The Standard of Trade at Fort Albany in 1733 shows that a beaver pelt could buy one of the following:
Item Amount
Beads (Coloured) ¾ lb.
Kettle, Brass 1
Lead, Black 1 lb.
Gun Powder 1 ½ lb.
Shot 5 lbs.
Sugar 2 lbs.
Tobacco, Brazil 2 lbs.
Ditto Leaf or Roll 1 ½ lbs.
Thread 1 lb.
Vermilion 1 ½ oz.
Brandy 1 gallon
Broad Cloth 2 yard
Blankets 1
Flannel 2 yard
Gartering 2 yard
Awl Blades 12
Buttons 12 dozen
Breeches 1 pair
Combs 2
Egg Boxes 4
Feathers, Red 2
Fish Hooks 20
Fire Steels 4
Files 1
Flints 20
Guns [1 for 10 to 12 pelts]
Item Amount
Pistols [1 for 4 pelts]
Gun Worms 1
Gloves, Yarn 1
Goggles 2
Handkerchiefs 1
Hat, laced 1
Hatchets 2
Hawk Bells 8
Ice Chisels 2
Knives 8
Looking Glasses 2
Mocotagans (Curved Knives) 2
Needles 12
Net-Lines 2
Powder Horns 2
Plain Rings 6
Stone Rings 3
Scrapers 2
Sword Blades 2
Spoons 4
Shirts 2
Shoes 1 pair
Stocking [1 for 1 ¼ pelts]
Sashes, Worsted 2
Thimbles 6
Tobacco Boxes 2
www.hbcheritage.ca/history/fur-trade/standard-of-trade Trade Goods lists.
1716 South Carolina Board of Trade - Trade Schedule
Goods ------------------------------------Buckskins
A Gun. -----------------------------------------30
A Yard Strouds --------------------------------- 7
A Duffield Blanket ------------------------------14
A Yard Half Thicks ------------------------------3
A Hatchet ---------------------------------------2
A narrow Hoe -----------------------------------2
A broad Hoe ------------------------------------4
Fifty Bullets ------------------------------------1
A Butcher’s Knife -------------------------------1
A pair Cizars ------------------------------------1
Three Strings Beads ----------------------------1
Eighteen Flints ---------------------------------1
An Ax ------------------------------------------4
A Pistol ----------------------------------------20
A Cutlash ---------------------------------------8
A Shirt -----------------------------------------4
A Steel -----------------------------------------1
A Calico Petticoat ------------------------------12
A red Girdle ------------------------------------2
A laced Hatt ------------------------------------8
A Clasp Knife -----------------------------------1
A Yard Cadis -----------------------------------1
Rum, with1/3 Water per bottle -----------------1
Salt, Gunpowder, Kettles,
Looking Glasses ---------------------------As you can
"Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York" (ix., 408-409) the following comparative table of prices at Fort Orange (Albany) and at Montreal in 1689 is given:
The Indian pays for at Albany at Montreal
1 musket 2 beavers 5 beavers
8 pounds of powder 1 beaver 4 beavers
40 pounds of lead 1 beaver 3 beavers
1 blanket 1 beaver 2 beavers
4 shirts 1 beaver 2 beavers
6 pairs stockings 1 beaver 2 beavers
www.chroniclesofamerica.com/french/coureur_de_bois.htmAn Account of the Prices of Goods, settled between Col. James Moore and the Conjuror, the 30th Day of April, 1716, as they are allways to be sold to his People, viz.,
Skins Skins
A Gun. . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Twelve Flints. . . . . . . . 1
A Yard Strouds . . . . . . . 8 A Broadcloth Coat, laced . . 30
A white Duffield Blanket . . 16 A Half Thicks Coat . . . . . 20
A Yard of Half Thicks. . . . 3 An Ax. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A Hatchet. . . . . . . . . . 3 A Pistol . . . . . . . . . . 20
A narrow Hoe . . . . . . . . 3 A Sword. . . . . . . . . . . 10
A broad Hoe. . . . . . . . . 5 A Shirt. . . . . . . . . . . 5
Thirty Bullets . . . . . . . 1 A Steel. . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Knife. . . . . . . . . . . 1 A calico Petticoat . . . . . 14
A pair Scissors. . . . . . . 1 A red Girdle . . . . . . . . 2
Two Strings Beads. . . . . . 1
All Skins to be taken, one with another, and Beaver, the same Rates. All other Merchandize, as usual, according to Custom.
A Schedule of the stated Prices of Goods, as they are to be disposed of, to the Indians in Barter, viz.,
Goods Buck Skins Goods Buck Skins
A Gun 30 A Pistol 20
A Yard Strouds 7 A Cutlash 8
A Duffield Blanket 14 A Shirt 4
A Yard Half Thicks 3 A Steel 1
A Hatchet 2 A Calico Petticoat 12
A narrow Hoe 2 A red Girdle 2
A broad Hoe 4 A laced Hatt 8
Fifty Bullets 1 A Clasp Knife 1
A Butcher’s Knife 1 A Yard Cadis 1
A pair Cizars 1 Rum, mixed with 1/3 Water;
Three Strings Beads 1 per Bottle 1
Eighteen Flints 1 Salt, Gunpowder, Kettles,
An Ax 4 Looking Glasses As you can
Delivered likewise to the said McKleroy and Thompson, a Brand (as mentioned in our Instructions, for our said Factor) to mark the Slaves and Skins with.
Adjourned till Wednesday the 15th Instant.
A Table of Rates to barter by; viz., Quantity and Quality of Goods for Pounds of heavey drest Deer Skins.
[Skins] [Skins]
A Gun 16 A Ditto, not laced 12
A Pound Powder 1 A Yard Strouds 4
Four Pounds Bullets or Shot 1 A Yard Plains or Half Thicks 2
A Pound red Lead 2 A laced Hat 3
Fifty Flints 1 A plain Hat 2
Two Knives 1 A white Duffield Blanket 8
One Pound Beads 3 A blew or red Ditto, two Yards 7
Twenty-four Pipes 1 A course Linnen Shirt 3
A broad Hoe 3 A Gallon Rum 4
A Hatchet 2 A Pound Fermilion, [and] two
A Pound Vermilion 16 Pounds red Lead, mixed 20
A Yard double striped, Brass Kettles, per Pound 2 1/2
yard-wide Cloth 3 A Yard course flowered Calicoe 4
A double striped Cloth Coat, Three Yards broad scarlet
Tinsey laced 16 Caddice 1
A Half Thicks or Plains Coat,
gartering laced 14
Adjourned to Friday next. (April 25, 1718)
Ordered, that the Letter following be sent to Capt. Charlesworth Glover, Factor at Savano Town, per Indian Sagohey; viz.,
Capt. Glover, June the 3rd, 1718
By Desire of the Governour and Council we have consented that you should satisfie the Indian Man, who took and returned Hugh Banks, for the Ransom of him, at the most reasonable Rate you can agree for, out of such Goods [as you have in the Trading] House at Savano Town; therefore have intimated the [same to you, by this] Opportunity, that you may comply with |275| our Promise, and render us a particular Account of what you pay, to be laid before the Assembly. We are &c.
The Esquire and several Head Men of the Indians (commonly called Creeks) attending, and being discoursed (by Col. Mackey, Linguist) came to the following Agreement, for the Prices of the Goods under-mentioned, which might at any Time hereafter happen to be sold them in their Town, and for other Goods in Proportion; the Goods named were such as follows, viz.,
Heavy
Drest Skins Light
Strouds, per Yard – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6 or 9
Blew [or] red Duffields, per Yard – – – – – – 6 or 9
Stript Duffield Blankets, per Yard- – – – – – 6 or 9
Half Thicks, Plains and Cottons, per Yard – – 2 or 3
Half Thicks Coats, laced- – – – – – – – – – – 14 or 21
Plain Ditto – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12 or 18
Coats, Strouds, laced – – – – – – – – – – – – 20 or 30
Ditto, plain- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 18 or 27
Guns- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 25 or 35
Powder, per Pound – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 and in Proportion
Pistols, each – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12 or 18
Hangers – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7 or 10
Hats, plain – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Ditto, laced- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Shirts- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Flints, 20- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 or 15,1
Bullets, 40 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 or 30,1
Hose, broad, and Axes – – – – – – – – – – – – 4 or 6
Ditto, narrow – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2 or 3
From a memorial from Benjamin Martyn, agent for Georgia, to the Board of Trade, Jan. 28, 1755. This is directly from a 1750 list of goods that was used to suggest what should be purchased with £1500 for Indian presents to be distributed to the groups bordering the colony of Georgia, reused by Martyn.
From the Colonial Records of the State of Georgia.
Enclosure A
A list of goods for Indian Presents.
20 pieces striped Duffils, the stripes bright
28 half pieces blew Strouds
14 half pieces red Do.
10 pieces blew plains corded and Wormed for Women
200 Yards of embroider’d Serge the patterns large
2500 lb F. Gunpowder
150 Wilson’s trading Guns
40 Fowling Pieces
12 Saddles with Cruppers and Bridles
8 Do. a better Sort with Housings
2 Gross Stone Rings
12 Doz. Horn Combs
6 Doz. Ivory Do.
4 Gross black and spotted Clasp knives
12 Doz. Razors
12 Doz. pair Scyssors
12 Doz. looking Glasses
12 Nests of red gilt trunks
19 Doz. check Shirts
18 Doz. white Garlics Do
15 pieces of Calicoe 18 yards in Each
50Cnt trading Bells
34 second hand scarlet, red, and blew coats
6 Do. a better sort, and 6 Waistcoats for head men
34 tinsel laced hats
6 tinsel laced hats a better Sort for Head Men
6 Gross Body Cadis in pieces 12 yards each
6 Gross figured and Star Gartering
30 lb Vermilion
14 Gross long Pipes
60 Gross Hunters Do
100 lb. Shag cut tobacco
40 lb. bright brass wire sorted
6 Gross Hawks Bells smallest size
12 Dozen Oval-eyed Hatchets
250 lb brass Kettles sorted
10 Nests tin Kettles 15 in Each
4 Doz. quart tin Pots
4 Doz. pint Do
4 Doz 1/2 Pint Do
4,000 Black flints for trading guns
1,000 Do for Fowling Pieces
Source: Coleman, K., Ready, M., (1976). The Colonial records of the state of Georgia. Vol.27, Original papers of Governor John Reynolds, 1754-1756. Athens: University of Georgia Press. pp. 30-31
The following is a 1756 Order from Sir William Johnson, apparently filled in 1757 for Gifts for the Indians. This would have been intended for the northern tribes, not the SE, but shows the types of goods commonly ordered.
Source: Sir William Johnson Papers, Volume II page 898-899
A Specification of the Quality and Quantity of Goods
necessary to be sent from London for the Northern
Indian department.
20, pcs. of blue narrow Cord Strowds
10, ditto. of Black ditto.
5, ditto. of Aurora, or Crimson ditto.
5, ditto. of common Red ditto.
200, Rolls of different Colours Gartering
200, ps. Gimps Suitable to the Strouds
300, Blankets made to sample every Way
300, ditto. Large enough for Women
400, ditto. for men something Larger,
6, pcs. of deep purple Ratteen
6, pcs. of White or uncolour’d d”.
6, ds. of Walsh Cottons
200, Mens Ruffled Shirts Buttons
200, ditto. plain
100, ditto. Smaller size and plain
100, ditto. for little Boys
20, Hanks of light Colour’d Thread
6, pcs. of Yellow half thicks
4, ditto. of Blue d”.
30, pcs. Strip’d Callimincoes, lively Colours
20, pcs. of Callicoes also Lively Colours
20, pcs. embors’d Serges ditto.
10, pcs. of Yard wide Checks Red Stripes
40. pcs. of single Ribbands Viz’. 10. deep Red, 10. deep blue, 10. deep Green, & 10. Yellow,
30, doz”. of Womens Yarn Hose Clock’. & diff’. Colours.
20, d°. of Boys ditto & ditto.
20, d°. of Childrens ditto & ditto.
20, d°. Smallest Childrens Hose.
10, d°. of Womens Scarlet blue and Green Worsted Hose with Clocks,
100, Castor Hatts laced with a broad cheap Lace
50, ditto. with a better Lace
2, doz”. of small Jacks or Colours
100, Coats of blue Cloath Red Cuffs &c. Laced
100, Cheap Green Waste Coats with white Mett’. Buttons
400, Neat Fowling pieces Barrels 4 Feet Long Substantíal Stocks to have some distinguishing mark on the Barrel and Lock of each, about 2 0 / price,
400, ditto. a better kind distinguish’d as above.
200, ditto. 3 Feet Barrell for Boys. ditto. Wilson Maker
100, pcs. of middling Pistols with Ramrods
1000, Indian Cuthashes strong & of the Cymiter kind
500, Pipe Hatchets neat & Strong without Handles
50, doz. of Long Fish Knives with Box Handles and Sharp points
50, ditto. of Buckhorn Clasp Knives
20, doz. of Penknives Sorted
20, doz. of Womens Siczars,
20, Gro: of Indian Awl Blades,
50, B of Brass wire Sorted,
50, Brass Gorgets Gilt, with the Kings Arms
150, Hair Cocades,
50, Gro. of the smallest brass dutch Jews Harps
50, doz. Buckling Combs,
10, M of Needles Sorted
30, Gro. of Hawks Bells different Sizes
4, ditto. of Common Razors,
20, doz. of Looking Glasses at 8/
20, ditto. of ditto at 10/
100, Gro: of Bristol pipes
50, 11 of small white Beeds
500, Common Steel Tongs for Striking Fire
4, •M'”. of Good Gun powder, half in whole, & half in 1/2 Barrells
8, Tons of Leaden Barrs of 1-1/2 lbs Each
2, M of Goose Shott
2. ditto. of duck Shott
10, -M. of Good Flints
500, lbs. of VermiIIion in Casks well packd
20, 1bs of Verdegreace in Lump
100, doz. of Bullet Molds for the before Mention’d Arms,
INDORSED: List of Goods, to be sent from London, for the Northern Indians in the E. of Loudoun’s Letter of Nov. 22”. 1756.
For a Yard Strouds, Buckskins answerable to, or 5 Doe-skins. For a
Yard Playnes, 1 Buckskin weighing 1 l. 3 qrs. or Doe-skins answerable.
A white Blanket 5 Bucksk. or 10 Doe.
A Blanket blue Duffils 3 or 6
A Gun 10 or 20
A Pistol 5 or 10
A Gun Lock 4 or 8
4 Measures of Powder 1 or 2
60 Bullets 1 or 2
Ditto 1 or
A white Shirt 2 or 4
A Knife 2 or 1
Flints or 1
3 Yards Cadiz or 1
3 ditto Gartering or 1
A broad Hoe 3 or 6
A narrow Hoe 2 or 4
A falling Axe 2 or 4
A large Hatchet or 3
A small Ditto 1 or 2
A brass Kettle per lb. 1 or 2
2 Yards brass Wire or 1
A Looking Glass 1 or 2
A Hat 2 or 4
A leather Belt 1 or 2
1 Dozen of Buttons or 1
Large Beeds
N.B. The Doe-skins not to weigh under 1 lb. and the Buckskins at least 1 lb. 3 qrs.
On the 18th of October (1733) the 7th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second, the Trustees of Georgia set the rates and prices of the goods for trade with the lower Creeks…..
Two yards of stroud – Five Buck-Skins,
One yard of plains – One Buck-Skin,
White blanket – One Buck-Skin,
Blue Blanket – Three Buck-Skins,
A gun – Ten Buck-Skins,
a pistol – Ten Buck-Skins,
A Gun Lock – Ten Buck-Skins,
Two measures of powder – One Buck-Skin,
Sixty bullets – One Buck-Skin,
One white shirt – One Buck-Skin,
Knife – One Doe-Skin,
Eighteen flints – One Buck-Skin,
Three Yards of cadiz – One Doe-Skin,
Three yards of gartering – One Doe-Skin,
One hoe – Two Buck-Skins,
One axe – Two Buck-Skins,
One large hatchet – Three Doe-Skins,
One small hatchet – One Buck-Skin,
Brass kettles per lb. – One Buck-Skin.
Doe-Skins were estimated at half the value of the bucks.
From: Capt. Hughes book “HISTORY OF GEORGIA” copyrighted 1811.” Courtesy of Hardluck Humphries.
From the “Suffering Traders” lists of the Ohio Company. These goods were being sent to the Cherokees from Philadelphia.
“Goods sent up the River Kentucky [in 1753] …under care of David Hendricks to trade with the Cherokees, who was hunting there, which came from Carolina, he was surprised by a Party of Chipawas…and French-men who took him and five more of our People Prisoners, only one and an Indian who was in Company making their Escape.”
42 Robed Strouds @ 30/ £63.0,0
12 Plain Strouds @ 20/12.0.0
22 Calimancoe Bed Gowns @ 13/ 12.4.0
40 Plain Shirts @ 10/ 20.0.0
24 Ruffled Shirts @ 25/ 30.0.0
2 Ps. of Calimancoe @ 70/ 7.0.0
2 Ps. of Handkerchiefs @ 60/ 6.0.0
12 Vermillion @ 18/ 10.16.0
30 Made Coats @ 20/ 30.0.0
15,000 Wampum @ 60p 45.0.0
15 Dozen Knives @ 12/ 9.0.0
14 Dozen Silver Broches @ 12/ 8.8.0
12 Silver Arm Bands @ 20/ 12.0.0
12 Womens Silver Hair Plates @ 20/ 12.0.0
1 Riding Saddle 3.0.0
2 Pack Saddles 2.0.0
Transporting these Goods from Phila. on Horseback to the River Kentucky where they were taken, about 600 miles and paying the Servants Wages: 84.10.0
Total £367. 0.0
Excerpted from:
Belue, Ted Franklin. The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003. pp.265
The following is a 1756 Order from Sir William Johnson, apparently filled in 1757 for Gifts for the Indians. This would have been intended for the northern tribes, not the SE, but shows the types of goods commonly ordered.
Source: Sir William Johnson Papers, Volume II page 898-899
A Specification of the Quality and Quantity of Goods
necessary to be sent from London for the Northern
Indian department.
20, pcs. of blue narrow Cord Strowds
10, ditto. of Black ditto.
5, ditto. of Aurora, or Crimson ditto.
5, ditto. of common Red ditto.
200, Rolls of different Colours Gartering
200, ps. Gimps Suitable to the Strouds
300, Blankets made to sample every Way
300, ditto. Large enough for Women
400, ditto. for men something Larger,
6, pcs. of deep purple Ratteen
6, pcs. of White or uncolour’d d”.
6, ds. of Walsh Cottons
200, Mens Ruffled Shirts Buttons
200, ditto. plain
100, ditto. Smaller size and plain
100, ditto. for little Boys
20, Hanks of light Colour’d Thread
6, pcs. of Yellow half thicks
4, ditto. of Blue d”.
30, pcs. Strip’d Callimincoes, lively Colours
20, pcs. of Callicoes also Lively Colours
20, pcs. embors’d Serges ditto.
10, pcs. of Yard wide Checks Red Stripes
40. pcs. of single Ribbands Viz’. 10. deep Red, 10. deep blue, 10. deep Green, & 10. Yellow,
30, doz”. of Womens Yarn Hose Clock’. & diff’. Colours.
20, d°. of Boys ditto & ditto.
20, d°. of Childrens ditto & ditto.
20, d°. Smallest Childrens Hose.
10, d°. of Womens Scarlet blue and Green Worsted Hose with Clocks,
100, Castor Hatts laced with a broad cheap Lace
50, ditto. with a better Lace
2, doz”. of small Jacks or Colours
100, Coats of blue Cloath Red Cuffs &c. Laced
100, Cheap Green Waste Coats with white Mett’. Buttons
400, Neat Fowling pieces Barrels 4 Feet Long Substantíal Stocks to have some distinguishing mark on the Barrel and Lock of each, about 2 0 / price,
400, ditto. a better kind distinguish’d as above.
200, ditto. 3 Feet Barrell for Boys. ditto. Wilson Maker
100, pcs. of middling Pistols with Ramrods
1000, Indian Cuthashes strong & of the Cymiter kind
500, Pipe Hatchets neat & Strong without Handles
50, doz. of Long Fish Knives with Box Handles and Sharp points
50, ditto. of Buckhorn Clasp Knives
20, doz. of Penknives Sorted
20, doz. of Womens Siczars,
20, Gro: of Indian Awl Blades,
50, B of Brass wire Sorted,
50, Brass Gorgets Gilt, with the Kings Arms
150, Hair Cocades,
50, Gro. of the smallest brass dutch Jews Harps
50, doz. Buckling Combs,
10, M of Needles Sorted
30, Gro. of Hawks Bells different Sizes
4, ditto. of Common Razors,
20, doz. of Looking Glasses at 8/
20, ditto. of ditto at 10/
100, Gro: of Bristol pipes
50, 11 of small white Beeds
500, Common Steel Tongs for Striking Fire
4, •M'”. of Good Gun powder, half in whole, & half in 1/2 Barrells
8, Tons of Leaden Barrs of 1-1/2 lbs Each
2, M of Goose Shott
2. ditto. of duck Shott
10, -M. of Good Flints
500, lbs. of VermiIIion in Casks well packd
20, 1bs of Verdegreace in Lump
100, doz. of Bullet Molds for the before Mention’d Arms,
INDORSED: List of Goods, to be sent from London, for the Northern Indians in the E. of Loudoun’s Letter of Nov. 22”. 1756.
