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A Lawsuit vs. Turnbull brings him before the Chancery Court and Temporary Incarceration. Turnbull's Final YearsThe Reverend John Forbes to James Grant St. Augustine, April 6, 1778 . . . “Dr. Turnbull's settlement is entirely broke up and he talks of practicing physic in town. Mr. And Mrs. Drayton and family are here, go soon for England. Mr. Drayton is suspended a second time from the office [chief justice] that he held.” . . . James Grant Papers Governor Patrick Tonyn to Andrew Turnbull St. Augustine, August 11, 1778 . . . “Since your return your conduct in several instances has been so exceptional that I cannot agree to your acting in person as Secretary of the Province, and Clerk of the Council. I must have one to officiate in those capacities in whom I can confide. “While such a person acts I shall study to avoid taking any steps in the official way, that may be prejudicial to you. You enjoy the Salary and the Perquisites [which] are considerable.” Colonial Office Papers (CO 5/558) John Moultrie to James Grant St. Augustine, May 6, 1780 . . . “We have had a Spanish Plunder at the Musquito, took away some of Mr. Turnbull's and Watson's negroes. This has broke up all the plantations [in the vicinity of Tomoka and Halifax Rivers] except Oswald's and my own, we stand fast.” . . . James Grant Papers David Yeats to James Grant St. Augustine, October 9, 1780 . . . “Your land between this town and Mosso [site of Fort Mose, in the previous Spanish era a fortified town inhabited by free African Americans] is now likely to turn to some little advantage. Upon the breaking up of the Smyrnea settlement several of the settlers set themselves down upon it, and as they appeared to be industrious they were not disturbed, only told that when they could afford it something should be expected from them, and accordingly this year having good crops I have raised a small rent of a tythe of their corn, which may amount to between fifty and sixty bushels. This will be of service at the Villa, where it has been sent, as I am afraid they are a little short of provisions. I wish to make them permanent, and am endeavouring to get them to build houses and to plant orange trees, which in time would turn to account should they think proper to move of[f].” James Grant Papers Henry Yonge to George Ramsay St. Augustine, December 5, 1780 “As a suit in Chancery has been commenced by the representatives of the late Mr. Grenville and Sir William Duncan against Dr. Turnbull and others for a discovery of the expenditures of the Monies advanced by them for the Smyrnea settlement, and to enforce a division of the Lands belonging to the settlement, and the suit proceeded in so far as to have auditors appointed to inspect the several accounts, who could not proceed upon that business for want of the different vouchers, I am to request the particular favor of you to deliver them if not already in Mr. Grenville's possession, so as also to throw such lights upon the transactions of arrangement made by you, as may enable the auditors to proceed upon the business.” Mr. Yonge stated that it was necessary for the court to obtain authentic copies of documents because of conflicting claims and accusations of wrongs that had emerged. Dundee City Archive 1766 An account of expenses for the settlement in East Florida --- 1 st period To a fowling piece….…………………………………….4 12 __ To a powder flask knives and forks………………………__ 6 __ To compasses……………………………………………..__ 12 __ To a man for engaging the carpenters…………………….2 2 __ To a thermometer and spying glass……………………….2 16 __ To the board of the Carpenters and foreman……………..9 12 __ To bedding shirts etc. for them……………………………5 7 6 To a Marquee tent…………………………………………..8 8 __ To beads for Indian presents……………………………….5 5 1 To 2 gorgets and sashes for the Indians……………………1 5 __ To a common gun………………………………………….1 1 6 To a canteen………………………………………………..2 10 __ To given to Constantine Warwick to bear his Expenses into Greece to get the Greeks ready……………………….40 __ __ To bedding for Watson the overseer……………………….4 12 __ To copying a journal from Bartram………………………..__16 9 To stationary from Wilson………………………………… 5 17 __ To Insurance to America on £1200 pounds perMr. Nixon 18 __ __ To policies………………………………………………….__1 __ To Vermilion………………………………………………. 2 15 __ To soldiers muskets………………………………………... 8 9 6 To saddles & Etc………..…………………………………..1 10 6 To Tappender for tools...…………………………………101 17 __ To tin pots and other tinware…………………………….....1 13 __ To indentures [con] ?crafts…..…………………………… 4 13 9 To other expenses for the overseer and people in London…7 12 __ To cart hire boat hire and porters to carry all the things on board the ship Mary……………………………...__18 Carry over £242 12 7 Brought over£242 12 7 To three small compasses…………………………………...__18 __ To Expenses for the people on board in the river…..……….1 17 __ To my expenses from London to Gravesend and when waiting there for the ship…………………….………..6 9 6 To brandy bought at Deal for the people…………………….1 12 __ To paid Captain Gordon for 9 passengers, seven men and 2 women from England to Carolina……………..149 __ __ To given to the ship's crew…...……………………………...2 2 __ To board and other expenses at Charles Town……………..35 7 __ To passage provisions and other expenses from Charles Town to Saint Augustine…………………………..37 10 __ To candles and butter.………………………………………..4 16 __ To Flour and Bread….……………………………………….3 4 __ To Doran for rice and potatoes……………………………...19 6 __ To Reid for Negro cloth & etc. ………………………… 15 3 4 To Trousers and fishing line from Godfrey and Gadsden…. 3 16 __ To Buckle for Rum…………………………………………..11 17 __ To guides etc. for Earl………………………………………..4 9 6 To horse hire for Earl …………………………………….9 9 3 To live Hogs………………………………………………….5 9 __ To surveying 40,000 acres of land………………………….104 3 5 To horse hire etc. for this service…………………………… 11 12 __ To Expenses of rum provisions and wages for the assistants in this work…………………………………..……………….22 6 8 To boat hire & etc. on St. John's River 12 days…………… 11 3 5 To other traveling expenses in looking for land…………….. 4 8 3 To boards to fit up a place for the people and Negroes……… 6 14 __ To Expenses for the people at Gravesend omitted above…… 1 5 __ Carry over £716 11 4 Brought over 716 11 4 To Kender Mason & Co. for sundries for the People and self 23 4 4 To bought at Charles Town for the settlement………………..54 __ __ To paid for the people from the 20 th Nov to 24 Jan. ………… 32 10 __ To family expences during that time………………………….15 4 __ To Indian corn & etc. from Shirley…… ……………………..11 17 __ To the purchase of a cart and three horses with other utensils for the settlement…………………………….… 60 5 __ To paid to Shirley for the hire of his schooner to bring Earl the overseer with other things from Georgia………….... 30 __ __ To tools and necessaries for him and negroes…………………18 10 __ To Lind and Chovin…………………………………………….__ 6 __ To Kender Mason and co. for sundries per account……………53 5 4 £ 1015 13 1 By sundry Expenses in getting the land to be deducted and charged to the proprietors………................................. 153 13 8 This sum of £861.19.5 to be charged to the people but before it can be brought into account Doctor Turnbull is to explain it unto them… ……….861 19 5 No. 1 2 nd period January 27 th To paid Captain Doran for my passage from Saint Augustine to Charles Town…………………………….5 5 __ To Expenses at Charles Town…………………………..9 4 __ To paid Captain Ralsey for my passage to Cowes……..28 9 __ To Expenses from Cowes to London…………………...4 17 __ To baggage by the wagon……………………………….1 10 __ To expenses of the 3 rd of May………………………….38 15 __ To Do. From London to Marseillies…………………….34 4 __ To Do. At Marseillies…………………………………..0 9 6 To Expenses from Marseillies to Mahon and from thence to Genoa and Leghorn…………..………………25 12 __ No. 2 £ 157 2 __
