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A Gloucester County Merchant*
* By FRANK H. STEWART.

    No history of Gloucester County would be complete without mention of Samuel
Mickle, who kept a large general store in Woodbury. His invoice book from the
year 1779 to 1791 contains copies of two hundred and seventy-one invoices
aggregating a large sum of money.

    To give some idea of the wholesale prices in Continental currency during the
Revolutionary War (1779) I copy the following:

                                               £     S    D
1 Keg Bohea Tea       28 1/2 lbs.             304   15    0
1 Bbl. Brandy                                 440    0    0
6 lb. Coffee                                   20    5    0
6 lb. Pepper                                   81    0    0
36 lbs. Tobacco                                27    7    6
100 lbs. Sugar                                206    5    0
65 gal. Molasses (1 Tierce)                   845    0    0
1 Bushel Salt (fine)                           36    0    0


    Mickle dealt in almost everything, crockery, buttons, chemicals, stationery,
cutlery, hardware, groceries, brushes, rum, drygoods, spices, almanacs, Bibles,
soaps, Indian basketry, gun flints, candles, shot, needles and hundreds of other
things.

    Among the New Jersey merchants from whom he purchased goods were Richard
Wescoat, at the Forks of the Little Egg Harbour,

    GEORGE PAYNE, Gloucester
    ABRAHAM HIEEYARD, at Home
    JOSH. HOPPER, at Home
    WM. BEEE, Haddonfield
    WM. BROWN, at Home
    SAML. SWIFT, at Home
    HANNAH KAIGHN, at Home
    JAS. NUGENT, at Home
    BENJ. WHITALL, at Home
    JNO. TATUM,
    ABRAHAM HARPER, at Home
    GEO. BUDD, Mt. Holly
    GEO. BULLOCK, Woodbury
    ELISHA CLARK, Woodbury
    DEBORAH DAVENPORT, Woodbury
    ISAAC COLLINS, Trenton
    SOLOMON STANGER, Woodbury
    HANNAH MICTAUGH, Indian
    NEAL & LAWRENCE, Burlington
    FRANCIS STINGER, at Home
    EDGEPELEEK INDIANS, at Home

    His dealings with Philadelphia merchants and manufacturers were very
extensive, and because of the fact that there is no directory of Philadelphia
merchants as far back as 1779 and many of our members now are Philadelphia
merchants and manufacturers, I thought it might be of great advantage to place
on a permanent record the names of those who certainly must have supplied the
residents of Old Gloucester with many of the necessities, as well as the
frivolities of the 18th century.

  The Philadelphia merchants and manufacturers were:

      LEONARD DORSEY                 ANDREW HOOK
      SAMUEL TAYLOR                  MAHLON  HUTCHINSON
      FISHER & ROBERTS               AMOS WICKERSHAM
      JOHN CAMPBELL                  CHARLES FRENCH
      JOB BUTCHER                    FIELD & THOMPSON
      GEORGE GUEST                   TOWNSEND WHITE
      BARNABAS MCSHANE               WISTER & ASTON
      JNO. MARSHALL & Co.            W. & D. SELLERS
      HARTSHORNE & LARGE             RICHARD SOMERS
      FITHIAN STRATTON               GEO. HUGHES & Co.
      GEO. WILSON                    ROBT. PARISH
      JOHN HENDERSON & Co.           THOS. ROGERS
      WHITE & JOSIAH MATLACK         JOHN MILLER
      JOHN SCOTT                     EVERARD BOLTON
      ARCHIBALD GARDNER              TOWNSEND SPEAKMAN
      JACOB BAKER                    PAUL BECK, JR.
      NATHAN COOK                    ELLIS YARNELL
      WRIGHT & BURKHART              CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL
      SAMUEL HOPKINS                 DR. JNO. MORRIS
      JOHN RALSTON                   SHAW & RUDOLPH
      BENJ. POULTNEY                 HEWES & ANTHONY
      HALL & SELLERS                 JNO. & WM. MONTGOMERY
      THOMAS & DRINKER               SAM'L WETHERILL
      GEO. ROBERTS                   WM. CALDWELL & Co.
      FIELD & THOMSON                HENRY DRINKER
      JOHN WILCOCKS                  BENEDICT DORSEY
      FRIES & CHANCELLOR             and many others.
      WM. FOLWELL


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

NOTES ON
Old Gloucester County
NEW JERSEY

HISTORICAL RECORDS PUBLISHED BY
THE NEW JERSEY SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA

VOLUME I

   Compiled and Edited by
FRANK H. STEWART
HISTORIAN OF THE SOCIETY
1917


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