William Trotter account book, 1796-1806 Digital

Account book of William Trotter primarily related to shipping ventures and imports, dated 1796-1806. The volume contains records he kept as supercargo of the ship Pigou, owned by William Sansom, Mordecai Lewis, and Jesse & Robert Waln, on her voyages to Canton in 1796 and 1797. Included are freight lists; accounts of disbursements; factory expenses and payments to Aion, the factory comprador (agent), for provisions and servants' wages; invoices of return cargo of chinaware, assorted teas, and silks; accounts current of Lewis, the Walns, and Sansom with shipmaster Richard Dale, Trotter, and Henry L. Waddell, also a supercargo; and accounts current and invoices to other merchants, including Archibald McCatt, Joseph Sims & John Brown, John Morton & Richard Wells, William and Mary Montgomery, Robert Ralston, Elliston & John Perot, Joseph Sansom, Nicholas Gilman, and Pratt & Kintzing, for merchandise they ordered. There are also accounts of sales of lead and ebony exported from Philadelphia to hong merchant Mouqua. Additionally contains invoices of goods like steel and tin plate imported from Great Britain by Trotter in 1803-1804, and an 1805-1806 account of "Spring Invoices" of dry goods and commodities bartered with Davis & Haines.