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Rental agreement for orchard and meadow, 1 May 1780

Document laying out conditions under which Mr Walker will rent Mr Morrison's orchard and meadow for a year. The land was to be rent for 40 pounds per year and Morrison was to be compensated for work already conducted on the property with a portion of the land's produce.

Receipt for delivery of bell, 13 February 1786

Note requesting delivery of bell belonging to the government to Capt. Barnes Depty Qaur. Mas. General, left in the care of James Morrison by Jane Richardson. Receipt of bell signed on verso by Barnes.

Permission to pass, 17 July 1769

Document created by Beamsly Gleazier, Commandant of Michilimackinac, granting safe passage to James Morrison and his crew of five men who were travelling by canoe from Michilimackinac to Montreal with a cargo of "peltry." Crew members listed are Jacques St. Andre, Louis Mayenar, Grand Masson, Jean Veine and a guide named LaClerc.

Letter, 20 April 1776

Partial, unsigned letter addressed to James Morrison. Letter's contents describe the sinking of the ship Swift Bay in the English Channel following an accident, along with news and speculation about the American Revolutionary War (including Montgomery's defeat at Quebec), as well as discussion of a drop in the price of beaver pelts which the writer attributes to the events of the war.

Letter from Woolsey & O'Hara, 20 July 1789

Letter from Woolsey & O'Hara to James Morrison with commercial news, especially about a potential flour shortage and about the success of the year's crops, with a postscript about current political and military events. Includes a list of prices for several goods: rum, molasses, Jamaica rum, loaf sugar, coarse flour, cheese, soap, English mould candles, green tea, Spanish red wine, and others.

Letter from Samuel Morrison, 24 April 1784

Letter from Samuel Morrison to his uncle James Morrison. Letter concerns commercial and political news following the end of the American Revolutionary War, with prices for goods including molasses, gin, tobacco, flour, rum, and sugar, and personal news, including the deaths of his son and several of his nephews from smallpox.

Letter from Robert Woolsey, 25 April 1787

Letter from R. Woolsey to Morrison with general news, follow up about birds and chairs from last letter, as well as information about the hiring of a cooper to make dry and wet casks.

Letter from Robert Woolsey, 23 August 1787

Letter from R. Woolsey to Morrison about business, including the sale of wax and candles, and a description of a social event involving the prince (possibly Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn), likely his birthday celebrations on 21 August.

Letter from Robert Woolsey, 21 June 1784

Letter from Robert Woolsey to James Morrison, including copied note from David Grant and invoices related to insurance Grant took out for Portuguese and Spanish gold coins.

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