For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Stuffs
1 ps good black tammy
1 ps white do
1 ps blue do
1 ps green do
1 ps pink do
1 ps black durants
1 ps white do
1 ps blue do
1 ps green do
1 ps pink do
1 ps brown do
1 ps black callimanco
1 ps pink do
1 ps cloth colored crape
1 ps black Russell
1 ps plain brown camblet
1 ps low priced black
bombazine
½ ps fine mourning crape
½ ps better do
3 ps hatband crape not to
exceed 1/ p yd
4 ps fashionable
dorsetteens
2 ps new fashioned check
lutestrings
2 ps do clouded do
6 black quilted durants
petticoats
6 blue do
Order Books
25 April 1771
For Thomas Johnson
Mercery
1 fashionable pink colored
quilted silk petticoat
Order Books
25 April 1771
For George Cook
Mercery
1 pattern silk taffity for
a neglege
1 blue pertain quilted
petticoat
Order Books
23 January 1772
For Wallace Davidson and Johnson
Cardinal
1 womans black satin
cardinal very fashionable trimmed with black & white ermine
Order Books
20 March 1772
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Hats Bonnets &
Cloaks
No more Markt womens
bonnets
3 Doz fashionable black
bonnets sorted
2 doz white & colored
of the newest fashion bonnets
1 doz hats sorted none
black
2 doz black white &
other colored cloaks of the very newest fashion some good & some satin
1 doz girls colored bonnets
½ doz boys caps with
feathers
Stuffs
4 ps black tammy 3 ps black
callimanco
4 ps white do 1 ps
pink do
2 ps blue do 1 ps
blue do
1 ps pink do 1 ps
black Russell
3 ps black durants 2
ps crape for gounds
3 ps white do 12 ps
black crape sorted
3 ps blue do 5 ps
black bombazine
2 ps sky blue do 4 doz womens
Durant quilted coats well sorted some good
2 ps pink do 150
yds hatband crape
2 ps green do 2 ps
green poplin with trimmings
2 ps brown do 2 ps
japand poplin
2 ps
denmare lutestring
½ doz
pelong quilted petticoats different colors & prices
½ doz
Persian do sorted in color & price
1 ps
crimson poplin with trimmings
20 ps yd wide stuff about
1/ p yd for womens common gowns sorted
12 ps brown camblet some
pretty good
2 ps striped &
checkered camblets as much decent stuffs as will make 30 or 40 womens gowns
well sorted & not too dear for winter
Women’s Cardinals
10 doz womens scarlet
cardinals from 8/. To 24/. Mostly of the cheapest sort
1 doz scarlet cloaks
1 doz colored do
The last cardinals was well
bought and went of immediately
Order Books
24 October 1772
For Richard Tilghman Earle
(Store at Chester Mill, Queen Anne County, just east of present day
Centreville)
Cloaks & Cardinals
1 handsome purple ingrained
cloth cardinal trimmed with ermine 30/.
½ doz cardinals trimmed
with snailing 10/6
1 doz cloaks 10/.
Mercery
2 ps sarsnatt pale blue
pink & white @ 2/4
3 ps ½ Ell English Persian
to match sarsnetts
2 ps flow’d pelong pale blue
and white with trimmings to match to make shades and bonnets @ 3/6
6 ps ingrain durants @ 35/
3 ps deep blue pale blue
and pea green 32/6
4 ps black white & 2
cloth colors 30/
1 ps black 16 inch
calimanco 32/
6 ps yd wide handsome
figured stuffs 30/
4 ps tammies different
colors 22/6
6 ps shalloons cloth colors
from 30/ to 40/
2 ps sagathy deep blue
& pea green with trimmings
Order Books
24 May [1773]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Silk Cardinals
½ doz genteel fashionable
silk cardinals
1 doz common do well sorted
& chiefly black
Order Books
9 October 1773
For John Conman
Mercery
1 ps dark brown camblet 1/
p yd
Order Books
9 October 1773
For Benjamin Hall
Mercery
1 ps grave colored india
Persian
Order Books
21 November 1773
For Hall Gilbert & Hall
Mercery
2 ps pink tammys 25/
1 ps green do 22/
2 ps pale blue durants 30/
1 ps black callimanco 34/
1 ps pink do 35/
