Box 3

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The letters in this file were addressed to Morris by the following merchants and mercantile firms in New Haven, Connecticut: Nathaniel Chauncey (attesting to the solvency of Caldwell & Scarborough), Hotchkiss & Harrison (cheese), Theron Beach (sending bills he would like Morris to sell and use the proceeds to purchase a draft on New York), and A. & S. Bradley (asking about availability and price of bandana handkerchiefs, blue nankeen, and tea).

Scope and Contents The letters in this file were addressed to Morris by merchants and mercantile firms in New London, Connecticut. Most of the letters are from G. & W. Saltonstall who were shipping herring to Morris in Philadelphia. In the postscript to their September 25, 1815, letter they note that "On Saturday last we were visited with a tremendous hurricane which has destroyed all our wharves & stores--unroofed many houses & greatly injured the shipping in the harbor. Providence & Newport...

Scope and Contents All of letters in this file were addressed to Morris by George & Alex M. Ker of Savannah, Georgia. The Kers requested information on a recently dissolved partnership and the price of goods in the Philadelphia market. They provided information on commodity prices in Savannah, including the prices for upland and Sea Island cotton.In an October 27, 1817, letter, the Kers reported that "Sickness and death are the sole counts[?] of that season in this deadful climate, and we have...

Scope and Contents The letters in this file were addressed to Morris by the following merchants and mercantile firms in Portland, Maine: Thomas Chadwick & Co. (celebrating Morris's safe return home after his "journey to the East"), Henry Smith & Co. (requesting purchase of Kentucky yarns or hemp on their behalf), John S. Dupree (looking for drugs and medicines and consigning juniper berries to Morris to purchase phials), Jacob Cram (rum), and Hezekiah Winslow (asking about market for cut nails and the...

Scope and Contents The letters in this file were addressed to Morris by the following merchants and mercantile firms in Boston, Massachusetts: Nathaniel Clough (plaster), Gardiner L. Chandler (benefits of joint accounts, nankeen, tea), Munson & Barnard (commodity prices in Boston), O. Sherman (fustic), Stanton & Spelman (commodity prices in Boston), William Coffin (deposition related to detention of his ship in Canton, China), Jacob Cram (passing a treasury note to Morris's credit), and A.F. Howe &...

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All of letters in this file were addressed to Morris by George Haywood of Mount Holly, New Jersey. Haywood asked about the price of pickled salmon and New England rum in Philadelphia and in an October 23, 1816, letter noted that he had been compelled to apply for an extension of credit from his Philadelphia creditors.

Scope and Contents The letters in this file were addressed to Morris by the following merchants and mercantile firms in New York, New York: Hervey Mulford & William C. Leffingwell (Morris sending flour and corn meal to them for sale, information on commodity prices in New York market), Samuel Marsh (asking for Morris's assistance in getting P.W. Grant a mercantile situation in Philadelphia), Vincent DuComb Jr. (salt), Jared Scarborough (information on the character of "Mr. W," iron), Caldwell &...

Scope and Contents The letters in this file were addressed to Morris by the following merchants and mercantile firms in New York, New York: Leavitt & Lea (exchange of a bill for a check on a New York bank or payment in Pennsylvania bank bills), Anson G. Phelps (linseed oil, pepper, tin plate, English iron, copper, and flaxseed), David L. Parmelee (pineapple cheese and calf skins), Anthony Morris (asking Morris to send trunks and a writing desk to New York), Balestier & Thomas, Abner Davis (barley),...