Didier Collection, 1809-1817, MS. 295

Descriptive Summary

Flour

Wheat

HHds. Tobacco

Bbls. Tar

Flax Seed

Hogshead staves

Logs Pine Timber

Rice

Ashes

Clover Seed

Hides

Querciton Bark

Casks Bees' Wax

Rosin

Pitch

Pipe staves

Barrel Staves

Each product is broken down to show all charges included, i.e.:

Insurance

Freight

Duty, Town - Trade

Dock dues

Cartage

Canvas and Twine

Rent

Interest on charges

Insurance from fire

Commission

Risk of Debts

Porterage

Shows four points in South Carolina and three in Georgia where Sea Island Cotton came from.

Interest statement on sales, February 4, 1817.

List of Port Charges at Liverpool on an American Vessel of 400 Tons Register. In addition to those shown in part 2, these are:

Mates and masters - bond and certificate

Measurement certificate

Anchorage

Clearances

Fees to officers

Refreshments to waiters

Lights

Filotage out and in and charges for extra lay over days (demurage).

Charges for shipping goods:

Dock Duty and Town Duty on a cask; barrell; case; trunk; nails; crates, and also for cartage and porterage.

Page of storage charges.

City of Baltimore - Rates of Storage and merchants' commissions on a long list of commodities.

Under heading Outfits and Disbursements Lists nine vessels; shows size of crew; where from and where to; rig and tonnage; amounts of disbursements and insurance; duration of voyage. (Includes the schooners Stafford and James Monroe; and the ships: Aristides, Balloon, and Congress.)

A list of forty-eight items making up vessels' disbursements.

At this point the book reverses itself.

Shows list of six ports for shipping Chinese tea.

1806 List of Merchants at Bordeaux (73).

Officers of Bordeaux Customs House and their salaries.

Pro forma charges on:

Logs of Mahogany

Seroon of Cochineal

Seroon of Indigo

[UNK] of elephants' teeth

Bags of Cocoa

Bales Louisiana Cotton

Barrels Cod Oil

Chest Hyson Tea

Cask of Roucou [Rocou]

Hogsheads of Querciton bark

Hogsheads of Sugar

Hundreds of Coffee

Bags of Coffee

Tons of Log wood

Quintal of codfish

Bale Deer skins

Barrels of potash

Bags of Pepper

Hogsheads Tobacco

Tierces of Rice

Ox hides

Barrels Bees' Wax

Bale of Nankeen

Barrels of Gum

Tariff of Storage at Bordeaux - 22 items.

Brokerage, Duty, and Bank's Commission, Bordeaux.

Then in French, fifteen pages on charges at Bordeaux.

List of 1815 instructions, by dates, of American Rules on Shipping.

Richard H. Randall.