Nathaniel Burwell invoice, 1770 September 3

Title

Nathaniel Burwell invoice, 1770 September 3

Date

Description

Invoice of goods ordered by Nathaniel Burwell and enclosed in his letter of September 3, 1770 to John Norton.

Identifier

MS1936.3.369
Folder 33

Source

John Norton and Sons Papers, MS 1936.3

Publisher

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Original Format

Ink on paper

Text

Recto

2 ps. Irish linnen @ 3/ p yard
1 ps. ditto 25 yds. @ 2/.
1 ps. long lawn @ 3/6 p yd.
1 doz red and white cambrick pocket handkerchfs
1 ps. of dark gronded calico of a small
neat pattern the colour gay & lively 3S: pr yd.
1 ps. of printed linnen like the bit sent
if to be got, if not any thing that is neat
& pretty
1 ps. cambrick ... 40/
1 fine black durants quilted pettycoat
2 ps. good dowlas
2 ps. checked ditto
2 ps. best Irish canvas
10 yds. of good cheap green livery cloth
Trimmings for ditto
1 ps. of ditto plains
8 pair of black calimanco pumps @ 5/ pair
1l best sewing silk sorted
2l of best Scotch thread sorted
2l of white brown ditto
500 best white Chapel needles
500 Millener ditto
12 M best pins in papers sorted
4 ps. of coarse broad tape
6 ps. fine narrow ditto
1 fashionable black satin bonnett
6 ps. red Morocco shoes for a child of 3 years old
1 sleght genteel blue bonnett for ditto

Nath. Burwell

Citation

Burwell, Nathaniel, b. ca. 1748, “Nathaniel Burwell invoice, 1770 September 3,” John Norton & Sons Papers, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, accessed April 26, 2024, https://rocklibnorton.omeka.net/items/show/369.