| Description | Copy letters to James Gordon of Letterfourie, London, from Madeira, the first from James Duff regarding shipping news, George Addams’ bill, Ogilvie is to buy his wine from Searle and Ahmuty, agreed a deal with ‘Morisey a young Lad that lived with Ayres and is called his nephew but now set up for himself in company with one Phelps’, Ogilvie’s deal for wine and wheat, sales of various commodities, sightings of a privateer, 23 January 1777; the second from Daniel Henry Smith regarding import of wheat, business with Captain Watt, business looking dull, dispatch of ordered wine, gossip about other businesses, complaints of Captain Ogilvie, problems shipping citron, glad to hear of British successes in America, uneasy at news of unknown vessel near the island, hoping that the battles at sea will soon be over, fight between packet people and boatmen on the beach, some chance of good wine, no room to ship all the wine destined for India, good price for herrings, asking for stock for a shop for Manoel Moniz de Sa, 6 February 1777; the third from Daniel Henry Smith regarding shipping movements, ‘Yesterday appeared off this port an American built vessel partly rigged as a Brig and partly as a Schooner, as most people understood that it was the same pirate that has plagued us since January Captain Murray went out after her’, account of battle between them, 9 March 1777 |