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Reel 88-3426 R-496

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Sales of rum, also sugar, wood, molasses, chocolate, etc.; Payments in days' work, etc., 1777-1780 Digital

Item — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: Mss:766 1754-1898
Scope and Contents: Daybook of sales of rum, molasses, clove water, sugar, coffee, wood, indigo, flour, salt, cotton, rice, glass, and other goods, by John Heard in 1777-1780, sometimes paid in barter of labor or service, and accounts related to building, outfitting, and purchasing shares in privateers. Entries include Comeno Morris, who worked on a new schooner in 1779, John Lakeman, merchant and shipowner William Dodge, shopkeeper Dummer Jewett, Jacob Manning, Henry Spiller, Francis Hovey, sailor William...