Lecture 3 in the Historic Bath Port Bath mini series. Topics Include port officials, colonial men women and children as well as a section featuring colonial dress of the 18th century.

1. Port of Bath 1716-1790
Townspeople of Port Bath

3.  A QUICK REVIEW- 10 slides
 COLONIAL PORT OF BATH’s HISTORY,
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY

4. WHO – The Lords Proprietors and Gov. Charles Eden on behalf
of Town of Bath and all Colonists in Province of Carolina
WHEN – August 1, 1716

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THE
WHAT
and
WHERE
1716
jurisdiction
extended from
Albemarle
Sound down to
Cape Fear, the
original old
Bath County
created 1696,
1730 district
cut in half
1.
N. CAROLINA FIVE COLONIAL PORT REGIONS
1733 - 1775

6. Great Britain, the mother country followed economic
principles of Mercantilism, the predecessor to
Laissez Faire/Free Market Supply and Demand….
Mercantilism was also known as bullionism
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7. All customs service officials ultimately reported to a branch of the British Treasury and all
reports of vessels and cargo clearing customs were submitted quarterly..
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Where did all the Port Bath Records go?
The LONDON CUSTOMS HOUSE
Colored Engraving of London by Probst 1740 Courtesy Tryon Palace, New Bern NC

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9. Claude Sauthier’s Map ordered
drawn by Gov. Tryon.

10. THE HOW -BATH COLONIAL
VESSELS
3-masted Ship, 2- masted Brig, 1-masted Sloop
Also river ferries and Small craft: periaugers, shallops, rafts, canoes

12. Flour, 8s. 9d. to 9s. per C.
White Bread, 15s. per C.
Middling, ditto 13s.
Brown, ditto 10s. to 11s.
Tobacco, 9s. to 10s.
Moscovado Sugar, 25 to 35s.
Turpentine, 9s.to 10s.
Rice, 14s. to 15s.
Ginger, 18s. to 20s.
Rum, 2s.4d to 2s.6d.p.Gal.
Melasses, 1s.3d. to 1s.4d.
Salt, fine, 14d. to 18d.per Bush.
Ditto, Course, 1s.
Wheat, 3s.2d. to 3s.6d.
Rye, 2s.3d. to 2s.6d.
Indian Corn, 20d. to 21d.
Barley, 1s.8d. to 2s.
Pale Malt, 2s.9d.
Ditto, High-colour'd, 2s.6d.
Pork, 25s. per Barrel.
Beef, 30s.
Pitch, 13s. to 14s.
Tar, 10s.
Gun-Powder,
Bohea-Tea, 25 to 30s.p.Pound
Whalebone, 3s.6d. to 3s.9d.
Pipe-Staves, 3 l. per Thous.
Hogshead, ditto, 45s.
Barrel, ditto, 22s.6d.
Pine Boards, 3 l.
Mad. Wine, 19 to 22l.p.Pipe
Price Philadelphia.- The American Weekly Mercury, Feb 20-27, 1722

15. Thomas Sparrow to George
Birkinhead, Merchant of Bath Co:
For 150 pound sterling bill of sale for 3 slaves (
negro man Philander, negro woman Sarah,
negro boy young Philander) and household
stuff.
ALSO
2 large new feather bed bolsters & pillows, 2 pr
large fine curtains & valans, 3 large new calico
quits, large rug, 4 pr new blankets, 5 pair
good linen sheets & pillow coats, bedstead & 2
large chests & large looking glass, 1 copper &
1 brass kettle & 3 iron pots & Hooks, 3 pair
pot racks & 1 pair fire tongs, 3 pair large iron
dogs & andirons & 1 silver tumbler, 1 bell-
metal & 1 brass skillet, 1 bell-metal mortar, 4
tablecloths & doz ½ napkins, 5 silver spoons,
13 pewter dishes 8 basins 22 plates, 2 tin
funnets 8 tin pans saucepan, pewter plate
stand, tankard pint pot, surveyors set of
instruments and small Lib of 50 books, box
mixture of sundry implements, 5 guns,
carbine, pair pistols & Holsters, man’s saddle
& bridle & collar & pair of boots & 2 axes, 8
hoes, 1 pair iron wedges, & xcut saw,
carpenters tenant saw& hand saw& surgeons
sawm maul ringed hatchet & shallop with her
appurtenances, 4 cows & calves bought of
Capt. Wm Barrow, 2 sows & 3 pigs bought of
Archibald Holmes, sow & pigs bought of Joel
Martin Sr., cow and calf bought of Geo
Birkinhead, suit of mans, 2 suits of women’s
apprel, one small boat about 9 foot keel.
John Gray Blount was a Port Bath
Commissioner, one of five. The Blount
Brothers’ merchant ships sailed regularly out of
Washington, Bath and Ocracoke.
1789 Shipment to Philadelphia:
4 lb 13 oz Hyson Tea , Boiled Oil , Brass Candlesticks
, Chafen Dish, Large American Spades , Sickles
Stripe Chintz 14 yds Irish Linen 25 DO Day Book
blank Letter Book Loaves Sugar 60 7 oz Rope
Twine Ballast for the Schooner Lead Line
Yellow Ochre in Oil 56 lb Spanish brown do
White Lead Russia Sheeting Nail Rods
1785 Blount Brothers list of goods to sell
in western NC, what was to become Tennessee:
100,000 Bilboa Handkerchiefs and 1000 pocket
looking glasses. white and chex shirts with white
ruffles, dutch Blankets a large quantity,
Pretties, Gun Flints, Coarse Callicoes, ribbands
different colours, combs, arm plates, wrist plates, ear
rings, of silver,
Coarse scarlet broad cloth, stripe and linsey woolen,
needles and thread,
Men and women’s saddles and bridles.

