Jones and Clarke papers

Letters, accounts, and other business records on the commercial enterprises of William Jones and Samuel Clarke of Philadelphia and Charleston, South Carolina, who were engaged in trade with the West Indies and European countries, shipping sugar, coffee, turpentine, brandy, and other commodities. The...

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Main Author: Jones, William and Samuel Clarke (Creator)
Collection:Jones and Clarke Papers
Collection Number:0331
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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Physical Description: 0.66 Linear feet 0.66 linear feet, 2 boxes (500 items)
Summary: Letters, accounts, and other business records on the commercial enterprises of William Jones and Samuel Clarke of Philadelphia and Charleston, South Carolina, who were engaged in trade with the West Indies and European countries, shipping sugar, coffee, turpentine, brandy, and other commodities. The papers contain information on British and French spoliation, embargoes, privateering, shipbuilding, finance, insurance, commodity prices. The correspondence includes letters, 1808-1812, of Nathaniel Macon, member of Congress from North Carolina, concerning congressional debates on the question of war with England in 1812; also letters of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, Captain Hugh G. Campbell, Thomas Willing, Joshua Humphreys, John Binns.