Leghorn June 13 th To an expense for ten men………………………9 __ __ To Do. For supper Lodging …………………...__ 15 __ 14 To eight more from Lucca……………………....6 16 __ To a house for them…………………………….__ 5 __ To provisions…………………………………...__ 18 __ 15 To fifteen more…………………………………14 5 __ To provisions for all……………………………..1 13 __ To a Proveditore………………………………..14 9 __ 16 To seventeen more…………….………………..14 9 __ To given to them to refresh themselves………...__ 17 __ To provisions for all…………………………….2 18 __ To the guardian or servant………………………__ 4 __ To clean straw for their beds……………………__ 5 __ To pipkins to boil their victuals…………………__ 3 __ 17 To seven more……………………………………6 6 __ To provisions for all……………………………...2 17 __ To the servant…………………………………….__ 4 __ 18 To twent- two at 18.……………………………19 16 __ To provisions for all……………………………...3 9 __ 20 To five more……………………………………...4 __ __ To provisions the 19 th......... ………………………..3 19 __ To Do. the 20 th …………………………………...4 4 __ To the servant the 18 th and 19 th ………………….__ 8 __ To Do. the 20 th …………………………………..__ 4 __ 21 To ten men at 18………………………………….9 __ __ To provisions……………………………………..4 14 __ To the servant…………………………………….__ 4 __ 22 To Six more……………………………………… 5 14 __ To provisions for all………………………………5 __ __ To the overseers & boathire to carry the people On board……………………………………........ 2 10 __ To provisions for my passage to Mahon…………15 6 __ To the servants and expenses for the overseers…... 2 4 __ To Taylor's Bill for overseers……………………. 1 15 3 No. 3 £ 144 6 3 3 rd period Exence of provisions laid in for the voyage from Leghorn to Minorca computing it 24 days
To 5 barrels beef at 10 per barrel…………50 To boat hire………………………………...5 To a sieve…………………………………..5 ………………………………………………..10 17 9 To 2 butts of wine at 13 per and misc. & for butts, porters & etc………………. 177………..4 8 6 To baccals [vessels] for drinking, bran, masons for fitting the fireplace for 100 People, tobacco and water……………………..…… 38.15.1……….....4 7 7 To 20 Quintals of bread at 21…….. 430.10 To bags……………………………. 10.13.4 To porters………………………….. 4 To a finer kind of bread 250Pd………….………….... 18 16 4 To 2 butts of olives with expenses 198………….. 4 19 __ To rice 6 sacks with expenses…… 216.14…..…… 8 2 6 To 3 barrels herrings 3 brls of stock fish & etc. Camtell ? of oil………………………36………. To a Navuill ? of water ……………..3 ..10…….…. 8 2 6 To 400 small cheeses at 4 pls each 133.6.8 To 91 pds. Morca cheese at 33 ……..18.15.4…… 5 14 1 To the Braziers account for a large Copper an oven and stew pan.. 322.17.8…... 12 11 __ To 39 butts, barrels, buckets and funnels from the cooper….. 371__/2…… 9 5 9 No. 4 £ 87 13 7
3 rd period To pipes, combs…………………………..6…8 To contracts………………………………5 To iron work and joiners work for the cabhouse……………………… 11.18 To a drum…………………………………1 To a fiddle…………………………………1.5 To razors…………………………………….7 25.8 12 14 To tin measures……………………………………… 1 2 6 To fifty large turkey blankets at 18 pls. 45 To fifty smaller……………………...40 To ten ordinary……………………….6 91 segns. 45 10 __ To ticking for bedding………………44……………. 22 __ __ To charcoal…………………………...5……………... 2 10 __ To bedding 2 pair sheets for each Each overseer………………………..32……………..16 __ __ To needles and thread…………………………………__ 5 __ To coarse table linen & etc……………………. 1 3 __ To my expenses and servants at Leghorn for Lodging & Board………………………………………….43 7 __ No. 5 £ 144 11 6
Account of slops bought at Leghorn for the people engaged there To 70 Jackets at 4 pls each…………………………….7 __ __ To 50 woolen Do. at 4 ½ ……………………………...5 12 6 To 51 shirts at 4 pls……………………………………5 2 __ To 100 Do. at 5 pls……………………………………12 10 __ To 12 Do. at 5 ………………………………………..1 4 __ To 50 Do. at 5 …………………………………………5 __ __ To eight more at 6 ……………………………………..1 4 __ To 175 pair of Trousers……………………………….. 9 16 10 To 124 pair of Breeches at 2/2… ……………………. 7 15 __ To 100 frocks at 3 each………………………………...7 10 __ To 120 Caps at 1 each………………………………….3 __ __ To 74 pair of woolen stockings……………………… 2 15 6 To 30 pair thread stockings at 1/6 each……………… 2 15 __ To 90 pair of shoes at 5 each………………………….11 5 __ To 60 Do. at 5 ½ ……………………………………….8 5 __ To 200 coarse straw hats at 25 scratches And 80 finer…………………………………………….8 __ __ To 24 Dozen of black hats……………………………..17 10 __ No. 6 £ 116 4 10 Mahon 1768 July 13 To a tin pump 4. To mending the cabhouse 8. 6 To translating contracts 13. To canvas for bedding 17.18. To money advanced . 15. To other expences 4. To provisions for the Greek passengers 7. No. 7 £ 24.06. 3 rd Period Memorandum July 24 th at Sea I do not internd my own particular expences in this account in future but to bring the whole of them into one article when the voyage is completed at my landing in East Florida. Malta July 30 th I was advised by the Greek agent at Mahon to lay in small presents for the Chiefs of the Greeks in the Morea and for their wives to engage them [ ? ] to part with people more freely than they probably would have done without this Donceur. I therefore made purchases for this intent of Barcelona handkerchiefs, cordial spirits, some cuts of silks and some gunpowder which cost in all No. 8 £ 74. 10. Smirna September 2 To an account of water cask, provisions & etc. 389.17.06 To another account 36.07.06 To another 33.07.06 To paid to servants, boats, etc. 16.02.06 To pilots, Hettles? & etc. 5.15.00 No. 9 £ 481.10.00 Serigo November 23 To an account of provisions & etc. 55.17.06 To another account 30.14.06 To another 10.08.07 To the guards at the Lazaretto & etc. 5.10.00 To paid for provisions, olive cuttings, & etc. to the country people 8.09.10 No. 10 £ 111.00.05
For Provisions at Coron 145.00.00 For do. at Scitaro? [Leutaro?] 38.00.00 For do. at Napoli di Malvaia 42.00.00 For do. at Milo the 2d time 53.00.00 For do. at Marothonessa 336.00.00 For do. at Bathi 431.00.00 To small expences 11.00.00 2 ship loads of provisions for about 120 people No. 11 £ 1088.00.00 insured by Mr. Nixon on the above ship 1700 per his account of insurance.
December 8 th at Sea My boat having been seized by order of the Turkish governor at Modon with ten of my men, who were put in irons and threatened with death, of which private information being sent to me also that one hundred and fifty janizaries were to surprise and seize the ships that night, I prepared for a defence, but made away with such papers as might have hurt me, had I been taken. Those which would have been the most authentic against me were the accounts of the provisions with which the two ships wee loaded in the Morea at the above mentioned places. The above account is a copy of a note I took of these accounts and concealed under the lining of my hat. To the governor of Modon for relieving my people 90.00.00 For other expences of interpreters & etc. 12.06.00 No. 12 £ 102.06.00 Malta 1767 The ships being forced into Malta by contrary winds and want of some refreshment I employed Angelo Rutten, Esq. English Consul there to provide what I wanted for myself and people. Dec. 13 to Mr. Rutter's account first, and to a second after 220.02.00 The first was settled To another by Fiorini 4.02.00 To anchorage and provisions in Palerma in Sicily 15.14.00 No 13 £ 239.18 Leghorn 1768 January 20 to Edward Purnel Esq, his account 502. To another account 52.02.02 To another account in Willis and Panton's account 19.04.00 To paid Mess. Willis and Panton for cash drawn on them for one of the ships the Carolina on her being obliged to put back to Malta 14.05.00 To Panotti for sundries furnished by him 44.03.04 To George Smith for waistcoats, jackets, etc. 7.00.00 To the brazier 4.17.06 To Rachetti for Hops 70.00.00 To Wood 2.05.00 To the victuallers account 10.17.03 To boatmen 3.04.00 To Venuties account 3.11.00 No. 14 £ 731.09.05
Mahon March 29, 1768 To Mr. Theodore Alexiano his account of the amount of expences at Mahon No. 15 £ 6496.15.06 Gibraltar To Livingston & Co. account 713.03.06 To Murray for sundries 77.05.02 To sundries 41.02.00 To Watson's account 11.14,04 To Povery for vinegar 5.00.00 No. 15 £ 848.05.00
No. 1 to Captain Duncan for freight in all 450.00.00 to demurrage at Gibraltar 42.10.00 to do. at Cape Fear 32.10.00 to do. at St. Augustine with freight to Smyrnea 120.00.00 to an account 15.05.06 2 to Captain Vidal of the New Fortuna 358.05.06 3 to Captain Livingston 295.00.00 4 to Captain Feyal first freight from Smyrna to Minorca 360.00.00 to do. to America 333.15.00 to his account 28.00.00 5 to Holland 180.00.00 to his primage as agreed for 21.00.00 6 to Lorenz Jacobson from Minorca to Girbaltar 136.10.00 7. to Captain Orr Jumped overboard 224.14.00 8 to Captain Alexander from June 15, 1767 to March 1, 1768 467.00.00 to do. from March 1 to September 18 427.10.00 9 to Captain Scott of the Elizabeth 250.00.00 to balance of demurrage 12.00.00 to freight from St. Augustine to Smyrnea 50.00.00 10 to Captain Brrown 148.04.04 to primage 6.01.00 to an account 11.19/06 to primage paid Captain Alexander per charter party 44.14.00 to Captain Beuchop [Bachop] 49.00.00 to Warner paid by Governor Grant's order 20.00.00 to port charges at St. Augustine 21.12.08 No. 17 £ 4105.11.06