1756-Memorandum of Goods Delivered to the Catawbas Nov 1, 1756
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
8 blew strowds
3 red ditto
2 matchcoats
6 blankets
11 shirts
3 ruffled shirts
12 pair sleeve buttons
24 bunches beads
2 pieces bed lace
1 piece red gartering
11 pr. fire tongs
11 mocceson awls
2 strings of wampum on a war belt
1 string of wampum 400
2 belts 800 each
16 gallon rum
2 1/2 gallons of wine
34 lbs sugar
12 lbs. tobacco
6 gallons [of something I can’t decipher]
4 lbs. butter
6 pair white leggons
5 pair blew ditto
9 red britch clouts
9 sculping knives
2 pair bullet molds
2 hanks of razor wire
1 hank of large ditto
1 pound of thread
3 pounds paint
24 rings
1758-1760-Account of goods bought in Charlestown & Augusta
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
1758
Aug 26 Bot of smith & brewton; 1000 bullets at 10.10/pct… 105:00/00
Aug 29 of Stevenson & Michie; 336 bullets at 10 pct……… 20:00/00
Aug 30 Of Ancrum lance & Loocock; 112 bullets 10:00 pct 10:10/00
Of Jas laurens & co; 50 yards red bunting 21 inches wide
for colours at 12/6… 6:05/00
Sep 2 of John Scott; 30 steel pipe hatchets at 50/……………….. 75:00/00
Sept 16 of moreau & Jona Larrazin
1 arm & wrist band weight 1oz 7dw ….. 5:05/00
1 gorget, weight 5 1/2dw with eagle engraved 2:10/00 7:15/00
sept 23 of Jn Paul Grimkee
4 best sort fine silvered gorgets at 5… 20:00/00
5 double gilt ditto at 4:10 22:10/00
5 lackered ditto at 3:10 17:10/00
1 fine silver medal 3:00/00
1 silvered ditto & 1 lackered ditto 3:00/00
12 stone rings set strong in silver 12:00/00
12 silver brooches for shirt bosom at 20/ 6:00/00
12 ditto……ditto…at 12/6 7:10/00
12 silver wire rings at 5/ 3:00/00
12 ditto stonger ditto at 7/6 4:10/00
12 doz brass thimbles at 5/ 3:00/00
6 col’d glass necklaces at 7/6 2:05/00
4 ditto vizt; 2 at 10/, 2 at 20/ each 3:00/00
2 fine pearl necklaces at 12/6 1:05/00
40 red barley corn ditto 3:00/00
20 fine red agate ditto 4:00/00
34 blue barley corn ditto 3:00/00
9 fine large blue ditto at 7/6 3:07/06
24 white barley corn ditto 1:13/09
25 ditto agate ditto at 3/9 4:13/09
4 burning glasses vizt 2 at 25/,2 at 30/ 5:10/00
6 paint box watches vizt 4 at 30/ & 2 at 40/ 10:00/00
2 large paint boxes at 12/6 1:05/00
6 smaller ditto at 10/ 3:00/00
6 ditto ditto at 7/6 2:05/00
6 ditto ditto at 5/ 1:10/00
4 3 foot rules at 20/ 4:00/00
2 cards of sleeve buttons qt 12/pr at 20 2:00/00
10 ditto ditto at 10/ 5:00/00
2 silver arm, 2 wrist, & 2 breast plates 8:00/00
1 doz armbands 15:15/00
1 doz ditto 10:15/00
2 doz wrist bands 10:00/00
2 doz breast plates, small round ones 8:00/00
52:10 @ 3 (pounds sterling) = 157:10/00
4 brass weights 1lb each at 15/0 3:00/00
4 ditto 1/2 lb each at 10/ 2:00/00 325:05/00
Bot of Macartan & Campbell
8 doz check shirts at $14:17/doz 118:16/00
4 doz white ditto at $16:10/doz 66:00/00
50 (pounds) cut tobacco in ½ (pound) papers in a box at 6/5 16:00/10
2 ps calleco 19 yards each at $14:6e 28:12/00
1 doz cotton handkerchiefs at 12/6 7:10/00
3 doz linen ditto at 87/doz 13:04/00
18 yds white tammy for colours at 9/ 8:02/00
2 ps narrow taffety ribband 72 yds at 38/6 p ps 3:17/00
49 yards narrow paudusoy ditto 4:09/00
23 yards broad ditto 2:11/01
1 grs silk ferret in 5ps 144 yds 9:07/00
2 lackered armbands at 27/6 2:15/00
2 ditto hairpieces at ditt 2:15/00
3 double gilt armbands at 85/ 12:15/00
3 ditto hairpieces at ditto 12:15/00
13 silver arm bands at 90/ 58:10/00
3 ditto large at 135/ 20:05/00
6 ditto hairpieces at ditto 40:10/00
6 gilt gorgets at 100/ 30:00/00
6 silvered ditto at 75/ 22:10/00
Dec 15 8 ps strowds cost 74/ p ps 29:12/00
Advance @ 1000pct 296:00/00
30 yds red bunting 20 in wide at 7/6 for colours 11:05/00
52 yds white tammy ¾ yd at 8/ for colours 21:00/00
35 ½ lb red lead at 2/6 4:07/06
a light deerskin to put the red lead in :07/06
1759
feb 26 20 shag duffle great coats ½ red and ½ blue with
white metal buttons at 5:10/ea 110:00/00
July 9 1 doz silvered gorgets at 75/ 45:00/00
Sep 14 1 doz check shirts 14:17/00 1013:12/11
Dec 4 Bot of Wm rae at ockfuskey
1 saddle and bridle 15:00/00
2 plain housings at $5 pr piece 10:00/00 25:00/00
1760
Bot of Macartan and Campbell
Jan 9 Sundrys sent to the creek nation p Rd Henderson to
replace what he lent there at Ockfuskey 30 Oct., to give
the chactaws at ratifying the treaty; viz
5 ps strowd at $40:14/ 203:10/00
1 ps ditto 40:00/00
2 shag end duffles at $50:14/ 101:18/00
4 doz check shirts at $ 16: 4/ 64:16/00
2 doz garlix ditto at $16: 4/ 32:08/00
2 doz knives at $30 3:00/00
1 saddle and bridle 9:00/00
To replace what the chactan company lent for the same
purpose
50 lb gunpowder Pounds Sterling 26:11/08(11 shilling & 8 pence a pound).
21 trading guns at $5/10 115:10/00
2 striped duffil blankets 6:01/00 148:02/08
For a Chactan headman paimingo; 1 saddle 9:00/00
For fog of sookcaspoga ; 1 duffil blanket 3:00/06
For the mortar of Ockchoy
1 striped duffil blanket 3:00/06
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/00 4:16/06
Freight of above goods sent to creeks jan 9 vizt 839lb at 4d
added to the Charlestown price of them. 13:19/08
Sundrys for the Ockfuskey Captain and other creeks at Fort Moore
1 ps strowds 40:14/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
5 striped duffil blankets at 60/6 15:02/6
3 saddles at $11 33:00/0
6 Galls Rum 12(pounds) 2 cags 25/ 13:05/0 103:17/06
Jan 25 Sundrys for Alock of Cussihtah & other creeks at Fort Moore
8 striped duffil blankets 24:04/0
¼ ps strowds 10:03/6
1 saddle 15:08/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
6 trading knives :15/0
5 check shirts 6:17/4
3 galls rum, & cagg 6:12/6 65:16/04
Feb 27 Sundrys for the Coweta Lt. Simpoyahsay & other Coweta &
Cussihta Indians who had an interview at Fort Augusta 24th
concerning the Cherokee war
6 yds strowds 2 suits 15:00/00
2 striped duffel blankets 6:01/00
2 ruffled shirts 3:12/00
2 doz trading knives 3:00/00
2 doz hatchits $4:8 8:16/00
1 grs gartering 4:10/00
25 lb Gunpowder 3:18/00 58:02/10
Sundrys for the Coweta Mico
3 yds strowds 7:10/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
2 trading knives :10/0
1 couteau ditto :10/0
3 hatchits 1:10/0 11:16/00 872:14/00
$2491:01/11
DEDUCT: Net proceedes of 15 doz worsted, & 4doz thread hose of the
kings, sold at Publick venue 15 sep 1758 being unfit for the
Indians as pace sales of Warham Prioleau 163:13/06 ¾ 2327:08/04 ¼
$2327:08/4 ¼ at 700p Ct Exch is Sterling $ 332:09/09
Errors excepted; Chastown, 24 March 1760; Edmd Atkin
1758-Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd (Cherokee)
Posted on March 18, 2011 by Wynne
“Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd”, from McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. pp.456-458. These were likely primarily provided to the Cherokee, even though not always stated as such. (Thanks to J. Mullins)
A List of Goods taken from the Traders by Colonel Byrd for the Use of the Indians
April 4th, 1758
6 Boxes Paint
1 Brass Kettle Wt. 4-1/2
5 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Booting
3 Guns
1 Piece Stript Flannel
7 Pro Ear Babbs
S Ps. Blanketts
1 Dozen Hatchets
2-1/2 Lb. Small Beads
1 Gross Cadice
1 Gross Gartering
2 Dozen Pro Ear Babbs
4-1/2 Bunches Barley Corn Beads
12-1/2 Lb. Gun Powder
25 Lb. Lead
4-1/2 Dozen Knives
3 Pieces Ribbon
14 Tobacco
1 Peck Salt
14 Yards Stript Cotton
1 Gallon Rum
2 Pieces Cadice
2 Ps. Gartering
Those Things were taken from Mr. Gowdy and given to the Great Warriour
and his Gang by Colonel Byrd, April 4th, 1758.
April 7th, 1758
6 Yards of Negro Cloth (for Powder Baggs)
4-1/2 Yards Oznabrigs (for Shott Baggs)
6 Pieces Stript Flannel
2 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Booting
6 Dozen Hatchetts
4 Pieces Stript Cotton
16 Blanketts
10 Dozen Knives
2 Bolts Oznabrigs
150 Wt. Gun Powder
300 Wt. Lead
2 Pieces Check
2 Pieces Strowds
Mr. Gowdy, April 7th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
2 Pieces Strowds
I Piece Gar lix
I Box Paint
5 71, Yards Callamanio
3 Yards Strowds
I Match Coat
75 Skins
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
I Lb. Bulletts
SO Yards Garlix
Mr. Beamer, April 29th, 1758
April 1oth, 1758
46 Check Shirts
4 Caggs Rum, 5 Gallons each
2 Yards Oznabrigs
2 Indian Trading Guns out of the Indian Presents at Fort Loudon
Captain Paul Demere, April 10th, 1758
An Account of Goods Issued to the Indians by Colonel Byrd at Fort Prince George, April 29th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
8 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
10-1/2 Dozen of Check Shirts
3 Pieces Booting
60 Hatchetts
42 Trading [Guns]
5 Dozen and 4 Knives
4 Boxes Paint
1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
21 Yards Garlix
33 Yards Oznabrigs
1-1/2 Baggs Flints
100 Weight Powder
200 Weight Trading Bulletts
3 Yards Strowds
1 Match Coat
75 Skins Weight 161 Lb.
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
1 Lb. Bulletts
50 Yards Garlix
Those Things [were] given by Colonel Byrd to the Estatoe People that went with him to Virginia, May 1st, 1758.
[No date]
[147] 64 Shirts
2 Pieces Stript Cotton
8 Guns
Those Things were given to the Great Warriour and his Gang.
An Account of Things delivered Mr. John Elliott to be carryed over to Fort Loudon by Colonel Byrd’s Orders, May 2d, 1758
May 2d, 1758
800 Weight Gun Powder
1600 Weight Trading Bulletts
13 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Duffells
16 Blankets
5-1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
3 Pieces Booting
2 Pieces Check
1 Bolt Oznabrigs
3 Boxes Paint
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
18 Douzen and 8 Cutteau Knives
72 Check Shirts
5-1/2 Yards Callamanco
12 Yards Garlix
10 Dozen Ordinary
2 Small Baggs of Flints
1758-1760-Account of goods bought in Charlestown & Augusta
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
1758
Aug 26 Bot of smith & brewton; 1000 bullets at 10.10/pct… 105:00/00
Aug 29 of Stevenson & Michie; 336 bullets at 10 pct……… 20:00/00
Aug 30 Of Ancrum lance & Loocock; 112 bullets 10:00 pct 10:10/00
Of Jas laurens & co; 50 yards red bunting 21 inches wide
for colours at 12/6… 6:05/00
Sep 2 of John Scott; 30 steel pipe hatchets at 50/……………….. 75:00/00
Sept 16 of moreau & Jona Larrazin
1 arm & wrist band weight 1oz 7dw ….. 5:05/00
1 gorget, weight 5 1/2dw with eagle engraved 2:10/00 7:15/00
sept 23 of Jn Paul Grimkee
4 best sort fine silvered gorgets at 5… 20:00/00
5 double gilt ditto at 4:10 22:10/00
5 lackered ditto at 3:10 17:10/00
1 fine silver medal 3:00/00
1 silvered ditto & 1 lackered ditto 3:00/00
12 stone rings set strong in silver 12:00/00
12 silver brooches for shirt bosom at 20/ 6:00/00
12 ditto……ditto…at 12/6 7:10/00
12 silver wire rings at 5/ 3:00/00
12 ditto stonger ditto at 7/6 4:10/00
12 doz brass thimbles at 5/ 3:00/00
6 col’d glass necklaces at 7/6 2:05/00
4 ditto vizt; 2 at 10/, 2 at 20/ each 3:00/00
2 fine pearl necklaces at 12/6 1:05/00
40 red barley corn ditto 3:00/00
20 fine red agate ditto 4:00/00
34 blue barley corn ditto 3:00/00
9 fine large blue ditto at 7/6 3:07/06
24 white barley corn ditto 1:13/09
25 ditto agate ditto at 3/9 4:13/09
4 burning glasses vizt 2 at 25/,2 at 30/ 5:10/00
6 paint box watches vizt 4 at 30/ & 2 at 40/ 10:00/00
2 large paint boxes at 12/6 1:05/00
6 smaller ditto at 10/ 3:00/00
6 ditto ditto at 7/6 2:05/00
6 ditto ditto at 5/ 1:10/00
4 3 foot rules at 20/ 4:00/00
2 cards of sleeve buttons qt 12/pr at 20 2:00/00
10 ditto ditto at 10/ 5:00/00
2 silver arm, 2 wrist, & 2 breast plates 8:00/00
1 doz armbands 15:15/00
1 doz ditto 10:15/00
2 doz wrist bands 10:00/00
2 doz breast plates, small round ones 8:00/00
52:10 @ 3 (pounds sterling) = 157:10/00
4 brass weights 1lb each at 15/0 3:00/00
4 ditto 1/2 lb each at 10/ 2:00/00 325:05/00
Bot of Macartan & Campbell
8 doz check shirts at $14:17/doz 118:16/00
4 doz white ditto at $16:10/doz 66:00/00
50 (pounds) cut tobacco in ½ (pound) papers in a box at 6/5 16:00/10
2 ps calleco 19 yards each at $14:6e 28:12/00
1 doz cotton handkerchiefs at 12/6 7:10/00
3 doz linen ditto at 87/doz 13:04/00
18 yds white tammy for colours at 9/ 8:02/00
2 ps narrow taffety ribband 72 yds at 38/6 p ps 3:17/00
49 yards narrow paudusoy ditto 4:09/00
23 yards broad ditto 2:11/01
1 grs silk ferret in 5ps 144 yds 9:07/00
2 lackered armbands at 27/6 2:15/00
2 ditto hairpieces at ditt 2:15/00
3 double gilt armbands at 85/ 12:15/00
3 ditto hairpieces at ditto 12:15/00
13 silver arm bands at 90/ 58:10/00
3 ditto large at 135/ 20:05/00
6 ditto hairpieces at ditto 40:10/00
6 gilt gorgets at 100/ 30:00/00
6 silvered ditto at 75/ 22:10/00
Dec 15 8 ps strowds cost 74/ p ps 29:12/00
Advance @ 1000pct 296:00/00
30 yds red bunting 20 in wide at 7/6 for colours 11:05/00
52 yds white tammy ¾ yd at 8/ for colours 21:00/00
35 ½ lb red lead at 2/6 4:07/06
a light deerskin to put the red lead in :07/06
1759
feb 26 20 shag duffle great coats ½ red and ½ blue with
white metal buttons at 5:10/ea 110:00/00
July 9 1 doz silvered gorgets at 75/ 45:00/00
Sep 14 1 doz check shirts 14:17/00 1013:12/11
Dec 4 Bot of Wm rae at ockfuskey
1 saddle and bridle 15:00/00
2 plain housings at $5 pr piece 10:00/00 25:00/00
1760
Bot of Macartan and Campbell
Jan 9 Sundrys sent to the creek nation p Rd Henderson to
replace what he lent there at Ockfuskey 30 Oct., to give
the chactaws at ratifying the treaty; viz
5 ps strowd at $40:14/ 203:10/00
1 ps ditto 40:00/00
2 shag end duffles at $50:14/ 101:18/00
4 doz check shirts at $ 16: 4/ 64:16/00
2 doz garlix ditto at $16: 4/ 32:08/00
2 doz knives at $30 3:00/00
1 saddle and bridle 9:00/00
To replace what the chactan company lent for the same
purpose
50 lb gunpowder 26:11/08
21 trading guns at $5/10 115:10/00
2 striped duffil blankets 6:01/00 148:02/08
For a Chactan headman paimingo; 1 saddle 9:00/00
For fog of sookcaspoga ; 1 duffil blanket 3:00/06
For the mortar of Ockchoy
1 striped duffil blanket 3:00/06
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/00 4:16/06
Freight of above goods sent to creeks jan 9 vizt 839lb at 4d
added to the Charlestown price of them. 13:19/08
Sundrys for the Ockfuskey Captain and other creeks at Fort Moore
1 ps strowds 40:14/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
5 striped duffil blankets at 60/6 15:02/6
3 saddles at $11 33:00/0
6 Galls Rum 12(pounds) 2 cags 25/ 13:05/0 103:17/06
Jan 25 Sundrys for Alock of Cussihtah & other creeks at Fort Moore
8 striped duffil blankets 24:04/0
¼ ps strowds 10:03/6
1 saddle 15:08/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
6 trading knives :15/0
5 check shirts 6:17/4
3 galls rum, & cagg 6:12/6 65:16/04
Feb 27 Sundrys for the Coweta Lt. Simpoyahsay & other Coweta &
Cussihta Indians who had an interview at Fort Augusta 24th
concerning the Cherokee war
6 yds strowds 2 suits 15:00/00
2 striped duffel blankets 6:01/00
2 ruffled shirts 3:12/00
2 doz trading knives 3:00/00
2 doz hatchits $4:8 8:16/00
1 grs gartering 4:10/00
25 lb Gunpowder 3:18/00 58:02/10
Sundrys for the Coweta Mico
3 yds strowds 7:10/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
2 trading knives :10/0
1 couteau ditto :10/0
3 hatchits 1:10/0 11:16/00 872:14/00
$2491:01/11
DEDUCT: Net proceedes of 15 doz worsted, & 4doz thread hose of the
kings, sold at Publick venue 15 sep 1758 being unfit for the
Indians as pace sales of Warham Prioleau 163:13/06 ¾ 2327:08/04 ¼
$2327:08/4 ¼ at 700p Ct Exch is Sterling $ 332:09/09
Errors excepted; Chastown, 24 March 1760; Edmd Atkin
1759-Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana
Posted on March 18, 2011 by Wynne
This set of lists is exceprted from the Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana 1759. The full list includes materials for the garrisons, hospitals, and Indian trade/gifts, I believe for all of French Louisiana. It is prefaced with:
“Statement of arms, munition, food supplies and merchandise to be sent from France to Louisiana for the needs of the colony on the funds for the year 1759.”
Source: Rowland, Dunbar, A G. Sanders, and Patricia K. Galloway. Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Print. DOCUMENT 57, pp.228-232
ANNUAL PRESENTS THAT ARE GIVEN TO THE INDIANS
Fifteen hundred ells of limbourg, half blue and half red
Six hundred ells of sempitemc
Fifty plumes of different colors
Fifty pairs of copper shoe-buckles
Twenty three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Eight hundred trade shirts for men, as long in front as in the back
Three hundred fifty thirty-caliber trade guns•
Six thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Two hundred fifty ells of St. Jean cloth
Ten thousand gun flints
[fol. 328v] One thousand woodcutters’ knives
Twelve hundred clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs’ heads
Five hundred trade belts
Two thousand strike-a-lights
Five hundred seventy-six wooden combs
Four thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Four hundred pairs of ordinary scissors
Eighty pounds of iron wire of different thicknesses
Eighty pounds of brass wire which has not been annealed and in small rolls
Twenty-five dozen pewter,buttons
One hundred hats decorated with three-inch imitation silver braid
One hundred ordinary plain hats
Two thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand ells of gold and imitation silver lribbon}, half of it in braid
Fifty dozen buttons, gold and imitation silver, for suits. likewise half and half
Eighty pounds of vermilion, in pure powder. in small bags of one pound
Eighty pounds of red lead
Three hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
[fol. 329] One hundred fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small, larger at the top than at the bottom
Fifty ells of scarlet cloth’
One hundred ells of well-chosen scarlet woolen cloth; that which has been sent previously being only a double linen serge
Fifty ells of red camelot
Five complete sets of fine gold buttons
Five of the same in silver
Two hundred ells of St. Jean cloth for lining suits and coats
Extraordinary Presents
Eight hundred ells of blue and red limbourg, half and half
Forty plumes of different colors
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Six men’s trade shirts
One hundred fifty trade guns
Four thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Ten gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten gross of wooden combs
Ten thousand gun flints
Twenty-four hats decorated with imitation silver braid
Twenty-four of the same, plain ‘
[fol. 329v] Three thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand strike-a-lights
Fifty trade belts
Four hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
Six hundred cocks for trade guns 10 •
Six hundred hammers for the same
Six hundred tumblers
Six hundred sear-springs, forged in one piece
Six hundred sears
Eight hundred large screws
Eight hundred cock screws
Twenty-four packets of assorted German files
Thirty-six half-round bastard files
Twenty-four of the same, bastard, flat
Twenty-four of the same, assorted fine
Twenty-four of the same, rat-tailed
Twenty-four of the same, rasps
Forty hundredweight of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
For the Trade with the Choctaw Indians
Five thousand ells of limbourg, blue and red, half and half
[fol. 330] Fifteen hundred blankets of two and a half points
Six hundred three-point blankets
Twelve hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand six hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in the front as in the back
Four hundred women’s shirts
Five hundred cravats
Two hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Six thousand pounds of powder
Three hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Three hundred pounds of assorted round beads, particularly sky blue
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten thousand gun flints
Ten gross of trade scissors
Twenty gross of worms
Twenty gross of awls
Twenty gross of strike-a-lights
Six hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted] in leather
Twenty-five gross of combs
Four hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet 12
{fol. 33ov] Eight hundred ells of sempiterne, blue, red, and plum
Six thousand sewing needles
Eight. thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
One hundred fifty assorted brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
For the Trade with the Alabama, Attacapa, Kickapoo, Mascouten, and Shawnee Indians
Two thousand ells of red and blue limbourg
Fifteen hundred two-and-a~half-point blankets
Four hundred three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand five hundred men’s trade shirts
Five hundred women’s shirts
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Ten thousand pounds of powder
Four hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of vermilion in small bags of one pound
One hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
[fo1. 33 x 1 Thirty gross of awls
Forty gross of worms
Six gross of wooden combs
Six thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Two hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet
Ten thousand gun flints
Four thousand sewing needles
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Six gross of trade scissors
Fifteen hundred gross of clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs’ heads
Four hundred trade belts
Three hundred cravats
Three hundred sixty number 6 mirrors {?mounted) in leather
Fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no s,mall
For the Projected Trade with the Cherokee Indians
Ten thousand ells of limbourg, half red and half blue
Three thousand two-and-a-half-point blankets
Twelve hundred three-point blankets
Ten thousand four hundred Bazas blankets
[fo1. 33 1 v] Five thousand two hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in back as in front
Eight hundred women’s shirts
A thousand cravats
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Twelve thousand pounds of powder for war
Six hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three hundred pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred pounds of red lead
Six hundred pounds of assorted round beads
Sixty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Twenty thousand gun flints
Twenty gross of trade guns
Forty gross of worms
Forty gross of awls
Forty gross of strike-a-lights
Two hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted} in leather
Fifty gross of combs
Eight hundred ells ofbiue and red Mazamet
Eight thousand pounds of fiat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Eight thousand pounds ditto for the same
Twelve thousand sewing needles
[fol. 332] One hundred pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Three hundred brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
1759-Return of Indian Presents received by Lt Richard Coytmore
Posted on March 22, 2011 by Wynne
From: McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. p.483
[This would have been items returned to Ft. Prince George, in the upcountry of South Carolina. The fort was among the lower Cherokees, and managed a certain amount of the trade and gifts with the Cherokees for the colony of South Carolina.]
