Wool cloth represents a major import item in Maryland in the late colonial period. And like silks, outside
paintings, diaries, letters and newspaper advertisements, there is one
very good source which provides some insight into the variety of wool cloth
which was imported into Annapolis, Maryland in the late Colonial
period.
From
1771 to 1775, the Annapolis merchant firm of Wallace, Davidson &
Johnson imported wool cloth not only for their own store on the city dock in
Annapolis, but also for individual customers special orders as well as
other merchants doing business in other parts of the Province.
Below is a partial transcription of their order books, showing the wool cloth as well as when and for whom they were being ordered. Included are descriptions of type, color, amount, size and even price in many cases.
It is hoped that this will provide some interesting information for other researchers as well as reenactors and tailors.
(from Maryland State Archives, Chancery Court (Chancery Papers, Exhibits) Wallace, Davidson Johnson, Order Books, 1771/4/25-1775/11/16. MSA S 528-27/28)
Order Books
25 April 1771
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Woolings
15 ¼ ps broad cloth from
15/ to 19/.
8 patterns dies ingrain do
of 4 yds each
6 ¼ ps broad cloth from 6/
to 12/
½ ps drab for great coats
½ ps blue ditto
16 yds ditto 7/
16 cloth col ditto 7/
Best shalloon and trimmings
for the above
20 ps shalloon sorted
2 ps Welch cotton
6 ps match coat blanketing
6 ½ ps of jerman serge
1 ps coating
½ ps light colored do
½ ps scarlet do
2 ½ ps red flannel
3 ½ ps white do
½ ps very fine do
½ ps blue spotted do
½ ps red do
2 ½ embossed do
1 ps irish frize
½ ps very thick scarlet
milled flannel for jackets
1 ps Devonshire kersey 4/6
Trimmings for ditto
25 ps ½ thick sorted
4 ps French drab frize
sorted 2/8
16 yds green frize 8/.
16 yds blue do
3 ps bearskin sorted
16 yds scarlet duffel
3 ps green baze sorted
14 ps plains 17 yds each
20/.
6 ps mixt duffel 20/.
Shalloon & trimmings
Order Books
25 April 1771
For George Cook (Captain George Cook)
Woolen
4 yds superfine broadcloth
& trimmings
1 pattern of calico for
suit of curtains
1 ps rusha sheeting
1 ps irish linen 1/3
1 ps do 2/9
60 Ells oznabrigs
Order Books
25 April 1771
For David Love (Rector of All Hallows Parish)
A piece of (Amecan made
cloth) cloth to be died, fulled dressed & shearn
Order Books
4 August 1771
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
An assortment of summer
cloths with trimmings
Order Books
26 Nov 1771
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Cloths
A neat assortment of thin
summer cloths & stripped stuffs for waist coats with suitable trimmings
Woollens
½ ps raven gray cloth with
complete trimmings
1 ps plain white swanskin
1 ps checkered do
Order Books
20 March 1772
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Woollens
1 ps very fine blue coating
1 ps very fine red do
½ ps fine green do
½ ps light do
1 ps darker do
¼ ps buff fine do
3 half ps crimson do
½ ps fine green napt frize
¼ ps red do
¼ ps blue do
3 half ps different sorts
do
Buttons bindings and mohair
for above with shalloons
4 ps very thick red spotted
flannel
4 ps do blue spotted do
1 ps very fine red spotted
swanskin
1 ps blue do
1 ps fine white swanskin
1 ps very fine white
flannel
1 ps coarser do
1 ps do
1 ps do
1 ps do
2 ps embroidered serge
sorted
4 ps linsey wolsey do
½ ps very fine & thick
dble milled red flannel for mens waistcoats
½ ps buff do
1 ps very fine red flannel
1 ps coarser do
1 ps do do
If any thing newer send
some
1 ps fine green bays
1 ps coarser do
15 ps match coat blankets
17 blankets in a piece
3 ps of best white cotton @
1/6
3 ps ditto 1/5
3 ps ditto 1/4