1 ps dark blue do 35/
2 ps dark brown camblet 40/
2 ps blue do 42/
1 ps light blue do 49/
1 ps superfine brown do 54/
2 ps neat pink & light
blue silveretts
1 ps fashionable colored do
½ ps pink pelong 3/6 p yd
½ ps black do 3/
½ ps blue do 3/6
½ ps blue sarcenet
½ ps white do
3 womens cloth colored
cardinals 11/6
2 do black silk do 20/
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Buchannan & Cowen
Stuffs &c
1 womans light col’d cloak
large & quite plain very fine for an old woman about 40/
2 ps good blue & yellow
tammy 22/
1 ps broad white do 23/
1 ps pink Ing’d do 24/
1 ps cloth col’d Durant 30/
1 ps do superfine do 33/
1 ps light blue do 34/
1 ps deep blue do 35/
1 ps red do 37/6
1 ps fash’b barleycorn
Durant 31/
1 ps fash’b tobines 34/
4 ps brown camblit 30 yds
24/
2 ps fine do 38 40/
2 ps cloth col’d & blue
38 42/
1 ps cambletee 32/
2 ps good calamanco black
31/
1 ps pale blue do 33/
1 ps red do 35/
1 ps good blue sagothy 30
yds 50/
1 ps fine bro do 30 yds 54/
1 ps cloth col’d do 30 55/
2 ps good duroys 35/
Trimmings for the above
1 ps messinets 54 yds 1/5
2 ps fash’b corded poplins
40/
2 ps wors’d lutestrings 26/
1 ps fashionable brilliants
1 ps black crape
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Archibald Buchannan
Stuffs
3 ps good blue tammy 21/6
2 ps yellow do 22/
1 ps broad white do 22/
1 ps pink in grain 24/6
6 ps handsome striped &
flow’d barleycorns 30/ to 33/
3 ps do tobino 33/
3 ps figured camblitts 27/6
3 pr brown do 30/
3 ps blue green & pink
do 32/
2 ps light brown do 24/ 25/
2 ps olive & garnet 30 yds
25/
1 ps fine brown 41/
1 ps fine brown camblet 34/
1 ps do 48/
1 ps fine cloth col’d
durants 29/
2 ps sky blue do 28/
1 ps dup do 30/
1 ps blue calimanco 32/6
1 ps drab do 31/6
1 ps black do 32/6
1 ps brown do 31/6
1 ps pink
1 ps fine do
4 ps fash’b wor’d
lutestring 26 yds ea 25/6
2 ps fash’b do clouded 26/
1 ps good black Russell 40
yds 1/6
1 ps fine cloth col’d
sagothy 46/
1 ps do brown do 56/
1 ps claret do 76/
1 ps London brown do 80/
2 ps fine duroy 19/
2 ps superfine do 30/
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Mercery
10 ps black gown crape
3 ps colored do
3 ps black bombazines
3 ps sagothy with complete
trimmings
3 ps duroy with complete
trimmings
Order Books
No Date [1773]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Nottingham Store
Mercery
1 ps brown sagothy 60/
1 ps do 66/
1 ps duroy 36/
Order Books
No Date (previously listed
order was 1773)
For Aquila Hall
Mercery
1 ps good pink durants 40/
1 best fine pale blue
superfine cloth cardinal with a snail round it
Order Books
19 March 1774
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Mercery
2 ps black tamy
2 ps blue do
2 ps white do
1 ps pink do
2 ps black Durant sor’d
2 ps white do
2 ps blue do
2 ps green do
2 ps brown do
2 ps pink do
6 ps fash’b neat stuffs for
womens gowns good
4 ps black callimanco
sorted
3 doz quilted Durant
petticoats different colors chiefly black the remainder blue & greens
10 ps black crape sorted
3 ps ½ Ell bombazine
6 ps colored crape
1 doz scarlet cloth cloaks
from 7/6 to 11/
4 doz scarlet cardinals
from 8/ to 15/ mostly middle prices
2 doz fine do from 16/ to
21/
Order Books
19 March 1774
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Nottingham Store
Mercery
4 girls scarlet cloth
cardinals 7/6
4 womens do trimmed with
garland 10/
4 do do 12/
6 do do with furr 14/
6 do do 18/
6 large scarlet cloaks 12/
6 ps yard wide stuffs ea ps
different pattern
1 ps queens stuffs 1 ps blk crape
1 ps black Russell 1 ps blk callimanco
1 ps tartin for gowns 1 ps hatband crape
Order Books
20 March 1774
For Archibald Buchannan
Mercery
4 ps fash’b striped &
flo’d barlycorns 32/
