Account of Expences incurred at Halifax from 2nd to 14 August 1834
Halifax 1834
From 2nd to 14 August
Pens – 1s
Fruit – 6d
Personal Expences – 4s
Tea &.c – 2s
Mackerel – 4 dozen – 2s 6d
Cegars – 600 – 10s
Plank of wood – 2s
New York Whisks – 6 – Miss Wilson [4] – 3s
2 New York brooms – 2s 6d
6 Salmon – 10s 6d
Hiccory wood – 3s
Arrow Root – 8 lbs – 8s
paid – Quil box for M.r Nott – 4s
2 Canoes for d.o – 4s
Quil cegar case – 2s 6d
100 Cegars – 2s 7½d
Exhibition of wild beasts – 1s
3 Gallons Rum from Steward at 3/6 – 10s 6d
1 Gallon Brandy at 6/- – 6s
2 Gallons Halifax Rum – 6s 6d
3 lbs Negro head Tobacco – 2s
½lb Gunpowder tea – 2s 6d
½lb Souchong – 1s 6d
3 bottles Cherry Brandy – 4s 8d
3 bottles shrub – 4s
3¼lb Bologna Sausage – 3s 4d
£5 3s 1½d
Account of Expences at Falmouth
From 1st Sept.r to 18 Oct.r 1834
1st Sept.r
Month at Library – 2s 6d
Boy or [Steward] – 6d
4
Silk Purse – 2s
Sealing Wax – 6d
Share of carrying coals for ship – 1s
Boy – 6d
1 dozen metal buttons for vest – 9d
5
Liquorice – 6d
Medecine – 7d
Small funnel – 2d
8
duty on N. York brooms – 5d
9
Bought M.r Knotts Portmanteau – 12s
d.o d.o dressing case – 5s
10
repairing Portmanteau – 1s
12
letter from Mother – 1s 3½d
Boy – 6d
Boat since I have been in – 3s
Tooth powder &.c – 1s 5d
15th
Repairing shoes – 1s 8d
Pencil (silver Mordaunt) – 6s 6d
Thermometer – 3s
16th
Medecine – 1s
Boat – 6d
17th
Fruit – 6d
Slippers – 2s
18
Fruit – 8d
19
Medecine – 6d
Seeing lighthouse [5] – 2s 6d
23rd
Mechi razor paste &.c – 1s
24
Trip to Constantine – 2s
26
Boat – 6d
27
Bill for repairing, dressing case & mak.g new chest – £1 3s
28
Milk at sundry times – 1s
1 Oct.r
Tea party – 2s
9
Penryn fair – 1s
10
[Charing] – 1s
Letter from home – 1s 3½d
Pincushions – 6d
Fruit – 1s
Hat – £1 5s
11
Week at Library – 1s
Pair of shoes – 8s 6d
16
Snow’s Bill for spirits taken out of Bond – £1 3s
17
Clothiers Bill – £1 10s
Washing – £1 5s 7d
Board & lodgings for 7 weeks with other charges – £8 3s 3d
Servants – 14s 6d
Boat hire, portage &.c – 7s
Paper, pens, &.c – 4s 1d
Tooth powder – 7½d
Soap &.c – 1s 6d
18
Apples – 1s 6d
£19 11s 9d
1st Sept.r
Sent to Mother – £10
Total – £29 11s 9d