A Return of Indian Presents received by Lieut. Richard Coytmore from
Ensign Lachlan Mackintosh
Fort Prince George, 14 April, 1759
4 Chests Trading Guns containing 100
II Trading Guns, and one broke
12 Blankets
6 Shirts
5 Brass Kettles
3 Tin Ditto
13 Doz. and three Knives
6 Belts
4 Looking Glasses
Some Hawks’ Bells
17-3/4 Yards Strouds
26-3/4 Yds. Oznabrigs
2-1/2 Lb. Paint
6 Indian Hangers
1-1/2 Gross Pea Buttons
4 Horn Combs
I Pr. Scissars
amohkali.com/?page_id=111The prices of the skins in Canada, in the year 1749, were communicated to me by M. de Couagne, a merchant at Montreal, with whom I lodged. They were as follows:
Great and middle sized bear skins, cost five livres.
Skins of young bears, fifty sols.
~~~~ lynxes, 25 sols.
~~~~ pichoux du sud, 35 sols.
~~~~ foxes from the southern parts, 35 sols.
~~~~ otters, 5 livres.
~~~~ racoons, 5 livres.
~~~~ martens, 45 sols.
~~~~ wolf-lynxes, 4 livres.
~~~~ wolves, 40 sols.
~~~~ carcajoux, an animal which I do not know, 5 livres.
Skins of visons, a kind of martens, which live in the water, 25 sols.
Raw skins of elks, 10 livres.
~~~~ stags.
Bad skins of elks and stags, 3 livres.
Skins of roebucks, 25, or 30 sols.
~~~~ red foxes, 3 livres.
~~~~ beavers, 3 livres.
I will now insert a list of all the different kinds of skins, which are to be got in Canada, and which are sent from thence to Europe. I got it from one of the greatest merchants in Montreal. They are as follows:
Prepared roebuck skins, chevreuils passés.
Unprepared ditto, chevreuils verts.
Tanned ditto, chevreuils tanés.
Bears, ours.
Young bears, oursons.
Otters, loutres.
Pecans.
Cats, chats.
Wolves, loup de bois.
Lynxes, loups cerviers.
North pichoux, pichoux du nord.
South pichoux, pichoux du sud.
Red foxes, renards rouges.
Cross foxes, renards croisés.
Black foxes, renards noirs.
Grey foxes, renards argentés.
Southern, or Virginian foxes, renards du sud où de Virginie.
White foxes, from Tadoussac, renards blancs de Tadoussac.
Martens, martres.
Visons, or foutreaux.
Black squirrels, ecureuils noirs.
Raw stags skins, cerfs verts.
Prepared ditto, cerfs passés.
Raw elks skins, originals verts.
Prepared ditto, originals passées.
Rein-deer skins, cariboux.
Raw hinds skins, biches verts.
Prepared ditto, biches passées.
Carcajoux.
Musk rats, rats musques.
Fat winter beavers, castors gras d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors gras d’été.
Dry winter beavers, castors secs d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors secs d’été.
Old winter beavers, castors veiux d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors vieux d’été.’
Peter Kalm Montreal 22nd September 1749.
Trade Goods lists.
1716 South Carolina Board of Trade - Trade Schedule
Goods ------------------------------------Buckskins
A Gun. -----------------------------------------30
A Yard Strouds --------------------------------- 7
A Duffield Blanket ------------------------------14
A Yard Half Thicks ------------------------------3
A Hatchet ---------------------------------------2
A narrow Hoe -----------------------------------2
A broad Hoe ------------------------------------4
Fifty Bullets ------------------------------------1
A Butcher’s Knife -------------------------------1
A pair Cizars ------------------------------------1
Three Strings Beads ----------------------------1
Eighteen Flints ---------------------------------1
An Ax ------------------------------------------4
A Pistol ----------------------------------------20
A Cutlash ---------------------------------------8
A Shirt -----------------------------------------4
A Steel -----------------------------------------1
A Calico Petticoat ------------------------------12
A red Girdle ------------------------------------2
A laced Hatt ------------------------------------8
A Clasp Knife -----------------------------------1
A Yard Cadis -----------------------------------1
Rum, with1/3 Water per bottle -----------------1
Salt, Gunpowder, Kettles,
Looking Glasses ---------------------------As you can
"Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York" (ix., 408-409) the following comparative table of prices at Fort Orange (Albany) and at Montreal in 1689 is given:
The Indian pays for at Albany at Montreal
1 musket 2 beavers 5 beavers
8 pounds of powder 1 beaver 4 beavers
40 pounds of lead 1 beaver 3 beavers
1 blanket 1 beaver 2 beavers
4 shirts 1 beaver 2 beavers
6 pairs stockings 1 beaver 2 beavers
www.chroniclesofamerica.com/french/coureur_de_bois.htmAn Account of the Prices of Goods, settled between Col. James Moore and the Conjuror, the 30th Day of April, 1716, as they are allways to be sold to his People, viz.,
Skins Skins
A Gun. . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Twelve Flints. . . . . . . . 1
A Yard Strouds . . . . . . . 8 A Broadcloth Coat, laced . . 30
A white Duffield Blanket . . 16 A Half Thicks Coat . . . . . 20
A Yard of Half Thicks. . . . 3 An Ax. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A Hatchet. . . . . . . . . . 3 A Pistol . . . . . . . . . . 20
A narrow Hoe . . . . . . . . 3 A Sword. . . . . . . . . . . 10
A broad Hoe. . . . . . . . . 5 A Shirt. . . . . . . . . . . 5
Thirty Bullets . . . . . . . 1 A Steel. . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Knife. . . . . . . . . . . 1 A calico Petticoat . . . . . 14
A pair Scissors. . . . . . . 1 A red Girdle . . . . . . . . 2
Two Strings Beads. . . . . . 1
All Skins to be taken, one with another, and Beaver, the same Rates. All other Merchandize, as usual, according to Custom.
A Schedule of the stated Prices of Goods, as they are to be disposed of, to the Indians in Barter, viz.,
Goods Buck Skins Goods Buck Skins
A Gun 30 A Pistol 20
A Yard Strouds 7 A Cutlash 8
A Duffield Blanket 14 A Shirt 4
A Yard Half Thicks 3 A Steel 1
A Hatchet 2 A Calico Petticoat 12
A narrow Hoe 2 A red Girdle 2
A broad Hoe 4 A laced Hatt 8
Fifty Bullets 1 A Clasp Knife 1
A Butcher’s Knife 1 A Yard Cadis 1
A pair Cizars 1 Rum, mixed with 1/3 Water;
Three Strings Beads 1 per Bottle 1
Eighteen Flints 1 Salt, Gunpowder, Kettles,
An Ax 4 Looking Glasses As you can
Delivered likewise to the said McKleroy and Thompson, a Brand (as mentioned in our Instructions, for our said Factor) to mark the Slaves and Skins with.
Adjourned till Wednesday the 15th Instant.
A Table of Rates to barter by; viz., Quantity and Quality of Goods for Pounds of heavey drest Deer Skins.
[Skins] [Skins]
A Gun 16 A Ditto, not laced 12
A Pound Powder 1 A Yard Strouds 4
Four Pounds Bullets or Shot 1 A Yard Plains or Half Thicks 2
A Pound red Lead 2 A laced Hat 3
Fifty Flints 1 A plain Hat 2
Two Knives 1 A white Duffield Blanket 8
One Pound Beads 3 A blew or red Ditto, two Yards 7
Twenty-four Pipes 1 A course Linnen Shirt 3
A broad Hoe 3 A Gallon Rum 4
A Hatchet 2 A Pound Fermilion, [and] two
A Pound Vermilion 16 Pounds red Lead, mixed 20
A Yard double striped, Brass Kettles, per Pound 2 1/2
yard-wide Cloth 3 A Yard course flowered Calicoe 4
A double striped Cloth Coat, Three Yards broad scarlet
Tinsey laced 16 Caddice 1
A Half Thicks or Plains Coat,
gartering laced 14
Adjourned to Friday next. (April 25, 1718)
Ordered, that the Letter following be sent to Capt. Charlesworth Glover, Factor at Savano Town, per Indian Sagohey; viz.,
Capt. Glover, June the 3rd, 1718
By Desire of the Governour and Council we have consented that you should satisfie the Indian Man, who took and returned Hugh Banks, for the Ransom of him, at the most reasonable Rate you can agree for, out of such Goods [as you have in the Trading] House at Savano Town; therefore have intimated the [same to you, by this] Opportunity, that you may comply with |275| our Promise, and render us a particular Account of what you pay, to be laid before the Assembly. We are &c.
The Esquire and several Head Men of the Indians (commonly called Creeks) attending, and being discoursed (by Col. Mackey, Linguist) came to the following Agreement, for the Prices of the Goods under-mentioned, which might at any Time hereafter happen to be sold them in their Town, and for other Goods in Proportion; the Goods named were such as follows, viz.,
Heavy
Drest Skins Light
Strouds, per Yard – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6 or 9
Blew [or] red Duffields, per Yard – – – – – – 6 or 9
Stript Duffield Blankets, per Yard- – – – – – 6 or 9
Half Thicks, Plains and Cottons, per Yard – – 2 or 3
Half Thicks Coats, laced- – – – – – – – – – – 14 or 21
Plain Ditto – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12 or 18
Coats, Strouds, laced – – – – – – – – – – – – 20 or 30
Ditto, plain- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 18 or 27
Guns- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 25 or 35
Powder, per Pound – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 and in Proportion
Pistols, each – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12 or 18
Hangers – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7 or 10
Hats, plain – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Ditto, laced- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Shirts- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Flints, 20- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 or 15,1
Bullets, 40 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 or 30,1
Hose, broad, and Axes – – – – – – – – – – – – 4 or 6
Ditto, narrow – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2 or 3
From a memorial from Benjamin Martyn, agent for Georgia, to the Board of Trade, Jan. 28, 1755. This is directly from a 1750 list of goods that was used to suggest what should be purchased with £1500 for Indian presents to be distributed to the groups bordering the colony of Georgia, reused by Martyn.
From the Colonial Records of the State of Georgia.
Enclosure A
A list of goods for Indian Presents.
20 pieces striped Duffils, the stripes bright
28 half pieces blew Strouds
14 half pieces red Do.
10 pieces blew plains corded and Wormed for Women
200 Yards of embroider’d Serge the patterns large
2500 lb F. Gunpowder
150 Wilson’s trading Guns
40 Fowling Pieces
12 Saddles with Cruppers and Bridles
8 Do. a better Sort with Housings
2 Gross Stone Rings
12 Doz. Horn Combs
6 Doz. Ivory Do.
4 Gross black and spotted Clasp knives
12 Doz. Razors
12 Doz. pair Scyssors
12 Doz. looking Glasses
12 Nests of red gilt trunks
19 Doz. check Shirts
18 Doz. white Garlics Do
15 pieces of Calicoe 18 yards in Each
50Cnt trading Bells
34 second hand scarlet, red, and blew coats
6 Do. a better sort, and 6 Waistcoats for head men
34 tinsel laced hats
6 tinsel laced hats a better Sort for Head Men
6 Gross Body Cadis in pieces 12 yards each
6 Gross figured and Star Gartering
30 lb Vermilion
14 Gross long Pipes
60 Gross Hunters Do
100 lb. Shag cut tobacco
40 lb. bright brass wire sorted
6 Gross Hawks Bells smallest size
12 Dozen Oval-eyed Hatchets
250 lb brass Kettles sorted
10 Nests tin Kettles 15 in Each
4 Doz. quart tin Pots
4 Doz. pint Do
4 Doz 1/2 Pint Do
4,000 Black flints for trading guns
1,000 Do for Fowling Pieces
Source: Coleman, K., Ready, M., (1976). The Colonial records of the state of Georgia. Vol.27, Original papers of Governor John Reynolds, 1754-1756. Athens: University of Georgia Press. pp. 30-31
The following is a 1756 Order from Sir William Johnson, apparently filled in 1757 for Gifts for the Indians. This would have been intended for the northern tribes, not the SE, but shows the types of goods commonly ordered.
Source: Sir William Johnson Papers, Volume II page 898-899
A Specification of the Quality and Quantity of Goods
necessary to be sent from London for the Northern
Indian department.
20, pcs. of blue narrow Cord Strowds
10, ditto. of Black ditto.
5, ditto. of Aurora, or Crimson ditto.
5, ditto. of common Red ditto.
200, Rolls of different Colours Gartering
200, ps. Gimps Suitable to the Strouds
300, Blankets made to sample every Way
300, ditto. Large enough for Women
400, ditto. for men something Larger,
6, pcs. of deep purple Ratteen
6, pcs. of White or uncolour’d d”.
6, ds. of Walsh Cottons
200, Mens Ruffled Shirts Buttons
200, ditto. plain
100, ditto. Smaller size and plain
100, ditto. for little Boys
20, Hanks of light Colour’d Thread
6, pcs. of Yellow half thicks
4, ditto. of Blue d”.
30, pcs. Strip’d Callimincoes, lively Colours
20, pcs. of Callicoes also Lively Colours
20, pcs. embors’d Serges ditto.
10, pcs. of Yard wide Checks Red Stripes
40. pcs. of single Ribbands Viz’. 10. deep Red, 10. deep blue, 10. deep Green, & 10. Yellow,
30, doz”. of Womens Yarn Hose Clock’. & diff’. Colours.
20, d°. of Boys ditto & ditto.
20, d°. of Childrens ditto & ditto.
20, d°. Smallest Childrens Hose.
10, d°. of Womens Scarlet blue and Green Worsted Hose with Clocks,
100, Castor Hatts laced with a broad cheap Lace
50, ditto. with a better Lace
2, doz”. of small Jacks or Colours
100, Coats of blue Cloath Red Cuffs &c. Laced
100, Cheap Green Waste Coats with white Mett’. Buttons
400, Neat Fowling pieces Barrels 4 Feet Long Substantíal Stocks to have some distinguishing mark on the Barrel and Lock of each, about 2 0 / price,
400, ditto. a better kind distinguish’d as above.
200, ditto. 3 Feet Barrell for Boys. ditto. Wilson Maker
100, pcs. of middling Pistols with Ramrods
1000, Indian Cuthashes strong & of the Cymiter kind
500, Pipe Hatchets neat & Strong without Handles
50, doz. of Long Fish Knives with Box Handles and Sharp points
50, ditto. of Buckhorn Clasp Knives
20, doz. of Penknives Sorted
20, doz. of Womens Siczars,
20, Gro: of Indian Awl Blades,
50, B of Brass wire Sorted,
50, Brass Gorgets Gilt, with the Kings Arms
150, Hair Cocades,
50, Gro. of the smallest brass dutch Jews Harps
50, doz. Buckling Combs,
10, M of Needles Sorted
30, Gro. of Hawks Bells different Sizes
4, ditto. of Common Razors,
20, doz. of Looking Glasses at 8/
20, ditto. of ditto at 10/
100, Gro: of Bristol pipes
50, 11 of small white Beeds
500, Common Steel Tongs for Striking Fire
4, •M'”. of Good Gun powder, half in whole, & half in 1/2 Barrells
8, Tons of Leaden Barrs of 1-1/2 lbs Each
2, M of Goose Shott
2. ditto. of duck Shott
10, -M. of Good Flints
500, lbs. of VermiIIion in Casks well packd
20, 1bs of Verdegreace in Lump
100, doz. of Bullet Molds for the before Mention’d Arms,
INDORSED: List of Goods, to be sent from London, for the Northern Indians in the E. of Loudoun’s Letter of Nov. 22”. 1756.
For a Yard Strouds, Buckskins answerable to, or 5 Doe-skins. For a
Yard Playnes, 1 Buckskin weighing 1 l. 3 qrs. or Doe-skins answerable.
A white Blanket 5 Bucksk. or 10 Doe.
A Blanket blue Duffils 3 or 6
A Gun 10 or 20
A Pistol 5 or 10
A Gun Lock 4 or 8
4 Measures of Powder 1 or 2
60 Bullets 1 or 2
Ditto 1 or
A white Shirt 2 or 4
A Knife 2 or 1
Flints or 1
3 Yards Cadiz or 1
3 ditto Gartering or 1
A broad Hoe 3 or 6
A narrow Hoe 2 or 4
A falling Axe 2 or 4
A large Hatchet or 3
A small Ditto 1 or 2
A brass Kettle per lb. 1 or 2
2 Yards brass Wire or 1
A Looking Glass 1 or 2
A Hat 2 or 4
A leather Belt 1 or 2
1 Dozen of Buttons or 1
Large Beeds
N.B. The Doe-skins not to weigh under 1 lb. and the Buckskins at least 1 lb. 3 qrs.
On the 18th of October (1733) the 7th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second, the Trustees of Georgia set the rates and prices of the goods for trade with the lower Creeks…..
Two yards of stroud – Five Buck-Skins,
One yard of plains – One Buck-Skin,
White blanket – One Buck-Skin,
Blue Blanket – Three Buck-Skins,
A gun – Ten Buck-Skins,
a pistol – Ten Buck-Skins,
A Gun Lock – Ten Buck-Skins,
Two measures of powder – One Buck-Skin,
Sixty bullets – One Buck-Skin,
One white shirt – One Buck-Skin,
Knife – One Doe-Skin,
Eighteen flints – One Buck-Skin,
Three Yards of cadiz – One Doe-Skin,
Three yards of gartering – One Doe-Skin,
One hoe – Two Buck-Skins,
One axe – Two Buck-Skins,
One large hatchet – Three Doe-Skins,
One small hatchet – One Buck-Skin,
Brass kettles per lb. – One Buck-Skin.
Doe-Skins were estimated at half the value of the bucks.
From: Capt. Hughes book “HISTORY OF GEORGIA” copyrighted 1811.” Courtesy of Hardluck Humphries.
From the “Suffering Traders” lists of the Ohio Company. These goods were being sent to the Cherokees from Philadelphia.
“Goods sent up the River Kentucky [in 1753] …under care of David Hendricks to trade with the Cherokees, who was hunting there, which came from Carolina, he was surprised by a Party of Chipawas…and French-men who took him and five more of our People Prisoners, only one and an Indian who was in Company making their Escape.”
42 Robed Strouds @ 30/ £63.0,0
12 Plain Strouds @ 20/12.0.0
22 Calimancoe Bed Gowns @ 13/ 12.4.0
40 Plain Shirts @ 10/ 20.0.0
24 Ruffled Shirts @ 25/ 30.0.0
2 Ps. of Calimancoe @ 70/ 7.0.0
2 Ps. of Handkerchiefs @ 60/ 6.0.0
12 Vermillion @ 18/ 10.16.0
30 Made Coats @ 20/ 30.0.0
15,000 Wampum @ 60p 45.0.0
15 Dozen Knives @ 12/ 9.0.0
14 Dozen Silver Broches @ 12/ 8.8.0
12 Silver Arm Bands @ 20/ 12.0.0
12 Womens Silver Hair Plates @ 20/ 12.0.0
1 Riding Saddle 3.0.0
2 Pack Saddles 2.0.0
Transporting these Goods from Phila. on Horseback to the River Kentucky where they were taken, about 600 miles and paying the Servants Wages: 84.10.0
Total £367. 0.0
Excerpted from:
Belue, Ted Franklin. The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003. pp.265
The following is a 1756 Order from Sir William Johnson, apparently filled in 1757 for Gifts for the Indians. This would have been intended for the northern tribes, not the SE, but shows the types of goods commonly ordered.
Source: Sir William Johnson Papers, Volume II page 898-899
A Specification of the Quality and Quantity of Goods
necessary to be sent from London for the Northern
Indian department.
20, pcs. of blue narrow Cord Strowds
10, ditto. of Black ditto.
5, ditto. of Aurora, or Crimson ditto.
5, ditto. of common Red ditto.
200, Rolls of different Colours Gartering
200, ps. Gimps Suitable to the Strouds
300, Blankets made to sample every Way
300, ditto. Large enough for Women
400, ditto. for men something Larger,
6, pcs. of deep purple Ratteen
6, pcs. of White or uncolour’d d”.