2 ps do stuffs 35/
3 ps tobins 35/
5 ps fig’d yd wide stuffs
30/
2 ps fash’b dazett camblets
25/
2 ps diamond do 30/
3 ps brown cambletts 25/
27/
1 ps blue 35/
2 ps snuff col’d do 36/ 40/
2 ps green do 37/
2 ps light do 25/
1 ps good blk Russell
3 ps cloth col’d durants
33/
3 ps blue green & white
34/
5 ps callimanco (ass’d) 30/
to 37/
1 ps blue flow’d damask 48/
1 ps light col’d do
2 ps messonetts 30 yds ea
36/
2 ps silverets
2 ps fig’d & striped
camblets
2 ps clouded wors’d
lutestring
3 ps fash’b stuffs for
womens winter gowns
3 womens scarlet cloaks 8/
3 long do 9/
3 do do 10/
6 do dove col’d largest 8/
& 9/
6 do do cardinals so 14/
4 do do 16/
2 do do 17/
6 scarlet do 17/ & 19/
Order Books
20 March 1774
For Buchannan & Cowan
Mercery
1 ps durants 40 yds 1/6
3 large cloth col’d cloaks
7/
4 red do 8/
4 cloth colored cardinals
12/
6 do 14/
4 scarlet do 12/
6 do do 14/
6 do do 15/
6 do with ermine 18/
6 black do 12/6
3 ps brown cambletts 22/
3 ps do ass’d 24/
3 ps fine bro’d do 27/
2 ps do do 33/
2 ps quaker col’d do 38/
1 ps black tammy 22/
3 ps tammy blue white &
green 23/
1 ps do pink 26/
1 fash’b checkard yd wide wors’d
lutestring 32/
1 ps fine black Durant 32/
2 ps figured checkard
barleycorns 32/
1 ps saxon green Durant 32/
1 ps pea green Durant 35/
1 ps white do 32/6
2 ps fine cloth col’d do
32/
2 ps supple do 35/
2 ps deep blue do 35/
2 ps pale & sky blue
35/
2 ps fine blk callimanco
31/
2 ps brown do 31/
2 ps deep & sky blue
call’o 33/
2 ps pink & cherry do
36/
2 ps fash’b ½ yd check’d
lutestring 24/
2 ps clouded do 26/
3 ps rich fash’b ½ yd cor’d
poplin 42/
4 ps do ½ yd brilliants
col’d 44/
1 ps bro camblettee 34/
2 ps green & blue 34/
2 ps fash’b queens stuff
37/6
Order Books
9 April 1774
For Hall, Gilbert &
Hall
Mercery
2 ps brown camblit 36/
1 ps fine do 38/
2 ps do blue do 42/
1 ps supple blue do 50/
1 ps do brown do 50/
2 ps neat fig’d stuffs 32/
3 ps dorsetteens 26/
2 ps very neat
brilliants (fash’b)
3 ps fash’b stuffs
forwinter gowns of the latest fashions
6 cloth col’d cardinals
trimmed 14/
6 scarlet do do 16/
Order Books
24 April 1774
For Clement Brooke
Mercery
2 ps duroy
Order Books
10 June 1774
For Aquila Hall
Mercery
1 ps pale blue camblet 40/
Order Books
29 August 1774
For Walter Hellen
One scarlet cloth cardinal
not very high priced
Order Books
29 September 1774
For William Bond
Mercery
4 ps sagotheys diff’t
colored & prices
6 ps figured stuffs
different prices
2 ps figured poplins diff’t
do
3 ps callimanco different
colored
3 ps sky blue durants
6 ps camblets different
prices
2 ps mixd silk do diff’t do
1 ps black everlasting
1 doz scarlet cardinals 15/
½ doz light colored do 15/
Order Books
1 November 1774
For William Bond
Mercery
6 ps camblets sorted
3 ps figured stuffs
Order books
No Date [1774]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson
Mercery
4 ps duroys well sorted
3 ps sagothy well sorted
4 ps fashionable mens
crapes
4 ps black crape sorted
5 ps tammy black blue white
pink & green
6 ps durants these colors
& brown
2 ps black callimanco
2 ps blue do
3 ps good brown camblets
sorted
4 black quilted Durant
petticoats
4 blue do do
2 pink do do
2 green do do
1 ps black Russell
Order Books
17 November 1774
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Nottingham Store ordered by Edward Botelar
Mercery
2 ps tammys black &
white
3 ps durants black blue
& green
3 ps callimanco black blue
& pink
1 ps fashionable dayzett
yard wide
1 ps do tobine do
1 ps do diamontee do
1 ps nonpareil
2 ps figured yard wide
stuffs
1 ps blue camblett about 14
yds
1 ps drab colored do do
1 ps bombazine black 2 womens scarlet cloth
2 ps sagothys blue &
brown cardinals 12/6
