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Report that I, Don Juan de Castanedo, Commissioner and City Treasurer of New
Orleans, make of the merchant vessels which have arrived in this river and docked at the City's warves
during the entire year of seventeen hundred and ninety seven, each Captain paying three pesos to the City
Treasury as warfage fees. herein expressed are the names of each vessel, name of its Captain, date of its
arrival and last port of clearance, in accordance with the information given me by the office of the Custom
House registrar to wit:
January 1st
From Charleston the schooner Theodora, Captain Don Matheo Barri 12th
From Havana the schooner Roda, Captain Don Narciso Riera 13th
From Havana the schooner Magdalena, Captain Don Simon Petit 19th
From Boston the schooner Greyhound, Captain Don Juan Snous 20th From Havana the schooner San Juan Bautista, Captain Don Tomas Montoya 28th From La Mar the French Corsair schooner Unica, Captain Don Juan Duran 30th From Campeche the schooner Farrola, Captain Don Tomas Urquhart 31st
From Jamayca the English schooner El Hueste, Morlan captured by the French Corsair, the Captor Captain
Don Nicolas Druet February 2nd From Trinidad of the island of Cuba the schooner Trinidad, Captain Don Pedro Millet 5th From Havana the schooner La Amable Rita, Captain Don Juan Copper 8th
From New York the schooner Flora, Captain Don Jesse Bowen [Intervening pages not included here.] The total amount of this report, Two Hundred and Fifty Eight Pesos silver currency which have been paid by the individuals herein named as warfage fees of eighty six merchant vessels which have arrived in this City at the rate of three pesos each which amount I have duly charged my account with. - New Orleans, December 31st., 1797. (signed) Juan de Castanedo. |