2 ps ditto 1/3
2 ps ditto 1/2
3 ps green ditto some of
the best sort
2 ps blue ditto
1 ps fine white cotton not
napt 1/6
10 ps white kersey sorted
5 ps colored kersey sorted
6 ps coarse bearskin &
frizes sorted
4 ps forest cloths
2 ps hunters plaines
4 ps german serge sorted
1 ps black do
With shalloons buttons and
mohair for whole
12 ps blue half thick good
12 ps green do
3 ps gray do
1 ps gray fearnought
1 ps blue do
1 ps light do
1 ps superfine black cloth
½ ps black do 11/
¼ ps do do 8/
1 ps superfine raven do
½ ps do 11/
1 ps superfine white cloth
2 ½ ps very best blue cloth
3 ½ ps very best London
brown
2 ½ ps best gray cloth for
second mourning with best binding
½ ps stone colored
½ ps sky blue
½ ps very light mixt
5 ½ ps of the most
fashionable colors
10 patterns 4 yds each of
fashionable colors
½ ps scarlet cloth
1 ps blue drab half double
milled
1 ps brown do do
The above cloths of the
very best & all the fine colors in grain with plenty of shalloons &
trims of the best sort
3 ps best black shalloon
3 ps coarser do sorted
3 ps blue do sorted
2 ps white do do
2 ps best scarlet do
10 ½ ps second & third
cloths of best colors with shalloons & trim
2 bags deaths head black
coat buttons
3 bags small do
2 bags basket coat do
3 bags small do
2 bags small scarlet do
½ bag coat do
1 ps Devonshire kersey
6 doz shammy skins
¼ ps red cloth 11/
¼ ps green do 7/
½ ps light colored do for
chaise long 8/
Some slips velvets of the
most fashionable colors for capes
3 yds blue do for great
coats
1 ps glazed linen for
lining coat sleeves
6 ps plains sorted
Order Books
15 December 1771
For Roger Johnson (Brother of Joshua Johnson of Wallace Davidson & Johnson)
Clothes
1 suit superfine broadcloth
2 fashionable striped
summer waistcoats
2 pr breeches
1 blue Hussar coat
Order Books
28 December 1771
For James Edison
Clothes
1 suit superfine London
Brown broad cloth a 16/.
1 blue drab Hussar coat
2 fashionable striped
summer waistcoats
1 pr blue Manchester velvet
breeches
Irish Linen
1 ps Irish linen a 2/6
Stockings
½ doz pr brown thread hose
Order Books
26 September 1772
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Clothes
2 half pieces very best
London brown cloth
1 half piece best blue
ditto
1 half piece of French gray
ditto
12 patterns fashionable
colors in grain of the very best cloaths four of which to have embroidered
buttons. These shalloons & trimmings must be of the very best that can be
had & the buttons the most fashionable.
Order Books
24 October 1772
For Richard Tilghman Earle
(Store at Chester Mill, Queen Anne County, just east of present day
Centreville)
Woollens & Trimmings
4 patterns summer
broadcloth fashionable colors 4 yds each @ 14/ p yd
Twist silk and buttons to
match
½ tt scarf twist
1 tt good mohair
5 bags basket buttons cloth
colors
4 ps of shalloon to match
the cloths
Order Books
19 February 1773
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Woollens
5 patterns fashionable
cloth 4 yds each
3 do do 3 yds each
With best shalloons &
trimmings the cloth must be of the very best sort
8 yds fine buff cloth
½ ps best scarlet ditto
Order Books
24 May 1773
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Woollens
20 ps white negro cotton
sorted
15 ps half thick sorted
10 ps white kersey sorted
10 ps planes well sorted
6 ps gray fearnought
2 ps blue ditto
2 ps light ditto
15 ps match coat blanketing
sorted
1 ps very fine blue bath
coating
1 ps ditto light ditto
2 ps ditto brown ditto
sorted
½ ps ditto scarlet ditto
1 ps whetney
3 ps frizes sorted
3 ps bareskin sorted
3 ps narrow spotted
swanskin sorted
2 ps broad ditto
1 ps ditto white ditto
1 ps very fine white
flannel
1 ps coarser ditto
1 ps coarser ditto
1 ps red do ditto
1 ps fine red ditto