Mr. Rolfe's accounts No.1 To sundries……………………………….. 27.00.06 2 To Do……………………………………... 21.13.05 3 To Do……………………………………... 21.17.02 ½ 4 To Do……………………………………... 15 .03.02 ½ Mr. Frazer and Richardson No.1 To an account lost but proved by No.2…...127 4 3 2 To Sundries……………………………….158 5 3 To Do. …………………………………...130 2 __ 4 To Do………………………………………95 5 4 ½ 5 To Do………………………………………80 5 4 No. 19 £ 591 1 11 ½ Messrs. Kender Masons and Co. No. 2 To sundries………………………………..100 3 To Do……………………………………...292 17 10 4 To Do……………………………………….65 5 11 5 To Do……………………………………….16 9 __ 6 To Do……………………………………….31 6 __ 7 To Do………………………………………...8 19 __ No. 20 514 17 9 John Graham Co. No 1 To an account of Sundries…………………268 17 4 2 To Do………………………………………..94 6 8 3 To Do………………………………………..12 12 __ 4 To Rope………………………………………2 5 __ 5 To Do………………………………………...11 3 6 7 To Do………………………………………….7 2 ½ 8 To Do…………………………………………44 5 __ No. 21 £ 440 11 6 ½
For Negroes To paid to John Graham and co. for 22 Negroes bought to provide lodging for our people. This was by advice of Gov. Grant. 590 To nine more ordered by him……………….370 To five Do…………………………………..190 To expenses on them as by account………….39 18 3 To John Gordon for four more……………...157 __ To nine from Mr. Earl being a mortgage…..349 __ __ To a wench Mary and child………………….50 No. 22 £ 1745 18 3 Mr. John Gordon No.1 To sundries…………………………………235 __ 5 To Do………………………………………..77 15 __ 6 To Mr. Goy for wages………………………20 4 __ 8 To Do………………………………………138 12 8 9 To Do………………………………………...21 2 4 10 To Do………………………………………...12 3 4 11 To Do………………………………………...18 13 __ 12 To Do……………………………………….401 19 3 13 To Do……………………………………….491 8 5 To paid in all to him for house rent with expenses of repairing……………….150 To extraordinary repairs……………………...12 __ To paid Barton for primage……………………5 __ To Gov. Grant's account with Mr. Gordon…..86 14 __ To freight of 2 vessels Mr. Gordon's account..59 17 10 To an account of sundry omissions…………..86 13 6 1940 8 3 By drawback on Rum 7 8 6 No. 23 £ 1932 19 9
Mr. Earl's Account No. To wages for 3 years at £30 per ann…………..90 __ __ 1 To an account…………………………………..9 __ __ 2 To Do…………………………………………..2 __ __ 3 To Do………………………………………….19 __ __ No. 24 £122 3 5 Mr. Meyer Moses No. 1 To an account………………………………...106 1 __ 2 To Do…………………………………………207 3 __ 3 To Do…………………………………………248 14 5 ½ 4 To Do…………………………………………..35 7 7 5 To Do…………………………………………..49 1 1 No. 25 £646 7 1 ½ Col. Henry Laurens No.1 To an account…………………………………330 17 __ 2 To Do…………………………………………..65 10 6 3 To Do…………………………………………..89 14 3 To Mr. Humphreys thro' him………………….50 No. 26 £ 536 1 9 Mr. Robert Payne No. 1 To sundries……………………………………215 __ 9 2 To ditto………………………………………..156 7 11 3 To ditto………………………………………..353 15 8 4 To ditto…………………………………………15 13 10 No. 27 £ 740 18 2
Mr. Tho. Nixon's Account No.1 To an account of sundries……………………..403 __ 4 2 To Do………………………………………….231 10 6 3 To Do…………………………………………….3 11 8 4 To Do…………………………………………...88 3 9 5 To Do…………………………………………….8 9 6 6 To Do…………………………………………...31 13 4 7 To Do…………………………………………….7 16 4 8 To Do…………………………………………...28 1 8 To Do…………………………………………….1 3 7 To Do…………………………………………….1 1 3 To Do…………………………………………….5 9 8 No.28 £806 13 9 Mr. Nixon shipped in November 1771 a large quantity of cloathing which was not arrived when Dr. Turnbull left Smyrna therefore is not brought into his accounts amounting to… 988.16.02 which is a store for the year 1772. Account of money paid for Cattle To bought by Gov. Grant and Mr. Graham…...373 10 To bought from Mackintosh…………………..334 10 To bought from Mess. Bisset, Ross 111111and Macdougal 72 head of cattle not receipt…………………..108 __ __ No. 29 £ 816 __ __ Money paid to the Coopers Men and for horses To the hire of John Dair's with two servants 85 1 3 To Do. at closing our accounts…………………35 10 9 ½ To George Mills………………………………...52 11 9 To Duncan Easson and for a horse……………...25 7 __ To John Stewart for wages……………………...55 4 __ To Do. for four horses…………………………..30 To Bryant for wages and horses………………...34 __ To horses not charged in the general account…..72 __ __ No. 30 £ 389 14 9 ½ Expence of surveys No.1 Sr. Richard Temple's tract………………………50 9 1 2 To another of 10,000 thrown up bad land……….23 18 5 3 To Do……….of 1000…………………………….4 5 3 4 To Do………of 10,000………………………….23 14 4 5 To Mr. Mulcaster's account……………………106 5 4 To the attorney Gen. for Fiats to the Governor's Secretary's registrer's and other fees of the offices 43 To surveying the road to Mr. Mulcaster…………20 To paid Mr. Funk Deputy Surveyor……………..30 No. 31 £ 301 12 5 Wages Paid To six carpenters engaged in London at £14 Per annum for 2 years….……………….138 __ __ To Gaspard Petross, an overseer………………..75 __ To paid at different times to the clergymen and doctor of the settlement………………… 60 __ To paid to the clerk Naylor……………………...21 __ To wages to 7 discharged soldiers from Port Mahon …………………………….35 __ __ No. 32 £329 __ __ Mr. Thompson's account 1 To sundries………………………….40:17:__ 2 To Do……………………………...170: 1: 2 3 To Do……………………………...674: __ 4 To Do……………………………...411:__: 1 5 To Do……………………………….99: 5: __ 6 To Do……………………………….83:13: 3 7 To Do……………………………….29: 5: __ 8 To Do……………………………...391: 4: __ 9 To Do…………………………….....65: 8 : 5 10 To Do…………………………….....20:15: __ 11 To Do……………………………….60:12: __ 12 To Do……………………………….42: 3: 6 No. 33 Curry 2088: 4: 5 Sterling is….…..298 6 4 Mr. Wood's account To sundries……………………………………..78 3 11 To Do………………………………………….193 11 2 To Do…………………………………………...55 11 2 To Do…………………………………………...37 12 0 No. 34 £ 364 18 3
To fourteen pipes of oil bought at Turnavo in Greece @ £25 per pipe. The account was lost in the mutiny and four pipes of the oil stove…………. 350 To more provisions for the people at Smyrna sent from Carolina by Mr. Gordon for which bills of exchange has been paid per receipt. The invoice and accounts not yet arrived…………………………. 500:11:7 No. 36 858,11, 7 D General Account 1 To Warner for sundries 24.00.00 2. To Woodsides 195.15.00 3. To Williams 15.05.00 4. To Bonsal 75.10.04 5. To Grandals 06.08.05 6. To Barber for freight & etc. 43.18.00 7. To Pondel 107.02.06 8. To Mr. Fish 28.09.00 9. To Torrans & Paong 326.19.06 10. To Robert Ross 11.08.03 11. To Savery 13.06.00 12. To Doran 279.06.00 13. To Warner 22.12.06 14. To a Horse 10.10.00 15. To Clemente 05.04.02 16. To Price 01.08.00 17. To Savery 11.05.09 18. To Holroyd 40.09.04 19. To Buckle 27.13.02 20. To Elsenor 06.15.00 21. To Cunningham 28.17.04 22. [left blank] 23. To Ashley 05.04.06 24. [left blank] 25. To Bachop 04.05.06 26. To Yonge 05.18.00 27. To Longis 08.11.00 28. To Barber 08.16.06 29. To Powel 10.10.00 30 To Oliver 31.19.06 £1354.08.03 31 To Ross 13.00.02 ½ 32 To Watson wages 178.10.00 33 To Home 01.17.00 34 To Williams 02.04.09 35 To Shumach 07.16.04 36 To Platt 03.12.00 37 To Piles 10.10.00 38 To Angus Clerk 40.00.00 39 To Fox & Marshall 02.02.00 40 To Moses 04.06.03 41 To Cross 12.14.00 42 To Dunnage 03.12.00 43 To Smith 01.10.00 44 To Moses 07.15.000 2.05.0045 To Johnston 02.05.00 46 To Diamond 03.19.00 47 To Piles 08.01.03 48 To Ryal 44.00.00 49 To Johnston 24.12.00 50 To Fryar 24.10.10 51 To Tools for the Smiths 40.00.00 52 To Wolls – stationary 11.19.00 53 To Blackwell 21.12.01 [blank] [blank] 56 To sundries 14.07.06 57 To Doran 49.10.03 58 To Buckle 815.19.09 59 To Norcliffe 02.06.00 60 To Wills 03.13.08 61 To Buckle 263.03.03 £1619.18.08 62 To Goff 08.04.00 ¾ 63 ToDoran 166.08.03 64 To Bernard 37.00.00 65 To Warner 13.00.00 66 To Hawksworth 41.12.00 67 To Thomas for a Horse 10.00.00 68 To Buckle 17.01.00 69 To Carey 96.18.08 70 To Mason 34.05.08 71 To Wooldridge 01.15.09 72 To Governor Grant & Ryal 195.16.00 73 [blank] 74 To Diamond 03.08.00 75 To Ryal 07.05.02 76 To an account at Wilmington 74.04.06 ½ 77 To Wooldridge 18.00.00 78 To Wilson 02.07.04 79 To Platt for corn 26.05.00 80 To Kennedy 50.00.00 81 To Diamond 37.01.00 82 To Michael 28.14.00 83 To Elsenor 25.15.00 84 To Westmore 175.14.07 (The ship belonging to Westmore being lost one of the accounts was also lost) 85 To Heitman 10.02.00 86 To Ryal 175.14.07 To do. freight & primage 38.06.02 To sundrys stock & etc. 22.09.11 To lent on another voyage 13.04.00 87 To Serogne 03.00.06 88 To Rosseter 01.14.00 89 To Oakes 08.17.06 90 To Bonsal 16.04.03 91 To Funk 13.06.06 [skipped a number] 93 To Doran 80.19.06 94 To Bachop 35.06.00 £1491.16.?? [paper torn] F 95 to Knowland 07.08.00 96 To Moncrief 11.19.00 97 To Couvoisie 31.09.00 98 To Collins 21.17.00 99 To Bonsall 22.12.04 ½ 100 To Blackwall 01.15.05 101 To Wilson 12.16.06 102 To Warren 04.10.00 103 To Henderson 12.10.06 104 To Wells 07.12.00 105 To Mr. Turnbull Jun. 1 st overseer 52.10.00 106 To Captain Titus, an Overseer and Wharfinger for wages & etc. 219.04.02 107 To Carey 08.07.10 108 To Man for Stock 25,18.00 109 To Wilson for Cutteer 66.00.02 110 To Henderson 26.01.00 ½ 111 To David Moses 26.02.11 112 To Henderson 38.04.00 [skipped two numbers and lines] 115 To Wills 08.03.00 116 To ?? Mr. Astle drawing deeds 12.12.00 [skipped 2 numbers] To Watson as peer Nixon's account 20.00.00 To Curling for a passage from Charles Town paid by Mr. Nixon for self, Techue & Jennings & servant 29.04.00 117 To a Cape Fair [Fear] account 76.04.07 £743.02.10 ½ Brought over from 1 st page 1354.08.03 2d 1619.18.08 3d 1491.16.05 ¾ 4 th 743.02.10 ½ To Daniel Friesbie for provisions omitted 39.01.00 To Hawse for bricks 01.09.00 To Benjamin Barton for provisions 07.13.10 [subtotal] 48.03.10 £ 5257.10.00 ¾ Amount of the several Accounts (viz) Numbers
