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Notes on Shipping Costs for Flour, [February 1811]

Notes on Shipping Costs for Flour

1 bl Sfine flour Sold at   $9.

1 bl Sfine flour 6 bus @ 6/9 6 75
freight & provisions, 1.50
toll 1 & Drayage  25
Storage & Cooperage  12½
Commisn  2½ pct  22½
 8.85
leaves to the Purchase if not ductd  .15

[verso, in TJ’s hand:]

Estimate of the expence of a barrel of Superfine2 flour from Lynchbg to Richmond Feb. 1811.

cents
freight, say 200. ℔ @ 2/ pr Cwt 4/  .67
D
finding. 60 ℔ meal @ 6. D. pr Cwt (laid in @ 5.)  3.60
  2. bushels corn @ 3/6 1.
4.60
 for a load of 50. barrells is  .092 pr barrl  .09¼
toll & drayage  .25
storage & cooperage  .12½
Commn 2½ p. cent on 9.50 D  .23¼
1.37
present market price at Richmond 9.50
 Net proceeds 8.13
  do on 5½ bushels of wheat, is pr bushel
 which is 8/10½ pr bushel
1.48

MS (John Lamb, on deposit ViCMRL); recto in an unidentified hand, possibly from the mercantile firm of Morris & Dunnington, given TJ’s endorsement on verso: “Morris & Dunnington”; verso in TJ’s hand; partially dated.

1Manuscript: “tol.”

2Word interlined.

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