4 ps embossed serge sorted
4 ps linsey Woolsey sorted
1 ps green broad base
4 ps forest cloths sorted
3 ps brown german serge
sorted
2 ps blue ditto
2 ps light ditto
2 ½ ps blue drab @ 12/
2 ½ ps ditto 16/
½ ps ditto 20/
½ ps cloth colored ditto
12/
½ ps ditto ditto 16/
2 ½ ps brown cloth 16/
sorted
2 ½ ps brown ditto 17/
sorted
2 ½ blue ditto 17/ sorted
2 ½ ps stone ditto 17/
sorted
½ psvery light mixt ditto
17/
2 ½ ps grey ditto for
second mourning 17/ sorted
½ ps best scarlet ditto 21/
5 patterns fashionable
cloth 3 yards ea from 18/ to 20/
15 patterns ditto 4 yards
ea from 18/ to 20/
½ ps green ditto 19/
½ ps blue ditto 6/
½ ps ditto 8/
½ ps brown ditto 9/
½ ps light cloth ditto 8/
2 ps 7/8 frize one of them
dark
3 ps blue welsh cotton
3 ps green ditto
Complete trimmings very
well adapted for each of the above
Order Books
16 October 1773
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Woollens
2 ½ ps superfine London
cloth different shades with trimmings but a small proportion of shalloon as a
great part will be made up without lining
½ ps superfine black cloth
½ ps raven gray do
4 patterns very best cloth
with trimmings
2 Bags Fashionable Blk Dhd
Buttons
4 do small do
Order Books
17 October 1773
For Charles Carroll of
Carrolton (planter)
Woollens
1200 yds of best Welch
cotton at 16 ½
2 ps best green Peniston
2 ps of the finest stout
green German serge for servants livery
2 ps green shalloon for do
2 ps brown fustian for
servants frocks
1 ps brown Holland for
lining to do
12 yds best blue linsey
wolsey for gardiners aprons
(appears to now switch to
goods for his Elk Ridge Farm)
Woolens
1 piece of fine green
shalloon
6 yards of middling fine
flannel
1 ps of brown fustian for
servants frocks
(separate order with no
name or date)
1 frock suit of cloths of
Mr Harrison
Order Books
14 October 1773
For Greenbery Chaney
Woollens
7 yds german serge of a
snuff color & trimmings to suitable for a suit
3 yds snuff color broad
cloth at 10/. P yd with trimmings
7 yds plains at 7/. P yd
flesh color with all trimmings
Order Books
11 October 1773
For Robert Tyler (Perhaps
of Duckett’s Hope, Assemblyman Prince George’s County)
Woollen
160 yards cotton
Order Books
28 September 1773
For Sarah Bateman (tobacco consignor)
Woollens
20 yards good welsh cotton
Order Books
20 October 1773
For Samuel Tyler
Woollen
30 yds welsh cotton 15d
Order Books
9 October 1773
For John Conman
Woollens
12 yds grey fearnought
14 yds Welch cotton
Order Books
16 October 1773
For Wallace Davidson and Johnson
Woollens
½ ps best black cloth with
trimmings
½ ps stone or light color
cloth with do
½ ps grey for second
mourning with do
Order Books
5 November [1773]
For Thomas White
Woollens
1 ps best white kersey
1 ps best white welch cotton
1 ps best striped duffel
blanketing
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Lucy Smith
Woollens
50 yds best Welch cotton
Order Books
3 December 1773
For John Burgess
Woollens
30 yds Welch cotton
Order Books
14 December 1773
For William Bond (merchant of St. Mary's County)
Woollens
1 ps fearnought
1 ps stamped flannel
1 ps white do
1 ps spotted do
1 ps x barrd swanskin
1 ps kersey
1 ps 8/4 striped
matchcoating
4 spotted rugs 9/6
4 blue do 11/6
2 ps half thicks blue &
green
4 green spotted rugs 15/6
6 ps blankets 9/3
6 ps do 11/3
½ ps blue broad cloth 5/
½ ps do 8/
½ ps snuff colored ditto 5/
½ ps snuff colored b cloth
@ 10/
½ ps claret do 10/
½ ps do do 14/
½ ps cloth colored do 10/
½ ps buff do do 14/
½ ps brown do do 10/
½ ps scarlet do 14/
½ ps green do 14/
½ ps blue german serge
2 ps light mixt bearskin
1 ps fashionable beaver
coating 7/
16 ps shalloons to suit the
cloths
Order Books
21 November 1773
