Volume II Part 20 (2/2)
From the Clay MSS.
DR. MISS HARTE IN ACCOUNT CURRENT WITH ROBERT MORRIS CR. [Oldest daughter of Col. Thomas Hart. She married Dr. Richard Pendell.]
1780
Aug. 29
To cash paid for a Pair of Shoes for you 64,2,6 at 60 for 1 1,1,4 (Continental, Exchange, Specie)
To a Chest of Sugar delivered Mrs. Brodeau & Porterage 1107,15,0 Do 18,9,3
To two ps Sheeting Delivered Ditto 1116,0,0 at Do 18,12,0
To cash paid Wm. McDugall's Bill for one & a half Quarters Tuition at Dancing 223,10,0 at Do 3,12,6
Paid E. Denaugheys Bill for was.h.i.+ng Done for you 95,12,6 at Do 1,11,10
Dec. 6
To Ditto for Hannah Estys Bill for making Frocks for you 257,10 Paid D Denaugheys Bill for Washg 125.12.6 383,3,6 at 75 for 1 5,2,2
Dec. 29
To Ditto pair for pair of Pink Calemancoi Shoes for you 78,15,0 at Do 1,1,0
1781
Feb. 3
To Ditto paid B. Victor your music master for one Quarter Tuition of Music 506,5,0 at 75 for 1 6,15,0
To the following Articles delivered Mrs. Brodeau on your Accot One firkin of b.u.t.ter one Box of Candles & a Box of Soap Amounting p Account to 629,1,2 at Do 8,7,9
To Cash paid Mrs. Brodeau in full of her Accot. to October last against you 3856,17,6 at Do 51,8,6
Total: 115, 3,5 (Specie) Allowed for Depreciation 57,13,7 ========= 172,17,0
Received Philad. April 7th 1781 the One hundred and Seventy two Pounds 17/ State Specie being in full the amount of the annexed account
for Robt. Morris 172.17. State Specie J. SWANNICK
APPENDIX J--TO CHAPTER XIII.
In the Clay MSS. the letters of Jesse Benton to Col. Hart, of December 4, 1782, and March 22, 1783, paint vividly the general distress in the Carolinas. They are taken up mostly with accounts of bad debts and of endeavors to proceed against various debtors; they also touch on other subjects.
In the first, of December 4,1782, Benton writes: ”It seems the powers above are combined against us this year. Such a Drouth was never known here [in the upper Carolinas] before; Corn sells from the stack at 4 & 5/ p. Bushel, Wheat 6 & 8/, Rye the same, Oats 3/ 6 &c &c ... I have not had Water to keep the Grist Mill Fuling Mill and Oyl Mill at Work before this Week.... Johny Rice has gone to Kentuck with his goods to buy Furs, but before he went we talked of your debts and he did not like to be concerned, saying he should gain ill will for no profit; However I will immediately enforce the Law to recover your Debts ... the Lands which You had of me would sell as soon as any but this hard year makes many settlers and few buyers. I have heard nothing more of Major Haywoods desire of purchasing & all I ever heard upon the subject was from his son-in-law who now appears very sick of his late purchase of Elegant Buildings.... Your Brother Capt. Nat Hart, our worthy and respectable Friend, I doubt is cut off by the Savages at the time and in the manner as first represented, to wit, that he went out to hunt his horses in the month of July or August it is supposed the Indians in Ambuscade between Boonsboro and Knockbuckle, intended to take him Prisonner, but killd his horse and at the same time broke his Thigh, that the savages finding their Prisonner with his Thigh broken was under the necessity of puting him to Death by shooting him through the Heart at so small a Distance as to Powder burn his Flesh. He was Tomhawkd, scalped & lay two Days before he was found and buried. This Account has come by difrent hands & confirmd to Col. Henderson by a Letter from an intimate Friend of his at Kentuck.”
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