6, ds. of Walsh Cottons
200, Mens Ruffled Shirts Buttons
200, ditto. plain
100, ditto. Smaller size and plain
100, ditto. for little Boys
20, Hanks of light Colour’d Thread
6, pcs. of Yellow half thicks
4, ditto. of Blue d”.
30, pcs. Strip’d Callimincoes, lively Colours
20, pcs. of Callicoes also Lively Colours
20, pcs. embors’d Serges ditto.
10, pcs. of Yard wide Checks Red Stripes
40. pcs. of single Ribbands Viz’. 10. deep Red, 10. deep blue, 10. deep Green, & 10. Yellow,
30, doz”. of Womens Yarn Hose Clock’. & diff’. Colours.
20, d°. of Boys ditto & ditto.
20, d°. of Childrens ditto & ditto.
20, d°. Smallest Childrens Hose.
10, d°. of Womens Scarlet blue and Green Worsted Hose with Clocks,
100, Castor Hatts laced with a broad cheap Lace
50, ditto. with a better Lace
2, doz”. of small Jacks or Colours
100, Coats of blue Cloath Red Cuffs &c. Laced
100, Cheap Green Waste Coats with white Mett’. Buttons
400, Neat Fowling pieces Barrels 4 Feet Long Substantíal Stocks to have some distinguishing mark on the Barrel and Lock of each, about 2 0 / price,
400, ditto. a better kind distinguish’d as above.
200, ditto. 3 Feet Barrell for Boys. ditto. Wilson Maker
100, pcs. of middling Pistols with Ramrods
1000, Indian Cuthashes strong & of the Cymiter kind
500, Pipe Hatchets neat & Strong without Handles
50, doz. of Long Fish Knives with Box Handles and Sharp points
50, ditto. of Buckhorn Clasp Knives
20, doz. of Penknives Sorted
20, doz. of Womens Siczars,
20, Gro: of Indian Awl Blades,
50, B of Brass wire Sorted,
50, Brass Gorgets Gilt, with the Kings Arms
150, Hair Cocades,
50, Gro. of the smallest brass dutch Jews Harps
50, doz. Buckling Combs,
10, M of Needles Sorted
30, Gro. of Hawks Bells different Sizes
4, ditto. of Common Razors,
20, doz. of Looking Glasses at 8/
20, ditto. of ditto at 10/
100, Gro: of Bristol pipes
50, 11 of small white Beeds
500, Common Steel Tongs for Striking Fire
4, •M'”. of Good Gun powder, half in whole, & half in 1/2 Barrells
8, Tons of Leaden Barrs of 1-1/2 lbs Each
2, M of Goose Shott
2. ditto. of duck Shott
10, -M. of Good Flints
500, lbs. of VermiIIion in Casks well packd
20, 1bs of Verdegreace in Lump
100, doz. of Bullet Molds for the before Mention’d Arms,
INDORSED: List of Goods, to be sent from London, for the Northern Indians in the E. of Loudoun’s Letter of Nov. 22”. 1756.
1756-Memorandum of Goods Delivered to the Catawbas Nov 1, 1756
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
8 blew strowds
3 red ditto
2 matchcoats
6 blankets
11 shirts
3 ruffled shirts
12 pair sleeve buttons
24 bunches beads
2 pieces bed lace
1 piece red gartering
11 pr. fire tongs
11 mocceson awls
2 strings of wampum on a war belt
1 string of wampum 400
2 belts 800 each
16 gallon rum
2 1/2 gallons of wine
34 lbs sugar
12 lbs. tobacco
6 gallons [of something I can’t decipher]
4 lbs. butter
6 pair white leggons
5 pair blew ditto
9 red britch clouts
9 sculping knives
2 pair bullet molds
2 hanks of razor wire
1 hank of large ditto
1 pound of thread
3 pounds paint
24 rings
1758-1760-Account of goods bought in Charlestown & Augusta
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
1758
Aug 26 Bot of smith & brewton; 1000 bullets at 10.10/pct… 105:00/00
Aug 29 of Stevenson & Michie; 336 bullets at 10 pct……… 20:00/00
Aug 30 Of Ancrum lance & Loocock; 112 bullets 10:00 pct 10:10/00
Of Jas laurens & co; 50 yards red bunting 21 inches wide
for colours at 12/6… 6:05/00
Sep 2 of John Scott; 30 steel pipe hatchets at 50/……………….. 75:00/00
Sept 16 of moreau & Jona Larrazin
1 arm & wrist band weight 1oz 7dw ….. 5:05/00
1 gorget, weight 5 1/2dw with eagle engraved 2:10/00 7:15/00
sept 23 of Jn Paul Grimkee
4 best sort fine silvered gorgets at 5… 20:00/00
5 double gilt ditto at 4:10 22:10/00
5 lackered ditto at 3:10 17:10/00
1 fine silver medal 3:00/00
1 silvered ditto & 1 lackered ditto 3:00/00
12 stone rings set strong in silver 12:00/00
12 silver brooches for shirt bosom at 20/ 6:00/00
12 ditto……ditto…at 12/6 7:10/00
12 silver wire rings at 5/ 3:00/00
12 ditto stonger ditto at 7/6 4:10/00
12 doz brass thimbles at 5/ 3:00/00
6 col’d glass necklaces at 7/6 2:05/00
4 ditto vizt; 2 at 10/, 2 at 20/ each 3:00/00
2 fine pearl necklaces at 12/6 1:05/00
40 red barley corn ditto 3:00/00
20 fine red agate ditto 4:00/00
34 blue barley corn ditto 3:00/00
9 fine large blue ditto at 7/6 3:07/06
24 white barley corn ditto 1:13/09
25 ditto agate ditto at 3/9 4:13/09
4 burning glasses vizt 2 at 25/,2 at 30/ 5:10/00
6 paint box watches vizt 4 at 30/ & 2 at 40/ 10:00/00
2 large paint boxes at 12/6 1:05/00
6 smaller ditto at 10/ 3:00/00
6 ditto ditto at 7/6 2:05/00
6 ditto ditto at 5/ 1:10/00
4 3 foot rules at 20/ 4:00/00
2 cards of sleeve buttons qt 12/pr at 20 2:00/00
10 ditto ditto at 10/ 5:00/00
2 silver arm, 2 wrist, & 2 breast plates 8:00/00
1 doz armbands 15:15/00
1 doz ditto 10:15/00
2 doz wrist bands 10:00/00
2 doz breast plates, small round ones 8:00/00
52:10 @ 3 (pounds sterling) = 157:10/00
4 brass weights 1lb each at 15/0 3:00/00
4 ditto 1/2 lb each at 10/ 2:00/00 325:05/00
Bot of Macartan & Campbell
8 doz check shirts at $14:17/doz 118:16/00
4 doz white ditto at $16:10/doz 66:00/00
50 (pounds) cut tobacco in ½ (pound) papers in a box at 6/5 16:00/10
2 ps calleco 19 yards each at $14:6e 28:12/00
1 doz cotton handkerchiefs at 12/6 7:10/00
3 doz linen ditto at 87/doz 13:04/00
18 yds white tammy for colours at 9/ 8:02/00
2 ps narrow taffety ribband 72 yds at 38/6 p ps 3:17/00
49 yards narrow paudusoy ditto 4:09/00
23 yards broad ditto 2:11/01
1 grs silk ferret in 5ps 144 yds 9:07/00
2 lackered armbands at 27/6 2:15/00
2 ditto hairpieces at ditt 2:15/00
3 double gilt armbands at 85/ 12:15/00
3 ditto hairpieces at ditto 12:15/00
13 silver arm bands at 90/ 58:10/00
3 ditto large at 135/ 20:05/00
6 ditto hairpieces at ditto 40:10/00
6 gilt gorgets at 100/ 30:00/00
6 silvered ditto at 75/ 22:10/00
Dec 15 8 ps strowds cost 74/ p ps 29:12/00
Advance @ 1000pct 296:00/00
30 yds red bunting 20 in wide at 7/6 for colours 11:05/00
52 yds white tammy ¾ yd at 8/ for colours 21:00/00
35 ½ lb red lead at 2/6 4:07/06
a light deerskin to put the red lead in :07/06
1759
feb 26 20 shag duffle great coats ½ red and ½ blue with
white metal buttons at 5:10/ea 110:00/00
July 9 1 doz silvered gorgets at 75/ 45:00/00
Sep 14 1 doz check shirts 14:17/00 1013:12/11
Dec 4 Bot of Wm rae at ockfuskey
1 saddle and bridle 15:00/00
2 plain housings at $5 pr piece 10:00/00 25:00/00
1760
Bot of Macartan and Campbell
Jan 9 Sundrys sent to the creek nation p Rd Henderson to
replace what he lent there at Ockfuskey 30 Oct., to give
the chactaws at ratifying the treaty; viz
5 ps strowd at $40:14/ 203:10/00
1 ps ditto 40:00/00
2 shag end duffles at $50:14/ 101:18/00
4 doz check shirts at $ 16: 4/ 64:16/00
2 doz garlix ditto at $16: 4/ 32:08/00
2 doz knives at $30 3:00/00
1 saddle and bridle 9:00/00
To replace what the chactan company lent for the same
purpose
50 lb gunpowder Pounds Sterling 26:11/08(11 shilling & 8 pence a pound).
21 trading guns at $5/10 115:10/00
2 striped duffil blankets 6:01/00 148:02/08
For a Chactan headman paimingo; 1 saddle 9:00/00
For fog of sookcaspoga ; 1 duffil blanket 3:00/06
For the mortar of Ockchoy
1 striped duffil blanket 3:00/06
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/00 4:16/06
Freight of above goods sent to creeks jan 9 vizt 839lb at 4d
added to the Charlestown price of them. 13:19/08
Sundrys for the Ockfuskey Captain and other creeks at Fort Moore
1 ps strowds 40:14/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
5 striped duffil blankets at 60/6 15:02/6
3 saddles at $11 33:00/0
6 Galls Rum 12(pounds) 2 cags 25/ 13:05/0 103:17/06
Jan 25 Sundrys for Alock of Cussihtah & other creeks at Fort Moore
8 striped duffil blankets 24:04/0
¼ ps strowds 10:03/6
1 saddle 15:08/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
6 trading knives :15/0
5 check shirts 6:17/4
3 galls rum, & cagg 6:12/6 65:16/04
Feb 27 Sundrys for the Coweta Lt. Simpoyahsay & other Coweta &
Cussihta Indians who had an interview at Fort Augusta 24th
concerning the Cherokee war
6 yds strowds 2 suits 15:00/00
2 striped duffel blankets 6:01/00
2 ruffled shirts 3:12/00
2 doz trading knives 3:00/00
2 doz hatchits $4:8 8:16/00
1 grs gartering 4:10/00
25 lb Gunpowder 3:18/00 58:02/10
Sundrys for the Coweta Mico
3 yds strowds 7:10/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
2 trading knives :10/0
1 couteau ditto :10/0
3 hatchits 1:10/0 11:16/00 872:14/00
$2491:01/11
DEDUCT: Net proceedes of 15 doz worsted, & 4doz thread hose of the
kings, sold at Publick venue 15 sep 1758 being unfit for the
Indians as pace sales of Warham Prioleau 163:13/06 ¾ 2327:08/04 ¼
$2327:08/4 ¼ at 700p Ct Exch is Sterling $ 332:09/09
Errors excepted; Chastown, 24 March 1760; Edmd Atkin
1758-Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd (Cherokee)
Posted on March 18, 2011 by Wynne
“Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd”, from McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. pp.456-458. These were likely primarily provided to the Cherokee, even though not always stated as such. (Thanks to J. Mullins)
A List of Goods taken from the Traders by Colonel Byrd for the Use of the Indians
April 4th, 1758
6 Boxes Paint
1 Brass Kettle Wt. 4-1/2
5 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Booting
3 Guns
1 Piece Stript Flannel
7 Pro Ear Babbs
S Ps. Blanketts
1 Dozen Hatchets
2-1/2 Lb. Small Beads
1 Gross Cadice
1 Gross Gartering
2 Dozen Pro Ear Babbs
4-1/2 Bunches Barley Corn Beads
12-1/2 Lb. Gun Powder
25 Lb. Lead
4-1/2 Dozen Knives
3 Pieces Ribbon
14 Tobacco
1 Peck Salt
14 Yards Stript Cotton
1 Gallon Rum
2 Pieces Cadice
2 Ps. Gartering
Those Things were taken from Mr. Gowdy and given to the Great Warriour
and his Gang by Colonel Byrd, April 4th, 1758.
April 7th, 1758
6 Yards of Negro Cloth (for Powder Baggs)
4-1/2 Yards Oznabrigs (for Shott Baggs)
6 Pieces Stript Flannel
2 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Booting
6 Dozen Hatchetts
4 Pieces Stript Cotton
16 Blanketts
10 Dozen Knives
2 Bolts Oznabrigs
150 Wt. Gun Powder
300 Wt. Lead
2 Pieces Check
2 Pieces Strowds
Mr. Gowdy, April 7th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
2 Pieces Strowds
I Piece Gar lix
I Box Paint
5 71, Yards Callamanio
3 Yards Strowds
I Match Coat
75 Skins
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
I Lb. Bulletts
SO Yards Garlix
Mr. Beamer, April 29th, 1758
April 1oth, 1758
46 Check Shirts
4 Caggs Rum, 5 Gallons each
2 Yards Oznabrigs
2 Indian Trading Guns out of the Indian Presents at Fort Loudon
Captain Paul Demere, April 10th, 1758
An Account of Goods Issued to the Indians by Colonel Byrd at Fort Prince George, April 29th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
8 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
10-1/2 Dozen of Check Shirts
3 Pieces Booting
60 Hatchetts
42 Trading [Guns]
5 Dozen and 4 Knives
4 Boxes Paint
1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
21 Yards Garlix
33 Yards Oznabrigs
1-1/2 Baggs Flints
100 Weight Powder
200 Weight Trading Bulletts
3 Yards Strowds
1 Match Coat
75 Skins Weight 161 Lb.
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
1 Lb. Bulletts
50 Yards Garlix
Those Things [were] given by Colonel Byrd to the Estatoe People that went with him to Virginia, May 1st, 1758.
[No date]
[147] 64 Shirts
2 Pieces Stript Cotton
8 Guns
Those Things were given to the Great Warriour and his Gang.
An Account of Things delivered Mr. John Elliott to be carryed over to Fort Loudon by Colonel Byrd’s Orders, May 2d, 1758
May 2d, 1758
800 Weight Gun Powder
1600 Weight Trading Bulletts
13 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Duffells
16 Blankets
5-1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
3 Pieces Booting
2 Pieces Check
1 Bolt Oznabrigs
3 Boxes Paint
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
18 Douzen and 8 Cutteau Knives
72 Check Shirts
5-1/2 Yards Callamanco
12 Yards Garlix
10 Dozen Ordinary
2 Small Baggs of Flints
1758-1760-Account of goods bought in Charlestown & Augusta
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
1758
Aug 26 Bot of smith & brewton; 1000 bullets at 10.10/pct… 105:00/00
Aug 29 of Stevenson & Michie; 336 bullets at 10 pct……… 20:00/00
Aug 30 Of Ancrum lance & Loocock; 112 bullets 10:00 pct 10:10/00
Of Jas laurens & co; 50 yards red bunting 21 inches wide
for colours at 12/6… 6:05/00
Sep 2 of John Scott; 30 steel pipe hatchets at 50/……………….. 75:00/00
Sept 16 of moreau & Jona Larrazin
1 arm & wrist band weight 1oz 7dw ….. 5:05/00
1 gorget, weight 5 1/2dw with eagle engraved 2:10/00 7:15/00
sept 23 of Jn Paul Grimkee
4 best sort fine silvered gorgets at 5… 20:00/00
5 double gilt ditto at 4:10 22:10/00
5 lackered ditto at 3:10 17:10/00
1 fine silver medal 3:00/00
1 silvered ditto & 1 lackered ditto 3:00/00
12 stone rings set strong in silver 12:00/00
12 silver brooches for shirt bosom at 20/ 6:00/00
12 ditto……ditto…at 12/6 7:10/00
12 silver wire rings at 5/ 3:00/00
12 ditto stonger ditto at 7/6 4:10/00
12 doz brass thimbles at 5/ 3:00/00
6 col’d glass necklaces at 7/6 2:05/00
4 ditto vizt; 2 at 10/, 2 at 20/ each 3:00/00
2 fine pearl necklaces at 12/6 1:05/00
40 red barley corn ditto 3:00/00
20 fine red agate ditto 4:00/00
34 blue barley corn ditto 3:00/00
9 fine large blue ditto at 7/6 3:07/06
24 white barley corn ditto 1:13/09
25 ditto agate ditto at 3/9 4:13/09
4 burning glasses vizt 2 at 25/,2 at 30/ 5:10/00
6 paint box watches vizt 4 at 30/ & 2 at 40/ 10:00/00
2 large paint boxes at 12/6 1:05/00
6 smaller ditto at 10/ 3:00/00
6 ditto ditto at 7/6 2:05/00
6 ditto ditto at 5/ 1:10/00
4 3 foot rules at 20/ 4:00/00
2 cards of sleeve buttons qt 12/pr at 20 2:00/00
10 ditto ditto at 10/ 5:00/00
2 silver arm, 2 wrist, & 2 breast plates 8:00/00
1 doz armbands 15:15/00
1 doz ditto 10:15/00
2 doz wrist bands 10:00/00
2 doz breast plates, small round ones 8:00/00
52:10 @ 3 (pounds sterling) = 157:10/00
4 brass weights 1lb each at 15/0 3:00/00
4 ditto 1/2 lb each at 10/ 2:00/00 325:05/00
Bot of Macartan & Campbell
8 doz check shirts at $14:17/doz 118:16/00
4 doz white ditto at $16:10/doz 66:00/00
50 (pounds) cut tobacco in ½ (pound) papers in a box at 6/5 16:00/10
2 ps calleco 19 yards each at $14:6e 28:12/00
1 doz cotton handkerchiefs at 12/6 7:10/00
3 doz linen ditto at 87/doz 13:04/00
18 yds white tammy for colours at 9/ 8:02/00
2 ps narrow taffety ribband 72 yds at 38/6 p ps 3:17/00
49 yards narrow paudusoy ditto 4:09/00
23 yards broad ditto 2:11/01
1 grs silk ferret in 5ps 144 yds 9:07/00
2 lackered armbands at 27/6 2:15/00
2 ditto hairpieces at ditt 2:15/00
3 double gilt armbands at 85/ 12:15/00
3 ditto hairpieces at ditto 12:15/00
13 silver arm bands at 90/ 58:10/00
3 ditto large at 135/ 20:05/00
6 ditto hairpieces at ditto 40:10/00
6 gilt gorgets at 100/ 30:00/00
6 silvered ditto at 75/ 22:10/00
Dec 15 8 ps strowds cost 74/ p ps 29:12/00
Advance @ 1000pct 296:00/00
30 yds red bunting 20 in wide at 7/6 for colours 11:05/00
52 yds white tammy ¾ yd at 8/ for colours 21:00/00
35 ½ lb red lead at 2/6 4:07/06
a light deerskin to put the red lead in :07/06
1759
feb 26 20 shag duffle great coats ½ red and ½ blue with
white metal buttons at 5:10/ea 110:00/00
July 9 1 doz silvered gorgets at 75/ 45:00/00
Sep 14 1 doz check shirts 14:17/00 1013:12/11
Dec 4 Bot of Wm rae at ockfuskey
1 saddle and bridle 15:00/00
2 plain housings at $5 pr piece 10:00/00 25:00/00
1760
Bot of Macartan and Campbell
Jan 9 Sundrys sent to the creek nation p Rd Henderson to
replace what he lent there at Ockfuskey 30 Oct., to give
the chactaws at ratifying the treaty; viz
5 ps strowd at $40:14/ 203:10/00
1 ps ditto 40:00/00
2 shag end duffles at $50:14/ 101:18/00
4 doz check shirts at $ 16: 4/ 64:16/00
2 doz garlix ditto at $16: 4/ 32:08/00
2 doz knives at $30 3:00/00
1 saddle and bridle 9:00/00
To replace what the chactan company lent for the same
purpose
50 lb gunpowder 26:11/08
21 trading guns at $5/10 115:10/00
2 striped duffil blankets 6:01/00 148:02/08
For a Chactan headman paimingo; 1 saddle 9:00/00
For fog of sookcaspoga ; 1 duffil blanket 3:00/06
For the mortar of Ockchoy
1 striped duffil blanket 3:00/06
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/00 4:16/06
Freight of above goods sent to creeks jan 9 vizt 839lb at 4d
added to the Charlestown price of them. 13:19/08
Sundrys for the Ockfuskey Captain and other creeks at Fort Moore
1 ps strowds 40:14/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
5 striped duffil blankets at 60/6 15:02/6
3 saddles at $11 33:00/0
6 Galls Rum 12(pounds) 2 cags 25/ 13:05/0 103:17/06
Jan 25 Sundrys for Alock of Cussihtah & other creeks at Fort Moore
8 striped duffil blankets 24:04/0
¼ ps strowds 10:03/6
1 saddle 15:08/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
6 trading knives :15/0
5 check shirts 6:17/4
3 galls rum, & cagg 6:12/6 65:16/04
Feb 27 Sundrys for the Coweta Lt. Simpoyahsay & other Coweta &
Cussihta Indians who had an interview at Fort Augusta 24th
concerning the Cherokee war
6 yds strowds 2 suits 15:00/00
2 striped duffel blankets 6:01/00
2 ruffled shirts 3:12/00
2 doz trading knives 3:00/00
2 doz hatchits $4:8 8:16/00
1 grs gartering 4:10/00
25 lb Gunpowder 3:18/00 58:02/10
Sundrys for the Coweta Mico
3 yds strowds 7:10/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
2 trading knives :10/0
1 couteau ditto :10/0
3 hatchits 1:10/0 11:16/00 872:14/00
$2491:01/11
DEDUCT: Net proceedes of 15 doz worsted, & 4doz thread hose of the
kings, sold at Publick venue 15 sep 1758 being unfit for the
Indians as pace sales of Warham Prioleau 163:13/06 ¾ 2327:08/04 ¼
$2327:08/4 ¼ at 700p Ct Exch is Sterling $ 332:09/09
Errors excepted; Chastown, 24 March 1760; Edmd Atkin
1759-Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana
Posted on March 18, 2011 by Wynne
This set of lists is exceprted from the Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana 1759. The full list includes materials for the garrisons, hospitals, and Indian trade/gifts, I believe for all of French Louisiana. It is prefaced with:
“Statement of arms, munition, food supplies and merchandise to be sent from France to Louisiana for the needs of the colony on the funds for the year 1759.”