For Hall Gilbert & Hall (merchants of Bush Town, Harford County)
7 ½ yds fine London brown
broad cloth 9/
7 ½ yds pale blue do 11/
7 ½ yds mixt do 12/
7 ½ yds black do 13/
8 patterns fine cloths 2
blue 2 london brown 1 lead colored 1 green 2 sky blue 16/ yd
Shalloons buttons twist
& silk to suit the above cloths
2 lb cloth colored sewing
silk 26/
2 lb light dyed do 30/
1 lb black do 24/
1 ps buckram 8d yd
1 ps light mixt german
serge 3/
25 yds white flannel 12d
20 yds scarlet do 2/6
1 ps wilton 3/
6 ps edging
1 bag black vest buttons
6 gro horn vest molds
6 gro do co co
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Buchannan & Cowen (merchants of Joppa Town, Baltimore County)
Woollens
1 ps very best Devonshire
kersey blue & trimmings
1 ps mixt germ serge 34 yds
3/
1 ps blue do 34 yds 3/
2 ps buckram 44 8d
1 ps do 22 8 ½
1 pattern broad cloth
4 8/
1 do blue 4 9/
1 do sky blue 4 11/
1 do French mixt 4 12/
1 do do 4 14/
2 do London brown 4 ½ 14/
2 do fashionable 4 ½ 15/
2 do quaker color 4 ½ 12/
Trimmings for the above
1 ps embossed serge 48 yds
13
1 ps white flannel 62 13
4 ps shalloon different
27/6
4 ps do bro & blue 30/
2 ps do do 33/
2 ps light colored 33/
2 ps white & green 34/
1 ps black 32/6
1 ps striped lincey 36 yds
35/
Jackets
12 striped flannel jackets
3/
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Archibald Buchannan (merchant of Baltimore Town and senior partner in Buchanan & Cowan of Joppa Town)
Wollens
2 ps brown half thicks 30/
1 ps blue do 32/
2 ps good green do 35/
1 ps white flannel 12d
1 ps fine red do 16
2 ps german serge light
& blue 3/
1 pd gray do 3/
3 ps wilton cloth 2/10 3/ 3/3
2 ps buckram 9d
2 ps do 12
1 ps fine white do
6 ps shalloon light, brown,
blue 28/ 30/ 32/
34/
1 ps fashb casamere 6/
1 ps fine London brown do
7/6
1 ps claret do 8/
Trimmings for the above
german serge wiltons & casamere
1 pattern fine sky blue br
cloth 4 yds 9/
1 do brown do 4 9/
2 do claret do 4 ea 10/
2 do London brown 4 10/
2 do fashionable do 4 11/
2 do Cinnamon Dove colored
4 12/
2 do Supl Pale Sky Blue dyd
in grain 4 16/
1 do light mixt 14/
2 do claret supl dyd in
grain 4 16/
2 do good London brown do
4 16/
1 do second mourning 4 15/6
Trimmings for the above
patterns
1 ps good drab col’d kersey
25 yds 4/6 or 5/
½ ps blue dbl milld drab
14 10/
½ ps good drab col’d do
14 13/
Trimmings for the above
kerseys & drabs
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Cloths
½ ps best black cloth
½ ps raven grey do
4 ½ ps browns of different
shades none of them of a yellowish cast
3 ½ ps stone colors
different shades
6 patterns 4 yds ea of the
most fash colors & very best cloths
6 do 3 ½ yds ea do
4 do 3 yds do
3 ps best black shalloon
6 bags black coat buttons
8 bags breast do
12 yds best shalloon for
each of the ½ ps cloths as part of them will be made without lining for summer
send buttons sufficient for about 2/3 of the ½ ps as part will have other buttons
& silk & twist for the whole of ½ ps send trimmings & shalloons
complete for the patterns of cloth
2 lbs black twist
8 yds best buff cloth with
complete trimmings except coat buttons
2 ps fine fash’b cassimere
with trimmings
2 ps fine fash’b wiltons do
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Nottingham Store
Woollens
1 ps fash’b wilton
8 yds London brown cloth
14/
8 yds do 12/
1 pattern mixt do 4 yards
15/
1 pattern drab colored do 8
yds 16/
Shalloon & trimmings
for the above cloths
1 ps white flannel
1 ps imbossed serge
Order Books
No Date (previously listed
order was 1773)
For William Lux & Bowly (merchants of Baltimore Town)
Woollens
2 ps coarse white kersey
2 ps better do
1 ps grey fearnought
cheapest
2 ps german serge blue
& grey with trimmings
2 ps half thicks blue &
green
Order Books
