Friday, October 19, 2012

Wool to Clothe the Gentleman to the Servant in Late Colonial Maryland

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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