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5.21.16 townspeople of port bath 1716 1790
The document outlines the history and economic significance of the colonial port of Bath from 1716 to 1790, detailing its establishment by the lords proprietors and its jurisdiction within Carolina. It highlights Bath's trade practices, mercantilist policies, and prominent merchants, providing insights into local commerce, including the sale of enslaved individuals and various goods. Additionally, it includes inventory records and agreements of tradesmen and households, reflecting the socio-economic landscape of the time.
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- 1. Port of Bath1716-1790 Townspeople of Port Bath
- 3. A QUICKREVIEW- 10 slides COLONIAL PORT OF BATH’s HISTORY, WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY
- 4. WHO – TheLords Proprietors and Gov. Charles Eden on behalf of Town of Bath and all Colonists in Province of Carolina WHEN – August 1, 1716
- 5. 5 THE WHAT and WHERE 1716 jurisdiction extended from Albemarle Sound downto 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, themother country followed economic principles of Mercantilism, the predecessor to Laissez Faire/Free Market Supply and Demand…. Mercantilism was also known as bullionism 6
- 7. All customs serviceofficials ultimately reported to a branch of the British Treasury and all reports of vessels and cargo clearing customs were submitted quarterly.. 7 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 Mapordered drawn by Gov. Tryon.
- 10. THE HOW -BATHCOLONIAL 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 toGeorge 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 JohnClarke 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 ofJohn 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. NicholasThomas 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 Sparrowlots # 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 OF3 AT TEA
- 28. A larger ovalcopy 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
- 34. 34 THANKS FOR COMINGOUT TODAY!! Gill
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- 43. Men’s overcoats &the 3 piece suit: jacket, vest, breeches
- 45. Sacque dresses, ridingclothes, 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
Editor's Notes
- #2 Bath auditorium wifi was not functional today … these intro videos would have been playing while people were being seated. 4 min 1956 Moby Dick sea shanty clip Classic sea shanties with scenes aboard the Pequod, from the 1956 Moby Dick movie… https://youtu.be/hdiFYCUP9oU, , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB4PE0NSkok dulcimer, fiddle, mandolin, and flute… 4 musicians in colonial garb recorded at Fort Frederick, “soldier joy into liberty” market Maryland market fair filmed 2011 https://youtu.be/nzcv5TJkJBA Fifteen men, bottle of rum https://youtu.be/qGyPuey-1Jw what do you do with a drunken sailor by the Rovers https://youtu.be/mh0vMKh_gUA A Rovin’ The traditional sea shanty "A-Roving," sung by the Revels https://youtu.be/4fVQwzv5Qfc The traditional sea chantey, "Leave Her Johnny," sung by English folk singer Johnny Collins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l78VNe_dhAM Russel Crowe in Master and Commander LA MUSICA NOTTURNA DELLE STRADE DI MADRID. No. 6, Op.30 the long 12 min version two violins, viola and two violoncellos in C major is https://youtu.be/8dmWAve3Pvk (2005)
- #3 Tim’s song lineup for today’s presentation…. Shanty “Drunken Sailor”, audience participates on chorus, followed by Scottish ballad singing sad and beautiful with a little guitar , “Wild Mt. Thyme” (banjo) 1810 based on a song in your face written for Tannenhill’s deceased wife. Next song Robert Burns…song about a 1689 Jacobite uprising and a battle in Scotland the “Braes of Killiecrankio” (guitar) , Scottish Robert Tannehill adapted traditional songs like Bobbie Burns, IRISH REEL “Red haired boy” aka little beggar man, (banjo), maritime tune from Brittany France, next to LAST “Red wine regatta” (guitar) a humorous sea song, sing along to the choris, from a true story… Last song for closing … the hilarious “Donald, where’s your Troosers...” about kilt wearing Scots, played with a kitchen spoon and an Celtic War drum, the bodhran
- #4 1790 port of New York , boats from Carolina that may have moored off Water Street.. The southern tip of New York City known as the Battery.
- #5 Pass around blowup of decree.