16. Deceased merchant John Clarke inventory 28 Jan 1718: he bought 320 ac 1706 beside James Hogg on north side of Pamtico river.
Paper money –province bills 39.10.0
Bridle and Saddle 1.0.0
7 azes
3… of 8d nails
1 parcel of barr iron 2.17.0
Small skillet, fire shovel & tongs 6s
Goods:
32.5 yds coarse linen @ 2 and 3d 3.13.1
29 yds ordinary Barras @ 8d 0.19.4
18.5 ydsdrugget @ 2 and 6d 2.6.3
15.5 yds shalloon @ 2s 1.10.6
Parcel of mowhair thread buttons & thread lace 1.5.0
8 1/8 yds muslin @ 5 2.2.6
4 pr small gloves 4s
135 yds stuff @ 8d 4.10.0
60 galls molasses @ 2 6.0.0
28 lbs powder @ `18d 2.2.0
60 lbs shot@ 3d 0.15.0
Negroes: Henry an old man & Bursten 16.0.0
Maria and her child 20.0.0
George, Bristol, Cezar & Jupiter 20@ 120.0.0
Stock: 2 old horses 10.0.0
8 cows & calves 12.0.0
4 old sows & 12 small shoats 1.12.0
2 yearlings 12s
7 ewes & 2 rams 3.12.0
17 lbs very dirty cotton 17s
Misc. household furniture, furnishings, tools ---
Total 473.6.6

20. TRADESMEN
1712 inventory of John Barras, (Shoemaker )deceased 1717. 3 guns out of order,
pistol and rapier, 6 pewter dishes, 3 pewter plates and tankards,parcel of old pewter, iron pots, 3 pr pot hooks,
pestle, gridiron, forks, saucepan, old frying pan, 2 old wedges, old bed blanket, rug 2 pillows, olds beds, old
bolsters, old pillows 3 blankers, rug, parcel of shoemakers tools, 9 quart bottle and 2 pint bottles, saddle and
bridle, looking glass and 2 gimblets, broad axe, adze, 2 falling axes, 1 grubbing hoe, weeding hoe, parcel of old
iron, 2 chests and 1 box, one coat, old box iron, 2 heaters, old canoe, 2 pot racks, 2 ewes. Total value 21 pound
12.8
1710 Inventory of goods and chattels of Martin Quann, (Blacksmith) feather bed
and blanket, mat, desk , shirt neck loth, 2pr cotton stockings, 10 spoons, spinning wheel, 2 sifters, wooden dish,
6 chairs, looking glass, 3 pewter cups,3 bedsteads, 2 barrels, 5 lbs wool, table, chest, butter pot, frying pan, pot
racks, razor and horn combs, 11 dz wooden trenchers, 2 piggins, pail, weeding hoe, pair of wool cards, canoe, old
iron mill, hoe, old coat 2 jackets, 1 pr britches, old sledge, old hammers, old anvil, green rug, old brass kettle,
smoothing irons. Total 11 pound 5.10
**
William Tomson, (bricklayer )to be overseer of four servants of Capt Jones,
(John Wattson, Thomas Blangoe, Peter and Indian and Dido a negro woman )for one share and ½ or corn, tobacco,
and other sorte of grane yt shall be made upon ye sd plantation. If William Tomson’s wife Ann Tomson comes
into this country she shall have her accommodations allowed for her work. Barrow to put 5 cows on the plantation
for the use of the 4 servants and overseer. Tomson is allowed to keep one sow and her increase and is to keep
the plantation in good order, putting up fencing clearing land, and planting wheat. Agreement continues until the
crop is made 28 Nov 1701.
Mark Wheeler’s estate, (Tailor/Taylor ) 1702: 2 narrow hoes, 1 broad hoe, iron pistol, 2
pairs Taylors shears, smoothing iron and pressing iron, fire tongs, old wedges, parcel of old iron, old frying pans,
iron pot, small pot and kettle, iron pot, pot hooks and ladle, brass skillet, 2 old guns, 2 old tin pans, 3 pewter
dishes, 2 old pewter dishes, porringer and 6 spoons, 3 old plates & basin, 2 old tin saucepans, earthen pot and 2
cups, pewter mug, 5 bottles & jug, parcel wooden ware, cheese tub, 4000 nails, sifter 3 rugs, 5 blankets, feather
bed, flock bed, tic & bolster Total value 10.10.6

