50.
In Silver L3. 5. Ster.
Advce. 13.[3] 16. 5 NECy 16. 5 18.1
139 mild[4] ps. of 8/8 166.16. 139.
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1476.14.6 1594.

By ball'ce due per Acct. by the
Comp'y 300. 2.3 378.1
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L1776.16.9 1972.1
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Errors Excepted
October the 30th, 1741
Per P. Vezian Capt. Qr. Mr.

133 Mild ps. 8/8
5 Piller ps. 8/8[5]
1 french Crown[6]
L3. 4s. 0d. English Mony.

Sent by Robert Griffin to New York

133 Mild ps. of Eight L53. 4.0
54 Moydores in Gold at 44s.[7] 118.16.0
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New York Mony L172. 0.0

[Footnote 2: The moidore and the johannes were Portuguese coins, the
pistole Spanish. The moidore was worth six pieces of eight, the
pistole four, the johannes eight. Here they are reckoned at 7-1/2,
4-1/2, and 20, respectively; but perhaps the last were "double joes".]

[Footnote 3: "Advance 13", _i.e._, add four times the amount (or
multiply by five) to bring the sum from sterling to New England
currency, at the rate here assumed; L3. 5s. sterling was really worth
only about 15 pieces of eight.]

[Footnote 4: Milled.]

[Footnote 5: Spanish dollars on which appeared pillars symbolizing the
Pillars of Hercules.]

[Footnote 6: An ecu of six livres, = $1.08.]

[Footnote 7: The moidore is here reckoned at 44s. New York money; it
is reckoned above at 135s. New England money.]

_147. Petition and Complaint of John Freebody. November 5, 1741._[1]

[Footnote 1: Records of the Admiralty Court held in Boston, "vol. V.",
kept in the Suffolk County Court-house. These supplement effectively
the papers given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Professor
Norton.]

At a Court of Admiralty holden at Boston before the Hono'ble Robert
Auchmuty, Esq'r., Judge of said Court, December the Seventh, Anno.
Dom. 1741.

Province of the } To the Hono'ble Robert Auchmuty,
Massachusetts Bay SS. } Esqr., Judge of Vice
} Admiralty in Boston.

The Petition and Complaint of John Freebody of Newport, Merchant, in
behalf of himself