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Documents relating to Ferryland: 1597 to 1726
8 September 1648; David Kirke and Nicholas Shapley
Invoice of Goods shipped aboard the
DAVID of Ferryland...
Published in James P. Baxter, ed.,
Documentary History of the State of Maine, The Baxter Manuscripts, vol. 6
(Portland, Maine: 1900) 2-4. Revised by P.E. Pope.
QEII microfilm
Subjects: planters, ships, commerce, material culture, clothing.
Ferryland, the 8th September 1648
Invoice of Goods shipped aboard the
DAVID of Ferryland, Captain Nicholas Shapley Commander, for Accounts
of George Kirke Esq. and brothers
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£ s d |
| Inprimus. 13 butts [462 l. barrels]
of Madiera wines
5 butts of Canary [wine] valued at
£14 per butt one with another | } 252: 00: 00. |
| 6 hogsheads of sugar weighed net
2743 lbs valued at 12d per lb. is | } 137: 03: 00. |
| Canvas Vitry [cloth]:
7 pieces containing797 yards at 18d per yard is | 059: 15: 06. |
| 22 hundred [lengths]
2 lb....cordage at £2 per hundred is | 044: 10. 00. |
| 2 hundred 2 lb. wool is near
258 lbsvalued 18d per [lb.] is | 019: 17. 00 |
| Hogsheads valued at £2 10s is | 002: 10: 00 |
| Some 10 hogsheads of salt
valued at 10s per hogshead | 005: 00: 00 |
| 128 yards of Dowlas [coarse linen
cloth] valued at | 009: 12: 00 |
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120 [pieces of ] Virginia [tobacco]
at 3s per piece is | 018. 00. 00
547: 17: 06 |
| ...2 |
| A bill of debt due by Mr. Richard
Right of New England | } 020: 00: 00 |
| Per a bond of Derby Feild
to be received | 040: 17: 00 |
| By Mr Bruster for 12 pair of worsted
stockings at 8s per pair & one pair of
shoes: 5s which were not paid for
18 "Semakes" [smocks?] at
8s per | } 005: 01: 00 |
| 7 passengers | 613: 15: 06 |
David Kirke for my sons =
I, Captain Nicholas Shapley confess
to have received aboard the David of Ferryland the goods above
specified by particulars for the accounts of George Kirke Esquire &
brothers: for which I promise to do my best endeavour for the selling
of the said goods for them and to return the proceed of it at
Ferryland to the right worshipfull Sir David Kirke, knight, the next
spring, the danger of the sea excepted. Witness my hand, the
eleventh of September, 1648.
Deposed the 6th of November, 1649
before me,
Increase Nowell, secretary.
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