Napier, Rapelye & Bennett. Records, 1811-1831.
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Records, 1811-1831.
Correspondence, promissory notes, bills, and receipts re the business of a Charleston mercantile firm of Thomas Napier, Jacob Rapelye, and William S. Bennett, including invoices of shipments of rice from Charleston, S.C., to New York, N.Y.; accounts of cotton sold by Alexander MacGregor & Co., Liverpool, England, and purchases of cloth and other dry goods from various British firms. Topics include descriptions of economic conditions in Charleston and Columbia, S.C., New York, N.Y., and various places; shipping of cotton, rice, potatoes, and oranges; the 1821 boycott of auction sales by dry goods jobbers and retailers of New York; local events in Charleston, S.C. Other topics include reorganization of the firm following the withdrawl of Napier, ca. Jan. 1822, and Bennett's hope to sell his interest in the firm and move to the North; Denmark Vesey's attempted slave insurrection of 1822; and the favorable impact on Charleston trade, ca. Oct. 1822, caused by yellow fever epidemic in New York. Collection also includes ledger volume, 1823-1825, re law suits and debts involving Bennett and Hunt, Furman and Hibben, and others; ships' papers, 1817-1822, from Charleston, Savannah, New York, and elsewhere, including bills of loading, listing name of ship, captain, cargo, ports of origin and destination, and an insurance policy, 1821, for 35 hogsheads of molasses. Other correspondents and firms include Robert Anderson, Edward Bennett, William S. Bennett, Benjamin Burroughs, Charles Lawton, John R. Ludlow, A.B. McLeod, Paul Rapelye, Vandervoort & Van Winkle; and the British firms of Jackson & Broadfoot, King & Gracie, Hardwick & Duncan, George Ashton, James Barnes & Sons, Robert White, and John Grundy Sons & Wood.
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