No Date (previously listed
order was 1773)
For James Johnson
Woollens
2 ps Welch cotton 12 &
15d
Green & blue half
thicks ½ of one & ½ of the other about 13 & 14d to the value of about £15
Striped lincy different
col’s at 10 11 & 12 value £10
Different col’d &
priced flannel val at £6
Embossed serges va about £5
Kerseys from 15 to 18d
value £15
Spotted ermine val £5
Scarlet bath coating &
scarlet broad cloth the cloth about 10/ p yd with trimmings suitable to the
coating & cloth to the value of about £15
6 ps good match coat and
blanket
Order Books
21 February 1774
For Charles Carroll Barrister
7 yds ½ of livery cloth
agreeable to pattern
Order Books
10 Janaury 1774
For John Paca
Woollens
1 ps good Welch cotton abt
100 yds
1 ps white kersey 1 ps
stript duffle blankets
Order Books
19 March 1774
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Woollens
20 ps white negro cotton
sorted
1 ps blue do
2 ps green do
6 ps blue half thick
10 ps green do
6 ps grey do
10 ps grey fearnought
4 ps blue do
6 ps light do
10 ps white kersey
10 ps planes sorted
20 ps match coat blankets
sorted
6 ps bath coating well
sorted some very good
½ ps best scarlet do
3 ps bear skin well sorted
6 ps spotted swanskin &
flannel sorted
8 ps flannel well sorted
some good
4 ps embossed serge sorted
4 ps linsey Woolsey sorted
4 ps green broad bays some
good
4 ps dark col’d forrest
cloth
1 ps black german serge
2 ps blue do
1 ps grey do
2 ps brown do
1 ps mixed do
1 ps light do
2 ps druggets sorted
½ ps blue cloth 5/6
½ ps do 7/6
½ ps brown cloth 6/
½ ps do 8/
½ ps do 9
½ ps light do 7/
½ ps do 8/6
½ ps black do 8/6
2 ½ ps brown cloth
different shades from 10/ to 12/
4 ½ ps different colored
col’d cloth from 10/ to 12/
½ ps black do 12/
½ ps do 15/
½ ps do 16/
½ ps raven grey 12/
½ ps do 16/
½ ps grey for second
mourning 16/
6 ½ ps best brown from 15/
to 18/ the most best sort different shade & well chose
10 ½ ps cloth of the most fash’b
col’d from 16/ to 19/
½ ps cloth col’d drab cloth
12/
½ ps blue drab 12/
½ ps scarlet cloth 9/
½ ps best do
3 patterns very best cloth
3 yds
12 do do 3 ½ yds
These patterns must be
different colors & the colors must differ from the ½ ps to give us a
greater variety best shalloons & trimmings to all the good cloths but be
sparing of shalloon for the coarser sort as we have a good deal of that sort on
hand send binding for the coating & second mourning cloth some black silk
buttons & twist to spare but no blk silk garters
(appears to now switch to goods for Wallace Davidson
and Johnson’s Nottingham Store)
1ps black broad cloth 16
yds 12/
1 ps black shalloon a bag
of black buttons for do
1 ps supl’e cloth blue 8
yds 16/
1 ps drab col’d do 8 yds 15/
½ ps scarlet do 12/
Trimmings for the above
cloths & 1 dbl gro gold basket buttons
Order Books
19 March 1774
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Nottingham Store
Woollens
2ps white Welch cotton 1/
2 ps do 1/1
3 ps do 1/2
3 ps do 1/3
4 ps do 1/4
1 ps green do
1 ps blue do
½ ps blue cloth 10 ½ yds 5/
10 yds mixt do 4/9
1 ps pompadore do 6/
1 ps sky blue german serge
2/10
1 ps blue do 3/
1 ps drab colored do 3/6
1 ps 6/4 bearskin 3/
1 ps do 4/6
½ ps green napt frize 5/6
½ ps scarlet do 6/
½ ps claret col’d bath
coating 5/
½ ps light blue do 4/6
1 ps beaver coating 6/
1 ps duffel 2/7
2 ps green & blue half
thicks
1 ps drab col’d do
3 ps grey fearnought 1/6
2 ps kerseys 2 ps embossed
serges 1/2
1 ps white flannel 1/3
1/2 ps scarlet do
1 ps striped linsey
3 ps striped duffels
Trimmings shalloons buttons
&c to suit the above cloths
Order Books
20 March 1774
For Archibald Buchannan
Woollens
6 ps brown kersey 35/
6 ps white do 32/
6 ps do do 35/
4 ps do do 40/
2 ps cloth col’d half
thicks 30/
