Box 5

Scope and Contents

This file contains bills, receipts, and other financial ephemera belonging to Samuel B. Morris. Most of the receipts reflect payments to Samuel Relf for advertising the arrival of ships, such as the Sloop Lively, Brig Mary, and Schooner General Jackson, as well as goods for sale, such as brandy and Goshen cheese. The advertisements were likely placed in Relf's Philadelphia Gazette & Daily Advertiser.

Scope and Contents This file contains bills, receipts, and other financial ephemera belonging to Samuel B. Morris. The documents relate to both the purchase and sales of trade goods as well personal purchases and services. Documents related to Morris's mercantile trade include invoices for large purchases (such as 96 boxes of Castile soap) and bills for measuring goods on board ships, storage of goods, wharfage, freight, and advertising. There are extensive accounts for cooperage, presumably for the crafting...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents This file contains bills, receipts, and other financial ephemera belonging to Samuel B. Morris. Most of the documents pertain to the purchase and sale of trade goods and include bills and receipts for weighing and measuring goods, freight, wharfage, cooperage, repairing and outfitting ships, and advertising the arrival of ships and goods in William McCorkle's Philadelphia Mercantile Advertiser. Trade goods enumerated include (but are not limited to) cotton, cheese,...