Box 4

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Contains bills and invoices for commodities including molasses and candles, for outfitting the ship Rebecca, and an account between shipmaster Benjamin Lunt and Samuel Coates. There are also charges for maintenance on the brig William.

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Contains bills, invoices, and receipts for shipments of corn and flour on the schooner Hannah from Newburyport, Massachusetts, and salt, tin plates, and white lead imported from Liverpool, England, on the ship Rebecca. There are also promissory notes and an account of Coates & Randolph.

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Contains a manifest of goods and invoices of items shipped on the Rebecca from Liverpool, England, to Philadelphia, including salt, tin, coal, rum, brandy, and bales of cotton. Also included are bills and documents related to the voyage.

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Contains a doctor's bill for attendance aboard the ship Rebecca, receipts and invoices associated with items carried on the ship, a customs document, and shipping articles.

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Contains a customs document, invoices, and receipts for cargo aboard the ship Rebecca. The Rebecca transported goods like flour, beef, and cotton on the account of Samuel Coates. There is also an invoice for soap bought by Coates at auction.

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Contains an account of disbursements aboard the ship Rebecca, bound for Antwerp, Belgium, from Philadelphia, manifests of goods carried on her return voyage, including Flemish linen and muslin, and invoices of cargo, including one in French. There is also an invoice for rum, molasses, and barley shipped by William Wyer from Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Philadelphia, for consignment by Samuel Coates.

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Contains invoices and bills in English, French, and Dutch related to the voyage of the ship Rebecca from Antwerp, Belgium, to Philadelphia.

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Contains bills and invoices for the voyage of the ship Rebecca from Antwerp, Belgium, to Philadelphia, in English and French, and bills and invoices for cargo shipments from Newburyport, Massachusetts, and pilotage and wharfage fees.

Scope and Contents: Contains bills for wharfage and labor, including a survey of cargo from Antwerp, Belgium, aboard the ship Rebecca, addressed to Samuel Coates. There are also several freight lists for the ship Moses Brown, a bill to Samuel Coates for publishing notices of ships' voyages in the American Daily Advertiser, printed bonds of duties and a bill of exchange, and an account current between Rhode Island merchant and politician Jabez Bowen (1739-1815) and the Pennsylvania Hospital, which was settled by...

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Contains accounts current of Samuel Coates with merchants Thomas & William Stiles, an invoice for maintenance and repair of the ship Rebecca, a valuation of cargo, including muslin and linen, shipped on the vessel Rebecca from Antwerp, Belgium, to Philadelphia, and invoices related to shipments of beef, nails, and other commodities. There is also an inventory of parts of the ship William P. Johnson for sale.

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Contains bills and invoices to Samuel Coates for discharging the cargo of the ship William P. Johnson. There is also a notice to Coates regarding his election as a director of the Insurance Company of Pennsylvania.

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Contains bills and invoices to Samuel Coates and the owners of the ship William P. Johnson for labor, supplies, and outfitting the ship.

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Contains bills and invoices for stores of goods and medicines to for replacing the medicine chest, wharfage, and repairs, and a freight list, for the ship William P. Johnson. The ship's cargo included tea, sugar, coffee, and cotton. There is also a customs document and promissory notes.

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Contains invoices of items purchased from Samuel Coates, accounts current between Coates and other merchants for the freight of the William P. Johnson, lists of merchandise consigned to Coates, including currants and soap, shipped from Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Philadelphia aboard the brig Two Brothers, and promissory notes.

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Contains handwritten drafts of advertisements for mercantile voyages; bills of exchange; and invoices and bills for goods shipped to Philadelphia, for wharfage, and labor. Included is an invoice for gin transported from Newburyport, Massachusetts, merchant and ship owner David Coffin aboard the brig Mary to Samuel Coates for consignment.

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Contains invoices, bills, and a customs document related to the brig Two Brothers, as well as invoices for wharfage and labor on other ships. There is also correspondence from shipmaster Lemuel Pearson, who was stranded with the Two Brothers near Newcastle, England, because of a broken anchor, to Samuel Coates regarding repair of the anchor and advice on how to proceed with his goods in light of the Embargo Act of 1807.

Scope and Contents: Contains correspondence, invoices, and bills addressed to Samuel Coates Correspondence from shipmaster Lemuel Pearson, aboard the brig Two Brothers, in Newcastle, England, relates to a broken anchor he sent to Coates for repair, and whether Coates would advise him to discharge his pilot and crew while he waits for the repaired anchor. In a follow up letter, after Pearson received the anchor, he writes Coates about the provisions he will need to sail back to Philadelphia if the Embargo Act is...

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Contains bills to Samuel Coates for provisions, pilotage and labor aboard ships, and correspondence from shipmaster Lemuel Pearson.

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Contains bills and invoices to Samuel Coates for crew wages and provisions for the brig Two Brothers. There is also a handwritten draft of an advertisement of the sale of cargo from the schooner Parrott.