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Invoice from Samuel Green for supplies and treatment for Spanish prisoners
Green, Samuel
September 23, 1748
Volume 22, Pages 271-272

Sept. 23d. 1748. The Province of North Carolina to Samll Green, Dr.

To medicines, dressing, diet, attendance of the following Spanish Prisoners (Taken at Brunswick, in Cape Fear River) By order of Major John Swann, Capt. Thomas Jones, Adjutant David Lindsay, and Lewis DeRosset, Sheriff, viz.:
£
S.
D.
To medicines, Dressing and cure of John DeSalis, whose face, ears, neck and back of both hands was burned with gun powder when the Spanish sloop blew up, from Sept. 12th to 19th, Inclusive
5
0
0
To house room, diet, attendance, &c., Eight Days
4
0
0
To medicines and Dressing of Joseph Sallad, being blown up in the same sloop, whose face, ears, neck, breast, belly and both legs quite round and deep from knee to ankle, very much burned, as also both hands, very deep, taking at least one hour every day to Dress him, whose cure I believe will be compleated about the Last of September, Inst. The number of Dressings, one from Septr. 12 to the 30th, Inclusive
30
0
0
To diet, house room, attendance, &c., twenty days
12
0
0
To one Senitive Mixture, being Exceeding Costlie
1
0
0
To medicines and Dressing of Francisco De Strades, of a Gun Shot wound, the Ball entering on the fore part of the right shoulder, going under the Blade and lodging near ye Right Kidney, from Sept. 8th, whose cure I believe will be perfected about the 2d of October next, in all 24 Dressings
18
0
0
To Diet, house room, attendance 24 days
14
0
0
To Medicines and Dressing of Francisco Navaros of a Gun Shot Wound, the Ball entering on the fore part of the right shoulder and going under the blade, lodges at ye under part very deep, whose cure I believe will be compleated about ye 2nd of Sept., in all 24 days
18
0
0
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To diet, House room, Attendance, &c., 24 Days
14
0
0
To Medicines and twice Dressing of Francisco Formadas, having Eight large wounds upon his head and neck
4
0
0
To Francisco Gonsallis, being sick—
To a large pectoral Electuary, 12 doses
4
0
0
To two suppurating Cataplasms
2
0
0
To Emolient Ointment
0
10
0
To diet, Nursing, &c., 22 days
12
0
0
To Medicines sent to the Hon’ble Roger Moores, Esq., for two Spaniards burned very much when the sloop blew up
5
0
0
£143
10
0
Per SAM’LL GREEN.

Wilmington, Sept. 23d, 1748.

This Day, being ye 24th of Septr., 1748, appeared before Rufus Marsden, one of the Justices for keeping the Peace of the County of New Hanover, Doct’r Samuel Green, and made Oath on the Holy Evangelist that the said Sam’l Green was employed as above and within mentioned, and that the above and within charge is no more than he usually charges, and that the above and within account is true in every part and particular.

SAM’LL GREEN.
Sworn to before me, the 24 Sept., 1748.
RUFUS MARSDEN.