Source: Rowland, Dunbar, A G. Sanders, and Patricia K. Galloway. Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Print. DOCUMENT 57, pp.228-232
ANNUAL PRESENTS THAT ARE GIVEN TO THE INDIANS
Fifteen hundred ells of limbourg, half blue and half red
Six hundred ells of sempitemc
Fifty plumes of different colors
Fifty pairs of copper shoe-buckles
Twenty three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Eight hundred trade shirts for men, as long in front as in the back
Three hundred fifty thirty-caliber trade guns•
Six thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Two hundred fifty ells of St. Jean cloth
Ten thousand gun flints
[fol. 328v] One thousand woodcutters’ knives
Twelve hundred clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs’ heads
Five hundred trade belts
Two thousand strike-a-lights
Five hundred seventy-six wooden combs
Four thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Four hundred pairs of ordinary scissors
Eighty pounds of iron wire of different thicknesses
Eighty pounds of brass wire which has not been annealed and in small rolls
Twenty-five dozen pewter,buttons
One hundred hats decorated with three-inch imitation silver braid
One hundred ordinary plain hats
Two thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand ells of gold and imitation silver lribbon}, half of it in braid
Fifty dozen buttons, gold and imitation silver, for suits. likewise half and half
Eighty pounds of vermilion, in pure powder. in small bags of one pound
Eighty pounds of red lead
Three hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
[fol. 329] One hundred fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small, larger at the top than at the bottom
Fifty ells of scarlet cloth’
One hundred ells of well-chosen scarlet woolen cloth; that which has been sent previously being only a double linen serge
Fifty ells of red camelot
Five complete sets of fine gold buttons
Five of the same in silver
Two hundred ells of St. Jean cloth for lining suits and coats
Extraordinary Presents
Eight hundred ells of blue and red limbourg, half and half
Forty plumes of different colors
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Six men’s trade shirts
One hundred fifty trade guns
Four thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Ten gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten gross of wooden combs
Ten thousand gun flints
Twenty-four hats decorated with imitation silver braid
Twenty-four of the same, plain ‘
[fol. 329v] Three thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand strike-a-lights
Fifty trade belts
Four hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
Six hundred cocks for trade guns 10 •
Six hundred hammers for the same
Six hundred tumblers
Six hundred sear-springs, forged in one piece
Six hundred sears
Eight hundred large screws
Eight hundred cock screws
Twenty-four packets of assorted German files
Thirty-six half-round bastard files
Twenty-four of the same, bastard, flat
Twenty-four of the same, assorted fine
Twenty-four of the same, rat-tailed
Twenty-four of the same, rasps
Forty hundredweight of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
For the Trade with the Choctaw Indians
Five thousand ells of limbourg, blue and red, half and half
[fol. 330] Fifteen hundred blankets of two and a half points
Six hundred three-point blankets
Twelve hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand six hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in the front as in the back
Four hundred women’s shirts
Five hundred cravats
Two hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Six thousand pounds of powder
Three hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Three hundred pounds of assorted round beads, particularly sky blue
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten thousand gun flints
Ten gross of trade scissors
Twenty gross of worms
Twenty gross of awls
Twenty gross of strike-a-lights
Six hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted] in leather
Twenty-five gross of combs
Four hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet 12
{fol. 33ov] Eight hundred ells of sempiterne, blue, red, and plum
Six thousand sewing needles
Eight. thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
One hundred fifty assorted brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
For the Trade with the Alabama, Attacapa, Kickapoo, Mascouten, and Shawnee Indians
Two thousand ells of red and blue limbourg
Fifteen hundred two-and-a~half-point blankets
Four hundred three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand five hundred men’s trade shirts
Five hundred women’s shirts
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Ten thousand pounds of powder
Four hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of vermilion in small bags of one pound
One hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
[fo1. 33 x 1 Thirty gross of awls
Forty gross of worms
Six gross of wooden combs
Six thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Two hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet
Ten thousand gun flints
Four thousand sewing needles
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Six gross of trade scissors
Fifteen hundred gross of clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs’ heads
Four hundred trade belts
Three hundred cravats
Three hundred sixty number 6 mirrors {?mounted) in leather
Fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no s,mall
For the Projected Trade with the Cherokee Indians
Ten thousand ells of limbourg, half red and half blue
Three thousand two-and-a-half-point blankets
Twelve hundred three-point blankets
Ten thousand four hundred Bazas blankets
[fo1. 33 1 v] Five thousand two hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in back as in front
Eight hundred women’s shirts
A thousand cravats
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Twelve thousand pounds of powder for war
Six hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three hundred pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred pounds of red lead
Six hundred pounds of assorted round beads
Sixty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Twenty thousand gun flints
Twenty gross of trade guns
Forty gross of worms
Forty gross of awls
Forty gross of strike-a-lights
Two hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted} in leather
Fifty gross of combs
Eight hundred ells ofbiue and red Mazamet
Eight thousand pounds of fiat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Eight thousand pounds ditto for the same
Twelve thousand sewing needles
[fol. 332] One hundred pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Three hundred brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
1759-Return of Indian Presents received by Lt Richard Coytmore
Posted on March 22, 2011 by Wynne
From: McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. p.483
[This would have been items returned to Ft. Prince George, in the upcountry of South Carolina. The fort was among the lower Cherokees, and managed a certain amount of the trade and gifts with the Cherokees for the colony of South Carolina.]
A Return of Indian Presents received by Lieut. Richard Coytmore from
Ensign Lachlan Mackintosh
Fort Prince George, 14 April, 1759
4 Chests Trading Guns containing 100
II Trading Guns, and one broke
12 Blankets
6 Shirts
5 Brass Kettles
3 Tin Ditto
13 Doz. and three Knives
6 Belts
4 Looking Glasses
Some Hawks’ Bells
17-3/4 Yards Strouds
26-3/4 Yds. Oznabrigs
2-1/2 Lb. Paint
6 Indian Hangers
1-1/2 Gross Pea Buttons
4 Horn Combs
I Pr. Scissars
amohkali.com/?page_id=111The prices of the skins in Canada, in the year 1749, were communicated to me by M. de Couagne, a merchant at Montreal, with whom I lodged. They were as follows:
Great and middle sized bear skins, cost five livres.
Skins of young bears, fifty sols.
~~~~ lynxes, 25 sols.
~~~~ pichoux du sud, 35 sols.
~~~~ foxes from the southern parts, 35 sols.
~~~~ otters, 5 livres.
~~~~ racoons, 5 livres.
~~~~ martens, 45 sols.
~~~~ wolf-lynxes, 4 livres.
~~~~ wolves, 40 sols.
~~~~ carcajoux, an animal which I do not know, 5 livres.
Skins of visons, a kind of martens, which live in the water, 25 sols.
Raw skins of elks, 10 livres.
~~~~ stags.
Bad skins of elks and stags, 3 livres.
Skins of roebucks, 25, or 30 sols.
~~~~ red foxes, 3 livres.
~~~~ beavers, 3 livres.
I will now insert a list of all the different kinds of skins, which are to be got in Canada, and which are sent from thence to Europe. I got it from one of the greatest merchants in Montreal. They are as follows:
Prepared roebuck skins, chevreuils passés.
Unprepared ditto, chevreuils verts.
Tanned ditto, chevreuils tanés.
Bears, ours.
Young bears, oursons.
Otters, loutres.
Pecans.
Cats, chats.
Wolves, loup de bois.
Lynxes, loups cerviers.
North pichoux, pichoux du nord.
South pichoux, pichoux du sud.
Red foxes, renards rouges.
Cross foxes, renards croisés.
Black foxes, renards noirs.
Grey foxes, renards argentés.
Southern, or Virginian foxes, renards du sud où de Virginie.
White foxes, from Tadoussac, renards blancs de Tadoussac.
Martens, martres.
Visons, or foutreaux.
Black squirrels, ecureuils noirs.
Raw stags skins, cerfs verts.
Prepared ditto, cerfs passés.
Raw elks skins, originals verts.
Prepared ditto, originals passées.
Rein-deer skins, cariboux.
Raw hinds skins, biches verts.
Prepared ditto, biches passées.
Carcajoux.
Musk rats, rats musques.
Fat winter beavers, castors gras d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors gras d’été.
Dry winter beavers, castors secs d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors secs d’été.
Old winter beavers, castors veiux d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors vieux d’été.’
Peter Kalm Montreal 22nd September 1749.
Trade Goods lists.
1716 South Carolina Board of Trade - Trade Schedule
Goods ------------------------------------Buckskins
A Gun. -----------------------------------------30
A Yard Strouds --------------------------------- 7
A Duffield Blanket ------------------------------14
A Yard Half Thicks ------------------------------3
A Hatchet ---------------------------------------2
A narrow Hoe -----------------------------------2
A broad Hoe ------------------------------------4
Fifty Bullets ------------------------------------1
A Butcher’s Knife -------------------------------1
A pair Cizars ------------------------------------1
Three Strings Beads ----------------------------1
Eighteen Flints ---------------------------------1
An Ax ------------------------------------------4
A Pistol ----------------------------------------20
A Cutlash ---------------------------------------8
A Shirt -----------------------------------------4
A Steel -----------------------------------------1
A Calico Petticoat ------------------------------12
A red Girdle ------------------------------------2
A laced Hatt ------------------------------------8
A Clasp Knife -----------------------------------1
A Yard Cadis -----------------------------------1
Rum, with1/3 Water per bottle -----------------1
Salt, Gunpowder, Kettles,
Looking Glasses ---------------------------As you can
"Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New York" (ix., 408-409) the following comparative table of prices at Fort Orange (Albany) and at Montreal in 1689 is given:
The Indian pays for at Albany at Montreal
1 musket 2 beavers 5 beavers
8 pounds of powder 1 beaver 4 beavers
40 pounds of lead 1 beaver 3 beavers
1 blanket 1 beaver 2 beavers
4 shirts 1 beaver 2 beavers
6 pairs stockings 1 beaver 2 beavers
www.chroniclesofamerica.com/french/coureur_de_bois.htmAn Account of the Prices of Goods, settled between Col. James Moore and the Conjuror, the 30th Day of April, 1716, as they are allways to be sold to his People, viz.,
Skins Skins
A Gun. . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Twelve Flints. . . . . . . . 1
A Yard Strouds . . . . . . . 8 A Broadcloth Coat, laced . . 30
A white Duffield Blanket . . 16 A Half Thicks Coat . . . . . 20
A Yard of Half Thicks. . . . 3 An Ax. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
A Hatchet. . . . . . . . . . 3 A Pistol . . . . . . . . . . 20
A narrow Hoe . . . . . . . . 3 A Sword. . . . . . . . . . . 10
A broad Hoe. . . . . . . . . 5 A Shirt. . . . . . . . . . . 5
Thirty Bullets . . . . . . . 1 A Steel. . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Knife. . . . . . . . . . . 1 A calico Petticoat . . . . . 14
A pair Scissors. . . . . . . 1 A red Girdle . . . . . . . . 2
Two Strings Beads. . . . . . 1
All Skins to be taken, one with another, and Beaver, the same Rates. All other Merchandize, as usual, according to Custom.
A Schedule of the stated Prices of Goods, as they are to be disposed of, to the Indians in Barter, viz.,
Goods Buck Skins Goods Buck Skins
A Gun 30 A Pistol 20
A Yard Strouds 7 A Cutlash 8
A Duffield Blanket 14 A Shirt 4
A Yard Half Thicks 3 A Steel 1
A Hatchet 2 A Calico Petticoat 12
A narrow Hoe 2 A red Girdle 2
A broad Hoe 4 A laced Hatt 8
Fifty Bullets 1 A Clasp Knife 1
A Butcher’s Knife 1 A Yard Cadis 1
A pair Cizars 1 Rum, mixed with 1/3 Water;
Three Strings Beads 1 per Bottle 1
Eighteen Flints 1 Salt, Gunpowder, Kettles,
An Ax 4 Looking Glasses As you can
Delivered likewise to the said McKleroy and Thompson, a Brand (as mentioned in our Instructions, for our said Factor) to mark the Slaves and Skins with.
Adjourned till Wednesday the 15th Instant.
A Table of Rates to barter by; viz., Quantity and Quality of Goods for Pounds of heavey drest Deer Skins.
[Skins] [Skins]
A Gun 16 A Ditto, not laced 12
A Pound Powder 1 A Yard Strouds 4
Four Pounds Bullets or Shot 1 A Yard Plains or Half Thicks 2
A Pound red Lead 2 A laced Hat 3
Fifty Flints 1 A plain Hat 2
Two Knives 1 A white Duffield Blanket 8
One Pound Beads 3 A blew or red Ditto, two Yards 7
Twenty-four Pipes 1 A course Linnen Shirt 3
A broad Hoe 3 A Gallon Rum 4
A Hatchet 2 A Pound Fermilion, [and] two
A Pound Vermilion 16 Pounds red Lead, mixed 20
A Yard double striped, Brass Kettles, per Pound 2 1/2
yard-wide Cloth 3 A Yard course flowered Calicoe 4
A double striped Cloth Coat, Three Yards broad scarlet
Tinsey laced 16 Caddice 1
A Half Thicks or Plains Coat,
gartering laced 14
Adjourned to Friday next. (April 25, 1718)
Ordered, that the Letter following be sent to Capt. Charlesworth Glover, Factor at Savano Town, per Indian Sagohey; viz.,
Capt. Glover, June the 3rd, 1718
By Desire of the Governour and Council we have consented that you should satisfie the Indian Man, who took and returned Hugh Banks, for the Ransom of him, at the most reasonable Rate you can agree for, out of such Goods [as you have in the Trading] House at Savano Town; therefore have intimated the [same to you, by this] Opportunity, that you may comply with |275| our Promise, and render us a particular Account of what you pay, to be laid before the Assembly. We are &c.
The Esquire and several Head Men of the Indians (commonly called Creeks) attending, and being discoursed (by Col. Mackey, Linguist) came to the following Agreement, for the Prices of the Goods under-mentioned, which might at any Time hereafter happen to be sold them in their Town, and for other Goods in Proportion; the Goods named were such as follows, viz.,
Heavy
Drest Skins Light
Strouds, per Yard – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 6 or 9
Blew [or] red Duffields, per Yard – – – – – – 6 or 9
Stript Duffield Blankets, per Yard- – – – – – 6 or 9
Half Thicks, Plains and Cottons, per Yard – – 2 or 3
Half Thicks Coats, laced- – – – – – – – – – – 14 or 21
Plain Ditto – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12 or 18
Coats, Strouds, laced – – – – – – – – – – – – 20 or 30
Ditto, plain- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 18 or 27
Guns- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 25 or 35
Powder, per Pound – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 and in Proportion
Pistols, each – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12 or 18
Hangers – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 7 or 10
Hats, plain – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Ditto, laced- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Shirts- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – __ or __
Flints, 20- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 or 15,1
Bullets, 40 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 1 or 30,1
Hose, broad, and Axes – – – – – – – – – – – – 4 or 6
Ditto, narrow – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 2 or 3
From a memorial from Benjamin Martyn, agent for Georgia, to the Board of Trade, Jan. 28, 1755. This is directly from a 1750 list of goods that was used to suggest what should be purchased with £1500 for Indian presents to be distributed to the groups bordering the colony of Georgia, reused by Martyn.
From the Colonial Records of the State of Georgia.
Enclosure A
A list of goods for Indian Presents.
20 pieces striped Duffils, the stripes bright
28 half pieces blew Strouds
14 half pieces red Do.
10 pieces blew plains corded and Wormed for Women
200 Yards of embroider’d Serge the patterns large
2500 lb F. Gunpowder
150 Wilson’s trading Guns
40 Fowling Pieces
12 Saddles with Cruppers and Bridles
8 Do. a better Sort with Housings
2 Gross Stone Rings
12 Doz. Horn Combs
6 Doz. Ivory Do.
4 Gross black and spotted Clasp knives
12 Doz. Razors
12 Doz. pair Scyssors
12 Doz. looking Glasses
12 Nests of red gilt trunks
19 Doz. check Shirts
18 Doz. white Garlics Do
15 pieces of Calicoe 18 yards in Each
50Cnt trading Bells
34 second hand scarlet, red, and blew coats
6 Do. a better sort, and 6 Waistcoats for head men
34 tinsel laced hats
6 tinsel laced hats a better Sort for Head Men
6 Gross Body Cadis in pieces 12 yards each
6 Gross figured and Star Gartering
30 lb Vermilion
14 Gross long Pipes
60 Gross Hunters Do
100 lb. Shag cut tobacco
40 lb. bright brass wire sorted
6 Gross Hawks Bells smallest size
12 Dozen Oval-eyed Hatchets
250 lb brass Kettles sorted
10 Nests tin Kettles 15 in Each
4 Doz. quart tin Pots
4 Doz. pint Do
4 Doz 1/2 Pint Do
4,000 Black flints for trading guns
1,000 Do for Fowling Pieces
Source: Coleman, K., Ready, M., (1976). The Colonial records of the state of Georgia. Vol.27, Original papers of Governor John Reynolds, 1754-1756. Athens: University of Georgia Press. pp. 30-31
The following is a 1756 Order from Sir William Johnson, apparently filled in 1757 for Gifts for the Indians. This would have been intended for the northern tribes, not the SE, but shows the types of goods commonly ordered.
Source: Sir William Johnson Papers, Volume II page 898-899
A Specification of the Quality and Quantity of Goods
necessary to be sent from London for the Northern
Indian department.
20, pcs. of blue narrow Cord Strowds
10, ditto. of Black ditto.
5, ditto. of Aurora, or Crimson ditto.
5, ditto. of common Red ditto.
200, Rolls of different Colours Gartering
200, ps. Gimps Suitable to the Strouds
300, Blankets made to sample every Way
300, ditto. Large enough for Women
400, ditto. for men something Larger,
6, pcs. of deep purple Ratteen
6, pcs. of White or uncolour’d d”.
6, ds. of Walsh Cottons
200, Mens Ruffled Shirts Buttons
200, ditto. plain
100, ditto. Smaller size and plain
100, ditto. for little Boys
20, Hanks of light Colour’d Thread
6, pcs. of Yellow half thicks
4, ditto. of Blue d”.
30, pcs. Strip’d Callimincoes, lively Colours
20, pcs. of Callicoes also Lively Colours
20, pcs. embors’d Serges ditto.
10, pcs. of Yard wide Checks Red Stripes
40. pcs. of single Ribbands Viz’. 10. deep Red, 10. deep blue, 10. deep Green, & 10. Yellow,
30, doz”. of Womens Yarn Hose Clock’. & diff’. Colours.
20, d°. of Boys ditto & ditto.
20, d°. of Childrens ditto & ditto.
20, d°. Smallest Childrens Hose.
10, d°. of Womens Scarlet blue and Green Worsted Hose with Clocks,
100, Castor Hatts laced with a broad cheap Lace
50, ditto. with a better Lace
2, doz”. of small Jacks or Colours
100, Coats of blue Cloath Red Cuffs &c. Laced
100, Cheap Green Waste Coats with white Mett’. Buttons
400, Neat Fowling pieces Barrels 4 Feet Long Substantíal Stocks to have some distinguishing mark on the Barrel and Lock of each, about 2 0 / price,
400, ditto. a better kind distinguish’d as above.
200, ditto. 3 Feet Barrell for Boys. ditto. Wilson Maker
100, pcs. of middling Pistols with Ramrods
1000, Indian Cuthashes strong & of the Cymiter kind
500, Pipe Hatchets neat & Strong without Handles
50, doz. of Long Fish Knives with Box Handles and Sharp points
50, ditto. of Buckhorn Clasp Knives
20, doz. of Penknives Sorted
20, doz. of Womens Siczars,
20, Gro: of Indian Awl Blades,
50, B of Brass wire Sorted,
50, Brass Gorgets Gilt, with the Kings Arms
150, Hair Cocades,
50, Gro. of the smallest brass dutch Jews Harps
50, doz. Buckling Combs,
10, M of Needles Sorted
30, Gro. of Hawks Bells different Sizes
4, ditto. of Common Razors,
20, doz. of Looking Glasses at 8/
20, ditto. of ditto at 10/
100, Gro: of Bristol pipes
50, 11 of small white Beeds
500, Common Steel Tongs for Striking Fire
4, •M'”. of Good Gun powder, half in whole, & half in 1/2 Barrells
8, Tons of Leaden Barrs of 1-1/2 lbs Each
2, M of Goose Shott
2. ditto. of duck Shott
10, -M. of Good Flints
500, lbs. of VermiIIion in Casks well packd
20, 1bs of Verdegreace in Lump
100, doz. of Bullet Molds for the before Mention’d Arms,
INDORSED: List of Goods, to be sent from London, for the Northern Indians in the E. of Loudoun’s Letter of Nov. 22”. 1756.
For a Yard Strouds, Buckskins answerable to, or 5 Doe-skins. For a
Yard Playnes, 1 Buckskin weighing 1 l. 3 qrs. or Doe-skins answerable.
A white Blanket 5 Bucksk. or 10 Doe.
A Blanket blue Duffils 3 or 6
A Gun 10 or 20
A Pistol 5 or 10
A Gun Lock 4 or 8
4 Measures of Powder 1 or 2
60 Bullets 1 or 2
Ditto 1 or
A white Shirt 2 or 4
A Knife 2 or 1
Flints or 1
3 Yards Cadiz or 1
3 ditto Gartering or 1
A broad Hoe 3 or 6
A narrow Hoe 2 or 4
A falling Axe 2 or 4
A large Hatchet or 3
A small Ditto 1 or 2
A brass Kettle per lb. 1 or 2
2 Yards brass Wire or 1
A Looking Glass 1 or 2
A Hat 2 or 4
A leather Belt 1 or 2
1 Dozen of Buttons or 1
Large Beeds
N.B. The Doe-skins not to weigh under 1 lb. and the Buckskins at least 1 lb. 3 qrs.
