wages, 6 days, 12 0

To the mate's and 4 hands' wages and victuals,
12 days each, 7 9 8-1/2

To Jas. Smith and 2 journeymen coopers from
Dartmouth, their wages and expences from
7^th to 20^th December, 13 days, at 6s., 11 14 0

To cash paid Samson, S. Blowers,[58] and John
Adams, Esq^r's advice, 7 4 0

To wharfage the ship and sloop, 23 days, at
6s. 8d. per week, 1 2 0

To cash paid for Protests, &c., L3 19s. 6d.
sterling, 5 6 0
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L289 19 6-1/2
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Boston, 31^st December, 1773.

Errors excepted.

In behalf of myself and the owners of the ship.

FRANCIS ROTCH.

PROTEST.

_Mr. Francis Rotch, Pardon Cook, and Wm. Hayden, against Consignees and
Tea, at Boston, in New England, on the 10^th day of December, in the
year of our Lord 1773, and in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's
reign._

Personally appeared before me, John Monro, Notary Public by royal
authority, duly admitted and sworn, Pardon Cook, master, and Wm. Hayden,
mate of the sloop Triton, burthen about seventy-five tons, and Francis
Rotch, one of the owners of the said sloop, and they, the said Pardon,
Will^m. and Francis, being by the people called Quakers, solemnly
affirmed, and each of them for himself, doth affirm in manner following,
that is to say, the said Pardon and William affirm and say they sailed
from Dartmouth, in New England, with the said vessel, on the 28^th day
of last month, then loaded with spermaceti oil, and bound for said
Boston, where they arrived on the 8^th inst., and made application to
the said Francis to have the said cargo discharged on board the ship
Dartmouth, as agreeable to their orders and directions. And the said
Francis Rotch affirms that he could not in person, nor by his servants,
or any other, unload and reship the said cargo of oil on board the ship
aforesaid by reason of her not being cleared of a certain quantity of
teas shipped at London, and consigned to Messrs