Identifier: campsfiresidesof0hart (find matches)
Title: Camps and firesides of the revolution
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Hill, Mabel, b. 1864
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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; about beforetwo or three hundred weight of opium ; one bale reachingpainted calicoes, &c. Which goods I have now on It snows how-board, far ships Sometime afterward I took on board seventy-five tn0^, d passengers, went to Port Dolphin, and there went and what ashore. I provisioned the ship and bought a few !lu-v brousht 1 ° home. negroes, and some pigs of tooth and cgi^. Tooth and From thence I went to Cyan and landed twenty- Egg:akind two passengers. The remainder are now on board otmeta-and most of them are bound for Virginia and Dela-ware with Andrew Graverard who is here with us. I have for their passages about twelve thousand Pieces of pieces of eight and about three thousand Lyon eig uea ., ° J Spanish dol- do liars. iar. 37 3 8 Highways and Byways (No. i3 My carpenter, the tailor, and one man more aredead. Thomas Pringle and three men more left meat Madagascar. If you think fit you may let mywife know of my arrival, for I have not written toher. C2otC*iC~l£)i*r*£ri^LJ
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A MKKCHANT SHU. Slaves. Captain Burges arrived at St. Maries the day Isailed from thence. He hath sold his goods verywell. No other vessel arrived while I was there. Ihave but twenty-three negroes on board for the benefitof the owners. Each bale of muslin one with the other I boughtfor one hundred pieces in a bale ; the calico for onehundred twenty pieces in a bale. I desire you tosend by the bearer to me at Cape May. Unless I no. i4) Fashions 3 9 should be stopped by contrary winds here, I shall bevery soon at Sandy Hook. Our ship is very foul andleaky. Make what dispatch you can for fear some ofmy passengers should betray us. I have hired Mr.Graverard on his voyage to Virginia to pilot us inhere, for which I must pay him. It is a dangerousplace and very foggy rainv weather. I think it needless to enlarge any more at present,but wish all were safe ashore. Then doubt not butthe voyage would prove satisfactory, which hath beenthe utmost care of Sir, Your Humble Servant, Giles Shelley.

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