The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry
Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735
302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Creator: Gardner, Hugh
Title: Orders
Dates: 1769, 1773
Call No.:
Acc. No.: 76x356-76x381
Quantity: 26 items
Location: 34 K 4
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Hugh Gardner was a merchant during the third quarter of the 18th century at a place called Allens Fresh. (There is a community in Charles County, Maryland called Allen’s Fresh or Allenfresh.)
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This small collection contains orders placed with Hugh Gardner for the retail sale of goods in 1773. Orders appear on scraps of paper. Items mentioned include hardware; dry goods, such as silk and sheeting; buttons; stone mugs; a sealskin trunk; tea, salt, and sugar; shoes; linseed oil; and writing paper. The two orders from 1769 are addressed to Archibald Clark.
ORGANIZATION
Items in chronological order.
LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Purchased from Doris Harris.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Hardware.
Clothing and dress.
Dry-goods - Prices - 18th century.
Food prices - 18th century.
Orders.
Merchants.
Additional author:
Clark, Archibald.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 34 K 4
[note: all orders are addressed to Hugh Gardner, with the exception of
76x358 and 76x366]
76x358 Richard Brooke orders table cloth, addressed to Archd.
76x366 Richard Brooke orders lightest loaves of simple refined sugar and nails, February 11, 1769, addressed to Mr. Clark, Allens Fresh
76x356 Philip Jenkins orders brads and nails, February 1, 1773
76x357 Alexander Hannar orders nails, to be sent via Moses Guy, February 1773
76x359 Charles Love orders stone jugs, also twist and buttons to match cloth sample, February 4, 1769
76x360 Henry S. Hawkins, orders twelve ells of best [illegible], February 6, 1773
76x361 Joseph Shaw(?) orders a knife, to be sent via Benja. King, February 6, 1773
76x362 John Kinneman orders oznabrig (i.e. osnaburg), February 9, 1773
76x363 George Maddox orders nails, February 9, 1773
76x364 Samuel Love orders [illegible] and charges it to trustees for creditors of the Rev. John Macpherson, February 10, 1773
76x365 Edward Edelen orders salt, to be given to William Higdon, February 11, 1773
76x367 Samuel Jones orders sugar, February (?), 1773
76x368 Samuel Jones orders nails, February (?), 1773
76x369 Alexd. Hannar
orders Chepesney cotton and asks that the things he had left in
76x370 Geo. Clk. Smoot orders linseed oil and a bottle of mustard, February 13, 1773
76x371 William Lawder orders sugar and table hinges, to be given to bearer Mr. Walhin(?)
76x372 Geo. C. Smoot orders nails, linseed oil, and laces, February 17, 1773
76x373 John Laidler (or Laider) orders nails, to be sent by bearer Toney, February 17, 1773
76x374 G. C. Smoot orders nails, laces, sheeting, and 1 hank white felt(?), February 18, 1773 (nails ordered the day before were the wrong size)
76x375 Samuel Love orders 1 pair boy’s boots(?), yards of Scotch oz. [i.e. osnaburg?], and seal skin trunk, February 19, 1773
76x376 D. [David]
76x377 Joseph Shaw, Cob-neck, orders tea, writing paper, and rope, February 20, 1773
76x378 Henry S. Hawkins orders sugar, fire tongs, silk, to be sent by Mike(?), February 22, 1773
76x379 William Lawder orders nails and white lead and needs to exchange shoes, February 23, 1773
76x380 Richard Boarman(?) orders two pairs of [illegible], two pairs of leading strings, and tea, February 26, 1773
76x381 Benj. Marshall orders buttons, February 26, 1773
Index to
Boarman,
Richd. 380
Brooke,
Richd. 358, 365
Clark,
Archd. 358
Edelen,
Edward 365
Gardiner 374, 376
Gardner,
Hugh 356-357, 359-365, 367-373, 375,
377-381
Hannar,
Alexr. 357, 369
Hawkins,
Henry S. 360, 378
Jenkins,
Philip 356
Jones,
Saml. 367-368
Kinneman,
John 362
Laidler,
John 373
Lawder,
Willm. 371, 379
Love,
Charles 359
Love,
Saml. 364, 375
Macpherson,
John (Rev.) 364
Maddox,
George 363
Marshall,
Benj. 381
Shaw,
Joseph 361, 377
Smoot,
G. C. 374
Smoot,
Geo. Clk(?) 370, 372