Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth, 1801
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- Box 25, Folder 1
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Wishes his 350 or 400 hogheads of Indian meal shipped to England as a better market than western ports. Was priced at 12/6 [Stg?] per bushel and flour quoted at 120 per Bushel. Tobacco very dull here. "I have no doubt that France will capture all neutral vessels they can that are loaded with provisions for England." Gives current prices of flour, bacon, hogs.
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