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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Return of supplies at Halifax
Potts, Joshua
June 16, 1781
Volume 15, Pages 484-485

INVOICE OF PUBLIC STORES AT HALIFAX TAKEN JUNE 16TH, 1781, BY JOSHUA POTTS, A. D. G. M.

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7 large Barrels Gun Powder (the size of a common Pork Barrel.)
1 smaller do.
11 large Keggs ditto
38 smaller ditto
2 large Pigs Lead. amt. 500 lbs.
A Quantity Cartridge Paper.
4 large flat Bars Iron.
29 small ditto
8 Sheets Iron.
13 Pair large Iron Boxes for Waggons.
15 ditto small ditto
2 Barrels Salt—each about 3½ Bushels.
1½ Bushels ditto
1 Hhd. Sugar 10 Inches out.
2 Barrels Wine.
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1 ditto Six inches out.
5 Hhds. Rum, a small Ullage in each.
2 Barrels Coffee.
1 ditto some used.
1 ditto with Buttons, Cartridge Paper, &c.
40 Dozen Pair Coarse Woolen milled Stockings.
5 Soldiers' Woolen Jackets.
18 ditto Oznabrigs ditto.
52 Pair ditto Spatterdashes.
36 Pair Over-alls, made of light Duck.
10 Dozen Soldiers black Stocks.
34 Bundles, containing 72 Papers, Various Coloured sewing Silk.
3 Paper Buttons.
385 Pair Soldiers Shoes.
68 Pieces Coarse white Frieze.
18 ditto ditto Blue ditto.
7 ditto ditto Red ditto.
3 ditto White Shaloon.
18 Pieces light Duck.
10 ditto Russia Drill.