Correspondence, 1799 March-June Digital

Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory to merchants, agents, and ship captains, dated March-June 1799. Correspondents include Ebenezer Stocker, to whom Amory wrote about coppering a schooner and Russian entry into the War of the Second Coalition, as well as sending a small undefended schooner with cocoa to the Bay of Biscay in the Celtic Sea; Amory recommended avoiding the route if no protection from the United States Navy or Marine Cutters were available, and selling the cargo in Boston. Letters also discuss trade and consignment of commodities like brandy, guns, molasses, and pot ash, prices current of sugar, coffee, and cotton, and charter of vessels to England. Other correspondents include Boston merchant Stephen Higginson (1743-1828), from whom he requested a Bristol pale beer "suitable for the Spanish and W. India market on a/c of Capt. Stocker and myself"; Canadian firm Forsyth Smith & Co., which he asked to provide the price he could get for Tenerife Barilla in Ireland; and American naval agent Jacob Sheafe (1745-1829), regarding payment for an anchor.