15967 3 01 Deduct for sundries from above to be charged to the people……..1000 The proprietor's capital £ 14967 3 1
Amount of the several accounts continued Numbers
15920 19 8 ¾ Sundrys supplied the people in Europe deducted from other side to be added here…………………………..………..1000 £ 16920 19 8 ¾
36 Ditto 858 11 7 This sum to be paid by the people £ 17779 11 3 ¾ Dr. Andrew Turnbull Esq. in account with To cash paid by the Right Honorable George Grenville And Sir William Duncan Baronet to Mr. Turnbull 25,027.18.02 To cash from Mr. Nixon for indigo sold in 1771—800.14.08 To cash from Mr. Nixon for indigo sold in 1772— 2992.01.10 3,792.16.06 28,820.14.08 To Balance to be carried to the credit of Mr. Turnbull in new Account 3,925.19.08 ¾ 32,746.14.04 ¾ To Mr. Turnbull's proportion of money to be advanced For the settlement in Florida 4,000.00.00 To cash from Mrs. Ward for two Negroe children sold to her, their mother being dead, as they were a burthen to the settlement. 50.00.00 4050.00.00 To the above balance resting by Mr. Turnbull to the settlement. 124.00.03 ¼ To balance in favour of Mr. Turnbull as appears by the stating of the account. 448.19.08 ¾ 573.00.00 Concern in East Florida Contra Credit By sundry accounts for collecting and carrying the People To East Florida per particular accounts. 14967.03.01 By sundry accounts for maintaining & cloathing the People. Also for buildings tools of husbandry & etc., including £1000 for cloaths & other utensils furnished them in Europe for their use in America and which they are to repay the proprietors as per contract. 16920.19.08 ¾ By fourteen pipes of oil bought at Turnavo in Greece. The accounts Lost in the mutiny, and four pipes of the oil. 350.00 By more provisions for the people at Smyrnea sent from Carolina by Mr. Gordon, for which bills of exchange has been paid. The invoices and accounts not yet arrived. 508.11.07 £32746.14.04 ¾ By the above balance in favour of Mr. Turnbull. 3925.19.08 ¾ By balance resting by Mr. Turnbull to the settlement. 124.00.03 ¼ £ 4050.00.00 By the balance of cash laid out by Mr. Turnbull per his particular Account and which remains to be considered when all the concerned Meet in London. £ 573 Andrew Turnbull Account of cash supplied by Andrew Turnbull for the use of the Smyrnica Settlement in East Florida To cash from Mr. Murray by Bills on Jackson and Rutherford in Leghorn. This was for a share of the people but the dividing of them being found impracticable I took that debt on myself……………………………………………………. 1000 To sundry sums advanced to the 12 th of September 1768 as advice sent…. 3400 To household furniture carried from my House in St. Augustine for the use of the Smyrnica settlement……………………………….. 115 To small expenses in my several journeys in the province from July 1768 July 1768 to January 1772………………………………………………. 25 To lodgings and other expenses at Charlestown and for a stock of provisions for a London passage………………………………………… 33 3573 4573 By the sum agreed on to be advanced by me……………………. 4000 £ 573 Andrew Turnbull
Account of monies I am obliged to pay being laid out on the settlement To Mr. John Murray………………………….………………………. 1000 To a balance of Mr. Alexiano's account……………………………… 175 To advanced by Mr. Nixon for passage from Charles town to London 29.04 By part of Mr. Murray's money to make up the sum I was to advance…………………… 427. By my balance having advanced so much more than my proportion………………. 448:19:8 ¾ 875 19 8 £ 328 4 Sundry Accounts of Expenses for the settlement in Florida from July 1772 to the 18 th of November 1776 To Mr. Nixon's account of insurance…………………………….73 10 To Do………..invoice of goods shipped 1 st November 1771…..988 16 2 To Do………invoice of goods shipped 4 th February. 1772……...32 12 8 To Do………..invoice of goods shipped 11 th July. 1772……...541 3 3 To Do………..invoice of goods shipped 8 th March 1773……....419 19 4 To Do………..invoice of goods shipped 20 th March 1773………14 19 6 To Do……..Amount of goods saved from the shipwreck……....412 12 9 To Do……..Amount of sundry drafts paid…………………….2093 1 2 To Do……….Balance of interest account on goods shipped…..113 0 8 By account of bounty and drawbacks on goods shipped.....69 1 3 Andrew Turnbull Esquire…………………. Sir William Duncan Bart…………………… The executors of the rt. Honble Geo. Grenville To my commission on making insurance 1771 Amounting to £14,700 at ½ per Ct………………………….73 10 __ Nov. 1 st To goods shipped as per invoice……………………….......988 16 2 1772 Febry 1 st To Do………p Do…………………………………………...32 12 8 July 11 th To Do………p Do……………………………………….... 541 3 5 1773 March 8 th To Do………p Do…………………………………….....…419 19 4 20 To Do……….p Do…………………………………...……...14 19 6 Aug. 16 th To Do……..and sav'd from the wreck as per account...…...412 12 9 To 2 swivel guns………………………………..……………..2 2 __ To freight of 2 pipes wine from Madeira to Smyrnea 1772... 3 3 __ To cash paid Mrs. Cole for drawing and directions how to work the chain pump by wind and water………………….. 2 12 6 To cash paid [Sdon?] of New York for seeds………………... 4 ,, ,, To freight 2 pipes of wine from Madeira to Smyrnea 1773. 3 3 Mr. Turnbull when in England and paid for by me (viz) Tapp…..£62,,18 Cleland…49,,18 Oliver…..20,,17,,8 Parker…..41,,6,, Tapp……45,,16 Hanken....94,,9 315,,4,,8 at 2 ½ p ct………………….7 17 8 To insurance on Do. as 300£ at 2 ½ p ct. and policy 5/6 ……...7 15 6 To Sundry drafts paid as p account…………………………2093 1 2 To Balance of interest account……………………………….113 0 8 Their account with Thomas Nixon __________ C rs ,,___ 1773 July 31 By proceeds of indigo as per account of sales £1350,,17,,11 By bounty on Do. 7310 a 4,,d p pound……….…121,,16,,8... 1472 14 7 1774 May 6 Mr. Graham's acceptance at 6 months……………………… 1000 ,, ,, By bounty drawback and interest on goods as p account……… 69 1 3 1773 May 18 By cash received of Lord Temple……………£250,, ,, By Do. of Sir William Duncan……………….250,, ,,………. 500 Nov. 8 By Do. of Lord Temple………………………………………. 700 3741 15 10 1774 June 11 By cash rec. of Geo. Ramsay Esq. being the balance of his acct …. 978 13 6 Received 11 June of Geo. Ramsay Esquire the sum Of nine hundred and seventy eight pounds 13/6…… 4720 9 4 Being the balance of this account. Thomas Nixon Witness. Dr. the plantation in East Florida in Account with Geo. Ramsay 1771 June 11 To cash paid to Tho' Nixon being the balance of his account 978 13 6 To cash paid the right honble the Earl of Temple Corron'd From his lordship the 8 Nov. 1773 with interest……….720 14 1 16 To cash paid one years interest to Do. on £250 ,, ,,…………….12 10 To Do. p Do. --------------- to Sir William Duncan 250,, ,,……...12 10 1724 7 7 To balance to be accounted for 25 12 5 No. 2 £ 1750 ,, ,, London 13 July 1774……. 1774 June 11 By cash borrow'd for which Geo. Ramsay gave a note To repay the same out of the crop of indigo of 1774 Together with lawful interest…………………………1750,, ,, £1750,, ,, Errors accepted George Ramsay Sundry Accounts. Mr. Robert Payne's accounts No.1 Sundry disbursements…………………………………….46,, 17,, 1 2 Sundry supplies from store ………………………………..6,, 7 ,, 8 3 Do…………..Do……………………………………….144,, 10,, 8 4 Do……………Do…………………………………… 193 ,, 4 ,, 1 5 Do…………….Do………………………………………82 ,, 5,, 6 6 Do………………Do…………………………………….30,, 4 Mr. John Doran's Account No.1 Sundry provisions………………………………………..25,, 14 ,, 6 2 Freight…..Do…………………………………………….40,, ,, 3 Freight…….Do…………………………………………..67,, 9 ,, 4 Sundry Provisions………………………………………..22,, 6,, 8 5 Corn Indigo Seed ………………………………………..13,, 11,, 4 6 Provisions………………………………………………..24,, 13,, 5 7 Freight……………………………………………………..2,, 15,, 8 Do.