Box 2

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Contains receipts, invoices, and accounts for goods traded by Samuel Coates, including linseed oil, cotton, flour, and calfskin.. Included is an invoice for legal services for a federal case Coates was involved in related to the cargo of the sloop Merrimack, and an account of the costs associated with legal action related to Gould's island and recovering a deed for "Smith's shop," and the settlement of an account between Samuel Coates and Coates & Randolph.

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Contains receipts and invoices for goods bought and sold by Samuel Coates, including flour, iron, rum, and barley. There are several accounts with women: from Catharine Roberts, Coates bought red clover seed, and Elizabeth Allen billed him for linen, silk and ribbon, and making a bonnet. There is also a charter party for the brigantine Polly of Newburyport, which sailed from Bordeaux, France, to Philadelphia, signed by the captain, Samuel Chandler.

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Contains bills, receipts, and invoices for goods traded and auctioned by Samuel Coates, including salmon, rum, and molasses. Goods he purchased included linseed oil. There is also an agreement between Samuel Coates, Thomas Eddy, and Moses Gale that the cargo of the ship Sally will be jointly owned by Eddy and Gale and an insurance subscription of Coates in account with Wharton & Lewis. Also includes a promissory note to his sister-in-law Rachel Saunders for seventy-five pounds.

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Contains receipts, bills, and invoices for purchases by Samuel Coates, for freighting goods from Newburyport, Massachusetts, and for wharfage and piloting fees.. Commodities dealt with included beef, nankeen (yellow cloth bought from Elizabeth Allen), and corn meal. There is also a customs document for goods transported to Philadelphia on the ship Sally, bills for piloting the Sally from Cape May, New Jersey, to Philadelphia, and several promissory notes signed by Coates.

Scope and Contents: Contains receipts, bills, invoices, and accounts for commodities traded by Samuel Coates, including gin, cotton, tea, and bread. There is also an inventory of the ship Sally, docked at a wharf owned by the firm Sweetman & Rudolph in Philadelphia and an accounting of business transactions with Coates and Randolph over many years. There are also bills for books bought at auction by Coates, an account of Samuel Coates with the estate of Joseph Saunders, and for boarding, medical care,...

Scope and Contents: Contains bills, invoices, and receipts for items traded by Samuel Coates including sugar, beer, and candles There are also several invoices for carpentry work done by the firm of Hatcher & Johnson at Coates' brewery, and from Paul & Christopher Mitchell for supplying labor and freighting goods from Nantucket, Massachusetts to Philadelphia. Additionally, there is an account with the owners of the ship Hope with Susannah Wiser, for sundry disbursements to the 130 passengers and...

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Contains accounts, invoices, and receipts for expenses related to shipping and purchase of various commodities by Samuel Coates. Included are accounts of the expenses of the ship Sally and wharfage bills; accounts of Coates & Randolph; protests lodged by Samuel Chandler, master of the brigantine Polly, as well as an affidavit and invoice related to the ship's damaged cargo after she arrived in Philadelphia from Bordeaux, France.

Scope and Contents: Contains bills, receipts, and invoices for commodities traded by Samuel Coates including flour, candles, vinegar, and sheeting. There is also an account between Coates' friend, Stephen Girard and Samuel Chandler, master of the brig Polly, which freighted goods from Bordeaux, France, to Philadelphia. Some of the records reflect transactions Coates made on behalf of the Pennsylvania Hospital. There are additionally bills from Elizabeth Allen for boarding Rebecca Vicary, charges for mending...

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Contains bills, invoices, and receipts to Samuel Coates for goods and services, customs inspections, and insurance. There are also accounts of goods shipped aboard the schooner Stork and related to Samuel Coates' brew house, and a bill of exchange.

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Contains a mixture of business and personal bills, invoices, and receipts from Samuel Coates to others for goods and services, and bills paid by Coates for services including freighting goods. There is also correspondence from merchants in Amsterdam to Philadelphia merchant John Pemberton (1727-1795) and insurance bills for various vessels.

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Contains invoices and accounts current of Samuel Coates, as well as correspondence from an Amsterdam firm to Philadelphia merchant John Pemberton (1727-1795) primarily related to accounts outstanding and the export of goods.

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Contains bills and receipts of Samuel Coates for purchasing commodities like barley, knives, flour, linen, and books, and for wharfage and freighting goods. There is also an invoice for items shipped to Coates on consignment including oranges, sherry, and copper, a bill from Elizabeth Allen for assorted fabrics, and promissory notes.

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Contains invoices and receipts goods and services traded by Samuel Coates, including corn, cheese, linseed oil, carpentry, and piloting ships. There is also an account of goods Coates shipped to Newburyport, Massachusetts, on the schooner Amy, including flour, corn, and cider.

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Contains bills, invoices, and receipts for goods and services sold to Samuel Coates. Coates also paid for inward pilotage and wharfage for the ship Rebecca, and for freighting beef from Newburyport, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Two Brothers.

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Contains bills, receipts, and invoices for goods traded and freighted by Samuel Coates, including cider and nails shipped aboard the sloop Two Brothers. There is also a bill from physician William Brown for medical attendance to passengers on the schooner Amy, bound to Philadelphia from Saint-Barthélemy.

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Contains bills, receipts, and invoices of Samuel Coates. Included are accounts current with other merchants and accounts of sales of goods shipped from Newburyport, including rum and beef. Also included are bills of exchange and promissory notes.

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Contains bills, receipts, invoices, promissory notes, and bills of exchange, several of which document Samuel Coates' association with Newburyport, Massachusetts, ship captain Ralph Flanders, merchant Moses Brown, and others. There are several invoices to Coates for services like mending tubs and buckets, and cleaning watches and repairing clocks, as well as an invoice for bookkeeping materials he bought, including a cash book, daybook, ledger, and letter book.