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Identification: MSS 099, F877
Creator: Hartshorne, William (1742-1816)
Title: Hugh Hartshorne bill of lading
Inclusive Dates: 1765 April 6
Extent: 1 item (1 p.)
Abstract: This bill of lading was issued for 139 barrels of flour to be shipped from Philadelphia merchant Hugh Hartshorne to his son William Hartshorne at William Hartshorne & Company in Antigua. The flour was shipped aboard the Brigantine Tryal.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F877, Hugh Hartshorne bill of lading, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Box 61, F877: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099
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Hugh Hartshorne (b. 1719) was a Philadelphia merchant.
Hugh Hartshorne's son, William Hartshorne (1742-1816), began a business in Antigua in 1761. The shipment of flour noted in this bill of lading was destined for his business. Between 1773 and 1775 William Hartshorne moved to a plantation near Alexandria, Virginia, where he was a friend and business associate of George Washington.
James Adams (1725?-1792), whose imprint is on this bill of lading, was Delaware's first printer. Prior to moving his business to Wilmington, Delaware, in 1761, Adams worked in the Philadelphia printing house of Franklin and Hall.
Sources:
Hartshorne Family Papers, The Monmouth County Historical Association. http://www.monmouthhistory.org (accessed October 2010).
Delaware: a guide to the First State. Compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of the State of Delaware. New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Pages 134-135.
This bill of lading was issued for 139 barrels of flour to be shipped from Philadelphia merchant Hugh Hartshorne to his son William Hartshorne at William Hartshorne & Company in Antigua. The flour was shipped aboard the Brigantine Tryal .Charles West, who was the master of the Brig Tryal , issued the bill of lading on April 6, 1765, as the ship was anchored in the Delaware River.The bill of lading was printed in 1761 by James Adams at Fifth Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The paper is handmade with chain lines and the text of the document is embellished with a printed initial block of an "S" over a sailing ship.
Hugh Hartshorne bill of lading, 1765 April 6 [Box 61 F877]
