Finances of Capt. Wait Rathburn Jr.

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Finances of Capt. Wait Rathburn Jr.

Entry/Object ID

2019.204.005

Scope and Content

An accounting of money paid and received between Captain Wait Rathburn Jr. and Silas C. Brinton in 1782. These must be expenses and money brought in on two different voyages, one in April and one in September. He lists items he brought on like molasses, rum, sugar, flour and pickled fish. He also lists some expenses like "for negro hire on 4 casks rum" or that he spent $82 on a coat.

Collection

Manuscript