| Description | Copy letter to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Daniel Henry Smith, Madeira, regarding bills and orders, now allowed to import whole casks, thanking for flour and wheat, flour bags old and rotten and have tainted the flour, new development of growing Indian corn in Poland, shortage of staves because of American embargoes, Hamburg ones are expensive but would like ones from Danzig, Stettin or Colberg, they are best bought at the beginning of the year, thanking for garden seeds, dealings with a French Indiaman which paid for wine with wheat, flour, Swedish iron, cordage, chinaware, India goods, tea, refined saltpetre, etc., prospect of doing business with Berthons in London and Madeira, agreed prices of wine for the year, repeat of governor’s order for dogskins and a copper ‘kitchen’, list of bills, 15 June 1776: Letter to Alexander Gordon, Letterfourie, from his brother James, London, regarding his anxiety when he does not hearfrom Alexander for a while, accounts, loss of the Elizabeth Peddie taking wine to Jamaica though the wine is said to be saved, which is confusing the insurance claim, ten West Indiamen have been taken by American privateers, has not the patience to comment on politics but encloses the Gazette with ‘the last authentic news from Staten Island close by New York’, 19 August 1776 |