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D3580 - Longsdon family of Little Longstone - [14th-20th Cent]
- C - Correspondence

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3580/C/110
Title	14 July 1810 S Mackintosh at Halifax [Nova Scotia] to John Longsdon care of Messrs J and G Morewood, London, via New Brunswick[e] saying that he has received first John's letter of 2 May, then that of 11 February forwarded from Boston [United States of America]. He deferred replying until he was settled. He left Boston in April and arrived in Halifax a month ago, and is busy liquidating his concern there. There are £500,000 worth of British goods in hand there. Autumn orders have been countermanded. Mackintosh is turning to the timber business and will go to Miramache for the summer. 150 square rigged ships load there annually as well as navigation employed in its extensive salmon fishery. His uncle has appointed him Collector of Customs at a salary of £300 - £400 yearly. The post only needs his presence for four months in summer. It lies about 80 miles beyond Pictou [Nova Scotia]. His name cannot appear with propriety in any commercial transaction so a connection with someone would be indispensable. He means to establish a well stocked store for supply of those employed in cutting timber. The trade is mainly barter and highly advantageous to the merchant because of the immense advance he lays upon his own commodities and reduces the price of timber to a trifle. There is opportunity of trade with the States and the West Indies by means of the fishery. Does John want to join in ? He need not go there. The conduct of the store could be committed to a confidential clerk particularly as it would be partly under Mackintosh's eye. A relation at Liverpool [Nova Scotia] of considerable property extensively engaged in cod and mackerel fishing has offered to secure to Mackintosh the preference of all merchants and dealers in his neighbourhood in their purchase of British goods if he would serve them on the same terms as other people. There is not an importer amongst them, `an encouragement to one of us to remain here'. In all these concerns he would propose an equality of interest with John. Mackintosh has not yet broached the subject to his friends in England because he first wants to form a permanent connection. If John is interested he should waste no time. There is a small sum coming to him from Hills and a trifling balance is due to him from Mackintosh. Mackintosh gives news of Boston friends and of the uproar in the States following the confiscation and sale of American property in France. There is talk of another embargo.
Date	1810
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Longsdon family of Little Longstone

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