Peace Dale Manufacturing Company records

Scope and Contents This volume contains entries for four different businesses. Trenton Mills, November 1, 1742-April 6, 1744; I.P. & R.G. Hazard, October 18, 1825-November 28, 1828; R.G. Hazard & Co.-A, January 1829-January 19, 1839; and Peace Dale Store, September 27, 1836-March 23, 1839.Entries of Trenton Mills, dated from 1742 to 1744, include an account of wheat brought to the mill, charges for grinding wheat and sales of bran, buckwheat, flour, corn, and beans, and orders placed and...

Scope and Contents Volume containing an account of the estate of Joseph Peace, 1758-1768; an expense account of the estate of John Maydwell, 1760; memorandum of accounts of the children of Joseph Peace, August 15, 1785; and Peace Dale Store daybook B, June 1, 1824-October 19, 1825. There are additionally daybook entries for a Trenton general store, dated 1759-1777; it is unclear if the proprietor was related to the Maydwell or Peace families. An account against Thomas Marriott contains charges for supplies and...

Scope and Contents This volume contains entries for two different business entities: Sampson Neyle, Charleston, S.C. daybook, November 4, 1761-June. 13, 1781; Thomas R. Hazard (R.I.) daybook, December 11, 1822-Sept 27, 1825. The volume endpaper and flyleaves contain drawings of human heads, and inscriptions by Thomas R. Hazard.The daybook kept by South Carolina merchant and planter Sampson Neyle from November 1761 to 1781 contains records of the Cape Good Hope and Washo rice plantations in Charles...

Scope and Contents Daybook of Rowland Hazard containing entries for general merchandise sales in Charleston, and accounts related to shipping and trade of cheese, indigo, spermaceti, rice, oats, salt, rum, and tobacco, on the sloop Friendship and schooner Fatigue. Expenses included draying, shipping, and coopering merchandise for Thomas Hazard and others, and charges for commissions. Among the names of merchants, customers, and associates in the volume are other Hazard family members, Ayrault & Winthrop,...

Scope and Contents Daybook of containing accounts of West Indies voyages financed by Peter Ayrault, Joseph Winthrop, and Rowland Hazard and trade of tobacco, nankeens, coffee, rum, whale oil, salt, sugar, and lumber. Among the vessels referenced are the sloops Laura, Maryland, and Martha, ships Canton and William, and schooner Hibernia. The volume contains some loose material, such as a bond of Ayrault and Winthrop to pay duties on goods imported on the sloop Martha from Cap-Français in 1799. Expenses related...

Scope and Contents Journal corresponding to Volume 5, Hazard and Ayrault Daybook, and Volume 47-1, Hazard, Robinson & Co. Ledger C. Entries relate to coastwise and West Indies shipping and retail and consignment sales of oil, rice, rum, coffee, beef, Russia duck, flour, nankeens, sides of leather, tobacco, indigo, and lumber. Vessels referenced are the ship William, which sailed to Newport, sloop Laura, ships Canton, William, Fox, and Hibernia, and the brig Success. Names and partnerships in the volume...

Scope and Contents Accounts of cordage sales and expenses of the ropewalk operated by Isaac Peace and William Greenwood in Charles Town (Charleston), South Carolina, dated 1778-1780, and ledger entries dated 1820-1826 of I.P. Hazard and Rowland G. Hazard. Peace and Greenwood supplied cordage to captains and owners of privateers and merchant vessels during the Revolutionary War, such as the brigs Ann, Balona, Washington, and Fair American, sloop Mercury, and ships Telemicus and Hope. Names in the...

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Primarily a ledger of I.P. & R.G. Hazard, dated 1822-1824, with a few accounts of Isaac Peace and the front and end of the volume, dated from 1779 to 1785. Included are store and ropewalk accounts related to slave labor. Accounts to James Neilson from Peace reflect shared costs of “Negro tools” for the ropewalk, and charges for medical care and burying an enslaved person who died. There are also invoices of rum, beef, and coffee purchased by Peace.

Scope and Contents Ledger of Hazard, Robinson & Co., dated 1794-1796, related to coastwise and West Indies shipping and retail trade in Charleston. There is an index to individuals, businesses, vessels, voyages, and types of accounts at the front of the volume. Included are accounts of an adventure of the sloop Maryland to Petit-Goâv, Haiti, commissions, customhouse bonds, rice, bills and notes, and some loose accounts and statements laid in, such as disbursements on the sloop New York Packet. Among the...

Scope and Contents Ledger of Hazard, Robinson & Co., dated 1794-1796, related to shipping and consignment sales; and a ledger of I.P. & R.G. Hazard with textile accounts and schedule of Negro cloth deliveries to Southern plantations, dated 1837-1840 The Hazard Robinson & Co. accounts reflect commissions earned on goods shipped to Charleston from various merchants, such as James Robinson, William Rotch, Aaron Sheffield, Robert Sheffield, John Stanton, Joshua Paine, John Corlis & Co., Sylvanus...

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Invoices of rice, indigo, tobacco, brandy, rum, staves, pork, Spermaceti candles, gunpowder, oil, soap, shoes, sides of leather, and other cargo shipped by Hazard Robinson & Co. from Charleston to Providence, Newport, Philadelphia, New York, Europe, and the West Indies. Accounts also include imported dry goods like Irish linen and Harlem stripes, printed cottons, Romal handkerchiefs, and scarlet cassimere.

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Invoices of rice, tobacco, flour, rum, indigo, and dry goods shipped to coastal American ports, the West Indies, and Europe from Charleston by Hazard & Ayrault.

Scope and Contents Volume containing records of two separate enterprises, the Charleston commission business of Peter Ayrault and Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. The first part of the book comprises sales of goods consigned to Ayrault and accounts of slave trade, dated 1800-1816. The second part of the volume consists of Peace Dale Manufacturing Co. cotton orders and baling book entries, dated 1837-1856. Ayrault acted as an agent for Joseph Lee of Philadelphia, Eleazer Shearman of Newport, Brown Benson &...

Scope and Contents Isaac Peace store, October 3, 1785-March 4, 1788; Rolls delivered, August 4, 1819-October 2, 1819; Weaving, 1820; Labor time, 1824.The Isaac Peace records contain cash received for general store merchandise like shoes, duffle blankets, and dry goods, and cash paid out for shipping expenses, freight of iron, and drayage of loads of Negro cloth and salt. Peace also paid B. Guerard on account of his bills of exchange, rented the cellar of Mary Verree, and bought a house and lot at...

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Rowland Hazard’s cash accounts related to wholesale trade and consignment sales of oats, cheese, potatoes, sugar, and other produce, profit and loss, and general business expenses. Includes accounts with merchant John G. Mayer, who purchased merchandise like apples, oats, and planks; and Jack Sanford, “servant man,” who received cash for a medical bill and bought dry goods

Scope and Contents Includes copies of letters from Isaac Peace to John Wakefield, Jr., his partner in real estate investments, Joshua Byron and William Simmons of Philadelphia, lawyer Benjamin Jacobs of Trenton, Rowland Hazard, Kirk & Lukens, and Thurston F. King of New York. The volume contains an index to recipients with topics and dates of each letter. The correspondence covered shipping and international trade, domestic business affairs, politics, public finance, and personal matters. Peace wrote to...