22. SEA CAPTAINS
Capt. Nicholas Thomas Jones 1700. received 1900 acres for
transporting 38 persons to Carolina by the Lords Proprietors.
…. Himself, Cornelius Benington, Henry Lyle, Wm a negro, Richd a boy, Rchd Baley, Pompey a
negro, Pompey a negro boy, Betty an Indian woman, Ann a mustee, Sarah and Betty Miles,
Ellenor Scott, John Lucas, Rchd a Sailor, Wm Barker, Tho Barnett, Jo Ming, Robt Quary, Edmund
Thomas, his wife, James Shelton, Geo Mas3ey, Ben Yeamons, Jon Watson, Jon a negro, Peter an
Indian, Dido a negro woman, Thomas a negro, Thomas Howes, Peter Bonaway, Davis Sailor,
Wm Hutchison, Jane a woman, Matthew a negro, Jon Falkoner
Capt Robert Francis 28 June 1718. Pair of small blankets,7 club axes, broad
axe, coat, calamanco vest and 2 pr breeches, blue coat, drugget vest, parcel of old cloaths, 12
ticken vest, 3 pair breeches, 2 pair osnabrigg breeches, 1 vest, 5 old shirts, 2 neck cloths
muslin, 3 silk caps, 5 napkins, 5 pr stockings, 3 perukes, 12 pr shoes, bell & cutlass, 7 riding
sticks 1 cane, silver seal, ¾ lb allum, parcel thread and tape, 8/1/2 striped stuff, 20 ½ cheques,
34 12 yds of Osnaburg, 5 pr shammy gloves, 6 knives and forks of ivory, 7 knives, combs and
comb cases, Hodders arithmetic, London spelling book, pair of garters 7 cap, paper of wick
powder, 1 doz flints and stick of wax, large quarto bible, pocket compass, single slate, ½ gro.
Brass buttons, 35 lbs shot, 1 ½ cream of tartar, pair halliyards, 6 lbs of pewter, 2 porringers, 1
quart pot, 1 plate, old tankard and 7 spoons, pewter basin, trading gun, large trumpet mosello
gun, blanket, 8 quire of paper, old bedding, 5 old baggs, deal chest, ½ doz glass bottles,
looking glass, 5 small vials, 10 old books, “the whole duty of man”, old case of bottles 3
bottles, girldel, 1 dz fish hooks, stone jug, old pair shoes, iron melting ladle, glagalade, pair old
thread stockings, one lancet, razor and penknife.

23. MERCHANT Thomas Sparrow lots # 8.9.10 front 32 Merchant of
Arundel Co MD sale to George Birkinhead Merchant of Bath Co. lot
#18 150 amount a negro man & woman Philander & Sarah, a boy
young Philander 1706. Also household goods including 2 boats
and livestock
Other slaves first names in old Bath County Deed Book to 1729;
NEGROES –First Names Index p. 213:
Ann (mustee) Andrew, Barsue, Bess, Bristal, Bursten, Caesar, Charles, Cesar, Cezar,
Cupid, Diana (mustee), Dego, Dick, Dido, Frank, George, Gratia, Hagar, Harry, Hector,
Henry, Jack, Joan, John, Jupiter, Kate, Lawrence, Maria, Manuel, Matthew, Minda, Mingo,
Molly, Oliver, Peter, Philander, Phillis, Pompey, Pamptico, Pungo, Richard, Rustkin,
Sampson, Sandy, Sarah, (mulatto), Scipio, Slocomb, Stephen, Thomas, Tom, Tony, Tom,
Wan, William.

25. 1727 FAMILY OF 3 AT TEA

28. A larger oval copy of the
locket’s miniature oil
portrait painted on ivory (1
1/45 x 1.1/8” in) hangs
today in the 1751 Palmer
Marsh house.
Source The Descendants of
Colonel Robert Palmer,
Oren Alston Palmer Jr. 2001.

31.  April 7, 1709 - Marhue
INGOE agrees with George
BIRKINHEAD that her
daughter Rachel INGOE,
serve George BIRKINHEAD
until age 16, she being 6
years old next May. George
BIRKINHEAD to "allow
sufficient meat, drink and
apparel and other things
necessary to a servant and to
pay her at the expiration of
her time what the law
allows."
 Witness: Samuel NORTON,
Charles MAGER
Acknowledged Bath Town,
7th of April 1709.
April 6, 1709 - Marhue
INGOE agrees with George
BIRKINHEAD that her
daughter Mary INGOE, serve
George BIRKINHEAD until age
16, she being eleven next
July 20. (Terms same as
above.)
 Witness: Levi TRUEWHIT

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THANKS FOR COMING OUT TODAY!!
Gill

37. 1710 and 1715

38. 1710 and 1715

39. 1720 and 1730

40. 1740 and 1750

41. 1760 and 1770

42. 1765 to 1780

43. Men’s overcoats & the 3 piece
suit: jacket, vest, breeches

45. Sacque dresses, riding clothes, capes, and cloaks

46. Ladies hair styles, powder by 1750 , lace and lawn
caps worn throughout 18th c, higher with
pompadour and one or two curls after 1760