___.......................................................................................18,,10 9 Flour Corn……………………………………………… 403,, 15,,10 10 Fish Pork………………………………………………….60,, 18,, 2 11 Provisions…………………………………………………44,, 1 12 Sundries…………………………………………………...35,, 17,, 6 13 Freight………………………………………………………8,, 3,, 750 6 3 Mr. James Wallaces Accounts No. 1 Corn & Pork ……………………………………………….319,, ,, 2 Axes………………………………………………………. 15,, 13,,11 3 Sundries…………………………………………………….. 2,, 11 337 4 11 James Penman's account No.1 More account of sundries……………………… 431,,11 ,,3 2 Do……………of Do…………………………… 26,, 13,, 1 458 4 4 Mr. Gardiner's Account No.1 Oznaburgs……………………..……………………………………..307 0 2 Mr. Pantons Accounts No.1 Provisions from Carolina p Schooner Margaret…458.15.00 2 Do…………………….p Do…………Rose……..937.15.00 3 Do…………………..p Do…………..Do……….. 779.01.04 2175.11.0 4 By so much credited in last arrangement for bills…… 508.11.07 1666 19 9 Mess. Simpson And Co. Accounts No. 1 Amount of their account for clothing …………………………...… 735 11 4 4758 15 9 Mr. Wooldridges account No.1 To balance of his acct. for horses omitted in last arrangement 180 8 1
Sundry Other Accounts 1 To Henderson………….For carpenter works…………………… 1 16 2 To Tapp……………..Silver Smith……………………………… 62 18 3 To Robertson…………..Ferrying over waters…………………… 1 16 ,, 4 Mrs. Ann Ward…………Oznaburgs…………………………….… 81 9 11 ½ 5 Do…………………..Interest and freight……………………………3 19 ,, 6 Navine………………Botanic Thermometer………………………..1 18 ,, 7 Drummond……………..Port Wine………………………………...29 4 3 8 Eddie and Dupin…………Garden Seeds……………………………4 15 2 9 Bethune………………..for a horse…………………………………25 10 Lofthouse………………..Madeira wine and pickles……………….56 17 5 11 Richardson………………..Rum…………………………………….97 1 9 12 David Moses……………..Sundries………………………………….3 16 6 13 Meyer Moses……………..Rum Tobacco ………………………….68 13 10 14 Funt……………………….Surveying land…………………………34 13 10 15 Mulcaster……………………Do……..Do………………………….12,, ,, 16 Robinson………………..Keeping Horses……………………………,, 13 17 Smart…………………….Ferrying over the waters………………… 1 16 9 18 Roberts…………………..Oznaburgs & spirits………………………...31 4 7 19 Lofthouse………………..Cheese and a gun…………………………7 3 3 20 Mulcaster………………..Surveying………………………………...15 ,, ,, 21 Sloan…………………….Ferrying over the water……………………1 17 6 22 Do……………………………servants………………………………...,, 6,, 23 Curson and Seton……….garden seeds………………………………..3 18 10 24 Yellowby………………..surveying………………………………….21,, ,, 25 Watson ………………….Trees and seeds…………………………….9 15 2 26 Peres…………………….Sundry's from Store……………………….10 11 4 27 Revaz……………………1200 bushels of corn and interest………..182 5 ,, 28 Purcell……………………Making a plan of settlement……………….1 10 ,, 29 Wilson……………………Flour Coffee and bread…………………...15 8 4 30 Cleland………… Saddlery ……………39 7 ,, Sundry other Accounts Continued. No. 31 Mulcaster……………….Fees for3850 acres of land……15,,13,,8 ½ 32 Ann Ward……………….Store account sundries………..23,,10,,7 33 Purnell…………………..Fees for grant of land…………23,,13,,6 34 Cheap……………………Madeira wine…………………94,,19,,6 35 Meyers moses……………butter…………………………..7,, 9,, 36 37 In account of Wages to overseers Clerks and priest N. 1 To Andrew Turnbull's manager per receipt………………...64.10.00 2 To the priest Casas Novas……………………………… 312.00.00 3 To Eleg. Kennedy intended servant………………………. 07.00.00 4 To Langley Bryant interpreter and cattle hunter………... 170.00.00 5 To Lewis Merlin Clerk…………………………………… 90.00.00 To Carlo Moise…....overseer…………………………….. 90.00.00 6 To Sam Watson cattle hunter…………………………….. 35.00.00 7 To Lewis Merlin………………………………………….. 16.12.00 8 To Gaspers Trotti overseer………………………………. 117.05.00 9 To William Forbes………………………………………. 21.05.00 No. 5 923.12.00 Dr. Turnbull's General Account of Expenses To Lodging board servants wages in London from the 1 st of March to the 18 th of July 1772…………………………84.07.00 To Expenses from London to Margate and Dover also to Expenses At Dover when waiting for a fair wind………………………. 9.02.00 To Expenses at Plymouth…………………………………………….. 9.00.09 To Expenses at Madeira……………………………………………… 8.18.00 To traveling expenses in East Florida and to my expenses When in St. Augustine from the 8 th October 1772 To the 23 March 1776………………………………………..72. To Expenses of a Voyage to Charles Town to provide for The settlement and to expenses of returning………………...25 __ __ To my expenses from St. Augustine to London……………………..33 __ __ To my expenses in London from the 10 th of May to the 10 th of November 1776 being six months………………….126 __ __ No. 6 £ 367.07.09 London 18 Nov. 1776. Andrew Turnbull Dr. Andw. Turnbull Esquire and Co. in Acct. curt. with Graham Johnston and Co. Interest Days 1774 2 16 10 520 Apr 30 To your drss. To L. D. Herera on T. Nixon reter'd by us..40.03.00 __ 2 14 8 300 May20 To Do……..to Peter Paradise……………………………40. 1 18 11 477 June 12 To Do……..to L. Dr. Herera and noting returned by us 30.01.06 4 5 ,, 445 July 14 To Gardners dft. On you're a/c …………………………70. 1 2 6 412 Aug.16 To you dft. To Wm. Watson…………………………….20. 11 3 1 412 ...……. To Do………to R. Payne ……………………………..197. 1 1 11 401 27 To Do…….to Lt. Dr. Herera……………………………20. 1 17 2 298……… To Do……..To R. Payne………………………………..46. 37 13 5 275 31 To so much paid John Simpson and Co for money advanced by them to Wm. Panton and others for provisions for the 1775 settlement……………………………………...1000. 1 6 8 171 April 14 To Your dft. To R. Payne………………………………..57. 7 14 ,, 171 …… To Do….to J. Gordon……………………………………30. 1 10 1 110 June 14 To Do. ..to J Doran……………………………………..100. 1 10 4 109 15 To Do……to Do and Noting………………………… 102.01.06 1 1 6 83 July 11 To Do……..to James Wallace…………………………...95. 1 0 5 83 …….. To Do ………to Do……………………………………...90. 1 2 10 83 ……. To Do……to J Doran…………………………………...101. 1 2 10 83 ……. To Do…….To Do………………………………………100.15.00 ,, 3 11 60 Aug 1 To Do ….to ….Do……………………………………….23.18.00 ,, 9 7 55 8 To Do………to J. Wallace………………………………64.06.00 ,, ,, 9 16 Sept. 16 To Do……to G. T. Mulcaster…………………………...17.17.0 2 ,, 7 8 14 18 To Gardners dft. On Your a/c ………………………….200. 6 10 22 To yr. dft. To E. Webley…………………………………19. ,, 2 3 10 ……. To Do. ………..to James Wallace………………………85. ,, 3 6 9 28 To A. Gardner's draft. On your a/c ………………… 144.03.00 Oct.4 To amount of interest to this date £124,,16,,4 Deduct interest on Cr. Side… 39.00.06 124 16 4 85.15.10 Postage of letters 1.16.00 £3936.18.00 1775 interest Days Jan. 6 By your remit in C Bernard's bill on Beresford 3 2 4 269 85. Mar. 16 By Do……….in P Tonyn's Do. on R Knox…… 1 11 3 200 56.10.00 June 21 By Cash Received of Geo. Ramsay Esquire………8 9 3 103 600.00.00 Oct. 3 Proceeds 80 chests 3 casks of indigo p. London 23 4 3 72 £2354.00.09 By Do. 7 casks Indigo p. Lofthouse….………. 2 13 5 267.06.09 £ 39 0 6 £3363.05.09 4 By balance due Graham Johnson ……………………………………573 12 3 London 4 October,, 1775 Errors accepted £3036.18.00 Graham Johnson and Co. Dr. Mess. And Turnbull Esquire and Co. then a/c with Graham Johnson and Co. Cont. Interest Days 1775 35 11 10 453 Oct. 4 To Balance of Account to this day 573.12.03 2 16 8 387 Dec. 9 To your draft to James Penman………………… 53.10.00 1776 To postage omitted in last account……………… 00.10.10 ,, 11 4 110 Mar 12 To amount of invoice of Goods, Aurora,12 Sept. 37.12.04 ,, 10 6 192 June 22 To paid your bill to W. Wilson……………… 20.00.00 1 1 7 192 22 To Do……….to R. Payne……………………… 41.02.04 ,, 10 4 189 25 To Do……….to John Graham ………………… 20.00.00 ,, 18 9 160 July 24 To Do……………to Doran………………… 42.18.00 160 To paid for an indigo cutter…………………... 00.15.00 7 7 10 140 Aug 13 To your bill to James Penman…….…..………… 385.10.02 1 9 1 140 ……… To Do………to Do……………………………… 06.00.00 1 3 8 136 ……... To Do……..to Do………………………………… 69.00.05 ,, 18 2 136 ……... To Do……….to Do…………………………… 48.19.00 ,, 2 3 83 ……... To paid Scotts bills…………………………………10.00.00 Nov 16 John Simpson and Co. Account for sundries 53.04.00 Furnished the settlement from Charles Town 17.09.04 P contra Acct. £5148,,19,, exch. 700 p cent………… 735.11.04 35 14 8 Total interest Amt. interest this acct. to 31 Dec. next as margin 35.14.08 To the above balance brought down…………… 829.06.06 To Bills upon us for Negroes bought of Captain Woodville payable May 1777……………………….. 612.00.00 No. 7 £ 1441.06.06 1776 Interest Days April 9 Nett proceeds 7 casks indigo. Lofthouse due 1 June 20.15.03 214 708.12.09 Aug. 3 By Do. of Camwood p. Figlree due July 27……..... 00.0808 157 22.07.07 21.03.08 Nov. 16 By Do. of 12 casks indigo p. Do. due 15 Feb 1777... 3 14 4 46 590.09.06 17 9 4 13.09.10 By balance due Graham Johnson and co………………. 829.06.06 £ 2150.16.04 London 16 November 1776. Errors Accepted, Graham, Johnson and Co. Dr. Andrew Turnbull Esquire on account for sales of Indigo and cash advanced
