Various [Tea receipts] [Decimalized .01- .03]

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Collection Summary

Collection of three receipts for tea sold during the Revolutionary War.

Collection Details

GLC#: GLC08696
Type: Header Record
Date: 1778-1780
Author/Creator: Various
Title: [Tea receipts] [Decimalized .01- .03]
Place Written: s.l.
Pagination: 3 items
Language: English

Time Period

Primary time period: American Revolution, 1763-1783

Sub-Era: The War for Independence

Subjects

Revolutionary War

Diet and nutrition

Merchants and Trade

Showing 3 of 3 records

GLC08696.01

Collection Item

Document signed

[Receipt for tea]

November 6, 1778

Duffield, John, fl. 1778

Duffield attests to receiving 837 British pounds worth of tea from Robert Campbell.

GLC08696.01

GLC08696.02

Collection Item

[Receipt for tea and sugar]

October 25, 1779

Brown & Morgan, fl. 1779

Attests to receipt of two half chests of tea and one barrel of sugar by Greenbury Dorsey, possibly Greensbury Dorsey (d. 1807) of Huntington County, Pennsylvania.

GLC08696.02

GLC08696.03

Collection Item

[Receipt for tea]

July 14, 1780

Hopkins, R., fl. 1780

Attests to receipt of 179 pounds of tea by Greenbury Dorsey, possibly Greensbury Dorsey (d. 1807) of Huntington County, Pennsylvania. Notes that R. Hopkins was paid $6000.

GLC08696.03