4 ps good green do 35/
3 ps blue do 35/
½ ps superfine dbl mild
blue drab
½ ps drab col’d do
1 ps forrest cloth 18 yds
3/6
1 ps bro do 4/
2 ps german serge blue
& mixt grey 3/
2 ps Devonshire kersey lead
& dove col’d 4/8
1 ps wilton fash’b 4/
2 ps bearskin 3/ & 2/9
2 ps bro frize 3/6
1 ps fine do 6/6
1 ps scarlet do 7/
½ ps green do 7/6
2 ps striped lincy 35/
1 ps spotted do
1 ps white flannel 13d
1 ps spotted swanskin
1 ps fine blk serge denim
3/6
½ ps blue do 3/
½ ps fash’b col’d broad
cloth 15/
½ ps cinnamon col’d do
& sky blue 15/
½ ps claret do & ½ ps
olive do 16/
½ ps good London bro cloth
16/
4 ps ratteners for the
foregoing cloths with buttons silk twist &c
10 ps shalloons ass’d from
30/ to 40/
10 ps good grey fearnoughts
18d
1 ps fine blue twil’d beaver
coating
1 ps grey do
2 ps Welch cotton 13d
2 ps do 14
4 ps do 15
2 ps green do 16
Order Books
20 March 1774
For Buchannan & Cowan
Woollens
1 ps Welch cotton 96 yds
13d
2 ps do 14
6 ps do 15d & 16
2 ps kendall cotton 20/
2 ps do 22/6
1 ps grey bearskin 2/10
1 ps grey bear coating 5/
1 ps blue do 7/
1 ps mixt frize 3/3
½ ps bro do 4/
½ ps green do 6/6
½ ps scarlet do 7/
½ ps blue bro’d cloth 10/
½ ps quaker col’d do 12/
½ ps sky blue do 14/
½ ps London bro do 14/
Shalloons buttons &c
for the above cloths
1 ps ger serge blue &
grey mixt 3/
1 ps forrest cloth 4/
1 ps do 5/
2 ps drab kersey 17 yds ea
30/
2 ps blue do 37/
2 ps narrow frize 17 yds
28/
2 ps do 36/
2 ps ratten 3/6
1 ps fine do 4/
2 ps blue half thicks 30/
2 ps grey do 36/
2 ps do do 36/
1 ps red do 37/6
1 ps spotted flannel 33 yds
20d
1 ps white do 1/6
1 ps striped lincy 36 yds
1/
1 ps embossed serge 36 42/
1 ps devon kersey 60 4/6
½ ps blue dbl milled drab
15 12/
3 ps shalloon assorted 30/
4 ps shalloons 31/
3 ps do red green &
white 36/
6 ps grey fearnot 1/6
6 ps white kersey 36/
6 ps do 10/ & 45/
3 ps striped duffel 70/
1 ps do 75/
2 ps do 80/
½ lbs black red & green
twist 30/
Order Books
9 April 1774
For Hall, Gilbert &
Hall
Woollens
7 ½ yards broad cloth 7/
7 ½ yards do 8/
7 ½ yards do 9/
7 ½ yards do 11/
4 patterns fine cloths 14/
Shalloons buttons twist
& silk to suit the above cloths no more
1 ps green bath coating 5/
1 ps blue do 5/6
1 ps fine Spanish brown do
6/
½ ps light col’d do 3/4
1 ps hunting col’d do 7/
½ ps mixt do do 3/4
1 ps brown beaver coating
3/6
1 ps lead col’d do 3/6
2 ps good german serges 3/
1 ps scarlet bath coating
9/
½ ps cloth col’d drab 10/
½ ps blue do 11/
1 ps drab col’d Devonshire
kerseys 3/9
1 ps blue do 4/
8 ps drab col’d grey
kerseys 17 yds each 27
1 ps spotted ermine 54/
½ ps white flannel 30 yds
12d
1 ps striped swanskin 20
yds 1/8
1 ps embossed serge 20 yds
14d
2 ps striped linseys 40/
12 ps white kerseys 40/
3 ps grey fearnot 36 yds
18d
1 ps Welch cotton 96 yds 14
1 ps Welch cotton 96 yds
15d
1 ps do do 16
½ ps scarlet flannel 2/8
½ ps red do 20d
Edging silk & shalloon
to suit the bath coating beaver coatings & german serges buttons for drab
& Devonshire kerseys
1 lbs sorted silk &
hair twist 18/
1 bag blk vest buttons
2 ps blue half thicks 30/
2 ps green do 30/
Order Books
No Date [1774]
For Charles Carroll Barrister
Woollens
1ps grey fearnot
1 ps cloth cold do
2 ps best blue half thicks
Order Books
27 June [1774]
For William Lux & Bowly
Wollens
6 patterns superfine with
trimings 16/6 & shalloons
6 ps white kersey
1 ps fine colored do
1 ps blue forrest cloth
with trimmings and shalloon
1 ps grey do with trimmings
and shallon
1 ps Welch cotton
2 ps fearnot blue &
green
1 ps drab broad cloth
shalloon & trimings 8/6
1 ps bearskin 3/ shalloon
&c
1 ps blue frize 4/ shalloon
&c
1 ps white flannel 1 ps
scarlet do
Order Books
22 April 22 & 25 May
1774
For Charles Carroll of
Carrolton
Woollens
