Summary of tea duty charges, 1769

Title

Summary of tea duty charges, 1769

Date

Description

A list of John Norton and Sons' clients showing the amount of tea they purchased and the duty collected on it. This was enclosed with John Norton's letter of July 28, 1769 to John Hatley Norton.

 

Identifier

MS 1936.3.244
Folder 21

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

Mark Persons Name Quty. of Tea  
  Cocke & Wray   727  
  Nathaniel Burwell Senr.       6  
  Colo William Churchill       2  
  John Clayton       4  
  William Cowne       3  
  Revd. Price Davis       2  
  Colo. Edward Digges     10  
  Edward Hill     56  
  Colo. Thos. Nelson       6  
  Ro: C. Nicholas Esqr.       4  
  Edmund Pendleton       5  
  Seymour Powell     86  
  Mary Savage       2  
  Natha L. Savage       3  
  George Wilson     56  
  George Webb       6  
  Phill. W. Claiborne     98  
  John H. Norton     10  
    1086 @3d £13.11.6

NB. they were all chargd. with the duty in the
seperate Invoices     Shipt in the Briliant
Capt. Robertson AG. 1769

Citation

“Summary of tea duty charges, 1769,” John Norton & Sons Papers, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, accessed April 29, 2024, https://rocklibnorton.omeka.net/items/show/244.