1773 To cash from Lord Temple……………£250,, ,, May 6 To Do. from Sir Wm. Duncan………….250,, ,,…………… 500 July 31 To Proceeds of Indigo sold by Mr. Nixon 1472.14.0 7 1774 To drawback on goods credited by Mr. Nixon……… ..............69.01.0 3 June 11 To cash borrow'd from Lord Temple……………………… 1750.00.00 1775 June 21 To cash from Lord Temple and Lady Mary Duncan paid unto Mess. Graham and Co. bands p. Receipt............... £600. Oct. 3 To proceeds of indigo p. Mess. Graham and Co…………… 2354.09.00 To proceeds of Indigo per Graham & Co.…………................ 267.06.09 To bills paid into Mess. Graham and Co. hands received for building boats……………………………………………… 141.10.00 1776 April 9 To Nett proceeds of 7 casks of indigo p. Graham and Co. 708.12.09 Aug 3 To Do………….of camwood……p..Do…………………… 22.07.07 Nov 16 To Do……………..of indigo………………p..Do…………… 590.09.06 8476.11.06 To balance as appears by the above arrangement to be due to Doctor Turnbull supposing he has paid all the accounts on the credit side……………… 1521.03.07 £ 9997.15.00 1774 June 11 By account of sundries p Mr. Nixon's account…… 2627.08.02 By interest paid Lord Temple on £700. and £250. 33.04.01 By interest paid Sir Wm. Duncan ….on £250. 12.10.00 By remains in Geo. Ramsay's hands for disbursements...... 25.12.05 By sundry accounts p. Rob. Payne…………..503.09.00 By Do……………..p. John Doran…………..750.06.03 By Do…………….p...Jas. Wallace………….337.04.11 By Do……………..p.Jas. Penman………......458.04.04 By Do…………….p.Gardner………………..307.00.02 By Do…………….p. Panton…………...….1666.19.09 By Do…………….p. Mess. Graham and Co. 735.11.04 4758.15.09 By Do……………..p. Mrs. Wooldridge… 180.08.01 By Do…………….p. Sundry Accounts…… 1068.16.09 By Do…………….p. Wages ……………….. 923.12.00 1992.08.09 By Do…………….p.Mrs. Turnbull's expenses……… 367.07.09 £ 9997.15.00 General state of the debt due by the Smyrnea settlement in East Florida to Graham Johnson and co. Merchants in London by Andrew Turnbull esquire and Co. p. accounts made up this 16 November 1776. (viz) To balance of account current of Andrew Turnbull Esquire and Co. herewith produced……….... 829.06.06 Our acceptance for Negroes due next May …………… 612.00.00 1441.06.06 To balance of account current of Andrew Turnbull Esquire herewith produced…………………………………………. 900.04.00 2341.10.06 To premium of £1000 we are to insure upon the Betsey Lofthouse from St. Aug. at 20 Gs pr Ct, policy and Commission 215.14.00 £ 2557.04.06 London 16 November 1776, Errors accepted. Graham, Johnson and Co. Andrew Turnbull Esquire To Vincent Cazalli To 7 years of servitude viz horn 15 July 1768 until the 15 July 22, 2005 1775 at £5 per year as per agreed £35 ,, ,, To hire from the 16 July 1775 Until 16 July 1777 two years at 60 pounds Per annum £120 ,, ,, £155 ,, ,, East Florida April term 21 st Geo. 3 d Andrew Turnbull of the province aforesaid Doctor in physic was attached to answer to Vincent Cazalli of a plea of trespass upon the case and so forth And Whereupon the said Vincent Henry Yonge his attorney complain why Whereas the said Andrew on the first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one at Smyrnea the province aforesaid was indebted to the said Vincent in the sum of one hundred and fifty fife pounds of lawful money of Great Britain for certain work labour attendance and service of the said Vincent before that tiem done and performed by the said Vincent at Smyrnea aforesaid for the said Andrew at his special instance and request and being so indebted he the said Andrew in consideration thereof afterwards that is to say on the same day and year aforesaid at Smyrnea aforesaid in the province aforesaid undertook and to the said Vincent then and there faithfully promised to pay him the said sum of money. And Whereas the said Andrew afterwards that is to say on the day and year aforesaid at Smyrnea aforesaid in consideration that the said Vincent at the special instance and request of the said Andrew had before that time done and performed certain other work labour attendance and service at Smyrnea aforesaid the said Andrew undertook and then and there faithfully promised said Vincent to pay him so much money as he the said Vincent reasonably deserved to have form the said Andrew for the same. And the said Vincent doth answer that he reasonably deserved to have from the said Andrew for the same another sum of one hundred and fifty five pounds of like lawful money that is to say at Smyrnea aforesaid where of the said Andrew forwards that is to say on the same day and year aforesaid had notice and undertakings so made aforesaid but containing and fraudulently intending to deceive and defraud the said Vincent in this behalf hath not paid to him the said sum of money or any part thereof although to pay the same to him the said Vincent he the said Andrew Afterwards that is to say on the same day and year aforesaid at Smyrnea aforesaid that is to say at Saint Augustine in the province aforesaid was requested by the said Vincent but the said Andrew to pay the same to him hath altogether refused and still doth refuse to the damage of the said Vincent two hundred pounds and thereupon he bringeth suit and so forth Yonge And the said Andrew by Thomas Ross his attorney comes and defends the force and injury when and so forth and saith that he did not undertake in manner and form as the said Vincent above complains against him and upon this he putteth himself upon the country. Ross Def. Attorney And the said Vincent doth so likewise Yonge Prevatt Pietro Cazzifaceis Account with Dr. Andrew Turnbull
Feb 18 To trousers per breeches a shirt and jacket_________ 13 Feb 20 To a blue jacket a pair stockings a striped shirt______ 17 To a pair of English trousers 1 pair stocking and basks 9 Mar 25 To a hat a pair stockings pipes and (ink blot)ys______ 6 Apr 14 To a pair of wonted stockings and pair crousers And a double cap_____________________________ 9 To a capot and 2 shirts_________________________ 1 2 0 To a pair of shoes and a pair of trousers___________ 9 To one pound tobacco_________________________ 6 To a pair of blue trousers_______________________ 4 (Oct?) 17 To a small blanket and a white shirt_______________ 8 Oct 25 To a straw hat and a white woolen jacket___________ 5 Novb 15 To a check shirt and a blue cloth jacket____________ 13 To a pair of ordinary shoes for himself____________ 4 To a pair of blue woolen stockings________________ 4 To a pair of soles _____________________________ 1 Feby 24 To a pair of bucles____________________________ 1 June To a shirt and a pair trousers of striped linen _______ 9 July To a striped shirt______________________________ 5 Dec 2 To a pair of women's woolen stockings____________ 3 31 To an osnaburgg shirt and trousers_______________ 5 6 1771 To a pair of coarse shoes_______________________ 4 Mar 13 To a shirt and a pair of osnaburgg trousers _________ 5 6 May 19 To a pair of English shoes______________________ 5 4 To an English cap_____________________________ 2 To a hat [??] and a comb_______________________ 2 6 To a handkerchief_____________________________ 9 To an oznaburgg shirt and trousers________________ 5 6 Carried over £ 10 19 1 1772 Brought over £ 10 19 1 Jan 2 nd To a blanket__________________________________ 8