2 ps good strong mixed
milled kerseys for servants great coats
1 ps best green half thicks
Order Books
24 April 1774
For Clement Brooke
Woollens
2 ps best Welch cotton
1 ps green do
4 ps large match coat
blankets
1 ps bearskin 3/
2 ps german serge 2/9
½ ps bath coating
4 ps shalloon &
trimmings for the above cloths
1 ps flannel
Order Books
14 May 1774
For William Bowie
Woollens
58 yds best green Welch
cotton
20 yds fearnot of a drab
color
Order Books
6 July 1774
For Thomas Ringgold
Woollens
10 ps very best grey
fearnot
6 ps best Welch cotton
4 ps green pennistones
Order Books
10 June 1774
For Aquila Hall
Woollens
1 ps best knapt Welch
cotton about 100 yds 16d
2 ps good light col’d
fearnought 36 yds es 22
4 ½ yds best supl’e 7/4
london brown broad cloth 18/ yds
1 ps neat striped lincy
about 36 yds 36/
½ ps light blew broad cloth
6/4 wide about 15 yds 7/6
1 ps shalloon for do 35/
1 bag buttons for do silk
twist thread suitable to the above cloth
½ ps good buckram
3 ¾ yds best dbl mild blew
cloth for a great coat 18/
Trimmings for do
1 ps good green half thicks
18d
Order Books
No Date [1774]
For Samuel Tyler
Woollens
12 yds fearnot 20d
Order Books
20 August 1774
For Isaac Hall
Woollens
10 yds blue cotton
6 match coat blankets
Order Books
24 August 1774
For Edward Sprigg
Woollens
150 yds Welch cotton
Order Books
25 August 1774
For Mary Bett
Woollens
40 yds Welch cotton 14d
Order Books
28 August 1774
For Michael Catterton
40 yds w’t Welch cotton to
cost 1/2 good strong oznabrigs & 4 barcelona handkerchiefs rale red with
white edges if there is sufficiency after paying wes & Hobson £2.12.8
Order Books
12 August 1774
For Benjamin Hall
Woollens
50 yds good Welch cotton
Order Books
29 August 1774
For Robert Tyler
(perhaps Robert Tyler of Prince Georges County born 5 November 1727 and died 8
August 1778)
Woollens
200 yds of cotton
Order Books
20 August 1774
For Jacob Green
Woollens
60 yds Welch cotton @ 1/4
Order Books
5 September 1774
For Joseph Allein
Woollens
60 yds Welch cotton @ 1/4
Order Books
29 September 1774
For William Bond
Woollens
10 patterns broad cloath 3
½ yds each different colors that fashionable not to exceed 14/ p yd
1 ps fashionable wilton
15 ps shalloons different
colors & prices
Order Books
1 November 1774
For William Bond
Woollens
12 ps milld cottons 20 yds
each @ 25/ p ps
4 ps fearnought
6 ps half thicks
3 ps white kersey
2 ps stampt flannel
1 ps white do
1 ps red do
1 ps spotted do
2 ps striped linsey
1 ps barred swanskin
3 ps 8/4 striped match
coating
½ ps blue broad cloth 5/
½ ps do 8/
½ ps snuff do 5/
½ ps do 10/
½ ps claret do 10/
½ ps buff do 13/
½ ps brown do 8/
½ ps do 10/
½ ps white do 10/ nil
½ ps mixt do 13/
1 ps blue german serge
1 ps claret do
3 ps light mixt bearskin
1 ps claret beaver coating
7/
10 ps shalloons to suit the
cloaths
Trimmings to suit the do
Order books
No Date [1774]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Woollens
12 3 ½ yds patterns of the
very finest cloth and most fashionable colors
2 half pieces of the finest
London brown do
½ ps fine white do
½ ps fine stone colored do
½ ps fine blue do
½ ps light grey do
3 ps fine & fashionable
casimire say three half pieces casimire
½ ps finest scarlet cloth
Send with the above
complete trimmings of the very best sort & well adopted in color except
shalloons
Order Books
17 November 1774
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Nottingham Store ordered by Edward Botelar
Woollens
1 ps blue german serge
1 ps drab do
2 ps wilton
1 ps blue borad cloth 6/
1 ps brown do 12 yds 8/
1 pattern mixd broad cloth
6 yds 12/
2 do neat do London brown 8
yds 14/
2 do do 8 yds 15/
1 do blue 12 yds 16/
1 do sky blue 12 yds 16/
7 ps shalloons to suit the
