf	1783-01-07	Debit	To W. [William] Hartshorne, _2m_ 8d [pennyweight] nails [at] 21/	false	true	284	271	Currency	Virginia	2	2
	Baltimore Galley	1783-01-07	Debit	To Merchandize [Merchandise], 6 Bolts Sail Cloth	false	false	307	302	Currency	Virginia	60
	Baltimore Galley	1783-01-07	Debit	To Allison & Ramsay, 3 Bolts Duck 9L [pounds]	false	true	307	275	Currency	Virginia	27
	Baltimore Galley	1783-01-07	Debit	[To Allison & Ramsay] 3 ps [pieces] Ravens do [duck] 7L [pounds]	false	true	307	275	Currency	Virginia	21
	Baltimore Galley	1783-01-07	Debit	[To Allison & Ramsay] 8 ps [pieces] R [Russia] fhelting 7L [pounds]	false	true	307	275	Currency	Virginia	56			Looked at Day Book and entry has clearer words https://fromthepage.com/display/display_page?page_id=33099335
	Baltimore Galley	1783-01-07	Debit	[Subtotal]	false	false	307		Currency	Virginia	104
RT [Robert Townsend]	Hooe	1783-01-07	Debit	To Jesse Taylor for Sundries as p [per] Bill	false	true	268	320	Currency	Virginia	13	10	2
John	Gretter	1783-01-08	Debit	To H [Household] Expences [Expenses] 54.5 lb [pounds] Tallow [at] 2/ [shillings per pound]	false	true	230	296	Currency	Virginia	5	9
	House Expences [Expenses]	1783-01-08	Debit	To John Gretter 6 lb [pounds] candles a [at] 2/3; 1 Turkey [at] 3/4 ; 2 Ducks _w_ 9d [pence]	false	true	296	230	Currency	Virginia		18	4
Gerard T. [Tramel]	Conn	1783-01-11	Debit	To Merchandize [Merchandise] 21 Bushells Salt a [at] 30/ [shillings per bushell]	false	false	324	302	Currency	Virginia	31	10
	H [Household] Furniture	1783-01-11	Debit	To Cash paid Valantine Uhler his bill of sadlers work p [per] Act [Account] filed & rect [receipt]	false	true	295	304	Currency	Virginia	1	7	6
James	Adam	1783-01-11	Debit	P [per] Allison & Ramsay To George Gilfrin 20 Barrells [Barrels] Flour 4054 lb [pounds] a [at] 12 / and Cask 2/	false	true	195	303	Currency	Virginia	26	6	5.75
James	Adam	1783-01-11	Debit	P [per] Allison & Ramsay To G [Gerard] T [Tramel] Conn, 50 barrells do [flour] 9841 Nett [Net] at 12/ & Cask 2/	false	true	195	324	Currency	Virginia	64		11
James	Adam	1783-01-11	Debit	[Subtotal]	false	false	195		Currency	Virginia	90	7	4.75
	Cash [Account]	1783-01-11	Debit	To James Adam in full	false	true	304	195	Currency	Virginia		9	8
	Cash [Account]	1783-01-11	Debit	To W. [William] Hunter	false	true	304	214	Currency	Virginia	3	10
	Cash [Account]	1783-01-11	Debit	To M [Michael] Thorne	false	true	304	242	Currency	Virginia	8	2
	Cash [Account]	1783-01-11	Debit	To Jesse Taylor	false	true	304	320	Currency	Virginia	6
	Cash [Account]	1783-01-11	Debit	[Subtotal]	false	true	304		Currency	Virginia	18	1	8

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Lisa2Lancaster 2 months ago

Line 16 - Raven's Duck is a high quality sailing cloth https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raven%27s_duck#:~:text=Noun,kind%20of%20high%2Dquality%20sailcloth.
"According to Fairchild’s Dictionary of Textiles, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, when sailcloth was imported it would be trademarked for positive identification. “The light flax sail fabrics imported mostly from England and Scotland
bore the trademark stencil of a raven [commonly referred to as ravens duck at
the time] while the heavier weights bore the trademark picturing a duck.” ...... The opening of the American Revolution put an end to the plentiful
importation of duck through the usual British sources, however Holland and
Russia duck was aggressively smuggled into the colonies through clandestine
channels
http://npshistory.com/publications/sama/newsletter/v7n4.pdf

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