Letter, from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, March 1759

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Letter, from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, March 1759

Description

Letter regarding tobacco sales.

Creator

Capel & Osgood Hanbury

Source

Fields, Joseph E. 'Worthy Partner': The Papers of Martha Washington. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994

Publisher

Greenwood Press

Date

1759-03

Contributor

Joseph E. Fields, editor

Language

eng

Type

Published version of manuscript document

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Fields, Joseph E. 'Worthy Partner': The Papers of Martha Washington. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

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Custis Papers, Virginia Historical Society

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London, March 1759

To Martha Custis; To charges on seventeen Hogsheads of Tobacco received p The (missing) Colony of Virginia.

(Summary) 13701 Pounds of tobacco were sold to five buyers for £7113..4..6. Expenses of subsidies, freight, duties, primage and petty charges, entry inwards, bond bill money, lander's fee, cooperage, cartage and warehouse room, brokerage, shipping charges, porterages, wharfage, lighterage, postage of letters, and commission totaled £251:8:8 The Net proceeds were £461:2:8.

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Capel & Osgood Hanbury, "Letter, from Capel & Osgood Hanbury, March 1759," in Martha Washington, Item #377, https://marthawashington.us/items/show/377 (accessed April 6, 2021).