Financial ephemera (2 of 2), 1816

This file contains bills, receipts, and other financial ephemera belonging to Samuel B. Morris. Many of the receipts are payments for advertising the arrival of ships and goods in Thomas F. Stiles's The True American, Samuel Relf's Philadelphia Gazette & Daily Advertiser, and John Binns's The Democratic Press. Most of the other receipts relate to trade goods or goods needed to outfit ships including Navy bread, flour, lime juice, bottles of porter, shad, rice, cotton, and pine boards. There are also payments for wharfage and harbormaster fees for the Sloop "Active," Sloop "Janus," Sloop "Ann," and Schooner "General Jackson" and payments to the Office of the Marine Insurance Company. There are several invoices and receipts for personal purchases as well, including a case of pigeon holes, a box with sliding top, and a book case "for Country house."