- #6 When Port Bath was created in 1716 there were only two counties above Cape Fear Albemarle and Bath counties each with a few towns in eastern NC: Edenton, Bath, New Bern and Beaufort. We know the two county populations from a 1708 map owned by Lambeth Palace and drawn by Edward Moseley that there were 350 tythable adult white males 16 yo and over in Bath County compared to 1250 in Albemarle County. This map showing the five colonial ports along the North Carolina coast was drawn by Mark Moore. The caption says: While North Carolina’s maritime commerce grew steadily throughout the colonial period, a number of merchants believed Britain’s mercantile policy inhibited free trade. Port Brunswick and Port Roanoke were considered the state’s busiest ports and Port Beaufort Port Bath and Port Currituck were the smaller of the five. The original 1716 PORT BATH DISTRICT WAS CUT IN HALF IN 1730 . At that time the Neuse River basin and Port Bath’s secondary collection center in New Bern were all re-assigned and became a part of the Port Beaufort district. –SEE DOTTED LINE between Port Bath and Port Beaufort
- #8 “Colored Engraving of London.” By Georg Balthazar Probst. 1740. The London Custom House is the long building to the right of the bridge, number 65 painted on its blue roof. Courtesy Tryon Palace. New Bern North Carolina. Note Ed. Customs duties were taxes on imported and exported goods. The Custom House in each colonial collections district was the office to which shipping agents and sea captains/masters would bring vessel and cargo documents to customs officials. British-American port customs officials and naval officers were charged with enforcing Navigation and Trade law passed by English Acts of Parliament. Periodically colony officials submitted reports of vessels and cargo in/out, customs duties and taxes collected, to both London officials and provincial leaders. Shipping record reports sent from Port Bath and other colonial port officials were sent in duplicate (on different ships for safe keeping) with lists and periodic summaries of vessels, hailing port, burden in tons, crew, cargo carried, and number of guns on board. In the case of Port Bath extant records, only late 18th c. Shipping records and a few others survive in the North Carolina state archives.
- #9 the old county seat of expired Bath County lies approx 50 miles west of Ocracoke Inlet and the Atlantic Ocean. My old paper Pamlico River sailing charts shows 7-8 foot creek depths approaching Bath. Finally the port officials moved up river and a customs house was built on Respess Street Washington. The last Port Bath shipping reports submitted by Continental Captain Nathan Keias were dated March 1790 fourteen years after the American Revolution.
- #10 Note the town fence and the road to Edenton. No obvious wharves other than the long one opposite the Palmer House. Note the pen and storage buildings to the let of the wharf. C and D marked on the map Court house and jail (Gaol)
- #29 The Palmers moved from Dumfries Scotland to North Carolina in 1753. The couple with their children initially lived on a 1200 acre plantation out in the county with another 300 acres closer to town. By 1764 they moved with their two sons William and Robert into the two story, four bedroom home built by French merchant Michael Coutanch on Water Street. Margaret had poor health for ten years after moving to North Carolina and died in 1767. Her husband buried her beneath this slate tablet, which can still be seen today at St. Thomas Church. By then her husband had been posted to several important positions by Governor William Tryon in New Bern. Col. Palmer built a new house in New Bern, a few steps away from the entry gates of Tryon Palace. The home today known is known as the Palmer-Tisdale House. The gracious twin chimneyed Bath home remained in the Palmer family until the 1800’s. Robert Palmer moved back to England for health reasons and his younger son William took over the Port Collector position, the family home, the family business and busy ships, warehouses, the Palmer wharf and last but not least the largest colonial home in town.
- #30 1713 runaway Carolina Indian boy about eleven years old to be sold.
- #35 Hi everybody. My name is Gill Hookway-Jones, I live in Washington, learned to sail and canoe at Camp Leach and Camp Hardee as a child, and have always been interested in Beaufort County’s early maritime history. Most of you know my mother so I have absorbed info about the history of Bath second hand for decades. When I heard about the pending 300th anniversary of Port Bath I wanted to learn more about the history so last year got busy digging into resources and visiting the Raleigh State Archives. I also became a Bath Historic Site volunteer and a volunteer with the Historic Port of Washington Museum Project group. This slide deck is from a slide show presentation about the History of Port of Bath made in November to the NC Maritime History Council’s annual meeting in Elizabeth City. Most of the information I gathered last year in the process of researching info for a couple of grant projects I created for the Historic Bath Foundation about Port Bath in preparation for this year’s 300th anniversary of the creation of the Port of Bath. I hope you will enjoy it. My contact info is on the last slide if you have any questions or comments you’d like to share with me.