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MSA SC 4774-1-1
Collection	James Dick and Stewart Company Collection
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Dates	1773-1781
Medium	photocopies
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
Description
Photocopies from a Letterbook, James Dick and Stewart Company, 1773-1781. 3 folders. Letter book of a mercantile firm trading in agricultural products and manufactured goods with England, Spain, Portugal, the Madeira Islands, and the West Indies. The correspondence is primarily business, giving detailed marketing information on the goods in which the firm dealt and discussing economic conditions before and during the Revolution. The letters reflect the coming of the Revolution, particularly in the description of the burning of a company ship, the Peggy Stewart, and its cargo of tea in 1774 and in the opposing loyalist and patriot sympathies of the two partners.

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