Rec'd of Mr Nich's Anthony Jun'r
the 13th August last, twenty Seven
Pounds and 5th ins't fourty four
Pounds 8 / 2 – and this day fifty
five pounds on acc't. Together
one hund'd & Twenty Six pounds
8 / 2 – New York 7 Dec'r 1793
L 126 . 8 . 2 James W. DePeyster & Co
Rec'd N York 14 Jan'y 1794 of Mr
Allard Anthony- one hundred &
six pounds on Acco't
L 106 - James W. DeyPeyster & 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)