Tea Leaves / Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to / the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year / 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, / notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

by Francis S. Drake

Your most obedi^t & most hum. serv^t

Wm. Kelly.

Crescent, Sep. 1^st 1773.
Mr. Wm. Settle.

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Freight of 568 whole, & 130 half chests of Tea, shipped on the Polly, Cap^t Sam^l Ayres, for Philadelphia:

		feet.
568 chests cong	for freight,	8748.6
130 quarter do.	do	656.9
		———
		9405.3
		———
9405.3 at 1s. 6d. pr foot, Philadelphia currency, is		£705 7 10½
	tons.	——————
Primage on	2351/3 at 2s. sterlg pr ton, is £23 10 3

Freight of Tea on the London, to South Carolina:

			feet.
182	chests	measure	2644.3	at 1s. pr foot	£132 4 3
75	do.	do.	345.9	do.	17 5 9
——					————
257					149 10 0
	Primage, 5 pr cent				7 10 0
					————
					£157 0 0

Freight of Tea shipped on the William, for Boston: