Nathan Trotter and Company records

Scope and Contents Volume containing invoices of trunks, Russian linen, woolens, and other dry goods, steel, tin plate, and lead shipped from Britain by commission agents including William & John Walker, Pieschell and Brogden, and Capper Startin & Co. to Joseph Sansom, dated 1798-1803. Sansom ordered steel manufactured by T. Crowley & Millington. There are also accounts of cash sales of copper and steel by Nathan Trotter & Co., 1815-1819, and copies of letters from Nathan Trotter & Co. to...

Scope and Contents Volume containing copies of letters from Joseph Sansom & William Trotter, dated 1799-1804, to British merchants such as Thompson & Lee, Pieschell and Brogden, Capper, Perkins & Whitehouse, and Capper Startin & Co., regarding orders and shipments of steel, lead, leathers and skins, dry goods and other merchandise, pricing, damaged cargo, insurance, credit and remittance, and quality of and demand for steel manufactured by T. Crowley & Millington. Sansom and his wife Beulah...

Scope and Contents Primarily a letter book of William Trotter concerning his import business, dated 1802-1807, as well as ledger entries dating from 1798 to 1808. Included are accounts of his partnership with Joseph Sansom, adventures to China by the ships Pigou and Delaware, an adventure to Alexandria, Ephraim Haines, Hannah Baker, William Sansom, Jane Owen, Rebecca Jones, Jane Larymore (Laremore), Henry Pratt, and Samuel Volans; and entries for bonds and notes payable and receivable, interest, cash,...

Scope and Contents 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...

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Volume of factory expenses recorded by William Trotter after the arrival in Canton, China, of the ship Pigou in 1796, primarily provisions like food, beverages, wood, and candles, and servants' wages. There are also accounts of the expenses of the Pigou at Whampoa and supplies for the ship and her crew received by the factory comprador (agent).

Scope and Contents Contains papers of the estate of cabinetmaker Josiah Elfreth (1759-1793), including tax bills, and accounts of carpentry and making furniture like a walnut tea table and coffins, and repairing a clock case, dated 1787-1793. There is also a list of debts due to the estate from Dr. Caspar Wistar (1761-1818), Rachel Drinker, Samuel Noble, and William Jackson, among others. Elfreth, the son of Hannah Trotter (1728-1791) and Philadelphia goldsmith Jeremiah Elfreth (1723-1765), died from yellow...

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Contains letters to William Trotter from his brother-in-law Ephraim Haines and his father, cabinetmaker Daniel Trotter (1747-1800), dated 1779-1797, concerning family illnesses and the Philadelphia yellow fever outbreak. Daniel Trotter also writes about news of the return of friends and associates to Philadelphia during the election of 1797, including William Sansom and Captain Bethell.

Scope and Contents Contains records related to Calcutta and Canton voyages of the ships Delaware and Pigou and the schooner Ann Eliza's venture to the West Indies, dated 1798-1807. Included is an account of investments by William Trotter and Waddell & Wharton in the Pigou's third Canton voyage and profits on imports of teas, silks, umbrellas, fans, sugar, and chinaware. There is also a copy of an April 1807 order of insurance to Phoenix Insurance Company President David Lewis, initialed by William Trotter,...

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Contains letters to William Trotter from his brother Joseph, regarding the Philadelphia yellow fever outbreak of 1797, and from his father-in-law Moses Kempton in 1801 regarding family news.

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Contains accounts, receipts, and bills to William Trotter for dry goods, feathers, trunks, and umbrellas, and medical bills from Isaac Cathrall (1764-1819) and Benjamin Budd for attendance, inoculation, and vaccination, dated 1797-1801.

Scope and Contents Waste book kept by William Trotter in Philadelphia from 1797 to 1805, with entries related to voyages to China by the ships Pigou and Delaware, and the ship Asia's voyage to Batavia, investments by Trotter, William Sansom, Ephraim Haines, and Daniel Trotter, and profits and losses from the adventures. Included are copies of agreements with William Sansom and accounts of a partnership with Joseph Sansom. An account against an adventure of the Pigou to China in June 1798 concerns salvage...

Scope and Contents Daybook of William Trotter recording sales of general merchandise, primarily dry goods, steel, and tin plate imported from Great Britain, profits and losses, accounts of stock, bonds, notes, and bills of exchange, insurance and shipping costs, and other payments and expenses of the business of Trotter and Joseph Sansom, dated 1799-1800. Names in the volume include William Sansom, Trotter & Haines, Benjamin Chamberlain, London merchants Capper Startin & Co., Jane Taylor, Newberry...