cloths buttons silk and twist for do
1 ps white flannel
1 ps spotted do
1 ps embossed serge
Order Books
No Date [1774]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Queen Anne Store
Woollens
6 patterns fine fashionable
broad cloths 4 yds each from 14/ to 17/ p yard
Shalloons buttons twist for
the above cloth 70/
1 ps broad cloth 16 yards
10/
1 ps do 10 do 12/
1 ps blue double milld drab
cloth 20 yds 9/
1 ps forrest cloth good
mixt color 25 yds 3/6
1 ps do do 4/6
1 ps german serge 30 yds 3/
1 ps do do 3/6
Shalloons buttons &
twist for the above ps cloth
1 ps 8/4 bath coating 30
yds 3/6
1 ps light colored wilton
30 yds 3/6
1 ps 8/4 red bath coating
20 yds 6/
1 ps bearskin 30 yds 3/6
1 ps do 20 yds 3/6
1 ps do 20 do 4/
1 ps duffields 30 do 3/
1 ps light colored frize 20
yds 4/6
1 ps London brown cloth 10
yds 8/
6 ps shalloons for the
above cloth 35/
Buttons and twist for do
3 ps half thicks 30 yds
each 32/6
1 ps drugett 30 yds 1/4
1 ps white flannel 20 yds
1/2
2 ps embossed serge 30 yds
each 1/2
1 ps grey fearnought 30 yds
1/6
2 ps Welch cotton 100 yds
each 1/1
2 ps do do 1/2
4 ps do do 1/3
3 ps do do 1/4
1 ps blue do do 1/4
Order Books
No Date [1774]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Pig Point Store
Woollens
1 ps white flannel 62 yds
18d
1 ps scarlet do 29 ½ 2/3
10 yds light blue cloth 9/6
10 yds dark brown do 12/
4 yds do 15/
4 yds light blue do 15/
4 yds light grey do 16/
4 yds claret do 16/6
4 yds sage green do 16/
4 yds white do 16/6
1 ps shalloons no. 1 36/
1 ps do 2 36/6
1 ps do 3 37/6
1 ps do 4 40/
1 ps do 5 41/
1 ps do 6 44/
30 yds do suitable to
pattern 22d
6 sets buttons silk &
twist no 1 7/
6 sets do do 9/
3 bags buttons 7/
2 ¼ gro binding 5/
2 lbs best silk twist 18/
Order Books
8 January 1775
For Charles Carroll of
Carrolton
Woollens
1600 yards of best Welch
cotton at 16d/2 or thereabouts
2 pieces best strong green
pennistone
2 pieces of finest strong
green german serges for servants liveries
2 pieces of green livery
shalloon
Order Books
20 March 1775
For Hall Gilbert & Hall
Woollens
7 ½ yards broad cloth 6/
7 ½ yards do 7/6
7 ½ yards do 8/6
7 ½ yards broad cloth 10/
8 patterns neat superfine
broad cloths 16/
Shallons buttons twist and
silk to suit the before mentioned cloths and no more
1 ps white flannel
½ ps red do 20d
6 ps white kerseys 40/
1 ps striped linsey 36/
1 ps fearnought 18d
1 ps Welch cotton 14
1 ps do 15
1 ps do 16
2 ps black cantoon 3/
2 ps blue half thick 30/
2 ps green do 30/
Order Books
28 July 1775
For John Gibson
Woollens
20 yards Welch cotton
Order Books
1 August 1775
For Alexander Ogg
Woollens
1 ps light blue broad cloth
11/
1 ps brown do 12/
1 ps London brown do 12/
1 ps Sage do 11/
1 ps claret do 13/
1 ps crimson do 12/
1 ps deep blue do 10/
½ ps buff do 14/
Shalloons & trimmings
for the above cloths
1 ps cloth colored 6/4
broad cloth 5/
1 pd dble milld drab do for
great coats
1 ps claret 6/4 do 6/
1 ps blue german serge 3/
1 ps mixd with lively
colors do 3/
1 ps grey do 2/10
1 ps wilton mixd with red
3/
1 ps blue duffiell 5/
1 ps drab colored do 4/6
1 ps claret beaver coating
5/6
1 ps pink do 5/
6 ps halfthicks 1/2
6 ps fearnoughts 1/4
6 ps cotton 9 ½ to 1/2
2 ps Welch do 1/4
Order Books
29 September 1775
For James Hutchings
Woollens
2 patterns of London brown
broad cloth with neat trimmings 16/6
Order Books
10 September 1775
For Edward Abell
Woollens
30 yds blue german serge
2/10
30 yds wilton cloth 3/6
30 yds light drab sagothy
1/9
20 yds sky blue do 1/9
20 yds French grey broad
cloth 8/
10 yds dove colored do 10/
10 yds blue do 12/
10 yds claret colored broad
cloth 10/
10 yds scarlet do 12/
20 yds dove colored duroys
1/4
20 yds claret colored do
1/4
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