[1] The heading which the document bears in the admiralty court records.
138. Certificate of Clearance. December 4, 1739.
Port Cork,
Know Ye, That Will'm Winthrop[1] enter'd on the Amsterdam Post of Amsterdam, Æneas Mackay Master, for Madera, Sixty Bar'ls Beef,[2] One hundred and ten F'kins cont[aining] Fifty seven hundred wt Butter, Seventy Boxes cont[aining] Thirty five hundred wt Candles, One hundred eighty Tann'd Hides and Forty Ters[3] Pilchers. Custom paid. Witness our Hands and Seals of Office the 4th of Decemb'r 1739.
Rich'd Fenton,
Coll.
Will. Dobbin,
Dep'y [Cudr?] and Coll'r.
Endorsed 1739 Xbr[4] 7th Exam'd per Ben Roberts, Ld. Wt.,[5]
Cove Dec'r 11, 1739 Exam'd per Rich'd Toler, [Scr.][6]
[1] Sheriff of the city of Cork in 1741, mayor in 1744. He was descended from an uncle of Governor John Winthrop.
[2] "For packing, salting, and barreling beef, this city gives place to no other in Europe." Exports in 1743, 86951 barrels of beef, and similar amounts of butter, hides, and tallow. It was a place of 70,000 inhabitants, and the customs revenues were £50,000. Smith, Cork, I. 412, 410, 407.