To a jacket with sleeves and 1 without_____________ 20 To a pair of blue cloth trousers___________________ 8 Feb 30 To 3 ½ yards of stripe at 15 d ____________________ 4 10 To a pair of English shoes_______________________ 4 7 To a check shirt at 13 ½ ________________________ 4 6 To an osnaburg shirt and trousers_________________ 5 6 To 2 oz thread________________________________ 2 May 13 To an osnaburg shirt and trousers_________________ 5 6 June 2 To a hand kerchief 17 and a pair bucles____________ 2 5 July 31 To a yard of osnaburg__________________________ 9 Aug 22 To a pair of stripd trousers_______________________ 4 6 1773 Mar 1 To a sailors woolen jacket at ____________________ 8 3 To a petticoat_________________________________ 6 16 To a pair of osnaburg trousers and shirt ____________ 5 6 Aug 11 To Do_______________________________________ 5 6 Dec 3 To sole leather________________________________ 1 1774 Apr 15 To a pair of coarse shoes________________________ 5 To a pair London shoes_________________________ 5 6 To 2 yards of osnaburg and thread ________________ 5 To a pair oznaburg trousers and a shirt ____________ 5 6 To 6 yards Do_____a bd____with thread___________ 3 2 To Do of Osnaburg_____________________________ 3 July 15 To 7 Do_____________________________________ 3 6 Aug 22 To 3 Do_____________________________________ 1 6 Nov 22 To 6 Do blue plains____________________________ 12 1775 To making a jacket and waistecoat_________________ 3 2 Mar 10 To seven yards oznaburg od______________________ 5 3 Oct 6 To a pair of shoes______________________________ 7 9 21 To eight pounds of lead (shot)_____________________ 4 8 Nov 24 To a good cloth jacket___________________________ 8 4 Dec 4 To 7 yards oznaburg w gd________________________ 5 1776 Oct 8 To 6 Do ______________________________________ 4 6 Carried over £ 19 2 4 1776 Amt brought up £ 19 2 4 Oct 8 To 2 ½ yards white plains_________________________ 5 To Do of blue___________________________________ 5 Jan 14 To a pair of shoes_______________________________ 7 19 19 4 To 33 1/3 per cent advance on the above _____________ 6 13 4 £ 26 12 5 By wages for 9 years service and by Debts to plaintiff cd of per annum ___________ 26 2 Balance due the plantiff_______£ ,, 10 5 David Yeats to James Grant St. Augustine, December 16, 1780 . . . “The Doctor is still practicing physic for the benefit of his family, tho' anxious to get to Charlestown where he will have a larger field, but he is detained by the Chancery suit between him and his copartners, which is still undecided. Two of his daughters are married–one to Mr. Holmes, a merchant at Pensacola, and the other to Mr. Marshal, agent to Mr. Ashby in this province. He informed me lately that he had written home to his friends to desire them to resign the Secretaryship in his name as he was determined to leave this [town], and desired me to apply if I wished to succeed [him]. But after what happened and his not mentioning it to Governor Tonyn, I really did not know how to understand him, however, I have informed the governor of it, and if you think there is any chance for success, I shall be highly obliged to you for your interest.” James Grant Papers David Yeats to James Grant St. Augustine, . . . “The Doctors chancery suit is drawing towards a close. The [order forbidding him to leave the province] has been taken off and nothing now detains him here until the division of his lands which will be soon finished, when he leaves this province for good. He has again asked me to apply in order to succeed him as Secretary, which I have done and the Governor has promised to recommend me....” James Grant Papers Governor Patrick Tonyn to Thomas Grenville St. Augustine, May 20, 1782 “The loss of former dispatches relative to the Smyrnea Settlement has been a great disappointment. When the business was put in a proper channel, I could only appear in it as Chancellor. “The event of the proceedings are sent by Mr. Yonge, to Mr. Ramsay inclosed to you. Lieutenant Governor Moultrie has the honour of writing to you, and of transmitting the state of the expenses with the bills drawn for the same; and I have requested of him to send the particulars of the conditions of Smyrnea. “Permit me sir to indulge the recollection of the honour I formerly had of the patronage of the late Earl of Temple, which I shall ever retain a dearly felt sense of, and shall be happy in every instance of showing my affections for every connection of his Lordship....” Dundee City Archives Miscellaneous in the Farrar-Duncan Archive. Note from James Penman on behalf of Andrew Turnbull. No date, circa 1782. The tracts of land listed below were possibly the lands assigned to Turnbull in the court-ordered division of lands of the Turnbull-Duncan-Grenville partnership. Penman was apparently asking the heirs of Duncan and Grenville to send the deeds or other paperwork relative to the following three tracts of land: 1)A plat of 10,000 acres of land situated on the south branch of the Nassau River; 2) A plat of 10,000 acres that was originally granted to George Barboulou; 3) A plat of 250 acres situated on Timoka River. Dundee City Archive Miscellaneous in the Farrar-Duncan Archive No author given, the note was sent to Thomas Grenville, February (circa 1782) “Compliments from Dr. Turnbull who sent you a correct list of the accounts he gave to Mr. Grenville and Mr. Ramsay. The other list was incorrect, an error caused by the Chaplain of the Settlement coming to Turnbull and pressuring him to send something to the First Clerk of Lord George's. “About a hundred pair of shoes for the overseers and oldest men. The other people make a soft kind of pump, called a makasine [sic] of leather made of Dear Skins. The Hatts are for the grown men and short boys, who are exposed to the sun in the field. The women wear common straw hats. The forty yards of lining is for the sixty yards of cloth at eight shillings; which is intended for the overseers and master mechanicks. As the Lining is intended for the forepart of the coats only, that quantity is sufficient. We use coarse osnaburgs to line the jackets made of the 1200 yards of coarse cloth.” Dundee City Archive David Yeats to James Grant St. Augustine, January 5, 1783 . . . “This town and the country is at present full of Refugees and Negroes from Carolina and Georgia so that both provinces are now completely evacuated and the Rebels in full and quiet possession of them, what a change! Doctor Turnbull and Mr. Penman remain at Charles Town. Mr. Roupell and his family are at St. Johns [River] on their way to this place. Should this province remain a British colony which I pray yet it may, and [the border established at the] St. Marys River, it must soon become a flourishing colony with the number of inhabitants that are now in it.” James Grant Papers Andrew Turnbull to Thomas Grenville Charleston, September 30, 1786 I have the Honour to trouble you with this to request your giving into the Hands of Mr. James Penman, who will wait on you without delay such grants of Lands as may fall to my share in the Division of the Smyrnéa Tracts, as stipulated in the Deeds of Partnership. It is proper, however, to mention that I executed Deeds of Division of Lands in East Florida according to an arbitrary arrangement ordered by Gov. Tonyn; but as I was then a prisoner and compelled to that act as a price of liberty, as is mentioned in the Discharge from Chancery, it will readily occur to you, Sir, that it is not valid. Besides it was not done by Lot according to the express words of the Deeds of Partnership, but by compulsion and under such circumstances of false imprisonment that I would then readily have given up the whole to be out of Tonyn's hands. I trust, therefore, Sir, as it cannot affect your claims, that in justice, you will bring about a division with your Brother and Lady Mary Duncan's attorney, Mr. Woodcock; they cannot have any objection to this equitable request founded on the only Deed which can be valid and without which no claim can be established on just grounds. “In regard to the deeds executed in St. Augustine, as Tonyn only would flatter himself that such a Piece of Injustice would be approved of by Men of Honour, I am the more solicitous, Sir, for Relief by a compensation for my losses on account of a Load of Debt arising from Governor Tonyn having taken every thing out of my Hands, and from his having given away or disposed of that property without satisfying the creditors of the Smyrnéa concern, or paying one half percent the wages due at that time. I cannot pay that Debt with the Labour of years, which now bears hard on me, being in my sixtieth and seventh year, consequently it must bear harder and harder on me till I sink under it, if I am not relieved by a compensation for my losses; though I never can be compensated, nor can I retrieve ten of the best years of my life, and more than once at the Risk of that Life, in carrying on that enterprise, for which I am now kept an Exile from my country, and an alien in this state, until I pay the debts contracted for that settlement. I beg leave, Sir, therefore, to repeat my request that you will please forward that division that I may make my claims before the time given