Financial ephemera (2 of 2), 1817

This file contains bills, receipts, and other financial ephemera belonging to Samuel B. Morris. Many of the bills and receipts relate to Morris advertising the arrival of ships and goods in Samuel Relf's Philadelphia Gazette & Daily Advertiser, John Binns's The Democratic Press, William McCorkle & Sons's Philadelphia Mercantile Advertiser, and Thomas T. Stiles's The True American. Most of the other bills and receipts pertain to the purchase and sale of trade goods, including bills for freight, harbormaster fees, outfitting ships, wharfage, cooperage, and hauling. Trade goods enumerated include (but are not limited to) butter, linseed oil, nankeen, tea, sugar, dyestuffs, and whale bone. There is also an invoice from Jacob Shoemaker Jr. for glassware, including decanters, engraved tumblers, butter tubs, a salad bowl, dishes, and jugs. It appears that these goods were for Morris's own household.