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.]
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