Correspondence, 1798 December-1799 March Digital

Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory to merchants, agents, and ship captains, dated December 1798 to March 1799. Included are letters to Ebenezer Stocker about the hiring of a carpenter to build a ship Amory was financing with Perkins & Higginson, insuring mercantile voyages, and trade of commodities like salt; and letters to James Stewart & Co. and James Deering regarding the trade and costs of coffee, pot ash, and fish. To Jacob Sheafe (1749-1829), an American naval agent in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he writes about orders of anchors. In a letter to Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby (1739-1799), Amory reported the price of cannons, and wrote about his available inventory of shot and guns. Other topics include the endorsement of notes and the arrivals of various ships in Boston with imported cargo.