On the 18th of October (1733) the 7th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second, the Trustees of Georgia set the rates and prices of the goods for trade with the lower Creeks…..
Two yards of stroud – Five Buck-Skins,
One yard of plains – One Buck-Skin,
White blanket – One Buck-Skin,
Blue Blanket – Three Buck-Skins,
A gun – Ten Buck-Skins,
a pistol – Ten Buck-Skins,
A Gun Lock – Ten Buck-Skins,
Two measures of powder – One Buck-Skin,
Sixty bullets – One Buck-Skin,
One white shirt – One Buck-Skin,
Knife – One Doe-Skin,
Eighteen flints – One Buck-Skin,
Three Yards of cadiz – One Doe-Skin,
Three yards of gartering – One Doe-Skin,
One hoe – Two Buck-Skins,
One axe – Two Buck-Skins,
One large hatchet – Three Doe-Skins,
One small hatchet – One Buck-Skin,
Brass kettles per lb. – One Buck-Skin.
Doe-Skins were estimated at half the value of the bucks.
From: Capt. Hughes book “HISTORY OF GEORGIA” copyrighted 1811.” Courtesy of Hardluck Humphries.
From the “Suffering Traders” lists of the Ohio Company. These goods were being sent to the Cherokees from Philadelphia.
“Goods sent up the River Kentucky [in 1753] …under care of David Hendricks to trade with the Cherokees, who was hunting there, which came from Carolina, he was surprised by a Party of Chipawas…and French-men who took him and five more of our People Prisoners, only one and an Indian who was in Company making their Escape.”
42 Robed Strouds @ 30/ £63.0,0
12 Plain Strouds @ 20/12.0.0
22 Calimancoe Bed Gowns @ 13/ 12.4.0
40 Plain Shirts @ 10/ 20.0.0
24 Ruffled Shirts @ 25/ 30.0.0
2 Ps. of Calimancoe @ 70/ 7.0.0
2 Ps. of Handkerchiefs @ 60/ 6.0.0
12 Vermillion @ 18/ 10.16.0
30 Made Coats @ 20/ 30.0.0
15,000 Wampum @ 60p 45.0.0
15 Dozen Knives @ 12/ 9.0.0
14 Dozen Silver Broches @ 12/ 8.8.0
12 Silver Arm Bands @ 20/ 12.0.0
12 Womens Silver Hair Plates @ 20/ 12.0.0
1 Riding Saddle 3.0.0
2 Pack Saddles 2.0.0
Transporting these Goods from Phila. on Horseback to the River Kentucky where they were taken, about 600 miles and paying the Servants Wages: 84.10.0
Total £367. 0.0
Excerpted from:
Belue, Ted Franklin. The Hunters of Kentucky: A Narrative History of America’s First Far West, 1750-1792. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003. pp.265
The following is a 1756 Order from Sir William Johnson, apparently filled in 1757 for Gifts for the Indians. This would have been intended for the northern tribes, not the SE, but shows the types of goods commonly ordered.
Source: Sir William Johnson Papers, Volume II page 898-899
A Specification of the Quality and Quantity of Goods
necessary to be sent from London for the Northern
Indian department.
20, pcs. of blue narrow Cord Strowds
10, ditto. of Black ditto.
5, ditto. of Aurora, or Crimson ditto.
5, ditto. of common Red ditto.
200, Rolls of different Colours Gartering
200, ps. Gimps Suitable to the Strouds
300, Blankets made to sample every Way
300, ditto. Large enough for Women
400, ditto. for men something Larger,
6, pcs. of deep purple Ratteen
6, pcs. of White or uncolour’d d”.
6, ds. of Walsh Cottons
200, Mens Ruffled Shirts Buttons
200, ditto. plain
100, ditto. Smaller size and plain
100, ditto. for little Boys
20, Hanks of light Colour’d Thread
6, pcs. of Yellow half thicks
4, ditto. of Blue d”.
30, pcs. Strip’d Callimincoes, lively Colours
20, pcs. of Callicoes also Lively Colours
20, pcs. embors’d Serges ditto.
10, pcs. of Yard wide Checks Red Stripes
40. pcs. of single Ribbands Viz’. 10. deep Red, 10. deep blue, 10. deep Green, & 10. Yellow,
30, doz”. of Womens Yarn Hose Clock’. & diff’. Colours.
20, d°. of Boys ditto & ditto.
20, d°. of Childrens ditto & ditto.
20, d°. Smallest Childrens Hose.
10, d°. of Womens Scarlet blue and Green Worsted Hose with Clocks,
100, Castor Hatts laced with a broad cheap Lace
50, ditto. with a better Lace
2, doz”. of small Jacks or Colours
100, Coats of blue Cloath Red Cuffs &c. Laced
100, Cheap Green Waste Coats with white Mett’. Buttons
400, Neat Fowling pieces Barrels 4 Feet Long Substantíal Stocks to have some distinguishing mark on the Barrel and Lock of each, about 2 0 / price,
400, ditto. a better kind distinguish’d as above.
200, ditto. 3 Feet Barrell for Boys. ditto. Wilson Maker
100, pcs. of middling Pistols with Ramrods
1000, Indian Cuthashes strong & of the Cymiter kind
500, Pipe Hatchets neat & Strong without Handles
50, doz. of Long Fish Knives with Box Handles and Sharp points
50, ditto. of Buckhorn Clasp Knives
20, doz. of Penknives Sorted
20, doz. of Womens Siczars,
20, Gro: of Indian Awl Blades,
50, B of Brass wire Sorted,
50, Brass Gorgets Gilt, with the Kings Arms
150, Hair Cocades,
50, Gro. of the smallest brass dutch Jews Harps
50, doz. Buckling Combs,
10, M of Needles Sorted
30, Gro. of Hawks Bells different Sizes
4, ditto. of Common Razors,
20, doz. of Looking Glasses at 8/
20, ditto. of ditto at 10/
100, Gro: of Bristol pipes
50, 11 of small white Beeds
500, Common Steel Tongs for Striking Fire
4, •M'”. of Good Gun powder, half in whole, & half in 1/2 Barrells
8, Tons of Leaden Barrs of 1-1/2 lbs Each
2, M of Goose Shott
2. ditto. of duck Shott
10, -M. of Good Flints
500, lbs. of VermiIIion in Casks well packd
20, 1bs of Verdegreace in Lump
100, doz. of Bullet Molds for the before Mention’d Arms,
INDORSED: List of Goods, to be sent from London, for the Northern Indians in the E. of Loudoun’s Letter of Nov. 22”. 1756.
1756-Memorandum of Goods Delivered to the Catawbas Nov 1, 1756
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
8 blew strowds
3 red ditto
2 matchcoats
6 blankets
11 shirts
3 ruffled shirts
12 pair sleeve buttons
24 bunches beads
2 pieces bed lace
1 piece red gartering
11 pr. fire tongs
11 mocceson awls
2 strings of wampum on a war belt
1 string of wampum 400
2 belts 800 each
16 gallon rum
2 1/2 gallons of wine
34 lbs sugar
12 lbs. tobacco
6 gallons [of something I can’t decipher]
4 lbs. butter
6 pair white leggons
5 pair blew ditto
9 red britch clouts
9 sculping knives
2 pair bullet molds
2 hanks of razor wire
1 hank of large ditto
1 pound of thread
3 pounds paint
24 rings
1758-1760-Account of goods bought in Charlestown & Augusta
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
1758
Aug 26 Bot of smith & brewton; 1000 bullets at 10.10/pct… 105:00/00
Aug 29 of Stevenson & Michie; 336 bullets at 10 pct……… 20:00/00
Aug 30 Of Ancrum lance & Loocock; 112 bullets 10:00 pct 10:10/00
Of Jas laurens & co; 50 yards red bunting 21 inches wide
for colours at 12/6… 6:05/00
Sep 2 of John Scott; 30 steel pipe hatchets at 50/……………….. 75:00/00
Sept 16 of moreau & Jona Larrazin
1 arm & wrist band weight 1oz 7dw ….. 5:05/00
1 gorget, weight 5 1/2dw with eagle engraved 2:10/00 7:15/00
sept 23 of Jn Paul Grimkee
4 best sort fine silvered gorgets at 5… 20:00/00
5 double gilt ditto at 4:10 22:10/00
5 lackered ditto at 3:10 17:10/00
1 fine silver medal 3:00/00
1 silvered ditto & 1 lackered ditto 3:00/00
12 stone rings set strong in silver 12:00/00
12 silver brooches for shirt bosom at 20/ 6:00/00
12 ditto……ditto…at 12/6 7:10/00
12 silver wire rings at 5/ 3:00/00
12 ditto stonger ditto at 7/6 4:10/00
12 doz brass thimbles at 5/ 3:00/00
6 col’d glass necklaces at 7/6 2:05/00
4 ditto vizt; 2 at 10/, 2 at 20/ each 3:00/00
2 fine pearl necklaces at 12/6 1:05/00
40 red barley corn ditto 3:00/00
20 fine red agate ditto 4:00/00
34 blue barley corn ditto 3:00/00
9 fine large blue ditto at 7/6 3:07/06
24 white barley corn ditto 1:13/09
25 ditto agate ditto at 3/9 4:13/09
4 burning glasses vizt 2 at 25/,2 at 30/ 5:10/00
6 paint box watches vizt 4 at 30/ & 2 at 40/ 10:00/00
2 large paint boxes at 12/6 1:05/00
6 smaller ditto at 10/ 3:00/00
6 ditto ditto at 7/6 2:05/00
6 ditto ditto at 5/ 1:10/00
4 3 foot rules at 20/ 4:00/00
2 cards of sleeve buttons qt 12/pr at 20 2:00/00
10 ditto ditto at 10/ 5:00/00
2 silver arm, 2 wrist, & 2 breast plates 8:00/00
1 doz armbands 15:15/00
1 doz ditto 10:15/00
2 doz wrist bands 10:00/00
2 doz breast plates, small round ones 8:00/00
52:10 @ 3 (pounds sterling) = 157:10/00
4 brass weights 1lb each at 15/0 3:00/00
4 ditto 1/2 lb each at 10/ 2:00/00 325:05/00
Bot of Macartan & Campbell
8 doz check shirts at $14:17/doz 118:16/00
4 doz white ditto at $16:10/doz 66:00/00
50 (pounds) cut tobacco in ½ (pound) papers in a box at 6/5 16:00/10
2 ps calleco 19 yards each at $14:6e 28:12/00
1 doz cotton handkerchiefs at 12/6 7:10/00
3 doz linen ditto at 87/doz 13:04/00
18 yds white tammy for colours at 9/ 8:02/00
2 ps narrow taffety ribband 72 yds at 38/6 p ps 3:17/00
49 yards narrow paudusoy ditto 4:09/00
23 yards broad ditto 2:11/01
1 grs silk ferret in 5ps 144 yds 9:07/00
2 lackered armbands at 27/6 2:15/00
2 ditto hairpieces at ditt 2:15/00
3 double gilt armbands at 85/ 12:15/00
3 ditto hairpieces at ditto 12:15/00
13 silver arm bands at 90/ 58:10/00
3 ditto large at 135/ 20:05/00
6 ditto hairpieces at ditto 40:10/00
6 gilt gorgets at 100/ 30:00/00
6 silvered ditto at 75/ 22:10/00
Dec 15 8 ps strowds cost 74/ p ps 29:12/00
Advance @ 1000pct 296:00/00
30 yds red bunting 20 in wide at 7/6 for colours 11:05/00
52 yds white tammy ¾ yd at 8/ for colours 21:00/00
35 ½ lb red lead at 2/6 4:07/06
a light deerskin to put the red lead in :07/06
1759
feb 26 20 shag duffle great coats ½ red and ½ blue with
white metal buttons at 5:10/ea 110:00/00
July 9 1 doz silvered gorgets at 75/ 45:00/00
Sep 14 1 doz check shirts 14:17/00 1013:12/11
Dec 4 Bot of Wm rae at ockfuskey
1 saddle and bridle 15:00/00
2 plain housings at $5 pr piece 10:00/00 25:00/00
1760
Bot of Macartan and Campbell
Jan 9 Sundrys sent to the creek nation p Rd Henderson to
replace what he lent there at Ockfuskey 30 Oct., to give
the chactaws at ratifying the treaty; viz
5 ps strowd at $40:14/ 203:10/00
1 ps ditto 40:00/00
2 shag end duffles at $50:14/ 101:18/00
4 doz check shirts at $ 16: 4/ 64:16/00
2 doz garlix ditto at $16: 4/ 32:08/00
2 doz knives at $30 3:00/00
1 saddle and bridle 9:00/00
To replace what the chactan company lent for the same
purpose
50 lb gunpowder Pounds Sterling 26:11/08(11 shilling & 8 pence a pound).
21 trading guns at $5/10 115:10/00
2 striped duffil blankets 6:01/00 148:02/08
For a Chactan headman paimingo; 1 saddle 9:00/00
For fog of sookcaspoga ; 1 duffil blanket 3:00/06
For the mortar of Ockchoy
1 striped duffil blanket 3:00/06
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/00 4:16/06
Freight of above goods sent to creeks jan 9 vizt 839lb at 4d
added to the Charlestown price of them. 13:19/08
Sundrys for the Ockfuskey Captain and other creeks at Fort Moore
1 ps strowds 40:14/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
5 striped duffil blankets at 60/6 15:02/6
3 saddles at $11 33:00/0
6 Galls Rum 12(pounds) 2 cags 25/ 13:05/0 103:17/06
Jan 25 Sundrys for Alock of Cussihtah & other creeks at Fort Moore
8 striped duffil blankets 24:04/0
¼ ps strowds 10:03/6
1 saddle 15:08/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
6 trading knives :15/0
5 check shirts 6:17/4
3 galls rum, & cagg 6:12/6 65:16/04
Feb 27 Sundrys for the Coweta Lt. Simpoyahsay & other Coweta &
Cussihta Indians who had an interview at Fort Augusta 24th
concerning the Cherokee war
6 yds strowds 2 suits 15:00/00
2 striped duffel blankets 6:01/00
2 ruffled shirts 3:12/00
2 doz trading knives 3:00/00
2 doz hatchits $4:8 8:16/00
1 grs gartering 4:10/00
25 lb Gunpowder 3:18/00 58:02/10
Sundrys for the Coweta Mico
3 yds strowds 7:10/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
2 trading knives :10/0
1 couteau ditto :10/0
3 hatchits 1:10/0 11:16/00 872:14/00
$2491:01/11
DEDUCT: Net proceedes of 15 doz worsted, & 4doz thread hose of the
kings, sold at Publick venue 15 sep 1758 being unfit for the
Indians as pace sales of Warham Prioleau 163:13/06 ¾ 2327:08/04 ¼
$2327:08/4 ¼ at 700p Ct Exch is Sterling $ 332:09/09
Errors excepted; Chastown, 24 March 1760; Edmd Atkin
1758-Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd (Cherokee)
Posted on March 18, 2011 by Wynne
“Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd”, from McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. pp.456-458. These were likely primarily provided to the Cherokee, even though not always stated as such. (Thanks to J. Mullins)
A List of Goods taken from the Traders by Colonel Byrd for the Use of the Indians
April 4th, 1758
6 Boxes Paint
1 Brass Kettle Wt. 4-1/2
5 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Booting
3 Guns
1 Piece Stript Flannel
7 Pro Ear Babbs
S Ps. Blanketts
1 Dozen Hatchets
2-1/2 Lb. Small Beads
1 Gross Cadice
1 Gross Gartering
2 Dozen Pro Ear Babbs
4-1/2 Bunches Barley Corn Beads
12-1/2 Lb. Gun Powder
25 Lb. Lead
4-1/2 Dozen Knives
3 Pieces Ribbon
14 Tobacco
1 Peck Salt
14 Yards Stript Cotton
1 Gallon Rum
2 Pieces Cadice
2 Ps. Gartering
Those Things were taken from Mr. Gowdy and given to the Great Warriour
and his Gang by Colonel Byrd, April 4th, 1758.
April 7th, 1758
6 Yards of Negro Cloth (for Powder Baggs)
4-1/2 Yards Oznabrigs (for Shott Baggs)
6 Pieces Stript Flannel
2 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Booting
6 Dozen Hatchetts
4 Pieces Stript Cotton
16 Blanketts
10 Dozen Knives
2 Bolts Oznabrigs
150 Wt. Gun Powder
300 Wt. Lead
2 Pieces Check
2 Pieces Strowds
Mr. Gowdy, April 7th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
2 Pieces Strowds
I Piece Gar lix
I Box Paint
5 71, Yards Callamanio
3 Yards Strowds
I Match Coat
75 Skins
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
I Lb. Bulletts
SO Yards Garlix
Mr. Beamer, April 29th, 1758
April 1oth, 1758
46 Check Shirts
4 Caggs Rum, 5 Gallons each
2 Yards Oznabrigs
2 Indian Trading Guns out of the Indian Presents at Fort Loudon
Captain Paul Demere, April 10th, 1758
An Account of Goods Issued to the Indians by Colonel Byrd at Fort Prince George, April 29th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
8 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
10-1/2 Dozen of Check Shirts
3 Pieces Booting
60 Hatchetts
42 Trading [Guns]
5 Dozen and 4 Knives
4 Boxes Paint
1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
21 Yards Garlix
33 Yards Oznabrigs
1-1/2 Baggs Flints
100 Weight Powder
200 Weight Trading Bulletts
3 Yards Strowds
1 Match Coat
75 Skins Weight 161 Lb.
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
1 Lb. Bulletts
50 Yards Garlix
Those Things [were] given by Colonel Byrd to the Estatoe People that went with him to Virginia, May 1st, 1758.
[No date]
[147] 64 Shirts
2 Pieces Stript Cotton
8 Guns
Those Things were given to the Great Warriour and his Gang.
An Account of Things delivered Mr. John Elliott to be carryed over to Fort Loudon by Colonel Byrd’s Orders, May 2d, 1758
May 2d, 1758
800 Weight Gun Powder
1600 Weight Trading Bulletts
13 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Duffells
16 Blankets
5-1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
3 Pieces Booting
2 Pieces Check
1 Bolt Oznabrigs
3 Boxes Paint
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
18 Douzen and 8 Cutteau Knives
72 Check Shirts
5-1/2 Yards Callamanco
12 Yards Garlix
10 Dozen Ordinary
2 Small Baggs of Flints
1758-1760-Account of goods bought in Charlestown & Augusta
Posted on March 17, 2011 by Wynne
1758
Aug 26 Bot of smith & brewton; 1000 bullets at 10.10/pct… 105:00/00
Aug 29 of Stevenson & Michie; 336 bullets at 10 pct……… 20:00/00
Aug 30 Of Ancrum lance & Loocock; 112 bullets 10:00 pct 10:10/00
Of Jas laurens & co; 50 yards red bunting 21 inches wide
for colours at 12/6… 6:05/00
Sep 2 of John Scott; 30 steel pipe hatchets at 50/……………….. 75:00/00
Sept 16 of moreau & Jona Larrazin
1 arm & wrist band weight 1oz 7dw ….. 5:05/00
1 gorget, weight 5 1/2dw with eagle engraved 2:10/00 7:15/00
sept 23 of Jn Paul Grimkee
4 best sort fine silvered gorgets at 5… 20:00/00
5 double gilt ditto at 4:10 22:10/00
5 lackered ditto at 3:10 17:10/00
1 fine silver medal 3:00/00
1 silvered ditto & 1 lackered ditto 3:00/00
12 stone rings set strong in silver 12:00/00
12 silver brooches for shirt bosom at 20/ 6:00/00
12 ditto……ditto…at 12/6 7:10/00
12 silver wire rings at 5/ 3:00/00
12 ditto stonger ditto at 7/6 4:10/00
12 doz brass thimbles at 5/ 3:00/00
6 col’d glass necklaces at 7/6 2:05/00
4 ditto vizt; 2 at 10/, 2 at 20/ each 3:00/00
2 fine pearl necklaces at 12/6 1:05/00
40 red barley corn ditto 3:00/00
20 fine red agate ditto 4:00/00
34 blue barley corn ditto 3:00/00
9 fine large blue ditto at 7/6 3:07/06
24 white barley corn ditto 1:13/09
25 ditto agate ditto at 3/9 4:13/09
4 burning glasses vizt 2 at 25/,2 at 30/ 5:10/00
6 paint box watches vizt 4 at 30/ & 2 at 40/ 10:00/00
2 large paint boxes at 12/6 1:05/00
6 smaller ditto at 10/ 3:00/00
6 ditto ditto at 7/6 2:05/00
6 ditto ditto at 5/ 1:10/00
4 3 foot rules at 20/ 4:00/00
2 cards of sleeve buttons qt 12/pr at 20 2:00/00
10 ditto ditto at 10/ 5:00/00
2 silver arm, 2 wrist, & 2 breast plates 8:00/00
1 doz armbands 15:15/00
1 doz ditto 10:15/00
2 doz wrist bands 10:00/00
2 doz breast plates, small round ones 8:00/00
52:10 @ 3 (pounds sterling) = 157:10/00
4 brass weights 1lb each at 15/0 3:00/00
4 ditto 1/2 lb each at 10/ 2:00/00 325:05/00
Bot of Macartan & Campbell
8 doz check shirts at $14:17/doz 118:16/00
4 doz white ditto at $16:10/doz 66:00/00
50 (pounds) cut tobacco in ½ (pound) papers in a box at 6/5 16:00/10
2 ps calleco 19 yards each at $14:6e 28:12/00
1 doz cotton handkerchiefs at 12/6 7:10/00
3 doz linen ditto at 87/doz 13:04/00
18 yds white tammy for colours at 9/ 8:02/00
2 ps narrow taffety ribband 72 yds at 38/6 p ps 3:17/00
49 yards narrow paudusoy ditto 4:09/00
23 yards broad ditto 2:11/01
1 grs silk ferret in 5ps 144 yds 9:07/00
2 lackered armbands at 27/6 2:15/00
2 ditto hairpieces at ditt 2:15/00
3 double gilt armbands at 85/ 12:15/00
3 ditto hairpieces at ditto 12:15/00
13 silver arm bands at 90/ 58:10/00
3 ditto large at 135/ 20:05/00
6 ditto hairpieces at ditto 40:10/00
6 gilt gorgets at 100/ 30:00/00
6 silvered ditto at 75/ 22:10/00
Dec 15 8 ps strowds cost 74/ p ps 29:12/00
Advance @ 1000pct 296:00/00
30 yds red bunting 20 in wide at 7/6 for colours 11:05/00
52 yds white tammy ¾ yd at 8/ for colours 21:00/00
35 ½ lb red lead at 2/6 4:07/06
a light deerskin to put the red lead in :07/06
1759
feb 26 20 shag duffle great coats ½ red and ½ blue with
white metal buttons at 5:10/ea 110:00/00
July 9 1 doz silvered gorgets at 75/ 45:00/00
Sep 14 1 doz check shirts 14:17/00 1013:12/11
Dec 4 Bot of Wm rae at ockfuskey
1 saddle and bridle 15:00/00
2 plain housings at $5 pr piece 10:00/00 25:00/00
1760
Bot of Macartan and Campbell
Jan 9 Sundrys sent to the creek nation p Rd Henderson to
replace what he lent there at Ockfuskey 30 Oct., to give
the chactaws at ratifying the treaty; viz
5 ps strowd at $40:14/ 203:10/00
1 ps ditto 40:00/00
2 shag end duffles at $50:14/ 101:18/00
4 doz check shirts at $ 16: 4/ 64:16/00
2 doz garlix ditto at $16: 4/ 32:08/00
2 doz knives at $30 3:00/00
1 saddle and bridle 9:00/00
To replace what the chactan company lent for the same
purpose
50 lb gunpowder 26:11/08
21 trading guns at $5/10 115:10/00
2 striped duffil blankets 6:01/00 148:02/08
For a Chactan headman paimingo; 1 saddle 9:00/00
For fog of sookcaspoga ; 1 duffil blanket 3:00/06
For the mortar of Ockchoy
1 striped duffil blanket 3:00/06
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/00 4:16/06
Freight of above goods sent to creeks jan 9 vizt 839lb at 4d
added to the Charlestown price of them. 13:19/08
Sundrys for the Ockfuskey Captain and other creeks at Fort Moore
1 ps strowds 40:14/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
5 striped duffil blankets at 60/6 15:02/6
3 saddles at $11 33:00/0
6 Galls Rum 12(pounds) 2 cags 25/ 13:05/0 103:17/06
Jan 25 Sundrys for Alock of Cussihtah & other creeks at Fort Moore
8 striped duffil blankets 24:04/0
¼ ps strowds 10:03/6
1 saddle 15:08/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
6 trading knives :15/0
5 check shirts 6:17/4
3 galls rum, & cagg 6:12/6 65:16/04
Feb 27 Sundrys for the Coweta Lt. Simpoyahsay & other Coweta &
Cussihta Indians who had an interview at Fort Augusta 24th
concerning the Cherokee war
6 yds strowds 2 suits 15:00/00
2 striped duffel blankets 6:01/00
2 ruffled shirts 3:12/00
2 doz trading knives 3:00/00
2 doz hatchits $4:8 8:16/00
1 grs gartering 4:10/00
25 lb Gunpowder 3:18/00 58:02/10
Sundrys for the Coweta Mico
3 yds strowds 7:10/0
1 ruffled shirt 1:16/0
2 trading knives :10/0
1 couteau ditto :10/0
3 hatchits 1:10/0 11:16/00 872:14/00
$2491:01/11
DEDUCT: Net proceedes of 15 doz worsted, & 4doz thread hose of the
kings, sold at Publick venue 15 sep 1758 being unfit for the
Indians as pace sales of Warham Prioleau 163:13/06 ¾ 2327:08/04 ¼
$2327:08/4 ¼ at 700p Ct Exch is Sterling $ 332:09/09
Errors excepted; Chastown, 24 March 1760; Edmd Atkin
1759-Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana
Posted on March 18, 2011 by Wynne
This set of lists is exceprted from the Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana 1759. The full list includes materials for the garrisons, hospitals, and Indian trade/gifts, I believe for all of French Louisiana. It is prefaced with:
“Statement of arms, munition, food supplies and merchandise to be sent from France to Louisiana for the needs of the colony on the funds for the year 1759.”
