Received New York July 17th 1790
of Allard & John Anthony
four Pounds one Shilling
& four Pence in full for
hides
L 4..1..4 Theops Elsworth


(Theophilus Elsworth - 1748 – 1838 – A great grandson and namesake of one of New York's earilest settlers. Served with the New York State Line Militia in S. Carolina and was captured by the British. Held on a prison ship in Charleston Harbor and then transported to Englind where he was confined to Mill Prison in plymoth and was not released until about a year after the war's end. Upon returning to America he moved to Charleston, S. Carolina where he and his wife instituted the first foster care system in that state and fostered numerous children. Baker by trade he established a bakery that the site of which was still a bakery until 2005 +/-. After his wife's death in 1827 he returned to New York where he lived to the age of 90.)


Rec'd New York 29th July 1790 from
Mr Allard Anthoney Sixteen pounds
and six pence on Account
L 16..0..6 James W. DePeyster & Co


Rec'd New York 6 Sept 1790 from Mr
Allard Anthony Ten Pounds Ten
Shillings on Accot
L 10 . 10 . James W. Depeyster & Co


(James W. DePeyster {Feb 23, 1745 – Feb 12, 1812} affluent early New York Merchant of Dutch ancestery, A British Loyalist, he left New York for Curacao during the American Revolution
returning in the mid to late 1780s. He owned James W. DePeyster's and Co, an import company.
[Johannes De Peyster came to “New Amsterdam” New York City from Haarlam, Holland in the mid 1600s.] James W. DePeyster's painting by relative Charles Wilson Peale is in the possession of the San Antonio Museum of Art)