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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Davidson, John. Manuscript daybooks of an Annapolis merchant. 3 volumes, all folio, 13 x 8 inches: May 1780 to March 1784. 92 pages, stitched; dampstained * August 1789 to November 1791. 92 pages, stitched; minor dampstaining, final leaf defective * December 1792 to September 1793. 12 pages on 6 loose leaves; lacking top corner of first leaf. Annapolis, 1780-93
John Davidson (1737-1794) was the customs collector for the port of Annapolis, as well as a general merchant. These daybooks cover the final years of the American Revolution, and the first months of the town''s brief reign as the capital city of the new United States (1783-84). Among Davidson''s customers were Declaration of Independence signers Charles Carroll of Carrolton (April 1783) and William Paca (who often sent a slave to transact business). 3 pages of entries in September 1780 describe supplies and expenses for the American privateer Duke of Leinster, including guns and powder. Davidson''s other account books are at the Maryland Historical Society. with--"Balances of John Davidson''s Books," 18 pages on 9 loose leaves, circa 1795?; and 16 related loose receipts and memoranda found inside the daybooks, 1780-95.
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