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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4

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From Nicholas Pike

27 January 1782

To George Godfrey

16 February 1782
186
From Ingraham & Bromfield
Ingraham & Bromfield RTP
Amsterdam Feby. 11. 1782. Sir,

Since our respects of May 17 Last1 under the firm of Sigourney Ingraham & Bromfield,2 we are without any of your favours. The present covers your account Current, made up to 31 Decr. 1781. Ballance due you ƒ.38.3.8 Guilders and carried to your Credit in new account. We will send it in some good article per Capt. Grinnell who will sail in all march for Boston. We have only to acquaint you of the alteration in our firm and to tender you the services of our House under that of

Sir your most obed, humbl. servts.

(copy) vizt: per Cazneau

Dupli: per Deshon

Amstdm. 1st: July. 1782. Sir,

We wrote you last under Date of 11th Feby. & now send you 1 doz Thread Hose to cancell your Balla. in our Hands. They are included in a Package sent to Mr. Danl. Parker3 of Watertown in the Brig Sukey Capt. Grinnel & will be deliver’d to your Order. You will find Invce. herewith, the Amot. being ƒ.33.3.8. We tender our further Services & are respectfully, Sir, your most obedt. Servts.

Ingraham & Bromfield

RC ; on a single sheet, a copy of the Feb. 11 letter precedes that of July 1. Internal address: “Robert Treat Paine Esqr.” An invoice, dated July 1, for “1 doz 3d Brown thread Hose,” plus permit duties, boating, freight, and primage charges, is in the RTP Papers.

1.

Not located.

2.

The successor firm Ingraham & Bromfield of Amsterdam was dissolved on June 1, 1783, when Henry Bromfield, Jr., established his own business in London, while Duncan Ingraham, Jr., continued business in Amsterdam on his own. A printed notice to this effect, signed by the two principals, is in the RTP Papers.

3.

Daniel Parker (1754–1829) was a sometime merchant in Watertown, Mass., but also had an international career as a failed China Trade investor, an importer in Amsterdam, and a speculator in Paris, where he purchased a château and entertained a wide range of friends from Lafayette to Count Rumford (“Will the Real Daniel Parker Please Stand Up?” M.H.S. Miscellany, 54[1993]:1–2).