elapses. “In the list of claims sent to me, I see, Sir, that yours is only for £9,000, and Lady Mary Duncans £13,000, which I think must proceed from a mistake, for the monies advanced for the shares of the Right Honorable George Grenville and Sir William Duncan amount to £25,027:18:2 of which each advanced one-half, for a confirmation of this you will please to look into the book of accounts made out by Mr. George Ramsay. I think it right also to mention Sir, that there was more than six hundred pounds worth of cut timber (cypress) on and nigh the wharf at Smyrnéa, of which I have the measurement, when Governor Tonyn took these affairs out of my hands. There were also ten large coppers of 150 gallons each double-bottomed which cost with the freight £400, two large copper stills with the worms and everything necessary. I left also ten double setts of indigo works with much other valuable property which might have been removed and sold for a considerable sum, transports having been sent on purpose to carry off the Inhabitants with their Effects, though it should have been removed immediately: it is to be expected, Sir, that Tonyn and Moultrie have accounted to you for all that property. “I think it right also to mention that as Governor Tonyn sent above a thousand settlers to set down on the Smyrnéa lands, he has no doubt accounted with you, Sir, for the percent usually paid for such a liberty: ten percent was the accustomed price paid by the settler to the proprietor on provisions, tar, turpentine, indigo and other produce, and eight percent on cut timber, viz. Scantling and Boards Shingles or Staves; if all this is not accounted for he wrongs you. Some of your property was no doubt given away to his needy dependants to preserve his influence among them, otherwise they would have abandoned him, for all knew his character, and therefore made him pay for what was deficient that way, which was not a little. “I cannot conclude, Sir, without taking the liberty to beg the favour of you not giving too much of your faith to any of Governor Tonyn's assertions to the contrary of what I have said; you will most certainly find, at last, that the Truth is not in him, for though I accused and proved him guilty to his face of the basest falsehoods, I find not withstanding that, even now in England, he does not suffer Truth to stand in his way when he wishes to establish or gain a point. I own sir that I am anxious to return to England to pull off the Mask of Deceit from that worst of men I know who pretended to the character of a gentleman. “It is with the greatest Respect that I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient and must humble servant. “P.S. Oct. 15 th . Sir, I beg leave to add to the above that, considering the glaring illegality of the oppressive alternative proposed to me by Gov. Tonyn, which was to remain a prisoner or to sign such deeds of division as he should order, I cannot think myself bound by deeds executed under these circumstances, consequently I conceive that claims granted in my name or made over to me, cannot be supported by any other person chosen except a fair division by lot takes place as stipulated in the Deeds of Partnership, or in the name of the company as a partnership, which certainly exists even to this day, and it seems to me that this mode of claim would be most to the advantage of all concerned, as it might then be made to the losses on the whole, which amount to above £37,000 Sterling in cash disbursed and in monies received for the produce and laid out on the Settlement, as appears by the book of accounts in your hands: if this mode of a claim is not adopted, nor a division of lands on a just ground, it will probably give rise to some confusion in the claims, as it might oblige me, however unwilling, to state that the division by Gov. Tonyn was illegal, highly oppressive, and unjust in regard to property extorted from me. “I do not think that it would appear to the honour of any gentleman to avail himself of such a division by which my share was to be two ten thousand acre tracts, that were not only uncultivated, but even without a tree cut down, or smallest Hut raised on them, instead of my fifth share of lands which with unremitting labour for ten years I had been clearing, cultivating, and forming into a settlement by building more than one hundred and fifty houses on one cleared field of more than seven miles long, and on another of three miles with Indigo works, drains, wharves, bridges, waggon roads, etc. The injustice of such a division must strike on the bare attention of the circumstances, and certainly could not be supported even before a Turkish Tribunal.” Dundee City Archive Patrick Tonyn to George Woodcock London, January 26, 1786 Former Governor Tonyn wrote that he had seen Lady Mary Duncan, who referred him to Mr. Woodcock, relative to the East Florida Claims Commission. Tonyn stated that he would deliver a valuation, a duplicate, of an original sent from Florida. The valuation was £13,305. The expenditure for cultivation should also be annexed to the valuation. “I am happy to meet with you to help to settle Lady Duncan's just demands.” Tonyn offered to come to Woodcock's office when convenient to Woodcock. He also offered to send duplicates of the deeds related to the New Smyrna settlement, which he thought would finally secure Lady Mary Duncan from any further correspondence with Doctor Turnbull. Tonyn said that he had also asked Dr. David Yeats to send Mr. Grenville's papers to Mr. Woodcock. Dundee City Archive Edward Penman to James Grant Charleston, South Carolina, July 14, 1792 “You will probably before now have been informed of the Death of our invaluable friend, Doctor Turnbull, about four months ago; perhaps also, you may have learnt, that an unfortunate [suretyship?], of many years standing, has left his family in very embarrassed circumstances. He has, however, left with may a veneration for his memory which can only cease with their existence, of which gives them the most sincere desire to render eery service to his family. “They have just–and in the opinion of many–well-founded claims on the British Government; and those probably only require to be mentioned to have its generosity and humanity extended to them. Major Pinckney, the American Embassador (sic) to your Court, from his regard to the late worthy Doctor, and with the benevolence which characterizes him, has nobly undertaken to bring them forward. “I have heard you, Sir, express your esteem pour l'amiable Grecienne”; your intimacy with Mr. Pitt now affords you an opportunity of evincing it, and your respect for the memory of the man, who had few equals here below. “I presume to solicit it, and trust I shall not do it in vain. Major Pinckney will have the goodness to transmit you this. I shall show you Mrs. Turnbull's memorial, with which he has kindly charged himself. Perhaps this may serve as an introduction to one who so justly deserves to be known, and may through your joint executions procure that aid which is truly merited by the family of Dr. Turnbull....” [Ambassador Pinckney did write to Lt. General Grant February 16, 1793, regarding “the situation of Mrs. Gracia Turnbull, relict of Dr. Turnbull, late of St. Augustine,” and asking for assisting in presenting a memorial to commissioners at His Majesty's Treasury]. James Grant Papers James Grant to Edward Penman London, February 27, 1793 The letter was primarily concerned with business affairs. Grant had employed Penman as his lawyer to represent him in a lawsuit demanding payment from South Carolina planters who had purchased slaves from James Grant in 1784. In a harsh tone, however, Grant also commented on the request to assist with efforts to obtain financial support for the Turnbull family. “Now permit me to tell you that I was astonished upon receiving your letter of the 14 th of July 1792 in favour of Mrs. Turnbull, who I certainly have great respect for. How could you, good sir, imagine that it was possible or in any shape admissable for me to join and concur with Minister from the States of America in bringing forward a petition to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. There never was so wild an idea surely, but I sent him an excuse with a civil answer. The worst of it is that I am convinced he has not the most distance chance of succeeding.” James Grant Papers |