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FOLGER, Notary Public and Justice of the Peace to Cape Town and Zanzibar. Henry Spaulding, supercargo, on board, May 25, 1863

Invoice of cargo laden on board baric Sea Bride, White, master, bound to Cape Town and Zanzibar. Henry Spaulding, supercargo, on board.

200 barrels flour, Mt. Vernon, for Zanzibar, at $9 $1,800 00
100 barrels flour, La Favorita and Oscawania, at $7 50 7,500 00
95 boxes N. cheese, 1,034 pounds, at 16 cents 163 84
35 boxes E. D. cheese, 705 pounds, at 15 cents 105 75
346 boxes candles, adamantine, 20 pounds each, at 20 cents. 1,384 00
500 boxes extra family soap, 16 pounds each, at $1 20 600 00
28 bales hops, 5,833 pounds, at 22 cents 1,283 26
10 tierces smoked hams, 2,899 pounds, at 12 cents 347 88
50 barrels prime pork, at $12 600 00
50 barrels excelsior beef, at $13 50 675 00
2 cases, 120 pairs, men’s split brogans, at $1 25 150 00
1 case, 60 pairs, men’s goat brogans, at $1 40 84 00
2 cases, No. 1, 24, 300 pounds beams, at $3 each 72 00
2 cases, No. 2, 18, beams 81 00
2 bundles frames for do 12 00
2 bottoms frames for do 13 00
2 cases, 50 beams and weights 93 75
2 cases, platform scales, 2 28 90
100 kegs white lead, 25 pounds each, 2,500 pounds, at 8 cents. 200 00
4 cases glass beads, 1,440 bunches, at 21 cents 302 40
4 iron barrels caustic soda, 2,399 pounds 175 13
1 case, 8 reams paper, order 121 75
48 boxes and 2 packages, 297 clocks 1,078 75
2 casks composition nails, 200 pounds, order, at 29 cents 58 00
1 case, 115 sheets yellow metal, 615 pounds, at 29 cents 178 35
1 silver hunting watch, order 15 00
1 gold hunting watch, order 58 00
1 barrel, containing lamp fixtures and oil, order 19 50
1 box, 30 gallons coal-oil, order 13 00
1 case, 2 lamps, fixtures, &c., order 19 50
1 package, 3 dozen knives, order 24 50
27 boxes crackers, assorted, 8,000 pounds 1,102 17
2 walking-canes, order 15 00
31 half boxes tobacco, H. Buckles & Co., 2,493 pounds, at 55 cents 1,371 15
100¾ half boxes tobacco, our own, 11,715 pounds, at 40 cents. 4,686 00
75¾ half boxes tobacco, Fairmount, 9,013 pounds, at 35 cents. 3,154 55
26 cases tobacco, excelsior, 4,063 pounds, at 45 cents 1,828 35
41 M hogshead staves, at $80 per M 3,280 00
10 M hogshead heading, at $80 per M 800 00
1 case brushes 60 25
1 case stationery, order 29 25
2 down triers 1 50
33,586 48
10 per cent, advance 3,358 64
36,945 12

Invoice of cargo for Sea Bride, Charles F. White, master, consigned; Henry Spaulding, supercargo on board, to proceed to Cape Town; transact the business according to memorandum, using despatch for the vessel, and consigning all proceeds of sales and advances, with remainder of cargo, to Wm. E. Hines, the shipper agent at Zanzibar.

RUFUS GREENE & CO,

New York, May 27, 1863.

United States of America, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk, ss:

Before me, George H. Folger, a notary public, commissioned and sworn, in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Rufus Greene, of the mercantile house of Rufus Greene & Co., of the city of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, and made solemn oath that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an invoice of cargo shipped by their firm on board the bark Sea Bride, which vessel was seized and captured by the confederate steamer Alabama, in Table bay, Cape of Good Hope, one of the colonies of the kingdom of Great Britain; that the said firm lost thereby the property above set forth, and that they were worth to said firm, at the time of the capture, a sum exceeding the amount stated in the invoice.

RUFUS GREENE,

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and notarial seal, at Boston, this 15th day of December, A. D. 1863; and the said Rufus Greene has also affixed his name, having solemnly sworn to the truth of the foregoing declaration.[seal.]

{Revenue stamp.}

GEORGE H. FOLGER, Notary Public and Justice of the Peace.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.