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Box 1

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Letter, Sam[ue]l Lillie, Boston, to Capt[ain] W[illia]m Pick[e]rin[g], Newfoundland, 1703 August 3-6

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-1
Scope and Contents

Sent to Newfoundland via the ship Margaret, the letter instructs Pickering to ship "What fish you have of mine" to Oporto in Portugal, aboard "the best of the Vessels that I am Conserned in . . . ."

Dates: 1703 August 3-6

Letter, W[illia]m Pickering, St. John's, Newfoundland, to "Meseurs Timothy Harris Jackson & Pine", 1704 May 16

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-2
Scope and Contents

A retained copy of a letter sent to accompany a bill of lading for 413 quintals of fish, shipped from Newfoundland aboard the sloop Content, on Samuel Lillie's account.

Dates: 1704 May 16

Letter, W[illia]m Pickering, Newfoundland, to "Mr. Condy", 1704 July 14

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-3
Scope and Contents

A retained copy of a letter sent to accompany a bill of lading and invoice for goods shipped from Newfoundland aboard the bark Blessing. Pickering also informs Condy what goods he has been able to sell.

Dates: 1704 July 14

Bill of lading for the sloop Dove, 1706 July 23

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-4
Scope and Contents

An invoice of goods shipped to Newfoundland per Samuel Lillie, to be consigned to William Pickering.

Dates: 1706 July 23

Bill of lading for the Brig Elizabeth, 1706 August 26

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-5
Scope and Contents

An invoice of goods shipped from Boston to Newfoundland per Samuel Lillie, to be consigned to William Pickering.

Dates: 1706 August 26

Letter, Samuel Lillie, Boston, to W[illia]m Pickering, Newfoundland, 1706 September 2

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-6
Scope and Contents

Instructions from Lillie on a number of matters relating to the shipping and selling of fish. Lillie also requests that Pickering "gett me as many men as you can to be under Covenant to proced such voyages in my Vessells as I may send them, on the best terms you can . . . ."

Dates: 1706 September 2

Receipt, John Grafton, 1706/1707 January 4

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-7
Scope and Contents

Acknowledges the receipt of four hogsheads of earthenware and other items, on the account of William Pickering.

Dates: 1706/1707 January 4

Letter, Samuel Lillie, Boston, to W[illia]m Pickering, Salem, Massachusetts, 1706/1707 January 14

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-8
Scope and Contents

Lacking ready money, Lillie instructs Pickering to purchase various goods on credit. Lillie promises to repay Pickering, with interest, in three months time.

Dates: 1706/1707 January 14

Letter, Samuel Lillie, Boston, to Capt. [William] Pickering, Salem, Massachusetts, 1707 June 23

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-9
Scope and Contents

Lillie requests that Pickering come to Boston, "to discours me about our Affairs." He specifically mentions litigation brought against him by a creditor, Mr. Inglish.

Dates: 1707 June 23

Letter, Sam[ue]l Lillie, Boston, to W[illia]m Pickering, 1708 May 14

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-10
Scope and Contents Pickering's retained copy of a letter from Lillie, in which the latter urges the collection of outstanding debts to stave off his creditors: "you have hear with my Letter to Mr Wm Keen to deliver you the Listt of debts by bills bonds & Accotts in his hands which were made by you please to Reiseve all you can for me, and whatt you Reiseve Improve for me for my mostt advantage to this place one hundred and fivety pounds & Consign to Captn Andrew Belcher for my Accott to Remaine with...
Dates: 1708 May 14

Note. Samuel Lillie, n. p., to W[illia]m Pickering, 1708 May 20

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-11
Scope and Contents

Another request to collect outstanding debts.

Dates: 1708 May 20

William Ponpryes bond, 1708 October 23

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-12
Scope and Contents

A bond acknowledging that Ponpryes has paid a 55 schilling obligation to Giles Hall. Pickering has signed the document as a witness.

Dates: 1708 October 23

Letter, Andrew Belcher, Boston, to W[illia]m Pickering, 1709 May 11

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-13
Scope and Contents

A letter and bill of lading itemizing goods to be shipped to Salem aboard the sloop Dolphin. At this time Belcher was one of the wealthiest merchants in Massachusetts.

Dates: 1709 May 11

Letter, W[illia]m Pickering, Salem, Massachusetts, to Peter Butler, 1712 June 26

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-14
Scope and Contents

A retained copy of a letter from Pickering to Butler. Pickering informs Butler that some of the fishing lines sold by Butler to Pickering are substandard.

Dates: 1712 June 26

Receipt, W[illia]m Pickering, Salem, 1712/1713 January 17

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-15
Scope and Contents

Receipt signed by Pickering and Daniel Bray acknowledging that Bray has paid for the future delivery of wine with hard currency and beeswax.

Dates: 1712/1713 January 17

Letter, W[illia]m Pickering, Salem, to John Moody, 1712/1713 January 19

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: MSN/COL 0500-16
Scope and Contents

A retained copy of a letter from Pickering to Moody. The previous year, Moody had borrowed "ninety Quintos of merchantable fish" from Pickering. Pickering explains that he would have sought to collect before but had "heard thatt you mett with som troble after you Came home."

Dates: 1712/1713 January 19