In
June 1766 the eastern trading firm of Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan invoiced Fort Pitt for a
diverse inventory that included claret, rum,
blankets, tobacco, gun flints, paint, wampum, hatchets, brass kettles,
bar
lead, thread, vermilion, lace, gun powder, bullet molds, hunting
saddles, tin
cups, jews harps, combs, knives, awls, muskets, bed lacing, shears,
ribbon,
pipes, looking glass, razors, silver jewelry, needles, and articles of
clothing
including ruffled shirts, plain shirts, calico shirts, leggings,
matchcoats,
gartering, and breechclouts.
The following year, the Indian
department commissary at the post reported
that over 26,000 pounds sterling worth of merchandise, including 6,500
gallons
of rum, had passed through the
fort. He also noted that over 13,000 gallons of rum
had been distributed by
unlicensed traders and that other sutlers had exchanged
up to 40,000 pounds sterling worth
of goods. In return, Fort Pitt had taken in 10,587 pounds (weight) of
beaver pelts, 15,253 pounds of raccoon skins, 178,613 pounds of "Fall
Skins," 104,016 pounds of "Summer Skins," and smaller
amounts of pelts
from otters, fishers, wolves, panthers, elk, and bear.
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7. Boissevain, Friends of Friends, 147-69.
8. T. H. Breen,
"An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America, 1690-1776,"
Journal of
British Studies, 25 (October, 1986), 467-99; James H. Merrell,
"'Our Bond of
Peace':
Patterns of Intercultural Exchange on the Carolina Piedmont, 1650-1750,"
in Peter
Wood, Gregory
Waselkov, and Thomas Hatley, eds., Powhatan's Mantel: Indians in the
Colonial
Southeast (Lincoln, 1989), 198-222. For a general study, see
Carolyn Gilman, Where
Two Worlds
Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade (St. Paul, 1982).
9. "The
Crown to Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan For sundry goods delivered at different
Times, by order
of Capt. Murray and Mr. Alexander McKee assistant agent for Indian Affairs,
for the use of
the Indians, June 12, 1766," James Sullivan, Alexander Flick, Milton W.
Hamilton, et.
al., eds., The Papers of Sir William Johnson, 14 vols. (Albany,
1921-1965), 5:
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