John Thomas Campbell - notebook containing porterage and other accounts, ca. 1801-1810
John Thomas Campbell - notebook containing porterage and other accounts, ca. 1801-1810
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1801-1802, 1807, 1810
Call Numbers
B 418
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Reference Code
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Physical Description
Contents
1 volume - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
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 R...
Alternative Titles
Full title
John Thomas Campbell - notebook containing porterage and other accounts, ca. 1801-1810
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
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 h...
Signature / Inscriptions
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"
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
Administrative / Biographical history
For biographical information on J.T. Campbell see: John Thomas Campbell - drafts of a letter to the Sydney Gazette, 1824
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
B 418
Record Identifier
92eVRaNY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVRaNY
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Reference code
440294
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