1 ps fine duroys 2 do do 13/
2 ps neat hair
cambletts 2 do do 14/
1 ps sky blue rich
crape 2 do do 16/
1 ps black Russell 2 womens cloth cardinals
18/
Trimmings for the sagothy
duroys hay cambletts & crape let the buttons for the crape be silver
Order Books
No Date [1774]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Queen Anne Store
Mercery
3 ps camblets blue green
& cloth colored 38 yds ea 48/
2 ps callimanco blue &
black 32/
1 ps pink do 35/
1 ps black Russell 40 yards
60/
3 ps tammy blue green &
black 24/
1 ps pink do 27/6
3 ps durants blue black
& green 35/
1 ps pink do 37/6
3 ps figured & checked
yard wide 32/6
2 ps tobine queen stuff 24
yards each 24/
2 ps do do 27/
1 ps yard wide light blue
brocaded mecklinberg 30 yards 70/
1 ps silveret 20 yards 40/
1 ps ¾ queen stuff 26 yards
26/
1 ps colored crape 56 yards
80/
1 ps black and blue do 70/
1 ps Italian do for
hatbands 20 yds 25/
1 ps tartan 54 yards 72/
2 ps duroy 18 yards 18/
2 ps fine do 24 yards 34/
1 ps sagothy 24 yards 36/
1 ps fine do 24 yards 48/
3 ps durants for duroys
& sagothys 35/
Buttons & twist for do
15/
1 ps black sugdenim 30 yds
90/
2 ps lasting red and black
50/
Buttons silk & twist
for denim & last’d 10/
2 red cloth cardinals 10/
2 do do 12/
2 do do 15/
2 do do 18/
2 do do 20/
Order Books
No Date [1774]
For Wallace Davidson and
Johnson’s Pig Point Store
Mercery
2 worsted figures yard wide
30/
2 do do 32/
1 ps mourning crape 56 yds
75/
1 ps changeable do 80/
1 ps black tammys 24/
1 ps cloth colored do 25/
1 ps blue do 25/
1 ps green do 25/
1 ps pink in grain do 27/
1 ps black Durant 30/
1 ps white do 30/6
1 ps black callimanco 30/
1 ps blue do 28/
1 ps green do 28/6
1 ps pink in grain do 40/
1 ps brown dble wrapped
camblet 39/
1 ps Italian crape 28 yds
1/6
1 ps ½ Ell black Russell 30
yds 50/
1 ps black cotton denim 15
yds 3/9
1 ps light blue duroy 20
yds 20/
1 ps fine brown do 24 yds
36/
1 ps do sagothy 58/
1 ps light blue do 60/
2 striped mozeens 25 yds
2/2
12 doz best coat dthead
buttons @ 10d
12 doz breast do 5
1 ps bombazine 61 yards 1/9
16 yds white casmire 8/
5 doz coat dthead buttons
for do 10d
4 doz vest do 5
Order Books
8 January 1775
For Charles Carroll of
Carrolton
(appears to now switch to goods for RD)
Mercery
3 yards of the finest
Marseilles Waving of the widest sort for a petticoat
N.B. This invoice to be
packed under its proper mark
(appears to now switch to goods for MC)
Mercery
1 pea green stuff quilted
petticoat made very light
N.B. This and the following
invoice may be packed in one package. All the other carefully packed under
their respective mark.
Order Books
20 March 1775
For Hall Gilbert & Hall
Mercery
1 ps brown camblett 36/
1 ps fine do 38/
2 ps neat figured stuffs
32/
Order Books
1 August 1775
For Alexander Ogg
Mercery
3 ps sagothy different
colors 2/4 to 3/
2 ps duroys dark colors 1/6
to 1/10
1 ps green camblet 1/
1 ps brown do 1/
3 ps black callimanco 1/1
8 ps fash’b stuffs 4/4
different colors
1 ps green calamanco 1/1
1 ps blue do 1/2
1 ps red do 1/
2 ps black durants 1/
2 ps blue do 11d
1 ps green do 1/1
1 ps red do 10
1 ps black tammy 10
1 ps blue do 9 ½
1 ps red do 11
1 ps yellow do 9
1 ps green do 10
½ doz black flowered silk
cardinals
½ doz plain do
Order Books
[ ] September 1775
For John Wilson
Mercery
1 ps blue or pale blue
callimanco
Order Books
29 September 1775
For James Hutchings
Mercery
1 ps laylock colored silk
14 yards (lutestring)
Order Books
10 September 1775
For Edward Abell
Mercery
1 ps pink tammy 24/
1 ps green do 24/
1 ps yellow do 20/
1 ps black do 20/
6 scarlet cardinals 10/
3 do 12/
3 do 14/
3 do 16/
30 Ells black alamode 2/6
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