Source: Rowland, Dunbar, A G. Sanders, and Patricia K. Galloway. Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Print. DOCUMENT 57, pp.228-232
ANNUAL PRESENTS THAT ARE GIVEN TO THE INDIANS
Fifteen hundred ells of limbourg, half blue and half red
Six hundred ells of sempitemc
Fifty plumes of different colors
Fifty pairs of copper shoe-buckles
Twenty three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Eight hundred trade shirts for men, as long in front as in the back
Three hundred fifty thirty-caliber trade guns•
Six thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Two hundred fifty ells of St. Jean cloth
Ten thousand gun flints
[fol. 328v] One thousand woodcutters’ knives
Twelve hundred clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs’ heads
Five hundred trade belts
Two thousand strike-a-lights
Five hundred seventy-six wooden combs
Four thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Four hundred pairs of ordinary scissors
Eighty pounds of iron wire of different thicknesses
Eighty pounds of brass wire which has not been annealed and in small rolls
Twenty-five dozen pewter,buttons
One hundred hats decorated with three-inch imitation silver braid
One hundred ordinary plain hats
Two thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand ells of gold and imitation silver lribbon}, half of it in braid
Fifty dozen buttons, gold and imitation silver, for suits. likewise half and half
Eighty pounds of vermilion, in pure powder. in small bags of one pound
Eighty pounds of red lead
Three hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
[fol. 329] One hundred fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small, larger at the top than at the bottom
Fifty ells of scarlet cloth’
One hundred ells of well-chosen scarlet woolen cloth; that which has been sent previously being only a double linen serge
Fifty ells of red camelot
Five complete sets of fine gold buttons
Five of the same in silver
Two hundred ells of St. Jean cloth for lining suits and coats
Extraordinary Presents
Eight hundred ells of blue and red limbourg, half and half
Forty plumes of different colors
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Six men’s trade shirts
One hundred fifty trade guns
Four thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Ten gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten gross of wooden combs
Ten thousand gun flints
Twenty-four hats decorated with imitation silver braid
Twenty-four of the same, plain ‘
[fol. 329v] Three thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand strike-a-lights
Fifty trade belts
Four hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
Six hundred cocks for trade guns 10 •
Six hundred hammers for the same
Six hundred tumblers
Six hundred sear-springs, forged in one piece
Six hundred sears
Eight hundred large screws
Eight hundred cock screws
Twenty-four packets of assorted German files
Thirty-six half-round bastard files
Twenty-four of the same, bastard, flat
Twenty-four of the same, assorted fine
Twenty-four of the same, rat-tailed
Twenty-four of the same, rasps
Forty hundredweight of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
For the Trade with the Choctaw Indians
Five thousand ells of limbourg, blue and red, half and half
[fol. 330] Fifteen hundred blankets of two and a half points
Six hundred three-point blankets
Twelve hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand six hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in the front as in the back
Four hundred women’s shirts
Five hundred cravats
Two hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Six thousand pounds of powder
Three hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Three hundred pounds of assorted round beads, particularly sky blue
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten thousand gun flints
Ten gross of trade scissors
Twenty gross of worms
Twenty gross of awls
Twenty gross of strike-a-lights
Six hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted] in leather
Twenty-five gross of combs
Four hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet 12
{fol. 33ov] Eight hundred ells of sempiterne, blue, red, and plum
Six thousand sewing needles
Eight. thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
One hundred fifty assorted brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
For the Trade with the Alabama, Attacapa, Kickapoo, Mascouten, and Shawnee Indians
Two thousand ells of red and blue limbourg
Fifteen hundred two-and-a~half-point blankets
Four hundred three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand five hundred men’s trade shirts
Five hundred women’s shirts
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Ten thousand pounds of powder
Four hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of vermilion in small bags of one pound
One hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
[fo1. 33 x 1 Thirty gross of awls
Forty gross of worms
Six gross of wooden combs
Six thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Two hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet
Ten thousand gun flints
Four thousand sewing needles
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Six gross of trade scissors
Fifteen hundred gross of clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs’ heads
Four hundred trade belts
Three hundred cravats
Three hundred sixty number 6 mirrors {?mounted) in leather
Fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no s,mall
For the Projected Trade with the Cherokee Indians
Ten thousand ells of limbourg, half red and half blue
Three thousand two-and-a-half-point blankets
Twelve hundred three-point blankets
Ten thousand four hundred Bazas blankets
[fo1. 33 1 v] Five thousand two hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in back as in front
Eight hundred women’s shirts
A thousand cravats
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Twelve thousand pounds of powder for war
Six hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three hundred pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred pounds of red lead
Six hundred pounds of assorted round beads
Sixty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Twenty thousand gun flints
Twenty gross of trade guns
Forty gross of worms
Forty gross of awls
Forty gross of strike-a-lights
Two hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted} in leather
Fifty gross of combs
Eight hundred ells ofbiue and red Mazamet
Eight thousand pounds of fiat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Eight thousand pounds ditto for the same
Twelve thousand sewing needles
[fol. 332] One hundred pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Three hundred brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
1759-Return of Indian Presents received by Lt Richard Coytmore
Posted on March 22, 2011 by Wynne
From: McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. p.483
[This would have been items returned to Ft. Prince George, in the upcountry of South Carolina. The fort was among the lower Cherokees, and managed a certain amount of the trade and gifts with the Cherokees for the colony of South Carolina.]
A Return of Indian Presents received by Lieut. Richard Coytmore from
Ensign Lachlan Mackintosh
Fort Prince George, 14 April, 1759
4 Chests Trading Guns containing 100
II Trading Guns, and one broke
12 Blankets
6 Shirts
5 Brass Kettles
3 Tin Ditto
13 Doz. and three Knives
6 Belts
4 Looking Glasses
Some Hawks’ Bells
17-3/4 Yards Strouds
26-3/4 Yds. Oznabrigs
2-1/2 Lb. Paint
6 Indian Hangers
1-1/2 Gross Pea Buttons
4 Horn Combs
I Pr. Scissars
amohkali.com/?page_id=111The prices of the skins in Canada, in the year 1749, were communicated to me by M. de Couagne, a merchant at Montreal, with whom I lodged. They were as follows:
Great and middle sized bear skins, cost five livres.
Skins of young bears, fifty sols.
~~~~ lynxes, 25 sols.
~~~~ pichoux du sud, 35 sols.
~~~~ foxes from the southern parts, 35 sols.
~~~~ otters, 5 livres.
~~~~ racoons, 5 livres.
~~~~ martens, 45 sols.
~~~~ wolf-lynxes, 4 livres.
~~~~ wolves, 40 sols.
~~~~ carcajoux, an animal which I do not know, 5 livres.
Skins of visons, a kind of martens, which live in the water, 25 sols.
Raw skins of elks, 10 livres.
~~~~ stags.
Bad skins of elks and stags, 3 livres.
Skins of roebucks, 25, or 30 sols.
~~~~ red foxes, 3 livres.
~~~~ beavers, 3 livres.
I will now insert a list of all the different kinds of skins, which are to be got in Canada, and which are sent from thence to Europe. I got it from one of the greatest merchants in Montreal. They are as follows:
Prepared roebuck skins, chevreuils passés.
Unprepared ditto, chevreuils verts.
Tanned ditto, chevreuils tanés.
Bears, ours.
Young bears, oursons.
Otters, loutres.
Pecans.
Cats, chats.
Wolves, loup de bois.
Lynxes, loups cerviers.
North pichoux, pichoux du nord.
South pichoux, pichoux du sud.
Red foxes, renards rouges.
Cross foxes, renards croisés.
Black foxes, renards noirs.
Grey foxes, renards argentés.
Southern, or Virginian foxes, renards du sud où de Virginie.
White foxes, from Tadoussac, renards blancs de Tadoussac.
Martens, martres.
Visons, or foutreaux.
Black squirrels, ecureuils noirs.
Raw stags skins, cerfs verts.
Prepared ditto, cerfs passés.
Raw elks skins, originals verts.
Prepared ditto, originals passées.
Rein-deer skins, cariboux.
Raw hinds skins, biches verts.
Prepared ditto, biches passées.
Carcajoux.
Musk rats, rats musques.
Fat winter beavers, castors gras d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors gras d’été.
Dry winter beavers, castors secs d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors secs d’été.
Old winter beavers, castors veiux d’hiver.
Ditto summer beavers, castors vieux d’été.’
Peter Kalm Montreal 22nd September 1749.
Hudson Bay Trade Goods.
Standard of Trade - Albany Fort, 1733
A Beaver Pelt could buy one of the following:
Item Amount Item Amount
Beads (Coloured) ¾ lb. Pistols [1 for 4 pelts]
Kettle, Brass 1 Gun Worms 1
Lead, Black 1 lb. Gloves, Yarn 1
Gun Powder 1 ½ lb. Goggles 2
Shot 5 lbs. Handkerchiefs 1
Sugar 2 lbs. Hats, laced 1
Tobacco, Brazil 2 lbs. Hatchets 2
Ditto Leaf or Roll 1 ½ lbs. Hawk Bells 8
Thread 1 lb. Ice Chisels 2
Vermilion 1 ½ oz Knives 8
Brandy 1 gallon Looking Glasses 2
Broad Cloth 2 yard Mocotagans (Curved Knives) 2
Blankets 1 Needles 12
Flannel 2 yard Net-Lines 2
Gartering 2 yard Powder Horns 2
Awl Blades 12 Plain Rings 6
Buttons 12 dozen Stone Rings 3
Breeches 1 pair Scrapers 2
Combs 2 Sword Blades 2
Egg Boxes 4 Spoons 4
Feathers, red 2 Shirts 2
Fish Hooks 20 Shoes 1 pair
Fire Steels 4 Stocking [1 for 1 ¼ pelts]
Files 1 Sashes, Worsted 2
Flints 20 Thimbles 6
Guns [1 for 10 to 12 pelts] Tobacco Boxes 2
TRADE GOODS.
Folks,
some neato stuff that was new to me from Vol I of the Byrd papers- looks like 4 foot barrels and specific types of muskets for trade were well established by the 1680s in the English colonies- as were color preferences for trucking cloth.
JM
Feb 2d 1684/5 (p29)
"Inclosed is allso a note for some Indian Goods which I allso desire by the first oppertunity. I had some complaints of my duffeilds & cottons this year [likely the woolen "cotton"]...Pray speake to the guns smith that the dogs of all the gun locks have good hold otherwise the Indians will not buy them."
Feb 2d 1684/5 (p30)
"inclosed have sent an invoice for some Indian trade, & hope you will mend your hand...Speake to the gun smith that the dogs of the locks have good hold, otherwise the Indians will not buy them."
March 29th, 1685 (p31)
"Your [duff]eilds much complain'd of both the goodnesse and colour. A darker blew pleases the Indians best."
June the 20th 1689 (p109)
"Additonall things sent for herewith:
18 Indian guns 4 foot per the [illeg...barrel???] to bee 2s. cheaper
2 g[ros]s of jews harps
2 g[ros]s of tobacco tongs
3 or 4 g[ros]s scissers about 2d. per dozen at most
1 g[ros]s tin shews [shears?]
WB."
TRADE GOODS.
Despite the inherent problems of the fur trade, the Indians were relatively well paid for the furs. These are the average prices for furs and peltries at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the late 1700s and the early 1800s:
• Raccoons-from 37 1/2 to 40 cents each
• Foxes, cats, and fishers-from 50 to 67 cents
• Minks-50 cents each
• Muskrats grown ones-25 cents each
• Otters-4 to 5 DLLS each
• Bears grown ones-same as otters
• Beavers-125 cents
• Buckskins always-100 cents
• Does skins-67 to 75 cents each
• Dressed does skins, buck and does-75 cents
• Does-75 cents
The inventory of merchandise at the United States Trading House, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1810, gives us a picture of the items that natives coveted:
• 3 nest copper kettles-7
• In a nest with covers weight 100 lbs. at 90 counts per lb.
• 1 nest containing 12 copper kettles without covers weight 100 1/2 lb-at 80 counts
• 38 rifles--$12.50
• 2 casks powder
• 185 lb. B.B. patent Shot--$14.50 cwt.
• 760 pair Ear Bobs Ca.--$12.50 per 100 pair
• 16 pair fluted wrist bands weight 14 oz 2 Dwts. Ca--$1.60 per oz.
• 31 head bands with eagles weight 23 oz. 8 dwts.
• 1 dozen broaches [sic] weight 3 oz. 5 dwts.
• 300 small ditto 1" 12
• 6 gorgets $18.36 per dozen
• 1 dozen larger round broaches weight 5 oz. 12 dwt.
• 1 dozen ear wheels weight 3 oz.
• 2 boxes bar lead
• 18 beaver traps--$2.25
• 20 ditto traps--$3.00
• 3 traps--$1.67
• 330 lb. pig tail tobacco--$15
• 2 shot bags-- $1. 259 yards yellow flannel-40 cents
• 7 1/2" red ditto-41 cents
• 14" white ditto-41 cents
• 14 3/4 blue cloth-1 2/6
• 6" stroud cloth 96 1/2
• 400 small crosses-6 1/2
• 200 crosses
• 47 nose wheels-20
• 23 fish lines with hooks
• 5 1/4 dozen ivory combs-300
• 1 gross straight awls
• 116 bullet moulds--37 1/2 cents
• 7 powder horns
• 2 large ditto
• 25 1/2 lb. powder-40 cents
• 27 lb. vermillion--$1.40
• 15 com. gun locks--$1.20
• 3 double roller ditto--$3.13
• 2" 3/4 bridled ditto--$2.87
• 11 best ditto--$2.80
• 28 pair two point blankets-- $2.27
• 6 pair 3 point ditto--$3.68
• 5 pair 3 1/2 point ditto--$3.75
• 1 pair American 3 point ditto
• 14 calico shirts--$1.20
• 59 pipe tomahawks--$1.50
• 196 lb. buckshot
• 10 fowling pieces--$11.33
• 33 plain tomahawks
• 119 axes
www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1555&nm=Fur-Tradein 1716 “Indian Peggy” appeared before the Commissioner of Trade with a “French man” purchased by her brother and given to her. The man had come dearly, costing her brother “a gun, a white Duffield match coat, two broadcloth match coats, a cutlass and some powder and paint”. Peggy was willing to exchange her hostage for the gun, and “the value of the rest of the goods might be paid her in strouds‘
sitblog.co.uk/2010/01/17/cloth-for-fur/#more-65amohkali.com/?page_id=119&paged=41762-Table of Goods and Prices for the Indian Trade, Charles Town, South Carolina
Posted on March 22, 2011
From: McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. pp. 366-369
TABLE OF GOODS AND PRICES FOR THE INDIAN TRADE
Charles Town, in South Carolina, July 19th, 1762
By the Directors of the Cherokee Indian Trade, on Account of the Publick of the said Province.
An alphabetical Table of the several Species of Goods, Wares and Merchandizes, and of the several Prices, the same are to be sold at, to the Indians, for clean, dry, well.drest and merchantable heavy Deer Skins, each weighing a Pound, and upwards, or a Pound of Bever Skins or Pelts, for each heavy drest Deer Skin, or two good light drest Deer Skins (under a Pound each) for one heavy drest Deer Skin, or if any such drest Deer Skin shall weigh one Pound and an half, or two Pounds, or two Pounds and an half, or three Pounds, or three Pounds and an half, or four Pounds, or four Pounds and an half, or five Pounds Weight, it shall be received and taken for such Weight respectively, and for no more, when offered singly. But in receiving a Quantity of heavy drest Deer Skins, the Whole shall be weighed together. Nevertheless in no Case shall any Allowance be made, for any Weight, under Half a Pound. . Or
for good and lawful paper Currency of this Province, allowing ten Shillings, in lieu of every Pound of heavy drest Deer Skins, as above mentioned. Or for good and lawful gold or silver Coin, at their respective current Rates or Value, in Charles Town abovesaid.
Arm Plates; see Plates
Ax, Pitching ———- 1 and so Proportionally – - 4
Beads, Barley-corn ———- 7 Strings – - – - – - 1
Bed Lace
best ———- 4 Yards – - – - – - – 1
inferiour ———- 6 Yards – - – - – - – 1
Blankets, Strouds, ———- 2 Yards – - – - – - – 6
striped Duffields ———- 6
Bobs, Ear, of Silver, ———- a Pair——–2
Brass; see Wire and Kettles ———-
Breast-Plates; see Plates ———-
Bridle, and see Saddle &c. ———- 1 ———2
Bullets, leaden ———- 60———1
Buttons: either of Glass, or Stone: set in white Metal, or Mother of Pearl ———- 1 Dozen——-1
Caddice, Scarlet ———- 12 Yards – - – - – - – 1
Calicoe ———- a Yard – - – - – - – - 2
Calimanco, Striped ———- a Yard – - – - – - – 2
Checked Linnen; see Linnen ———-
Combs Horn, ———- 2 ——–1
Combs, Bone, ———- 1 ———1
Crupper, for a Saddle ———- 1 ———-1
Cutteau; see Knives ———-
Duffields, blue, ———- a Yard – - – - – - – - 3
and see Blankets ———-
Ear Bobs; see Bobs and Silver ———-
Flannel ———- 2 Yards – - – - – - – 3
Flints ———- 20———1
Garlix; see Linnen ———-
Gartering ———- 6 Yards – - – - – - – 1
Glasses, Looking ———- Large One- – - – - – - 1-1/2
Glass; see Beads and Buttons ———- Smaller One – - – - – - 1
Gun ———- 1 – - – - – - – - – 14
Hatchets, Square-Eye ———- 1———2
Hatchets, Oval-Eye ———- 1———1
Hoe ———- 1———3
Kettles
Brass ———- 1 Pound – - – - – - – 2
Tinn, largest ———- 1———4
less ———- 1———3
least ———- 1; as- – - – - – some 2
———- in bigness – - – - – some 1
Knives, common Clasp ———- 2———1
small Cutteaus ———- 2 ———1
larger Cutteau ———- 1————–1
largest Cutteau ———- 1————2
Lace, Bed; see Bed Lace ———-
Linnen, Osnabrigs ———- 1 Yard – - – - – 1
Checked coarse ———- 1 Yard – - – - – - 1
Garlix coarse ———- a Yard – - – - – - 1
Looking-glasses; see Glasses ———-
Osnabrigs; see Linnen ———-
Padlock, a small One ———- ———-1
Pan, Tin Pudding,. round ———- 1 large——-2
———- 1 small – - – - – - – 1-1/2
Plains, blue or white, ———- 1-1/4 Yards – - – - – - 2
Plates of Silver, Arm ———- 1
Breast, plain ———- 1——9
chased ———- 1———-12
Wrist ———- 1——–6
Pots, Tin, a Quart ———- 1———–1
a Pint ———- 2—————1
Powder ———- 14 Ounces – - – - – - – 1
Rasor ———- 1———1
Ribbon, Slight Taffety ———- 2 Yards – -1
1 I 61 Saddle, with a Bridle ———- ——— 1
best Sort ———- 1each——-20
inferior Sort• ———- 1 each —— 15
Salt, half a Bushel, with a Bag of 3/4 Yard Osnabrigs ———- ———-6
Scarlet, Caddice; see Caddice, Scarlet ———-
Scissors of about £1 a dozen cost ———- 2 Pair——-1
of about £2 a dozen cost ———- 1 Pair——–1
Serge, imbossed ———- a Yard – - – - – - – 2-1/2
Shirt, a checked one – - – - – ———- ———-3
a white one – - – - – ———- ——– 3
Silver; see Ear Bobs and Plates ———-
Steels, Fire ———- 2 ———— 1
Stone; see Buttons ———-
Strouds; see Blankets ———-
Tin; see Kettles and Pans and Pots ———-
Vermilion ———- an Ounce – - – - – - – 1
Wampam, blackish, ———- 24——– 1
Wire, Brass, largest ———- a Yard – - – - – - – 1
Wire, Brass, small ———- 2 Yards – - – - – - – 1
Wrist, Silver Plates; see Plates and Silver ———-
In case of any other Species of Goods, sell them as the Directors shall hereafter appoint, or for Want of •such Appointment, in Proportion to their Cost.
