John Thomas Campbell - notebook containing porterage and other accounts, ca. 1801-1810

B 418

fonds

1801-1802, 1807, 1810

440294

1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

For biographical information on J.T. Campbell see: John Thomas Campbell - drafts of a letter to the Sydney Gazette, 1824

Porterage Account [front to back of volume]
1801, 1807, 1810; List of materials (cotton and linen) with qualities and prices; expenses on merchandise at Mont Video [i.e. Montevideo]; money lent and borrowed, including "lent Captn Anthill in John Birch's notes"; goods sold by Browne; and page titled, "Admiralty Court Sydney New South Wales Registrars Fees received" with notes relating to petition and case of Simon Lord to Mr Wilkins.
Article Account [back to front]
1801-1802; Notes relating to the cartage of goods, including boxes of linen, soap, butter, marble, steel, and case of musical instruments; and list of articles of good sale at Montevideo.
5 Jan. 1802; Also includes written statement, "Be it remembird [i.e. remembered] that I / John Thomas Campbell / began to have an Acct. opened / for all my Cartage from / the 1st: Day of January 1802 / with the Old Co. Carters of Liverpool & mean / that all work done by them should / be enter'd in the follg. [i.e. following] pages / as witness my hand / this 5 Day of Jany 1802"

John Thomas Campbell has been identified as the author and owner of this work due to the presence of the bookplate and the note with his name at back of the volume.
Porterage is money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter -- Reference: Webster's 1913 Dictionary, Online April 2003..
The volume is reversible as it has been used from front to back.
"D.S. Mitchell" signature inside front cover.

Handwritten in black ink on the front cover, "Porterage Acct." and inside front cover, "Master Porter's / Acct. / 2 medi = 1 real".
In the same hand on the back cover, "Article Acc." and inside back cover, "Cartage Charges".
Inside the cover is a bookplate with the name "J[?]. Tho: Campbell"