Given under our Hands, July 19th, 1762 in the second Year of His Majesty King George the Third’s Reign
Copy
THOMAS LAMBOLL
THOMAS SHUBRICK
GABRIEL MANIGAULT
JOHN SAVAGE
THOMAS SMITH
Directors
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1759-Return of Indian Presents received by Lt Richard Coytmore
Posted on March 22, 2011
From: McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. p.483
[This would have been items returned to Ft. Prince George, in the upcountry of South Carolina. The fort was among the lower Cherokees, and managed a certain amount of the trade and gifts with the Cherokees for the colony of South Carolina.]
A Return of Indian Presents received by Lieut. Richard Coytmore from
Ensign Lachlan Mackintosh
Fort Prince George, 14 April, 1759
4 Chests Trading Guns containing 100
II Trading Guns, and one broke
12 Blankets
6 Shirts
5 Brass Kettles
3 Tin Ditto
13 Doz. and three Knives
6 Belts
4 Looking Glasses
Some Hawks’ Bells
17-3/4 Yards Strouds
26-3/4 Yds. Oznabrigs
2-1/2 Lb. Paint
6 Indian Hangers
1-1/2 Gross Pea Buttons
4 Horn Combs
I Pr. Scissars
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1758-Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd (Cherokee)
Posted on March 18, 2011
“Goods supplied to Indians by Colonel Byrd”, from McDowell, William L. Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs, 1754-1765. Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press. pp.456-458. These were likely primarily provided to the Cherokee, even though not always stated as such. (Thanks to J. Mullins)
A List of Goods taken from the Traders by Colonel Byrd for the Use of the Indians
April 4th, 1758
6 Boxes Paint
1 Brass Kettle Wt. 4-1/2
5 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Booting
3 Guns
1 Piece Stript Flannel
7 Pro Ear Babbs
S Ps. Blanketts
1 Dozen Hatchets
2-1/2 Lb. Small Beads
1 Gross Cadice
1 Gross Gartering
2 Dozen Pro Ear Babbs
4-1/2 Bunches Barley Corn Beads
12-1/2 Lb. Gun Powder
25 Lb. Lead
4-1/2 Dozen Knives
3 Pieces Ribbon
14 Tobacco
1 Peck Salt
14 Yards Stript Cotton
1 Gallon Rum
2 Pieces Cadice
2 Ps. Gartering
Those Things were taken from Mr. Gowdy and given to the Great Warriour
and his Gang by Colonel Byrd, April 4th, 1758.
April 7th, 1758
6 Yards of Negro Cloth (for Powder Baggs)
4-1/2 Yards Oznabrigs (for Shott Baggs)
6 Pieces Stript Flannel
2 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Booting
6 Dozen Hatchetts
4 Pieces Stript Cotton
16 Blanketts
10 Dozen Knives
2 Bolts Oznabrigs
150 Wt. Gun Powder
300 Wt. Lead
2 Pieces Check
2 Pieces Strowds
Mr. Gowdy, April 7th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
2 Pieces Strowds
I Piece Gar lix
I Box Paint
5 71, Yards Callamanio
3 Yards Strowds
I Match Coat
75 Skins
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
I Lb. Bulletts
SO Yards Garlix
Mr. Beamer, April 29th, 1758
April 1oth, 1758
46 Check Shirts
4 Caggs Rum, 5 Gallons each
2 Yards Oznabrigs
2 Indian Trading Guns out of the Indian Presents at Fort Loudon
Captain Paul Demere, April 10th, 1758
An Account of Goods Issued to the Indians by Colonel Byrd at Fort Prince George, April 29th, 1758
April 29th, 1758
8 Pieces Strowds
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
10-1/2 Dozen of Check Shirts
3 Pieces Booting
60 Hatchetts
42 Trading [Guns]
5 Dozen and 4 Knives
4 Boxes Paint
1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
21 Yards Garlix
33 Yards Oznabrigs
1-1/2 Baggs Flints
100 Weight Powder
200 Weight Trading Bulletts
3 Yards Strowds
1 Match Coat
75 Skins Weight 161 Lb.
2 Arm Plates
2 Hair Plates
4 Lb. Vermillion
1 Lb. Bulletts
50 Yards Garlix
Those Things [were] given by Colonel Byrd to the Estatoe People that went with him to Virginia, May 1st, 1758.
[No date]
[147] 64 Shirts
2 Pieces Stript Cotton
8 Guns
Those Things were given to the Great Warriour and his Gang.
An Account of Things delivered Mr. John Elliott to be carryed over to Fort Loudon by Colonel Byrd’s Orders, May 2d, 1758
May 2d, 1758
800 Weight Gun Powder
1600 Weight Trading Bulletts
13 Pieces Strowds
3 Pieces Duffells
16 Blankets
5-1/2 Piece Stript Flannel
3 Pieces Booting
2 Pieces Check
1 Bolt Oznabrigs
3 Boxes Paint
6 Pieces Stript Cotton
18 Douzen and 8 Cutteau Knives
72 Check Shirts
5-1/2 Yards Callamanco
12 Yards Garlix
10 Dozen Ordinary
2 Small Baggs of Flints
1783-Articles of British Manufacture absolutely necessary for the Indians inhabiting the Western frontier of East and West Florida in North America
Letter of Thomas Forbes, September 28, 1783, to Bernardo del Campo, Spanish minister plenipotentiary in London, listing trade goods. Letter found in The Papers of Panton, Leslie, and Co., Reel I, April 25, 1738 through November 30, 1784.
Articles of British Manufacture absolutely necessary for the Indians inhabiting the Western frontier of East and West Florida in North America Viz:..–___ _
Coarse Woolen Gbods as follows. viz.
Blue and Red Strouds
Blankets of various kinds
Welsh plains or Negro Cloth and flannels
Coarse Yorkshire Broad Cloth
Garters of various kinds
Linen and Cotton Goods–viz.
___ and coarse white linnen
check and striped Linnen and Cotton
printed, check and silk Handkerchiefs
Scotch osnaburgs and threads
Also the following articles
coarse sadles with furniture complete
____ thong, Leather shoes
Riffles and Smoothbored musketry,• very cheap
Gunpowder of a particular kind
Lead in Bars and Bullets
Gun Flints
Brass and Tin Kettles, cannisters and mugs
Iron pots — Axes–Hoes–Hatchets
Carpenter and Cooper’s tools, Locks and hinges
Nails–Needles, Fish hooks, scissars
Knives, Razors, and (?)
Ribbons of the cheapest kinds
Silver trinkets for the ears, arms, necks
Vermillion and lamp black for painting
Small Dressing Glasses
Coarse tobacco and Pipes for smoaking
Coarse hatts for men ———–
Low priced Rum or Brandy–Salt and provisions which may be purchased there on the St. Johns and from Savannah.
1785-List of prices of trade goods in East and West Florida
List of prices of trade goods in Spanish East and West Florida, from the Panton, Leslie and Company Papers, Reel I, Frame 1288 and 1289.
Translated by W.S. Coker
A Limbourg Blanket of two Castilian yards………………….8 lbs (of 18 oz.) skins
A blanket of a yard and a half………………….6 lbs of dressed skins
A yard of Limbourg blanket………………….4 lbs ”
An ordinary striped blanket………………….8 lbs. ”
A blanket with only one stripe………………….6 lbs of skins
A white shirt with ruffles………………….8 to 10 lbs. of dressed skins according to the [?]
A plain shirt………………….4 to 6 lbs.
A gingham shirt or one of ordinary ticking………………….4 to 5 lbs. of skins
A yard of calico………………….4 to 5 lbs.
The more ordinary Indi.an hankerchiefs………………….2 to 3 lbs.
black silk hankerchiefs………………….6 to 8 lbs. each
One half pound of gunpowder………………….1 lb. in skins
Forty balls of shot………………….1 lb. in skins
Twelve gun flints………………….1 lb. in skins
Knifes according to size………………….1, 2, or 3 lbs. each
Hatchets………………….1 to 6 lbs. in skins
Trade guns………………….16 to 18 lbs. in dressed skins
Looking glasses according to size………………….1 to 5 lbs. in skins
Four yards of ordinary wool binding………………….1 lb. of dressed skins
A pair of silver ear-rings………………….2 lbs.
Broach or silver pin for the shirt………………….2 to 3 lbs. of skins
Riding saddle………………….from 30 to 60 lbs. according to quality
Simple bridle………………….4 to 5 lbs. in skins
Double bridle………………….6 to 7 lbs.
5 strands of large grain glass beads………………….1 lb
5 strands of common class beads………………….1 lb. of skins
10 strands of enameled white beads………………….1 lb. of skins
A yard of garlic, or ordinary white linen………………….2 to 3 lbs.
A yard of fine linen………………….3 to 4 lbs. in skins
Printed hankerchiefs [sic]………………….3 to 4 lbs. of dressed skins
Slightly used scarlet and blue cloth………………….Will trade according to quality
A yard of white baize a sort of flannel………………….2 to 3 lbs.
NOTE
Thus, as it has been stipulated, the yard is•to be the Castilian [Spanish]. As it has been determined following ancient usage, the pound will be [?] The skins that weigh less than one pound wi11 pass two for one. Those that are less than two pounds will pass for one pound; as it has always b
custom.
Pensacola, 1 June 1784
Estevan Miro’
Arturo O’Neill
Martin Navarro
Alexander McGillebray [McGillivray]
AHN Estado leg. 3885
A handwritten note from the translator: Although not specifically stated in the tariff, all skins off trade were presumably “dressed” skins.
1759-Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana
Posted on March 18, 2011
This set of lists is exceprted from the Statement of Requests to the King from the [French] Colony, Louisiana 1759. The full list includes materials for the garrisons, hospitals, and Indian trade/gifts, I believe for all of French Louisiana. It is prefaced with:
“Statement of arms, munition, food supplies and merchandise to be sent from France to Louisiana for the needs of the colony on the funds for the year 1759.”
Source: Rowland, Dunbar, A G. Sanders, and Patricia K. Galloway. Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Print. DOCUMENT 57, pp.228-232
ANNUAL PRESENTS THAT ARE GIVEN TO THE INDIANS
Fifteen hundred ells of limbourg, half blue and half red
Six hundred ells of sempitemc
Fifty plumes of different colors
Fifty pairs of copper shoe-buckles
Twenty three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Eight hundred trade shirts for men, as long in front as in the back
Three hundred fifty thirty-caliber trade guns•
Six thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Two hundred fifty ells of St. Jean cloth
Ten thousand gun flints
[fol. 328v] One thousand woodcutters’ knives
Twelve hundred clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs’ heads
Five hundred trade belts
Two thousand strike-a-lights
Five hundred seventy-six wooden combs
Four thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Four hundred pairs of ordinary scissors
Eighty pounds of iron wire of different thicknesses
Eighty pounds of brass wire which has not been annealed and in small rolls
Twenty-five dozen pewter,buttons
One hundred hats decorated with three-inch imitation silver braid
One hundred ordinary plain hats
Two thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand ells of gold and imitation silver lribbon}, half of it in braid
Fifty dozen buttons, gold and imitation silver, for suits. likewise half and half
Eighty pounds of vermilion, in pure powder. in small bags of one pound
Eighty pounds of red lead
Three hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
[fol. 329] One hundred fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small, larger at the top than at the bottom
Fifty ells of scarlet cloth’
One hundred ells of well-chosen scarlet woolen cloth; that which has been sent previously being only a double linen serge
Fifty ells of red camelot
Five complete sets of fine gold buttons
Five of the same in silver
Two hundred ells of St. Jean cloth for lining suits and coats
Extraordinary Presents
Eight hundred ells of blue and red limbourg, half and half
Forty plumes of different colors
Two hundred two-and-a-half-point blankets
Six men’s trade shirts
One hundred fifty trade guns
Four thousand five hundred pounds of powder
Ten gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten gross of wooden combs
Ten thousand gun flints
Twenty-four hats decorated with imitation silver braid
Twenty-four of the same, plain ‘
[fol. 329v] Three thousand worms
Fifty lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three thousand strike-a-lights
Fifty trade belts
Four hundred number 6 mirrors framed in leather
Six hundred cocks for trade guns 10 •
Six hundred hammers for the same
Six hundred tumblers
Six hundred sear-springs, forged in one piece
Six hundred sears
Eight hundred large screws
Eight hundred cock screws
Twenty-four packets of assorted German files
Thirty-six half-round bastard files
Twenty-four of the same, bastard, flat
Twenty-four of the same, assorted fine
Twenty-four of the same, rat-tailed
Twenty-four of the same, rasps
Forty hundredweight of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
For the Trade with the Choctaw Indians
Five thousand ells of limbourg, blue and red, half and half
[fol. 330] Fifteen hundred blankets of two and a half points
Six hundred three-point blankets
Twelve hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand six hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in the front as in the back
Four hundred women’s shirts
Five hundred cravats
Two hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Six thousand pounds of powder
Three hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Three hundred pounds of assorted round beads, particularly sky blue
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Ten thousand gun flints
Ten gross of trade scissors
Twenty gross of worms
Twenty gross of awls
Twenty gross of strike-a-lights
Six hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted] in leather
Twenty-five gross of combs
Four hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet 12
{fol. 33ov] Eight hundred ells of sempiterne, blue, red, and plum
Six thousand sewing needles
Eight. thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
One hundred fifty assorted brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
For the Trade with the Alabama, Attacapa, Kickapoo, Mascouten, and Shawnee Indians
Two thousand ells of red and blue limbourg
Fifteen hundred two-and-a~half-point blankets
Four hundred three-point blankets
Six hundred two-and-a-half-point Bazas blankets
Two thousand five hundred men’s trade shirts
Five hundred women’s shirts
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Ten thousand pounds of powder
Four hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
One hundred fifty pounds of vermilion in small bags of one pound
One hundred fifty pounds of red lead
Thirty gross of woodcutters’ knives
[fo1. 33 x 1 Thirty gross of awls
Forty gross of worms
Six gross of wooden combs
Six thousand pounds of flat iron for hatchets, pickaxes, and tomahawks
Two hundred ells of blue and red Mazamet
Ten thousand gun flints
Four thousand sewing needles
Fifty pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Six gross of trade scissors
Fifteen hundred gross of clasp or Flatin knives with antler handles and dogs' heads
Four hundred trade belts
Three hundred cravats
Three hundred sixty number 6 mirrors {?mounted) in leather
Fifty brass cauldrons, large and medium, no s,mall
For the Projected Trade with the Cherokee Indians
Ten thousand ells of limbourg, half red and half blue
Three thousand two-and-a-half-point blankets
Twelve hundred three-point blankets
Ten thousand four hundred Bazas blankets
[fo1. 33 1 v] Five thousand two hundred men’s trade shirts, as long in back as in front
Eight hundred women’s shirts
A thousand cravats
Four hundred trade guns, thirty caliber
Twelve thousand pounds of powder for war
Six hundred lengths of scarlet woolen ribbon
Three hundred pounds of pure vermilion
Three hundred pounds of red lead
Six hundred pounds of assorted round beads
Sixty gross of woodcutters’ knives
Twenty thousand gun flints
Twenty gross of trade guns
Forty gross of worms
Forty gross of awls
Forty gross of strike-a-lights
Two hundred number 6 mirrors {?mounted} in leather
Fifty gross of combs
Eight hundred ells ofbiue and red Mazamet
Eight thousand pounds of fiat iron for hatchets. pickaxes, and tomahawks
Eight thousand pounds ditto for the same
Twelve thousand sewing needles
[fol. 332] One hundred pounds of assorted Rennes thread
Three hundred brass cauldrons, large and medium, no small
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1789-Account of the Indian Goods remaining in the hands of Robert Forsyth (Creeks)
Posted on March 18, 2011
April 1789, Georgia (Creeks)
Source: Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, Digital Library of Georgia.http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zlna
Augusta 13th April 1789
His Honor The Governor
Sir,
Agreeable to order I beg leave to hand your honor account of the Indian Goods on hand — some of the Beads want new Stringing and part of the saddles new padding which I beg to be directed to have done, should your honor think is right.
I am very respectfully Your Honors Humble Serv.
Rob’t S Forsyth
Account of the Indian Goods remaining in the hands of Rob. Forsyth 13th. April 1789
3 Boxes containing 70 Trading Guns at 25/each — 87.10.0
16 dozen cuttoes from 5/6 to 8/9 — 5.12.0.
17 10/12 doz Razors at 52/6 –3.18.0
9 Pair Spurs at 5/3 — 2.7.3
12 Indian Saddles at 46/3 - 27.15.0
97 lbs read Lead at 1/ea – 4.17.0
53 1/2 lbs pure vermilion 10/8 — 28.10.8
11 Gross Binding 12/3 — 6.14.9
11 1/2 ditto Caddice at 16/each — 9.4.0
2 Gross& 2 pc Gartering 19/1-1/2 – 2.7.9
1 9/12 doz Nonesopretty at 10/6 — 0.18.4
45 lb Beads and a qty 1/9 – 9.3.3
[Stored at Mr Rays.] Wine 60 Gall. 7/ — 21.0.0
1 Barrell brown Sugar say 200 lbs 50/ — 5.0.0
Total: £214.8.0
E. E.
Rob. Forsyth S. Agent
There were a Quantity of Brass Kettles delivered in to the hands of Mr. Dixon, Keeper of the Military Stores; which, if on hand, can be added to the above –
R. F.
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1786-List of articles delivered to Mr. John Galphin (Creek)
Posted on March 18, 2011
This is a receipt for goods delivered to John Galphin, a wealthy Creek of mixed heritage, by William Neel on behalf of the board of commissioners of Indian affairs. These items were ostensibly to be issued in relation to the Shoulder Bone Treaty, November 3, 1786, between the Creek Indians and the United States.
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries
List of Articles delivered to Mr. John Galphin . [added: Novemr [November] 3d [3rd] 1786.]
2 doz: best white ruffled shirts a [at] 16.0/. 16.0.0
2 doz: [unclear: do. [ditto]] check shirts 240/. 1 doz: Pretties 10/6 12:10:6
1 [unclear: Gro: [Gross]] red Caddice 16/0. 1 [unclear: Gro: [Gross]] Gartering 20/ 1..16..0
2 [unclear: ps:] Ribbon 48/ 1 doz: Combs 7/ 2..15..0
1 doz: Razors 60/ 1 [unclear: ps. Romallo] 35/ 4..15..0
1 doz: Knives 9/ 2 [illegible] Wampum 7/ 0..16..0
5lb Vermillion a [at] 11/8 2.18.4
2 [unclear: ps.] Callico [Calico] 29 yds. a [at] 4/6 6.10.6
2 Duffil [Duffel] Blankets 12/6 1..5..0
1 doz: silver Broaches 1..4..0
14 1/2 yds Callico [Calico] 4/3 3..1..7 1/2
4 Kegs Rum & Kegs 11/8 2:6:8
21 yds blue [illegible] 7/6 7.17:6
1 bush: [bushel] Salt 0:4.8
4 Duffil [Duffel] Blankets 12/6 2.10.0
£66:10.9 1/2
Novr: [November] 10th: Deld: [Delivered] William Neel at your verbal [deleted: request] request
2 [unclear: ps.] strouds at £6.6.0 12..12..0
[unclear: ps.] Blankets 7.13.1 1/2 7:13:1 1/2
22 Romall Handkerchiefs ..2:4 2:11:4
£89.7.2 1/2
I hereby acknowledge to have received from the Commissioners of Indian Affairs the several Articles within mentioned amounting to Sixty six pounds ten shillings & 9d 1/2 [added: for the Issues of] which I promise to render a proper account [deleted: of] to His Honor the Governor or the said Commissioners in Witness my hand this 4th: Novemr [November] 1786 –
[Signed] John. Galphin
Rec’d [Received] from the Commissioners of Indian Affairs the additional articles within mentd: [mentioned] — say two pieces of Shrouds one piece of blankets& twenty two Handffs. [Handkerchiefs] which I promise to deliver[deleted: ed] to Mr. John Galphin .
Augusta Nov 10 1786.
[Signed] Wm. [William] Neel
List of Articles delivered to Mr. John Galphin .
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